Red ocean Many brick-and-mortar supermarkets are in the red ocean — a market space where stores are constantly fighting against each other to win existing customers. As they aspire to be the preferred store, they usually resort to launching price and promo deals in predictable intervals. Unfortunately, the transactional norm of offering lower prices will not be sustainable, unless they […]
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Globe market shares in mobile revenue have steadily climbed up from about 30% in 2008 to over 52% as of first half 2017. Globe Telecom President Ernest Cu, who joined Globe in 2008, shares the transformation of Globe. Q1: When you took over as president of Globe, the mobile market shares of Globe was at 30%. Then in 2011, your […]
Aurora Mangubat-Suarez was Publisher of Summit Media before becoming an independent life coach and marketing consultant. A winner of the Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (Mansmith YMMA) in 2006, she shares her insights about her journey from being a corporate executive to a life coach focusing on women achievers. Q1: You rose from the ranks and became a magazine publisher […]
I was 26 years old when I was invited by Leni Tiongco-Paderanga from the Executive Development Academy to join the Philippine Marketing Association (PMA) in 1988. It was the beginning of a series of transformations I went through that especially shaped my views on life, on pursuing excellence, on paying forward, and on making a difference. Just a year before […]
Q1: You became the first Asian President of the World Marketing Association a few years ago and you have made Asia proud. How has the role of marketing in the Asian region then and now evolved at an international level? In the last decade, we can see that the role of marketing is evolving so rapidly in the Asia. In […]