LinkedIn For Startups

by Rob Angeles on April 10, 2011

LinkedIn For Startups

I was recently tasked to help our Business Development Manager to look into how we can leverage LinkedIn to network with people within our industry and start making it as our hub for getting leads. For those of you who haven’t explored LinkedIn yet, it is actually the biggest social network for professionals, C level individuals and entrepreneurs.

I did create a profile way back in 2007 but my account during those times is sitting idle until I found the value it has for me as an IT professional and someone who wears different hats. Like any social networks, it’s as simple as finding contacts, expand your network, and grow your business and be able to have what everybody loves, free publicity. continue reading →

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Come and Join Twestival Manila 2011

by Rob Angeles on March 15, 2011

Come and Join Twestival Manila 2011

This year, Manila, Philippines will be joining other cities from around the world in celebrating Twestival 2011 on Thursday 24 March 2011. The event will raise funds and awareness for JeepneEd to help them successfully pilot, operate and sustain projects. JeepneED is a mobile science and tech lab for rural schools in the Philippines.

Their mission is to provide community-driven, financially sustainable in-school support in science and technology on a redesigned jeepney that runs on used vegetable oil. Their goal is to graduate both academics and farmers by reconnecting the disparity between everyday science and the science of inventors. continue reading →

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Blending With The Crowd Is A Prerequisite To Trust

by Rob Angeles on March 12, 2011

Blending With The Crowd Is A Prerequisite To Trust

Many businesses find it as a puzzle to solve on how they can cement their relationship with their customers. Some spend millions and think of razzle dazzle ways to bring their customer’s attention back to them. But this is not rocket science, well for us it is not. We’ve seen this scenario a couple of times before and numerous case studies and white papers had been published to educate businesses about this.

Social Media efforts are not very different with how we do things offline. It just gave us a funky way of doing things faster, smarter and efficient. Think about yourself as a new student in middle school, high school or college. Do you blend right away? continue reading →

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Do Not Annoy Your Twitter Followers – Try Buffer

March 7, 2011
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Have you ever been in the situation of having read many great blog posts you want to share on Twitter? It happens to me all the time. However, I have always been quite reluctant to tweet too many tweets back to back at once. Flooding my followers with lots of updates is not something I [...]

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5 Types of Mobile Consumers Waiting For Your Content

March 4, 2011
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Last year, 2010, people had been shouting that it is the year of the mobile. Not because of iPhone or any smart phones out there but because of the surge in consumer usage. During the previous years, people were demanding for better reception, smarter phones, outstanding response and other stuff we consider today as basics. [...]

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How To Bring Back The Romance Between You and Your Customers

February 3, 2011
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One of the things that many of us experience in our personal life is that sometimes the fire that started our passion starts to diminish. Whether in the personal or professional area, we can all relate to this cycle. But let’s look at this one on the customer and business level. Believe it or not, [...]

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MLM Visiting Me Down Under

January 22, 2011
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First of all, I would like to apologize for leaving 2 weeks without an article. We recently moved here in Sydney, Australia and had to sort lot of things. We call it starter’s dilemma and good thing we were able to finish all of it in a few days time. Awhile ago, a relative of [...]

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7 Business Essentials for 2011

January 6, 2011
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Another year and another set of challenges are ahead of us. I believe many of us now are polishing our strategies and making final notes on what we need to do this year. But what about those who are still trying to figure out what needs to be done? I know how hard it is [...]

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Predictions and Other Blab For 2011

January 1, 2011
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A few more hours and firecrackers will start bringing noise around cities and towns here in this side of the world.  2010 was a very unusual year for many of us. The global economy turmoil was a big threat for many businesses, big and small, but since we all know that the show must go [...]

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Come See My Gratitude List

December 24, 2010
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A few more hours and the world will be celebrating Christmas. This is not only an occasion where we give and receive gifts but also a time to for thanksgiving. A mentor of mine once told me that the reason why he’s helping me climb the ladder is not because he know I can climb [...]

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Shop Online – Pay Cash

December 16, 2010
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Cashsense is a service-based payment processing company which embraces the advances made in technology within the financial sector to significantly improve cross and intra-border payment efficiencies. As a Filipino company, Cashsense is acutely aware of the deficiencies inherent within the payments market, especially at home with regard to the lack of availability of credit cards [...]

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Why It’s Hard For You To Get It

December 8, 2010
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A lot of people out there are still trying to figure out what social media is all about. Especially for businesses, the common question they have is what is it for them or what will they get in return. Frankly, it doesn’t work like the traditional methods that we have learned. Maybe a good question [...]

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The Problem With The Big Idea

December 2, 2010
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This is a common term in agencies, “The Big Idea” and you’ve probably heard it too when someone walks in your door to pitch for a certain campaign. The common problem with the big idea is that it’s big and overwhelms businesses especially if they have limited budget or have limited understanding of what digital [...]

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A Comprehensive Checklist For Launching Websites

November 30, 2010
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Two critical stages in software development are QA (Quality Assurance) and UAT (User Acceptance Test). This is where our precious code will be put into test, if all functions are working properly and if all creative materials are browser compatible. Some of you are probably saying that this is an easy task since we’re just [...]

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Facebook Messages – Should It Matter?

November 16, 2010
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Today, Facebook announced the next evolution of Messages. Yes, this is the space where you receive email-like messages from your friends and of course spam from sellers and service providers alike. With Messages, the user will decide how they want to talk to their friends whether via SMS, chat, email or thru Messages. The person [...]

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Meet The Trust Agents of Kota Kinabalu

November 8, 2010
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A couple of months ago, a certain Daniel Doughty invited me to be a speaker for B2.0 – New Media Dialogue to be held at Kota Kinabalu. It was last October 29 when the event took place followed by fun-filled activities that helped local netizens get introduced offline. B2.0 was a huge success, thanks to [...]

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Measure Before Measure After

November 3, 2010
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One of the most highly debated areas in implementing digital campaigns is measurement. This is not about how hazy it is to measure these initiative but what to measure and when. Ideally, when clients wanted to launch a certain campaign, they just brief us of what they want to accomplish. Is it aligned with what’s [...]

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Hello Malaysia: Tear Down the Borders

October 28, 2010
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Yes, I’m back here in Malaysia and this time, I’m in Kota Kinabalu, home of the famous Mt. Kinabalu. It’s a great privilege to be one of the speakers in Borneo 2.0, a social gathering that focuses on networking, collaboration and dialogue on case studies, ideas, trends, best practices and issues relating to bloggers and [...]

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Reggie and the First Android Tablet in the Philippines

October 15, 2010
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The guy in the picture is our good buddy Reggie also known as @dronthego in Twitter. Reg was one of the guys that presented during the GTUG meetup in our office and he was bringing with him a sweet gadget. The Superion, Philippines’ first Android tablet. Powered by Android OS 2.2 (Froyo) with Qualcomm MSM [...]

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