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OFW Business Expo Gives Head start to SME Companies

The ASEAN integration augurs well to prepared Filipino Companies. As collaboration between ASEAN companies become a commonplace, Filipino small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is poised to benefit from this set-up.

However, the belief that “build and they will come” set-up that many Philippine SME companies hold may not jive with the opportunities that the ASEAN Integration offers.

Marketing and Promotion of these companies at the same time working hard to find the right partners are the keys to realize the benefit of this economic set-up.

The 11^th Megabalikbayan OFW Expo (MBOX) set this December 18-20, 2014 at SMX Convention Center is a longest running business expo targeting the OFWs and Balikbayans and encouraging them to go into business.

SME companies that want to find their portfolio attractive to ASEAN SME neighbors must tap this big market.

The 11^th Megabalikbayan OFW Expo (MBOX) showcases the following companies: Franchising, Dealership and Distribution, Health and Beauty, Bank and Finance, Technology and Transportation.

In addition, 11th Megabalikbayan OFW Expo (MBOX) is an event offered back-to-back with the 2^nd International Travel Festival (ITF), an event that offers travel sales and incentives from different participating tour operators, hotels, resorts and venues.

National Association of Independent Travel Agencies (NAITAS), the largest travel agency association in the country supports the 2^nd International Travel Festival. In addition, NAITAS general meeting will be held during ITF.

The Department of Tourism Region 4 sponsors the 2^nd International Travel Festival (ITF).

Other highlights of the 11^th Megabalikbayan OFW Expo (MBOX) are the 6^th Outstanding OFW and Balikbayan Reputation Award (OBRA). OBRA is a recognition event that recognize the following: Outstanding OFW and Balikbayan Entrepreneurs, Outstanding OFW and Balikbayan Community Builders, Outstanding OFW and Balikbayan Family Builders, Outstanding OFW and Balibayan Work Ethics, Outstanding OFW and Balikbayan Positive Character | Deeds, and Outstanding OFW and Balikbayan Blogger for OFW.

Also, the 2^nd OFW SME Business Summit will be held this event aims to give free knowledge and inspire OFWs and Balikbayan to become entrepreneurs and enter the rewarding world of business.

The 2^nd OFW SME Business Summit is being offered for free to OFWs and Balikbayan. The conference will cover entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and franchising.

Villar SIPAG, Pag-IBIG Fund, Philhealth Inc., Sun Cellular, LBC,, Toyota Cubao, IPAMI, and Ford Global sponsor the 11th MegaBalikbayan OFW Expo.

Lastly, an OFW Grand Noche Buena Gathering will end the event. This event is a salo-salo between invited OFW and OFW Families.

Business World, Business Mirror, Malaya Business Insight, Money Sense, Asian Journal Publication/ Balikbayan Magazine, Franchising PH, Voice of the Youth Radio (VOTY), DZME 1530, Sweetday Radio, Home Radio 97.9 Natural! Asenso Pinoy, Light Network, Inventiv Media, Rappler.com, WhenInManila.com, Wazzup Pilipinas, JobMatch.Pro, MyRegalo.com, Commuter Express and Busy Bee are the media supporters of the event.

For more information, visit www.megabalikbayanofwexpo.com.ph or call tel. No. 643-3887.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014
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11 Benefits You Can Gain for Joining the 11th MegaBalikbayan OFW Expo 2014

Balikbayan Business Expo

How time flies.

An event that was created to promote Entrepreneurship and Business to OFWs and Balikbayans and give economic activity to our country is now 11 years old.

The 11th MegaBalikbayan OFW Expo (MBOX) is set this December 18-20, 2014 at SMX Convention Center. Here are the following BENEFITS that you can have if your company will join:

1. ENGAGE TO OFW AND OFW FAMILIES

We have a team that locate and invite OFW and OFW Families. This ensures you get to talk with them.

2. CREATE BRAND AWARENESS

A one-to-one communication is a more effective brand promotion. Besides this, MBOX helps you connect with your target market. Communicate to them that your products and services is the one that truly serve their needs.

