Even before PURPOSE claimed its own space in the growth equation of companies, Mansmith and Fielders had already owned a unique positioning in the training industry. Mansmith is not just a training and consulting firm with a specialized focus on marketing, sales, and innovation, it is the only company in its field driven by advocacy. This transition happened in 2004 […]
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Mansmith and Fielders has grown in ways we first thought were not possible – and only because we decided to shift to be advocacy-based when we found out that our clients and mentees attended our programs not just to learn but to rise and be better. Now on our 25th year, we reflect on how this could have happened – when […]
Kim Frances Lato, the founder of Kimstore.com, started her business with just P20,000 on the Multiply social media platform. Today, she has more than 250 employees and processes over 1 million online transactions per year with an omnichannel availability. Kim was awarded the Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA) in 2021. In this interview, she shares her insights on opportunity-seeking and […]
Advocacy-based marketing training and consulting company, Mansmith and Fielders Inc., has bestowed a 5-year P33-million scholarship grant that aims to train 4,000 marketing professors and teachers across the Philippines. By enhancing their skills and knowledge through marketing training courses, these educators will be better equipped to deliver relevant, up-to-date and practical marketing education to their students. The ripple effect of […]
Once again, it is time for businesses’ midyear evaluations and planning sessions. Have you explored the four critical directions for review to assess your strategy choices? From these questions, some lessons can already by deduced, explicitly and implicitly. Our own experience on how we, in Mansmith and Fielders Inc. changed the rules to be different is shared below. These strategic steps […]
I used to be the youngest in many things – – youngest national president of the Philippine Marketing Association (then) at age 28, youngest bestselling marketing author at age 31, youngest Agora Awardee in Marketing Education at age 32, youngest lifetime achievement awardee in marketing education at age 45. I have been extremely blessed and grateful for all of God’s gifts in my life. But […]
Vanee Gosiengfiao is the General Manager of Sanofi Consumer Healthcare. Prior to this, she was General Manager of Diageo Philippines and General Manager of GSK Consumer Healthcare in Thailand. In this interview, she shares her thoughts about the importance of having a solid brand purpose. Q1: What’s the business case for having a brand purpose? A1: First, Purpose drives differentiation. […]
I have much to be grateful for the last two years: 1. I became a grandfather when my only daughter Tricia and her husband Rg brought my first grandson Leo into the world last April 2020. Now I am called JoeLo (my preference). 2. I retired from Waters Philippines and my youngest son Calel is now the CEO. He has […]
As we ease into yet another lockdown we would like to extend a helping hand to SME business owners during this time. Courtesy of the Josiah and Carolina Go Foundation, which has been 100% funded from Mansmith book sales, we are giving away P1 million worth of scholarships to Continuum Academy and Day 8 Business Academy Foundation. Both platforms are […]
I have recently been invited to give a talk to school owners and principals on “How to Market Your School” and part of my talk was about the “Certified Marketing Teacher” (CMT) program, one of the advocacies of Mansmith and Fielders Inc. (Full disclosure: I am Chairman.) After the said session, many requested if I can help and share the same to […]