Bagong Silangan is a city notorious as a squatters’ area. It used to be composed of mostly farmlands rich in rice produce, but urbanization efforts forced informal settlers to relocate in the city. Years after, the city mayor granted rights of land to its residents. Gawad Kalinga, entered the picture–a nonprofit organization with a goal […]
Why Website Projects Fail
I’m being asked regularly “can you find me a person to do my website?” I’m also witnessing many businesses messing up their websites and/or online strategy. It’s also worth noting the dynamics of SEO this year has greatly changed when Google released RankBrain. RankBrain the artificial intelligence of Google. It is the 3rd […]
Business Survival Strategies to Stay in the Same Business for 32 years
We started MiniMovers with a new-fangled golf ball typewriter – it was amazing, you didn’t need the hit the key hard when using 3 pieces of carbon paper but even better, was the “correct” key which typed backwards correcting mistakes (on the top copy). It made us more “efficient” than competitors. Yesterday, 32 years later […]
Recruitment Strategy: Finding the Right People for your Business
I believe most business owners and practically every recruiter focus on the WRONG criteria when matching people to a role. The wrong criteria are “experienced” and “qualified”. These words should never be used – they should be replaced with “capable of doing the job” and/or “core skills to do the job”. I have seen many […]
Outsourcing Terminology 101: What SMEs Should Know
The capacity of corporate world to think of new confusing words and acronyms never stops to amaze me. The once black and white world of outsourcing and offshoring is a good example. It used to be a simple case of “Do I” or “Don’t I”. Now, you will need to choose between BPO, KPO and […]
MikesBusinessTours – Interview with Wayne Bucklar
Transcript of Mike O’Hagan’s Interview with Wayne Bucklar Introduction Wayne Bucklar: My guest today is Mike O’Hagan who joins me from Mike’s Business Tours. Now for those of you who might be familiar with the name but can’t quite put the business into it. Mike is the founder of Mike’s MiniMovers, famous with a lot […]