The RJ Ledesma Podcast

Kenn Costales is the Founder & Lead Consultant of Monolith Growth Consulting, a performance marketing agency that helps Shopify & SaaS businesses grow their revenue and ROI.

Monolith focuses on helping clients grow its revenue and ROI. The company builds marketing assets for the entire digital customer journey: from Digital Ads (Facebook/Instagram/Google/Tiktok), to landing pages, and to email marketing, and they track all the data points that lead to conversions.

On top of that, its founder Kenn is also an honouree of Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2019 and Tatler Asia’s Generation T 2020.

This episode is sponsored by Globe and Obanana.

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JV Tanjuatco is the publisher of Comic Book Lab. He founded Comic Book Lab in 2015 as a comics publishing company modeled after a BPO.

Describing it as “basically a BPO business,” Comic Book Lab publishes a variety of comics commissioned by both personal and corporate clients.

How is his business doing in the midst of digital transformation?

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Geonna Pedrealba is the owner of Soyphisticated Collections while Charisse Anne Yatco is the founder of Mix and Skip PH. Both of them are merchant partners of SoShop! by LBC.

Both entrepreneurs launched their respective businesses during the pandemic. How did they manage their online businesses during one of the most challenging times for business owners?

Learn more about how Geonna and Charisse are running their business, LBC SoShop!, and how the right delivery partner can help your business.

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Ace Gapuz is the CEO of Blogapalooza, the Philippines’ premier influencer marketing company.

The company has recently launched the second wave of the InfluencerPreneur program with the aim of educating and guiding the next generation of content creators.

In a press release, Gapuz shared that, "We have tried and tested Influencer Marketing to be a very effective strategy in this time of uncertainty, as this allows brands and influencers to collaborate and tell stories together, given our current limitations in this new reality. Influencer Marketing can prove to be a "power move" that brands should consider now more than ever.”

How can influencer marketing do its “power move” in the digital age?

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Two Filipino entrepreneurs have made it big in UAE, thanks to Creative Zone! Creative Zone offers complete end-to-end solutions including arrangement of visit visas, registration of your company, obtaining a 3-year residence visa for you and your family, assistance in opening bank accounts and any other personal requirements that would help Pinoys settle down in the UAE.  Francis Errol Medina co-founded Infinite Opportunities Consultancy Group FZE and Chris Calumberan of the Chris Calumberan LLC are the businessmen that really made it big in the UAE.   In fact, both of them have been listed in the Top 300 Influential Filipinos in the Gulf by IllustradoLife magazine in 2020. How did Creative Zone help them achieve their goals overseas?

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THE UNICORNS ARE HERE!  

For the next episode of The RJ Ledesma Podcast, we sit down with Yang Yang Zhang and Christian Reyes of Xendit which recently achieved unicorn status in the Philippines and Indonesia.  Yang Yang Zhang is the CEO & Managing Director of Xendit Philippines. Throughout her career, Yang Yang has lent a lifelong passion for disruptive technology and social impact to building innovative products.  Meanwhile, Christian Reyes recently joined as COO of Xendit Philippines. Prior to finding his calling in fintech, he spent the first 14 years of his career in Wall Street, holding various leadership roles at Morgan Stanley.  How did they achieve this incredible milestone for the company?

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Mel Nava is the Founder and CEO of 1Export, a Philippines-based logistics startup 1Export that has raised US$800,000 in a seed funding round led by Foxmont Capital Partners.

How did 1Export continue to contribute to the country's economic recovery in the business landscape?

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Francis Calumba is the President of Obanana Corp. and also the Group Head of Premium Technology Corporation.

He has work experienced for 18 years in project management, shared services, and IT support. Currently, he is handling Technology Holding Company. He also has a strong background in process and safety improvements.

How did he manage to make Obanana thrive during these trying times?

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We have two guests for The RJ Ledesma Podcast!

First up is Alejandro Manalac, the Chariman and Co-founder of Havitas Developments. He has 30 years of experience in real estate, specializing in High-end Project Selling. He rose from being a sales agent to holding top executive positions in several Major real estate developers as a result of being a consistent "Sales Champion.”

The next one is Joey Bondoc, the Associate Director and Head of Research of Colliers International. Bondoc is primarily tasked to produce high quality property reports, cover office, residential, retail, leisure, and industrial sectors, contribute to Pan-Asian real estate reports, gather primary and secondary property data and more. 

Learn more about real estate opportunities in CALABARZON during the New Normal in this episode of the RJ Ledesma Podcast.

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