From the fixation of businesses in recent years with millennials (those born between the early 1980s to mid-1990s), many are now shifting their attention towards the millennials’ successors: Generation Z. How can products, services, and marketing approaches be devised to attract this new target population? Gen Z is generally the future of retail. Born after […]
The infamous Bitcoin is taking over fintech, and it’s at an all-time high in emerging markets. Investors and mainstream media from around the world are embracing and endorsing Bitcoin. People’s Daily, China’s largest mainstream media company, defined Bitcoin as digital gold. Brave, a startup company, launched a coin offering to fund a new web browser […]
Advocating for youth empowerment through education, specifically technical and computer skills, has been the driving mission of Code for Asia. Its founders have originally taught kids in traditional classrooms, remote villages, to where they would have waited for migrant-worker parents. From a Singapore-based society, it has now made wider impact across Asia. It is in […]
Already secured a domain name for your business? After using it for your website, the next thing you’d want to do is to set up your custom email. This means receiving and sending mail as juan.delacruz@customdomain.com rather than from a generic Gmail or third-party account provider. Having this ability sets you apart as a serious […]
How does online content contribute to business growth? I was invited to talk about this topic at this year’s Jumpstart seminar of the Young Entrepreneurs Society – University of the Philippines chapter. From my talk, here are some highlights on the things that online content does for today’s businesses – be they brick-and-mortar or cyber-businesses, […]
Hailed as a game changer, FinTech (otherwise known as “financial technology”) is seen to transform financial services in infinite possibilities. It has been many decades ago since there has been a real shake-up in the realm of the financial world. New and young players alike will experience its sweeping changes on how we manage finance […]
Productivity is the biggest elephant in the room when it comes to work, online or otherwise. Not everyone understands how effectiveness is far more important than efficiency. A hard worker who spends 8-hour days sending 1,000 emails with zero results is efficient in his e-mailing, but another worker that sends just 100 emails and gets […]
