How to maximise your public listing for brand building
Answering this question is becoming increasingly urgent.
Answering this question is becoming increasingly urgent.
It's offical: all locally-listed companies must now produce an annual sustainability report. This initiative by the Singapore Exchange was announced some years ago, in an effort to attract more international investors to Singapore companies. From January 1, all SGX-listed companies must file such a report within five months of the end of their financial year.
I hear this time and time again during our media and presentation skills workshops: "we are Asian, and therefore we don't present well."
You wouldn't think the departure of a total of 400 staff at Singapore Press Holdings by the end of this year is of any relevance when you take part in a media interview. But the shrinking number of journalists actually has a much greater impact than you might think.
A small group of senior Communications Directors produced a live webcast in our studio today, and had all their questions answered on live webcasting.
Sharing content is an imperative for marketers today.
By winning the US presidency, Donald Trump has clearly recorded a measure of success through the way he communicated with voters. Senior business leaders ignore this at their peril (just ask Hillary Clinton). We draw lessons from Trump's surprising election victory.
Conducting interviews with Chairmen and directors of SGX-listed companies, and researching the series of articles that appear in the supplement (link also below), I discovered the issue goes far beyond gender diversity itself.
We have launched a new series on the Internet of Things for Nasdaq-listed Flex. As we went about producing the program, we were blown away by the job opportunities the Internet of Things present to skilled talent in our region.
Our interview series with Forbes' 2016 list of 30-Under-30 Asian Unstoppable entrepreneurs is now live on the DBS YouTube channel.
HBM has broadened its reach by joining the Dianomi content network. This means we are able to deliver the premium corporate news programs we produce for our clientso to top business websites globally.
Annual General Meetings are critically important for companies and investors to come together, to review the accounts and to discuss the outlook. But in a weaker economy, companies may need a helping hand communicating the difficult year ahead to their shareholders. That's why we are launching a public speaking course specially geared to the C-suite ahead of AGM season in Singapore and Malaysia.
BAHRAIN, NOVEMBER 26, 2015 - A group of 84 marketing, management and engineering students at Bahrain Polytechnic were treated today to a fast-track presentation skills workshop by former CNBC anchor and media consultant, Mark Laudi.
Students took part in a hands-on, 2-hour workshop titled "Change the world with your presentations"that taught them how to get buy-in to their ideas,simply in the w
Volkswagen might have done a lot of things wrong when it rigged the diesel engines of 11 million cars to skew emissions test results in its favour.
But in terms of its communications it has done a lot of things right. It has demonstrated the four things which so many other companies – especially here in Asia – find so hard to do in times of crisis.
1.Admit your company has done something w
Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (the Centre) has been acknowledged as the best conference facility in Asia Pacific, after taking the Best Conference Venue at the inaugural Asia Pacific MICE Awards 2015.
CEO Alan Pryor tells eventv's Mark Laudi what he believes clinched it. Click on this link to watch the full interview.
Along with 33 examples, four points on messaging, three style rules and one pink cowboy hat
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Photo Credit: Laura Lee Moreau
"If a picture paints a thousand words, a video paints a million."
says Mark Laudi, former Bureau Chief of CNBC Australia. The award-winning presenter who started his media career as Australia's youngest radio current affairs show host, spent 7 years in CNBC Asia Pacific, also went on to be one of the pioneers at 938LIVE, Singapore. These days, he runs Hong Bao Media as its Managing Director, ad
Apologies for the awful pun! But its been an action packed couple of weeks for us at Hong Bao Media and we're bursting with excitement. We've got interviews with Tan Tong Hai, CEO of Starhub and Kenny Yap, Executive Chairman of Qian Hu Corporation. We were at the MICE Asia Pacific Exhibition and Conference last week and have some amazing content we would love for you to see.
Watch this space f
Hong Bao Media now offers mediation services to encourage dialogue and discussion between conflicting parties.
From anchorman to entrepreneur, Mark Laudi is always thinking of new ideas for his business.