My sleeping patterns lately really changed a lot. I am not having an insomnia (as what I used to have when I was still single). I just have to wake up at the wee hour in the morning to attend my baby's needs... It was really so difficult at first but as time went by, I gradually adjusted to my new role as a Mom. My baby is pretty nocturnal LOL! He wakes up between 2 to 3AM then between 5-6AM. He sleeps a lot either in the morning or in the afternoon. It's unpredictable. As a newbie Mom, I still have to learn a lot of things... Yeah those basic things that I failed to learn when I was still single like cooking (sigh). When you're having a breastfeed you easily get hungry but I feed my baby in formula too, and somehow it helps especially for a working Mom like me. But honestly, I don't wanna go back to work anymore. All I want is to take care of my baby personally... I just miss my boy every time I am away from him (just like now)... I did not go back to work yet, I just attend to my evening classes every Monday and Tuesday. I am still undecided as to when will I officially go back to my regular 8-5PM job. Me and my Hubby can't still made up our mind as to whom will we entrust the care of our baby while we are both working. We can't afford yet to hire a baby sitter and we just cannot simply trust anyone nowadays especially that our baby is still less than a month old. I really wanted to be a hands-on Mom but I just need to go back to work. I plan to concentrate teaching by next semester so I could choose to have a class schedule on the afternoon and I could be with my baby in the evening up to the morning. I'm also praying to be successful with my online job endeavor. My blogging career really helps us a lot especially now that I have no income with the NO WORK, NO PAY policy in our school. That's the bad side if you are not a regular employee, you won't get any benefits at all. But we are still thankful to God for sustaining us. I just hope Social Spark will give me more opportunity. I have 4 leads today hoping to get it approved by tomorrow so I could work it out. I am also praying for more Direct Advertisers to notice this blog so they could give me a tasks as well... All it takes is patience, yeah, but sometimes when you are quite desperate enough you will really need to make a triple effort just to have their attention. I used to send emails to lots of DA's shared by my other co-bloggers. However, it seems like I was already forgotten or dropped on their list perhaps because it was more than two weeks that I wasn't able to get online since I gave birth. P A G I N G Direct Advertisers - O come on, GIVE ME A BREAK! LOL... 

Well, who knows, tomorrow or the next day around, my prayers will be answered... (I could only cross my fingers for now:)

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I really felt sad for those who were became casualties of the Earthquake yesterday at Visayas, particularly in Negros and Cebu. More than Eighty eight  people are claimed to be dead while others are still missing. The Kagay-anons felt it too but of minimal intensity only. The memories of Tropical Storm Sendong are still vivid on the mind of Kagay-anons. Then here comes another threat, the earthquake. People are getting anxious and conscious of the possible natural calamities that may occur and they tend to get paranoid too. Yesterday, I was alone in the office checking the work of my students in the computer when I noticed that the computer table and my flat screen monitor moves. I was so scared that I immediately turned off the computer then I called up my husband asking him if he felt it too. Seeing the news on television scared me all the more. 

When calamity strikes, it's inevitable... All we could do is to pray harder that our life may be spared...

Condolence to the bereaved family.

Maintaining good business dealings depends on how your product affects the customers. There are many factors affecting the increase of sales of any business and one of those is customer satisfaction. Talking about customer satisfaction, it is one of the essential elements that every business must take into consideration. A satisfied customer will help the business to grow more as expected. With their word-of-mouth, your product will be made known to others. One positive testimony can really make a difference. You don't need to go as far as advertising and spending lots of money on commercials because your satisfied customers can do it for you. 

So how can you determine that your customer is indeed satisfied with your products?

Conduct a Customer Satisfaction Survey. This survey will help you, being the proprietor, in determining how your product is paring with other competing products. This will also give you room for improvements for any setbacks that the customers may found. Not all surveys bring good results but you should not lose hope. Instead, make this as your barometer in gauging the things that needs to be done in order to improve the quality of your products and eventually be guaranteed with 100% customer satisfaction.

What are those gauging factors that should be determined from your customers? They should be asked how satisfied they are with your products and will they be able to recommend it with other prospect users. Try to include on the list if they have any intention to repurchase the said products. Their answers to these inquiries will give you an idea whether to retain or improve the quality of your products.

Conducting a Customer Satisfaction Survey needs thorough understanding on your customers’ needs. There are many ways that this survey could be done. Mostly, we are familiar with written surveys, however this is not enough considering that many customers now are too busy to glue themselves in putting all their answers on a sheet of paper. This approach cannot guarantee the company of a wholesome and honest feedback. Try to seek professional help in conducting effective and efficient customer satisfaction survey.

Always remember, their feedback means a lot.