Tuesday, September 4, 2007

From banana cue to real estate for the global market

SHE SPENT PART OF HER YOUTH IN MALABON, selling sugar-coated banana-on-stick just to send herself to school and support her younger siblings, not knowing she was destined to sell much bigger things.

Selling, she still does, but no more banana cues for her. And she plies her trade no longer in Malabon but in the world: theUS and far beyond.
Susan Barlin has made it big selling prime real estate in various parts of the world to the global marketplace.

This former small entrepreneur is making a name no longer for herself but for the Philippines—selling the country and the rest of tropical Asia as the world’s premier second-home and property investment destination and retirement haven".

Her efforts have caught the attention of the Department of Tourism, which has appointed her as its special envoy for investment and tourism promotion.

“After all, that’s what I’ve been doing all these years,” Barlin says, referring to her trips around the world year-in and year-out to promote the Philippines and Asia’s tropical region to the international market.

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