Philip is 43 years old, a single parent taking care of 2 kids studying in grade school. He has been a Grab driver for 1.5 years. Previously, he was an Uber driver for 6 months, but decided to be accredited by Uber and Grab simultaneously. According to Philip, Uber had a lot more customers even if they charged a 25% […]
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Yesterday, Mansmith and Fielders, Inc. CEO, Women’s Business Council Philippines Chair, and my better half Chiqui Escareal-Go gave a graduation speech for the Marketing Management and Accountancy graduates of Rizal Technical University. In celebration of Mother’s Day, I am sharing her words here to serve as an inspiration to the youth and the young at heart to give their 101% […]
I was finishing writing my book, “Principles and Practices in Marketing” when I encountered disturbing data about the unreligious. Hence, I decided to have a conversation with a 32-year old software programmer about his being unchurched. He refers to himself as an incidental churchgoer, going along with family before a reunion, or when he has to attend weddings. “I am […]
I just finished my first graduation speech aimed at Senior High School students at the Hope Christian High School. It was a pleasure and an honor to have the opportunity to inspire a new generation of students. I shared my story of being a C student back in high school before becoming an achiever during my college days. Who would […]
I learned how to bike during the Holy Week of 2014. Kit Rodriguez, a former MarkProf scholar of ours, went to my house to teach me, a kind of reverse mentoring that I truly appreciate from kind-hearted Kit. Benjie Yap, Unilever Chairman and CEO told me in 2017 that my life-long learning inspired him in wanting to learn how to […]
This post is for millennials. I see many of them traveling. Market research confirmed that travel is one of the most important aspirations of the millennials. I understand the excitement and new learnings that traveling provides. In my 2017 survey about practices of award-winning marketers in generating new and innovative ideas, traveling came out as one of their preferred practices. […]
The practice of brand management started with the classic memo by Harvard-trained Neil McElroy of Procter and Gamble (P&G) in 1931 while he was working on the advertising of the Camay brand. Eventually, he became the president of P&G and was also known to have served as a Secretary of Defense of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower. Brand management was created […]
Chiqui and I are grateful our newly launched book ‘Principles and Practices in Marketing in the Philippine Setting’ made it as a National Book Store bestseller at no. 4 (no. 1 among business books). For those unable to follow my social media, I am sharing photos of my one week book tour in Davao and Cebu last Jan. 8-12, 2018. […]
Red ocean Many brick-and-mortar supermarkets are in the red ocean — a market space where stores are constantly fighting against each other to win existing customers. As they aspire to be the preferred store, they usually resort to launching price and promo deals in predictable intervals. Unfortunately, the transactional norm of offering lower prices will not be sustainable, unless they […]
I am honored to have Q&As with captains of different industries. They made time and unselfishly gave their insights in order for others to benefit from the learnings they shared. Thanks again to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the Philippines no. 1 broadsheet, for cross posting. My top 10 Q&A (according to the number of blog readers) are: Unilever Chairman & […]