Prelude To A Philippines’ Book Launch

Finally, the day that Nikko and I have been arranging for via email for the past 2 months, came to pass. As Thomas had to go to the Philippines for business, Nikko had been working fervently with Fully Booked to hold a book launch while Thomas was in town. And on 8th July, Tuesday, Thomas flew into Manila and was greeted at the airport by our niche dominator reader, Nikko Lim. (You can read the previous few posts below to find out more about Nikko.)

I asked Nikko to provide me with some details about Thomas’ activities and some photos so that I could update their movements on this blog. So for the next few days, you will be going a ‘tour’ in Manila as Secrets To Dominate Your Niche prepares for its launch there.

Apart from organising a book launch in the biggest bookstore in Manila (the 5-storey Fully Booked building), Nikko had also arranged for lunches and dinners with several prominent businessmen. The first of these meetings took place on Thomas’ first night in Manila. In the dinner party for the night was Edwin Mapanao, Marketing Director of Unilab Animal Health and President of the Certified Professional Marketers’ Society of Philippines, and Donald Lim, President and CEO and Yehey.com and President and Founding Member of of the Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of Philippines.

Donald Lim, Thomas Fernandez, Nikko Lim and Edwin Mapanao

I thought it might be nice to hear directly from Nikko on the various activities that they are doing over there. So here it is:

I was able to pick up Thomas in the airport 5:30pm, arrived at The Renaissance Hotel around 6:10pm. It’s great to finally meet Thomas. He is really full of energy! I can sense it! We talked about his book, his business, other future plans.

Thomas and Nikko are still meeting with a lot of other prominent people from the business community in Manila and there are quite a few surprises in store! So if you want to find out who else they will be meeting with over the next few days, do stay tuned.

Honestly, even though I’m getting my updates via email, I can feel the electrifying energy of like-minded people working together for the same cause. In this case, the cause is getting the book out to the people in the Philippines. And I’m really thankful that Niko has managed to muster up such great support from the business community over there. He has even roped in volunteer students from his ex-univeristy to help in the book launch. Amazing… thank you all!

Ahhh.. that must have been a wonderful dinner and an even better networking session!