Haifa Carina

Over a year of organizing lead generation events for Amihan Global Strategies (B2B company), inviting new contacts has always been a challenge. We haven’t established relationships yet so we are likely to be ignored. However, there are few things I learned to increase my invite success rate. Assuming you already sent email invites to your new contacts, here are some tips I found effective in my follow-ups if you haven’t heard from them days after: Check via email if they received the invite. Sometimes they’ve read it but forgot to respond or your email got flooded down in their inbox. Following…

Whether you’re a developer, an enthusiast or want to reach out to developers, here is your guide to the annual big developer conferences in the Philippines organized by different tech communities. DevCon Summit DEVCON Summit, known as The Biggest Developer Conference in the Philippines, is a national conference that aims to explore the development trends, best practices and tools in growing as a developer. Event is organized by DEVCON Philippines. function() & .class Organized by Philippine Web Designers Organization, the FFC is for advanced techniques in designing and developing for the web taught be the best in the world. GDG DevFest…

As I learn more about successful peoples’ stories, they always have routines related to their growth in different aspects. And each person has their unique ways of learning. I think its also very different at a certain point in their life. As of today, here are the routines I have in the last few months: I listen to podcast when I walk or commute. Current favorites are Masters of Scale and Tim Ferris Show. I listen to audiobooks now vs reading ebooks via Audible or iTunes. I used to read ebooks but now I get headaches when reading on moving…

I’m an impulsive person. It wasn’t until 2 days before the event that I decided to run. Glad someone offered to sell me their racing kit. I would’ve gone 21KM but since I had no training I might get myself injured so I opted to go 10KM. It wasn’t my best 10KM but I sure felt accomplished crossing the finish line!  Next up, training for marathon!