3. CREATE NEW BUSINESS PARTNERS

It is easy and faster to create business partners that are already willing and have spend time and effort going to the trade show to meet with you.

4. SAVE TIME

Let us highlight that time is one of the most precious commodities. Joining MBOX saves you an enormous time and effort in interacting with your target market.

5. EASY ACCESS

If you have limited budget, the event helps you access to a bigger number of your market. You can see and talk to people that normally you cannot reach or will find it difficult to reach when you are cold calling them.

6. FREE PUBLICITY

Besides the promotion that your brand gets because of the inherent promotion campaign of the event, you can also get FREE Publicity from bloggers and traditional media that we invited to roam around the expo and interview companies like yours.

7. TEST NEW PRODUCT IN THE MARKET

Some of the great products in the market were first pilot tested in the expo. If you have one, try testing it in MBOX.

8. TEST NEW PRODUCT IN THE MARKET

Some of the great products in the market were first pilot tested in the expo. If you have one, try testing it in MBOX.

9. GATHER MARKET INTELLIGENCE

Learn what is new from your competitors and other related industries. The expo gives you better understanding of the market positions that your competitors and others are taking.

10. SAVE COST

I want to emphasize that the cost per lead in the expo is very low compared to traditional media. And as an SME company, you are better off in this kind of set-up. This gives you better profitability.

11. JUMPSTART THE ACHIEVEMENT OF YOUR 2015 SALES

MBOX provides you sales that you can enjoy in the coming year. This gives you better achievement of your 2015 targets.

Wednesday, September 10, 2014
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OFWs, kin seen to swarm expo for biz opportunities

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A huge chunk of the country’s 12 million overseas Filipinos worldwide (OFWs) and their relatives are seen to swarm the grandest business and Christmas expo designed specifically for their entrepreneurial and investment needs.

Various organizations of OFWs and their relatives are even participating in the preparations for the expo by calling on their members to join the growing number of aspiring and successful entrepreneurs in their ranks.

They are led by the Global OFW Organization, Kabalikat OFWs Association, and the Ka Entrep Movement, with the OFW families groups in Pasig, Caloocan , Paranaque ,Rizal and Navotas, among many others, confirming their participation in this event .

“ They (OFWs and their relatives) are practically mobilizing their individual and collective resources for investment in the various business opportunities that will be showcased in the Mega Balikbayan/OFW Expo 2013 slated at the SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City on December 10 to 11, in time for the influx of migrant Filipinos for their yearly Christmas vacation and homecoming,” said chief executive officer Mitch Ballesteros of expo organizer Exlink Events.

“They are expected to troop to the expo in droves that can turn the event into a business and Family Christmas gathering of mega-scale,” Ballesteros said.

The remittances from those OFWs and migrant Filipinos have soared to over $21 billion with the continued rise in their number and deployment all over the world.

The OFWs alone, excluding their families, number to roughly 9.5 million to 12.5 million, or around 10 to 11 percent of the country’s total population, according to POEA data.

Moreover, another 1.7 million OFWs were reportedly awaiting deployment for the first 10 months of last year, which the POEA said would reflect an 8.6-percent growth year on year.

Such figures make the OFWs and their families a powerful economic bloc, whose resources can be mobilized for investments in the various industry sectors to widen the domestic capital base and strengthen the country’s resistance against external financial shocks.

“They (OFWs) can become exporters and their families export producers, thus keeping their roles as one of the country’s major dollar earners but, this time, also as job generators instead of job hunters,” Ballesteros pointed out as an example.

“The expo will have almost 200 exhibitors collectively offering a complete menu of businesses and investment opportunities, training and knowledge sources, and support services, including property firms for their housing needs and retail shops for their Christmas requirements,” Ballesteros said.

“Thus, it will be a festival that celebrates the heroism of our OFWs, or a huge gathering of Filipinos from all over the world who now have an expo they can call their own,” Ballesteros stressed.

