Author’s note: I wanted to honor God on my 500th blog entry so here is a reflection on the story of my life and what He had made me into. My grandfather criticized me for always being speechless. You transformed me as the most awarded business educator-speaker in the Philippines! My high school teacher undermined me and thought that La […]
Search Results for: marketing
Emilio Aquino was at one time the youngest Director of the former Prosecution and Enforcement (PED) and Non-Traditional Securities and Instruments (NTD) Departments of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He returned to SEC as Commissioner in 2016 and was appointed Chairman in 2018, serving a seven-year term. He is the first CPA – Lawyer to chair the SEC. Through […]
People who mourn for the loss of a loved one are typically not price-sensitive. They would spend more for a departed loved one than the budget they would have allocated for themselves. This is both good and bad. This is good in the sense that they pay final respects to the deceased. As author Dan Ariely pointed, the motivations that […]
Many companies, especially multinationals, like to talk about innovation. There are even some who include innovation as part of their core values; others even have innovation managers. Innovation has two elements – novelty in the industry and commercial success. In other words, it’s about creating new value that benefits your intended market. Here are six anomalies that companies may […]
About the same time last year, I was invited by the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX) at their annual conference held at Shangri-La at The Fort to share the learning and development innovations instituted by Mansmith and Fielders Inc. I was featured in ‘Learn to Rock’, the session on education and how this has sparked innovation and creativity […]
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 […]
Julie Ortuoste co-founded HairMNL with husband Jonathan Joson. HairMNL is a local e-commerce site carrying professional hair care brands. They opened a salon in 2016 and went into online selling two months after. She shares the fundamentals of selling online and how she was able to adapt the concepts of trade marketing from her previous work. Q1: How did you […]
I am extremely proud to announce the 30th anniversary offering of Mansmith and Fielders Inc.— the 11th Market Masters Conference — featuring a dream team of high-powered CEOs in 5 high-impact topics. It is definitely THE Marketing Conference to attend in 2020. Check out the conference agenda below. Session 1: Behind The Scene: The Strategist Behind the Strategy Top executives […]
Ron Batisan is the Assistant Vice President of UnionBank who led UnionBank’s launch of The Ark project, the Philippines’ first fully digital bank branch located at the Insular Life Building in Makati with a total of 50 Ark branches planned by end of 2019. The Ark by UnionBank was declared the winner of Best Branch Customer Experience in Asia-Pacific at […]