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41 Modules, 300+ FREE E-Commerce & Digital Marketing Education Lessons

When I started DigitalFilipino.com back in September 16, 1999, my aspiration was to serve as a platform to educate people on e-commerce. Started by talking about industry developments, pushing for the E-Commerce Law, until I  spend more time developing e-commerce education content. From 2003 to 2007, I released 3 email-based e-learning...

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6 Tax Guidelines for E-Commerce Transactions in the Philippines

Last August 5, 2013, the Bureau of Internal Revenue issued Revenue Memorandum Circular number 55-2013. This intends to govern how individuals and businesses should handle their sales and taxes accordingly. Here's a summary I prepared and hope it will make it easier for e-commerce merchants, online shoppers, payment gateways, banks, credit...

Charting New Paths: The Journey of Philippine SMEs Towards Digitalization

For the past two years, I have been teaching digitalization and coaching entrepreneurs with their business improvement plans. Some micro and small businesses (MSMEs) do not practice proper bookkeeping and inventory management. A good number would be recording business-related transactions through numerous spreadsheets and documents. Although having an integrated system would...

Digitalization in the Philippines

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, digital transformation became an advocacy for various government agencies encouraging businesses to embrace it, use a strategy to overcome hard times, and be competitive in the future. According to a 2017 research by the International Labour Organization (ILO), technological improvements have already provided the significant economic potential...

Online Selling: Step-by-Step Guide in Creating a Website Using Shopify

My warm thanks to readers who joined our webinar about "Online Selling for the Holiday Season" and "7 Steps to E-Commerce Enable Your Business". This was made possible with the support of Shopify. The Covid-19 pandemic has required MSMEs and exporters to explore e-commerce strategies and digital marketing approaches for business...