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 […]

A couple of clients from different industries asked me to comment about their intended price increase, so I wrote about the “7 Options to Increase Profit Without Increasing Price“.  This is a follow up article to those without any other recourse but to increase price.  In other words, this is to prepare for a Plan B scenario if any of the […]

(Note: This speech was given in 2004 as a tribute to Dr. Ned Roberto, on his being bestowed the 1st Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association of Marketing Educators (AME). The author would like to share this as part of Mansmith and Fielders effort to encourage marketers to pay tribute to their mentors, a call made during the 4th Mansmith […]

Cherrie Atilano is the Founding Farmer and CEO of AGREA Agricultural Systems, an innovative, inclusive, for-purpose agri-business enterprise anchored on an Ecology of Dignity: sustainable agriculture, fair-trade, and a replicable model of an agri-based economy. She is currently an Ambassador of Food Security at the Department of Agriculture. In 2018, she was awarded one of The Outstanding Young Men and Women […]

Camille Steffi Ang is the Group Manager of Marketing and Demand of GrowSari, a tech-enabled platform helping sari sari stores in the Philippines get capital loans and obtain physical and digital products for resale. She is a winner of the Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA) for 2021 for Marketing Management. In this interview, she shares her perspective on linking her customers to […]

I would like to emphasize three important basic points in marketing that we all need to remember, pandemic or no pandemic. 1. The right understanding The minimum dimension must be met before determining dimension can be exploited. This means one should satisfy customers’ needs before wants. For instance, for food delivery businesses, delicious food is a must have before the convenience […]

Francisco Lapid is the Chairman of SPAC Information Technology (IT-SPAC), an Information Technology and Human Resource provider celebrating its 15th year. Along with Entrepreneurs Jorge Wieneke, Zarah Juan and Dr. Anton Mari Lim, and honorary winners Secretary Ramon Lopez and Presidential Adviser Joey Concepcion, Pax Lapid is part of the first batch winners of The WE Awards for Purposeful Entrepreneurship […]

In 2010, we celebrated two milestones! Chiqui Escareal-Go and I wrote a book called “The WE Entrepreneur” which became a National Book Store bestseller and we also co-founded Day 8 Business Academy as the social enterprise subsidiary of Mansmith and Fielders Inc. to benefit small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs). We coined “The WE Entrepreneur” to pertain to that whose approach to entrepreneurship is “whole” […]

Two weeks before our CEO Market Masters Conference was to be held last March 2020, we had to reschedule the conference for the safety of the marketing community. It is now scheduled on Nov 16-20, 2020, 2-4pm featuring 17 CEOs with official endorsement and support from 21 major organizations. Good thing we rescheduled, a few days after, a lockdown was declared […]

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Dennis Anthony Uy is the founder and CEO of Converge ICT Solutions, Inc., the first and fastest growing end-to-end fiber internet provider in the Philippines. Mr. Uy’s talent and keen eye for innovation has led Converge to successfully provide quality-conscious consumers with high speed fixed broadband internet at value for money prices and continue to cater to the demands of a […]

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