Two of my millennial managers are not interested to own cars. They would rather take Grab to and from work instead of worrying what to do with the car that they won’t be using 95% of the time, plus the problems that come with it – registration, insurance, repair, stress of driving, traffic and finding parking spaces, parking fees, and […]
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Sonny Catacutan is a seasoned marketing and business development professional. He leads Cargill’s animal nutrition business in the Philippines as its Managing Director. The business, which continues to bring some of the most trusted brands of animal feeds and premixes, continue to grow their innovative portfolio to provide swine, poultry, and aqua feed, along with premix solutions. For more than […]
Jun took over his father’s job as a taho vendor twenty years ago when his father became too weak to carry the 25-kilo, twin aluminum buckets of taho (silken tofu), sago pearls and syrup. As a second generation micro-entrepreneur, he typically wakes up at 3 AM every day, prepares the taho with his supplier, then takes a public jeepney ride […]
I had an insightful conversation with Oscar Villamora, Jr., who was appointed as the Vice President for Sales of the Universal Robina Corporation (URC) in May 2018. Oscar was recognized as a Mansmith Young Market Master Awardee for Customer Development in 2010 when he was still a National Sales Manager for a multi-national firm. Even then, he had his sights […]
Carmen’s Best is a well-loved, high quality, premium-priced ice cream in the Philippines. CEO Paco Magsaysay, who received the Agora Awards for Entrepreneurship in 2018, shares with us how he packaged the marketing mix of Carmen’s Best to come up with a product that boasts an eager and loyal following. Q1: What made you launch another ice cream brand in […]
Stephen Tiu is the Sales Director of Johnson and Johnson Philippines. Prior to this, he was Head of Key Accounts in J&J Philippines, Head of Channels in J&J Malaysia, and worked in Shopper Marketing in J&J China. Steve won the Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA) in 2013. He will share more trends during the 10th Market Masters Conference on […]
It has been almost three months since marketing legend Edwin Totanes or fondly, ET to his colleagues returned to his Creator on November 22, 2018 (Thursday) at age 61. It was sudden and shocking as we, Mansmith consultants were just on group chat the day before and he was telling us that he will be discharged from hospital the next […]
I asked the senior marketing consultants of Mansmith and Fielders Inc. to share some key trends happening in their fields. I am providing a condensed list of their inputs below. Chiqui Escareal-Go, Anthropologist.Mansmith Chief Behavioral Strategist and Chair, Women’s Business Council Philippines. 1. Chief Customer Experience Officer – The constant and inevitable call for customer centricity as a source of competitive […]
I attended the Ideas42 Behavioral Summit in New York last October 2018 which featured the who’s who in behavioral science and economics. The first session featured Daniel Pink, bestselling author of ‘Drive’, ‘To Sell is Human’ and ‘When’ who interviewed another bestselling author, Robert Cialdini, whose 1984 book ‘Influence’ sold over 2 million copies and has been translated into 30 […]
Jane Jimenez-Basas is President and CEO of CignalTV, the first pay-TV provider in the Philippines to reach 2 million subscribers. Jane won the Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA) in 2007 and was named Asia’s Media Woman of the Year by Content Asia in 2017. She shares insights about innovation as a market leader. Q1: You have taken Cignal from content aggregator to original content provider. What is […]