Jun took over his father’s job as a taho vendor twenty years ago when his father became too weak to carry the 25-kilo, twin aluminum buckets of taho (silken tofu), sago pearls and syrup. As a second generation micro-entrepreneur, he typically wakes up at 3 AM every day, prepares the taho with his supplier, then takes a public jeepney ride […]

Stephen Tiu is the Sales Director of Johnson and Johnson Philippines. Prior to this, he was Head of Key Accounts in J&J Philippines, Head of Channels in J&J Malaysia, and worked in Shopper Marketing in J&J China. Steve won the Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA) in 2013. He will share more trends during the 10th Market Masters Conference on […]

It has been almost three months since marketing legend Edwin Totanes or fondly, ET to his colleagues returned to his Creator on November 22, 2018 (Thursday) at age 61. It was sudden and shocking as we, Mansmith consultants were just on group chat the day before and he was telling us that he will be discharged from hospital the next […]

I asked the senior marketing consultants of Mansmith and Fielders Inc. to share some key trends happening in their fields. I am providing a condensed list of their inputs below. Chiqui Escareal-Go, Anthropologist.Mansmith Chief Behavioral Strategist and Chair, Women’s Business Council Philippines. 1.    Chief Customer Experience Officer – The constant and inevitable call for customer centricity as a source of competitive […]

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I attended the Ideas42 Behavioral Summit in New York last October 2018 which featured the who’s who in behavioral science and economics. The first session featured Daniel Pink, bestselling author of ‘Drive’, ‘To Sell is Human’ and ‘When’ who interviewed another bestselling author, Robert Cialdini, whose 1984 book ‘Influence’ sold over 2 million copies and has been translated into 30 […]

Jane Jimenez-Basas is President and CEO of CignalTV, the first pay-TV provider in the Philippines to reach 2 million subscribers. Jane won the Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA) in 2007 and was named Asia’s Media Woman of the Year by Content Asia in 2017. She shares insights about innovation as a market leader.  Q1: You have taken Cignal from content aggregator to original content provider. What is […]

With inflation in the Philippines running over 6%, many people would be looking for extra income to augment the rise in consumer prices and maintain or improve their lifestyles. Considering some 88% of Filipinos are classified in the income range of DE (lower income), most will resort to selling products using credit lines extended to them or low capital businesses, […]

Lucio Cochanco, Jr. is the President of Fly Ace Corporation, marketer of Jolly canned vegetables, canned fruits, Doña Elena Mediterranean products (olive oil, olives & capers, pasta & pesto sauces, canned tomatoes, anchovy, bottles sardines & canned tuna) , Good Life oriental products (sotanghon, egg noodle, bihon, bread crumbs, sesame oil, oyster sauce) and other food products, many of which […]

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