Now on its 10^th year, the expo includes the OFW Business Summit with seminars on how to do business in the Philippines and investment literacy for OFW’s and Families and the Outstanding Balikbayan Reputation Awards (OBRA).

Primarily constituting the expo are the 1) MEGA INVEST presenting investment opportunities in various fields such as cars and automobile , real estate and property, manufacturing, franchising , support technologies, agri-aqua business, retail and wholesale , distributorships, service outlets, and many others; 2) MEGA EXPERIENCE offering various travels and tours packages , holiday destinations, health and wellness products and services, food and beverages, and hobbies’ businesses ; and 3) MEGA SHOP for discounted items, Christmas gifts , souvenir items and regional products.

More information about the event can be obtained from Exlink Events (tel: 632 6433887 / 6437760 ; mobile: 0920 9242532, 0920 9814376; email: info@exlinkevents.com; or visit www.exlinkevents.com).

Friday, September 13, 2013
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OFW expo set to mobilize funds from Pinoys abroad

Balikbayan Business Expo

An event for the more than 10 million overseas Filipinos worldwide (OFWs) and their relatives in the Philippines is being organized to help turn them into entrepreneurs by channeling some of their over $21-billion remittances from mere consumption to investments.

The event, dubbed Mega Balikbayan/OFW Expo 2013, is in the thick of preparations to put under one roof all the requirements that the OFWs and their relatives need to become successful entrepreneurs.

Expo organizer Exlink Events said close to 500 exhibitors were being targeted to ensure that the multitude of OFWs, balikbayans and their relatives would have a complete menu of businesses, knowledge sources, support services and all the enabling mechanisms to achieve that goal.

“That means gathering all the possible sources of business opportunities, investment options, service providers, knowledge and training outfits, banks and other financial institutions, and all other private and public support agencies, including the DOLE (Department Of Labor and Employment), POEA (Philippine Overseas Employment Administration), OWWA (Overseas Workers Welfare Administration), DFA (Department of Foreign Affairs), DTI (Department of Trade & Industry), Board of Investments (BOI), DOF (Department of Finance), and many others, all catering to the entrepreneurial needs of the millions of OFWs and their families,” said Exlink chief executive officer Mitch Ballesteros.

“This expo is designed to make our OFWs and balikbayans feel like being the real heroes that they are, who can help transform our economy from being merely consumption driven to strongly investment led. Obviously, they have both the numbers and the collective resources to make it happen,” Ballesteros stressed.

The OFWs, according to POEA data, number to roughly 9.5 million to 12.5 million, or around 10 to 11 percent of the country’s total population. This figure does not include the total number of their relatives that the expo is also catered to.

Moreover, some 1.7 million OFWs were reportedly awaiting deployment for the first 10 months of last year, which the POEA said would reflect an 8.6-percent growth year on year.

For full-year 2012, the OFWs reportedly remitted more than $21 billion, equivalent to nine percent of the country’s $224.75-billion gross domestic product in 2011, and 8.5 percent in 2012.

Still, the OFW remittances continue to grow, always exceeding the government’s target in the past several years.

“Thus, we are dealing with a truly powerful sector (OFWs) who deserve the best treatment we can offer through the Mega Balikbayan/OFW Expo,” Ballesteros said.

Now on its 10^th year, the expo includes the OFW Business Summit and the Outstanding Balikbayan Reputation Awards (OBRA).

Constituting the expo are three components – 1) MEGA INVEST presenting investment opportunities in various fields such as real estate and property, manufacturing, support technologies, agri-aqua business, retail and wholesale distributorships, service outlets, and many others; 2) MEGA EXPERIENCE offering various holiday destinations, health and wellness products and services, food and beverages, and pets and hobbies; and 3) MEGA SHOP for discounted items, online sellers, souvenir items and regional products.

The Mega Balikbayan/OFW Expo is slated at the SMX Convention Center on December 11 to 12. More information about the event can be obtained from Exlink Events (tel: 632 6433887; mobile: 0920 9242532, 0920 9814376; email: info@exlinkevents.com; or visit www.exlinkevents.com).

Monday, August 19, 2013
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