24 Videos on 1st Month - DigitalFilipino Talks

DigitalFilipino Talks started last January 10 and as of this writing already has 24 videos posted and played more than 2000 times. The series caters to a diverse audience of micro and small entrepreneurs, service providers, and multinational firms.

We intend to produce up to 65 interview episodes to complete our first season. We already passed through our 5th week and have 8 more weeks to go. Once that is done, I will take stock on what we have and seek further inspiration to do new stuff that shall promote our club members, allies, and share knowledge to the community at large.


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Running an online talk show was not as easy as it appears. More than just the actual shoot that takes place three times (3x) a month, the daily promotion through social networks and other platforms is something that needs to be continuously done to push for maximum visibility.

Furthermore, I use the interviews in writing my weekly column to reflect and add insight.

On this 2nd month, you can expect us to step up the promotions further as we engage the community to interact.

Many thanks to club members, new sign-up and renewal, whose membership fees help make this experimental project possible.

Philippine E-Commerce Entrepreneurs Towards Globalization

Last April 14, I delivered a talk about "From Student to E-Commerce Entrepreneur" to the more than 1000 students of AIE College (now a DigitalFilipino.com Club SME member) who converged at the PICC Forum.


Pangasinan-based professional blogger Dr. Julius Mamaril delivered an inspirational talk about his experience in blogging. Dr. Leo Fuentes whom I have known since the early days of e-commerce in the Philippines and president of AIE College introduced me to the students. As Senator Chiz Escudero could not make it, I covered the whole morning slot and extended the question & answer portion.

As blogging is an idea being pushed to the students, to be used as a tool in promoting themselves. It can't be helped if there is doubt among students on its potential as an e-commerce and income generating tool. Furthermore, being newcomers, they wonder as well how can they compete with those who are established already.


I encouraged the students to have something like a 5-year plan for themselves on what they want to be and start working on building the necessary blocks to become a reality. Shared that DigitalFilipino did not reach what it was today without a vision to strive for and focus on. Any endeavor, whether career or business or even blogging, requires having that vision in order to have a sense of direction or purpose.

Received a lot of questions (in paper form) but the lack of time prevented me to answer them all. However, will use them as blog and article ideas in the weeks to come.

Thank you again AIE College and look forward in catching up with you again soon!