Marketing is commonly associated with stimulating consumer’s needs and wants that will hopefully lead to sales revenues. While marketing clearly goes beyond that, the term “needs and wants” infers that there is a difference between the two jargons that is certainly worth a marketing conversation. Needs are essential to survival while wants are not. From a consumer choice architecture, needs are basic […]
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Almost every profession and/or industry is banded together by their respective organizations. Members of these networks provide support to each other and create an arena for collaboration. I will share how to market professional organizations by first citing why some of them deteriorate or disappear to oblivion and then cite specific areas to focus on. Let me start with 4 […]
Ronnie Traballo is the CEO of Cypress Bomanite Inc., one of the country’s pioneering full landscape construction firms which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this 2022. He is also the Managing Director of Bomanite Southeast Asia with an office in Singapore and a manufacturing plant in Subic. Bomanite is a US-based company focused on all kinds of decorative concrete flooring […]
There have been broad and dynamic marketing and industry shifts that have continuously defined or redesigned business landscapes. It is incumbent upon all marketers to keep adding new lenses, in my case, growing from sales and marketing, to blue ocean strategy and innovation, to entrepreneurship and business model. Being open to constant change and being aware of obsolescence if one […]
There are fundamental concepts in marketing that remain relevant despite technology and changing consumer behaviors. This is important since what we know (knowledge) strongly influences what we do (actions). Marketers (and entrepreneurs) need not wait for the consequences of a wrong action to influence new knowledge. Here is a list of five concepts marketers should look into to check if […]
(First row from left: Patron, Santos, Suarez, Vega, Chua, Corrales, Encarnacion. Second row from left: Gerodias, Nacpil, Co, Tiu, Keh, Valencia, Evardone) Advocacy-based Mansmith and Fielders Inc. revealed the 14 winners for the 17th Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA) 2022. The Mansmith YMMA is the most sought-after recognition for young marketers and entrepreneurs, 35 years old and below, and the […]
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 […]
This article aims to educate the consumers to spot pyramiding and unregistered investment scams of companies who claim to be network marketing business opportunities but are actually not. While network marketing or multi level marketing (MLM) is legitimate, many unscrupulous or misguided entrepreneurs create MLM-like compensation plans that are downright illegal violating the laws of the Philippines and destroys the […]
I met Secretary Ramon Lopez sometime in the late 2000’s when he was still the Executive Director of Go Negosyo. I checked Facebook entries and was reminded that my daughter Tricia Gosingtian was part of the Most Inspiring Young Entrepreneurs of 2010. Secretary Ramon Lopez was the nominator. Later, Tricia and husband RG Gabunada would tap him as one of their wedding godparents. I interviewed Ramon Lopez twice for my […]
With the recently concluded Philippine elections, expect post-game analyses on how campaigns were conducted and the lessons that can be replicated not just in politics but also in business. In this case, I will be applying a Mansmith business framework – the 3Es and 3Os of a great campaign and see how this was applied in the elections. The […]