eCommerista night 4.0: Book, Pay & Play
eCommerista night 4.0: Book, Pay and Play
The first event by AsiaPay for the Travel and Entertainment
The team of AsiaPay was excited in meeting people from leading hotels, resorts and travel agencies and introducing XpressBooking, the newest eBooking & ePayment platform for the travel establishments.
Andrian Lee, General Manager - Philippines & Emerging markets in AsiaPay Philippines took the lead on giving an insight on the current situation of online booking in the Philippines and worldwide. Guests were enlightened and they appreciated the interesting and informative points especially on XpressBooking which will revolutionize online sales at an affordable cost for for the travel and entertainment companies.
If you would like to know these hotels learned in the event, please visit http://www.slideshare.net/automatemyreg/xpressbooking
Mag:Net cafe was packed and it was definitely a fun social networking night. See you all again in the next eCommerista night!
eCommerista Night 3.0: “Create a Web of Interest” reviews
Here are some reviews about eCommerista night 3.0: Create a Web of Interest.
Some blog love from Regnard Raquedan’s Standard Web Standards– eCommerista Night 3.0: Good Stuff:
“…eCommerista is building up a good rep as a regular event where bloggers, techies and IT industry folks can get together. So, keep tabs on the Facebook and email invites from AsiaPay for the next eCommerista Night…”
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Aileen Apolo also shares about her experience being a panelist in eCommerista night 3.0: Getting Inspired by Technopreneurs:
“I had the chance to join three Filipino technopreneurs last night at the E-Commerista 3.0 through Andrian Lee’s invitation - Gabby Dizon, Jonas Diego and Gio Bacareza - and it’s really inspiring to see how they’ve managed to turn their interests into successful businesses and here are just some thoughts that I wanted to share…”
Here’s some photo slideshows of the event. Will keep everyone posted on the next contact networking night (last week of March!).
eCommerista night 2.0: “Social Networking for Fun & Profit!”
Coup’s Out! Christmas is in!
Last Tuesday night, we and other eCommeristas celebrated Christmas in advance at eCommerista night 2.0: “Social Networking for Fun & Profit!”, still in Mag:net Cafe BHS. Despite the Makati traffic and coup attempt last weekend, people came to attend and worked the room to network and establish contacts thru the night. Thanks also to JC Medina of Level Up!, Jayvee Fernandez of Abuggedlife.com, and host Andrian Lee of Shoppay.biz who sure made eCommerista 2.0 interesting and informative with their ideas and thoughts in making our 2008 new year fun and profitable thru social networking and viral marketing. Gabe Mercado with his comedy improv group S.P.I.T. made the rest of the night fun and entertaining. See you all again in the next eCommerista night!
Posted by Kristine “Libby” Malibiran
eCommerista night 1.0: Mix and interact with top PH online and eBiz leaders (An AsiaPay contact networking night)
Finally, eCommerce is brewing up in Asia via the Philippines.
Last night, AsiaPay launched its first successful contact networking night with the top online and eBiz leaders in the Philippines. Despite the rain, the eCommeristas gathered and mingled and established networks in Mag:net Cafe Bonifacio High Street and also talked about their common goals in making eCommerce fly in the country.
The night featured eCommerista Show and Tell where panelists and other participants had the opportunity to talk about their eBusiness and website, with an open forum afterwards.
Panelists include:
Andrian Lee, Marketing Director - Philippines & Emerging market at AsiaPay Philippines
Andrian Lee has been an eCommerce entrepreneur for the past 7 years. Currently he runs AsiaPay Philippines, the first overseas center of the Hong Kong based leader in electronic payment gateway and ebusiness platform solutions. As its Marketing Director for Emerging Markets, he recently launched PesoPay, the country’s first ecommerce service for commercial merchants with the leading bank & acquirer, BDO Equitable. Andrian’s recent exploits in the Web 2.0 mobile world included starting up the New Media business & social networking portal for the Philippines’ #1 online gaming company, Level Up (www.levelupgames.ph) and launching the first online donation service for non-profit organizations. He is spearheading the eBiz is eAsy campaign to accelerate the adoption of everything “e” and advocates using Web 2.0 communities to jumpstart e-commerce and non-profit ventures (www.ebiziseasy.com).
In the eCommerista night, he unveiled the Shoppay web 2.0 applet, which tempts the friendster generation with online shopping by embedding this widget in their favorite web 2.0 profile page.
Joseph Chan, President of AsiaPay Hong Kong
He fllew to the Philippines for the eCommerista night in to give Asian flavor to our panel and mused about “D-Commerce: Are Debit Cards Key to Online Shopping in Asia?” Joseph shares the East Asian experience with PayPal, China Union Pay & PayYo.
Bob Sewell - President/CEO of Ticketworld
Mr. Sewell arrived in the Philippines in 1982 in an executive position with a major international company. In 1995 he incorporated TicketWorld, the first ticketing agency to offer a networked selling ticket sales system for events and attractions. TicketWorld has been selling tickets on-line since 1999 and can be considered one of the pioneers in the are of on-line sale in the Philippines. Despite its offerings of popular shows the growth of internet sales was stagnant at 1% of total sales and it took a redevelopment
of the ticket system to move to the next level. Now sitting at 12% of sales the company sees significant growth potential ahead and has set a target of 25% of sales through this channel. Although this target is well behind other major developed markets it will be a major achievement for the the Philippine market where internet infrastructure lags behind our Asian neighbors and where costs are high.
Jim Sarmiento - Sales and Marketing Manager of Netvision
Mr. Sarmiento worked with Netopia Internet Cafe and netGames both ePLDT subsidiaries as Sales and Marketing Manager. He is now in charge of developing & acquiring new customers and coordinating with content providers/owners of Netvision pay-per-view company.
Check out and join our Facebook eCommerista group for our photos: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20516086304