Joey Concepcion Promotes Our Philippines’ Book Launch

If you are residing in the Philippines and in her capital of Manila, then I’m pretty sure you would know who Joey Concepcion is. As it so happens, in his weekly column in one of the city’s top newspaper The Philippine Star, he helped promote the launch of Secrets To Dominate Your Niche in Fully Booked today. That’s right, today is the day that we are having our book launch in Manila–10th July 2008. Exactly 2 months and 12 days after the book was launched in Singapore.

When Nikko was arranging for the launch activities in the Philippines, he had also arranged for Thomas to meet with various entrepreneurs there to see how they could help to promote the book after it was launched. One of the prominent member of this inspiring entrepreneur community that Nikko managed to arrange a lunch meeting with was Joey. He was kind enough to host lunch for Thomas at the Manila Polo Club and had also invited along a few other distinguished guests as well, namely Pax Lapid, Dean of the Entrepreneurs School of Asia and Mon Lopez, Executive Director of GoNegosyo. Take a look at the exciting lunch they had:

Top: Myra Lorredo, Programs Development Manager of GoNegosyo, Nikko Lim, Mon Lopez, Executive Director of GoNegosyo, Ted Francisco, PR and Communications of GoNegosyo
Bottom: Joey Concepcion, Founding Trustee of the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship, Thomas Fernandez, Pax Lapd, Dean of Program of the Entrepreneurs School of Asia

It was timely that they were having lunch today, just before Thomas got busy with his round of interviews with the some of the press people and then the book launch at 6pm. Joey was kind enough to write about the launch and invite readers to join in the activities at the launch.

Since my very first interaction with Nikko, I have constantly been amazed by the level of support and generosity of the Filipino people. He has singlehandedly gotten the bookstores in Manila to order the books, arranged for the book launch, organised the helpers, planned the programme for the launch night, invited like-minded business people to meet with Thomas and even set up interviews with the press. And now to have someone like Joey write about the book launch in his weekly column and even promote the event, it is really something that touches our hearts deeply. As Thomas said, “Just reading this morning’s article by Joey has given me the impetus for action and I’m just ready to rock and roll for the launch at Fully Booked tonight!”

And I tell you, if you have ever met Thomas or just sat in one of his talks, he certainly doesn’t need much impetus for action because he is a force of energy and action himself. So if he’s getting all fired by this article, then I only have one thing to say to the people attending the launch tonigh… be prepared! I can’t wait for the photos and update of launch and hope to upload some exciting photos and details of the event here for you!