Digital Strategy Framework: A toolkit for your digital transformation Journey

"Digital transformation is accelerating, due to so many people working from home" Mary Meeker, Trends Report 2020 Similar to most business owners & entrepreneurs, I have been busy the last weeks to manage the business implications of Covid19 on our businesses. The range was from scaling up or down to building (or at least trying … Continue reading Digital Strategy Framework: A toolkit for your digital transformation Journey

Design Build Operate Transfer (DBOT) – A new service offering for established corporates and high-growth startups

Over the last years, we have successfully helped to scale consumer-focused brands and high-growth startups in Southeast Asia with a new service offering called Digital Build-Operate-Transfer (DBOT). Originally, BOT is a common term in the automotive industry whereas one of the suppliers helps to build, operate and eventually transfer a production facility to some of … Continue reading Design Build Operate Transfer (DBOT) – A new service offering for established corporates and high-growth startups

3 Key Trends in the Marketing Industry & Disrupted Partner Value Chain

Last December, I participated at the Google Partner Summit in Singapore. The conference was mainly about the latest Google/Temasek report and its implication for brands in Southeast Asia. One keynote though talked about the changing role of agencies and how the partner value chain is disrupted. As a digital marketer by heart I found the … Continue reading 3 Key Trends in the Marketing Industry & Disrupted Partner Value Chain

The Hard Truth: Re-pricing of Tech Assets in SEA

Most people with interest in Venture Capital and brand building have actively followed the Icarus story of We: Going from a $46b valuation to survival mode. There have been couple of good articles writing about the challenges of todays' startups - from brand building of artificial unicorns to what's currently wrong with the start up picture. … Continue reading The Hard Truth: Re-pricing of Tech Assets in SEA

4.9x Growth in Revenue for 11.11 (Singles Day) – Importance of Festive Season in eCommerce

The e-Conomy report from Google/Temasek was titled “Swipe up and to the right: Southeast Asia’s $100 billion Internet economy”. Most strikingly, eCommerce has overtaken Online Travel as the biggest sector of the internet economy in Southeast Asia. This growth has been turbocharged by shopping festivals. In fact, Alibaba set another record in selling goods worth more than $38 … Continue reading 4.9x Growth in Revenue for 11.11 (Singles Day) – Importance of Festive Season in eCommerce

The Future of Travel and New Travel Ecosystems

Last week I attended the APAC Travel Summit organized by facebook APAC. It was an industry-leading event with a variety of stakeholders and brands from the travel industry. Facebook flew in some of their global travel experts to discuss current challenges and opportunities. I thought it’s worth sharing an executive summary about how the Future … Continue reading The Future of Travel and New Travel Ecosystems

Southeast Asia’s Online Economy to Triple to $240b in 2025

Back in 2014, we started FALCON as a passion project. We struggled to find data-driven performance marketers and instead of always building a new performance driven marketing team for each eCommerce company from scratch, we decided to set up FALCON Agency and get the best people we have worked with together. So we assembled an … Continue reading Southeast Asia’s Online Economy to Triple to $240b in 2025

The Future of eCommerce: Give Consumers What They Want Before They Know They Want It

Last month we conducted a workshop about the Future of X: a series of workshops for specific industries such as travel, FMCG, F&B and financial services that deep-dives into the future of each industry respectively. For this I prepared an introductory presentation about the Future of eCommerce as a warm up exercise for the group. I wanted to share … Continue reading The Future of eCommerce: Give Consumers What They Want Before They Know They Want It

The Era of D2C Is Coming: Why I believe in Direct-2-Consumer Businesses

Going through my Instagram feed & stories I realised a common theme: There are a lot of new category brands’ in the feed but rarely do I see an established brand directly marketing to me aka the end consumer. After doing some more research I found a Nielsen study that stated that “96% of traditional … Continue reading The Era of D2C Is Coming: Why I believe in Direct-2-Consumer Businesses

Your Cheat Sheet as a Digital Marketing Expert

Our FALCON team was invited to be part of the 115 Digital Guru Blue Belts for 2018 couple of days ago at Google, and participated in 2 intense days training across attribution, measurement, apps, youtube for action, programmatic and experiments. Momo came back very excited and shared (together with Shirley & Gilbert) their key lessons learned. So we thought this will help you … Continue reading Your Cheat Sheet as a Digital Marketing Expert