Randell with Bloggers Noemi and Butch Dado
Last Saturday afternoon, I helped organize a Personal and Practical Finance Forum for Bloggers. Our speaker was registered Financial Planner and fellow blogger, Randell Tiongson. I’d like to thank everyone who dropped by! It was a fun and educational afternoon and I was very happy with the turnout. Based on our registration, we had over 45 people who came over. I was actually expecting only around 20… good thing Randell prepared food for around 50 people. A few pictures and stories after the break.
Randell’s Talk
First, let me give props to the man of the hour. Randell gave a direct-to-the-point and no-nonsense approach to personal finance. I’ve never heard Randell speak before so it was also a first for me. Finance talks are usually boring but he’s able to balance delivering the meat of the presentation with wake-me-up jokes every now and then. My favorite part of the entire talk was definitely his 3 sure-fire ways of how to get rich. I won’t say them here so make sure you try to catch Randell talk in his next speaking engagement.
Monthly Blogger Kapihan?
I had the pleasure of meeting new bloggers like Jed Chan who writes about Entrepreneurship and Business. I like blogs like this because they add value to the readers by providing them with relevant and helpful information. My good friend and fellow blogger, Sonnie, introduced me to Jed and we had a discussion about having monthly blogger meet-ups. I personally think this is a good idea because it gives a venue for networking. Meeting new people is never a bad thing, especially if you can learn something for them. The Blogger Kapihan I’m envisioning is we can have pre-selected speakers who can share tips on their field of expertise and then we can have a healthy discussion after. Maybe we can have Fitz share business ideas and other ways to make money or we can have Janette share some blogging tips. Problem here is the costs… maybe I can find a sponsor.
Thanks to GBX, Quick Plate, Registered Financial Planners Institute, School Talk, and Victory Greenhills for the support during Randell’s finance forum.
Some posts of bloggers about the event:
Jed Chan
Warrior Lawyer
Hearthur’s Court
If you were there and blogger about the event, let me know so I can link to you as well. Cheers everyone and thanks again for coming and supporting the event!
Hey Carlo!
Nice meeting you guys! It’s really a pleasure. You guys are really great, I felt really at home though it was our first meeting. It feels like a family.
Kindly update us for more bloggers event. I’m also cooking a blogger event, I hope I can ask for some tips. Or perhaps we could work together. ^^v
Hoping to see you soon. God Bless!!
JeD Chan
It was nice to meet you Jed! Looking forward to seeing you in more blogger events in the future.
I was planning to drop by, sayang something came up that needed my attention. Next time, I hope to be able to meet you guys personally na ren!
Oh and I’m pretty sure Randell gave a fantastic talk!
Regards,
Salve
Thanks for organizing this. I enjoyed my afternoon that day. Hope to attend in more events like this.
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Sayang! I wasn’t able to attend the event. The topics here could have been great additions to my blog on personal finance.