We at Mansmith and Fielders, the leading marketing and sales training company in the Philippines, recently launched Continuum Academy at the beginning of the quarantine period in order to provide its catalogue of expertise and knowledge to businesspeople and entrepreneurs in a safe and accessible online way.  However, just launching a new e-learning dimension to our regular seminars and events […]

The Social Weather Station (SWS) reported that 45.5% of the country’s adult labor force, equivalent to 27.3 million people, are jobless as of June 2020, more than double the pessimistic prediction of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), the largest labor union in the Philippines. They had 12 million as the expected number of unemployed by 2020 year-end. […]

A large part of the Philippines went on general community quarantine (GCQ) effective June 1, 2020.  All local and international media have been using the term “new normal”, referring to new realities, new ways of doing or understanding. What does this mean to marketers? Allow me to share my 8- point perspective on this: 1.     We are not going back to any […]

Innovation has two elements – novelty and commercial success. Novelty without commercial success is an invention. Commercial success without novelty is me-too. One tool in planning a novelty is applying the law of the opposite. The law of the opposite states that in order to be successful, one should go in a direction that is in contrast from most others. […]

Trust has been widely discussed by speakers of the World Business Forum, organized by World of Business Ideas (WOBI), in Sydney for the last two years. I am sharing the key points of three authors from their respective sessions. Stephen M.R. Covey, author of “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” shared that Trust is about character […]

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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 […]

My family arrived at Michelin-starred restaurant, Jay Fai, in Bangkok half an hour before our appointed time of 2:30 PM on July 16, 2019, a Tuesday. The reservation was made two months prior through The Peninsula Bangkok and we were sixth on the list. There were already several dozens of people signing up for the queue when we arrived. They […]

“Want to feel inspired after the emotionally draining “The Avengers Endgame” and “Game of Thrones S8E3”? The solution may be attending the book launch of “The Mavericks: How 35 Marketing Rockstars Think, Strategize and Execute.” This was how my Facebook post read to invite people to attend the launch of my 18th book. 16 marketing mavericks joined me to share […]

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Take this quick test if you are able to explain the following in an instant without any online reference 1) How do you link strategy to brand DNA? 2) How do you develop a compelling brand purpose? 3) How do you build a strong brand digitally? 4) How do you convert great analytics to great strategy for your brand? 5) […]

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