Lafayette Alvarez Lim is the President of the New City Commercial Center (NCCC), the biggest consumer retail chain in Davao with over 40 stores. He won the 2019 Agora Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Entrepreneurship – Large-scale category, one of the few people from outside Metro Manila who won an Agora. In this interview, he shares how to compete with […]
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I actually started doing sales training even before Mansmith and Fielders Inc. was founded in 1990. Three years as a working student and three years doing FMCG brand marketing work at RFM after graduation prepared me for the work of an entrepreneur. One of the operations I started running as a start-up was a direct sales company. That new venture […]
Want to know what online learning courses marketers and businesspeople enrolled in during the lockdown? Reviewing enrollees in Mansmith’s Continuum Academy showed overwhelming demand for courses geared towards starting up and growing a business. The top 4 courses are: 1. Entrepreneurship (by Josiah Go) 2. 40 Ways to Drive Business Growth (By Josiah Go) 3. […]
(Updated Oct 5, 2020) There are subjects I wish were taught in schools by qualified teachers: Practical skills and advice needed after college, as part of our culture building as a country. The effectiveness of adding two more years to high school is not yet measurable, but one thing is for sure. The thin slicing of the accounting, business, and […]
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. […]
I just finished my first 5-session Business Acumen Zoom class for high school students where I was blessed with eight bright students from Manila, Cebu and Davao. A Buffet of Interesting Topics It is the first time I designed a buffet of business topics for a seminar, aimed to give the students a head start advantage. We discussed Tik Tok […]
Unemployment data provided by the Philippine Statistics Authority shows a record 17.7% unemployed Filipinos as of April 2020. Out of about 44 million in the labor force, that’s close to 8 million people, and May 2020 data is expected to rise further. Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, the largest labor group in the country, estimates a total of 12 […]
Continuum Academy has reached a milestone of over 10,000 enrollees in less than 3 months of its premature existence. In celebration, it is offering a special 10-day limited-time “Get 1, Give 1″ campaign until June 30, 2020. “Get 1, Give 1” entitles you to bring another person to the same course you will be enrolling in the online school. The person can be an […]
A continuum is something that keeps on going, changing slowly over time, like the continuum of the four seasons. (Source: vocabulary.com) In 2019, the excom of Mansmith and Fielders Inc. planned to launch Continuum Academy in May 2020, as one of the many ways to celebrate its 30th anniversary. What happens next is ECQ and the company suddenly had to launch 2 months ahead. Thanks […]
“Sophie’s Choice” was an American drama movie I watched in 1982. Award-winning actress Meryl Streep played Sophie, a Polish immigrant living in Brooklyn, New York with a past that haunted her. As a prisoner at Auschwitz, she was forced to make a most painful decision – who between her son or daughter will live or die — a tragic situation, […]