Krystle Anne Enriquez, or Kaye, is a partner of digital marketing agency CBR. In 2021, she was awarded at the Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA) for Digital Business Building. In this interview, she shares how businesses can grow revenues by using digital tools.  Q1: What are missteps and misconceptions within the practice of digital marketing nowadays, and how is your agency correcting them? […]

Neil Trinidad, currently Chief Marketing Officer of Lazada Philippines, won the Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA) in 2012. In this interview, he shares about the rapid growth of ecommerce. Neil will provide more inputs at the 12th Market Masters Conference on June 15-16, 2021.  Q1: How are marketing and distribution evolving in your clients’ organizations?  A1: The pandemic has accelerated the growth of […]

Three years ago, I wrote about the dissatisfaction of patients toward their doctors in the post “Can Doctors Be Patient Centric?” on my blog, and “Does Your Doctor Really Care About You?” in the Nov 10, 2017 issue of Inquirer. In this 2-part article series, I will discuss how understanding business models can help doctors improve patient satisfaction and increase […]

Go Negosyo was founded in 2005 by the Presidential Adviser For Entrepreneurship, Joey Concepcion, who is also the President and CEO of publicly-listed food company RFM Corporation. It is currently in its 15th year.  A business model is the way an organization plans to create, deliver and capture value for its intended customers or constituents. For Go Negosyo, the following […]

I recently studied 45 companies in 17 countries on how they pivoted their businesses during the COVID19 crisis, the type of pivot that is not just temporary (face mask production, etc.) but will sustain them, and in fact can become another or remain as a business, even after a lockdown. For non-essentials, to pivot was a matter of survival– to […]

I invited our team in Mansmith and Fielders Inc to share some of the marketing trends and insights they expect to happen more in 2020 and each shared one major point. I have included mine last.  Chiqui Escareal-Go, Chief Behavioral Strategist – Purpose, including brand purpose will increasingly become center of strategy, not as an add on. As consumers become […]

I was again invited by Go Negosyo to the free “Mentor Me On Wheels” caravan last October 17, 2019 at the SM Megamall. Three entrepreneurs were assigned to me, but due to space constraint, I will only share one case then cite marketing lessons entrepreneurs can learn from the case. Remy is an Iloilo entrepreneur who wanted to distribute leche […]

DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez and yours truly in front of Kapiterya, a DTI-backed cafe promoting Philippine coffee at the National Trade Fair.   Nearly three years ago, on December 2, 2016, Markprof Foundation Inc. and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) agreed in principle to produce free marketing education videos, in taglish, for the benefit of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The […]

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