Entrepreneur and Globe Business ambassador Happy Ongpauco-Tiu is passionate about business--but is still happiest as a wife and mother.
It’s not so easy to fulfil her various roles, however, because of her many responsibilities. Happy
says that she always tries her best to live a balanced life as an entrepreneur,
wife, and mother.
“I am a housewife, a mother and an entrepreneur. I wake up in the morning
to tend to Renzo before he goes to school. Soon, I take care of my baby Franchesco too! Then I check
paper works for the office. By
lunch time, I try my best to visit my restaurants when I’m not busy at
home.
“After lunch, I meet with my Management team for daily updates, do calls...
calls.., calls, and emails to delegate responsibilities to my staff especially
for my out-of-town branches.
“Then in the afternoon I tend to my family and prepare dinner for
them. After dinner, I spend
quality time with my Hubby and kids – the highlight of the day that I enjoy the
most!” she said.
Restaurateur
Her
family founded the iconic Barrio Fiesta restaurant way back in 1958 made
Filipinos fall in love with their kare-kare, crispy pata and other dishes. It’s
no wonder that when Happy grew up, she naturally went into the food business
herself.
She’s
helping run their family business, as Corporate Secretary of the Barrio Fiesta
Group Middle East operations.
Happy
also runs her own food company now—the Happy Concept Group of Companies—after
establishing several restaurants including World Topps; Bento Box
(American-inspired Japanese food); Hawaiian Bar-B-Que Restaurant (Boracay &
Tagaytay); I Luv Backyard BBQ joint in Boracay; and Pamana Restaurant in
Tagaytay.
She also has My Happy carts (themed food carts for
kiddie parties) and her own Catering Kitchen which features Chef Happy’s
homemade specialties.
Happy has even gone into the hotel business with
her Boutique Bed & Breakfast in Tagaytay (a 7-bedroom boutique hotel with
themed rooms) and the wellness business as well: Slim at Home, a mobile slimming
clinic complete with doctors and medical assistants.
But wait. With all of these taking her time and
attention, how does she every find time for her family and herself?
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| HAPPILY HIGH-TECH. Being tech-savvy makes entrepreneur and Globe Business Ambassador Happy Ongpauco-Tiu an effective businesswoman as well as a much beloved wife and mother. According to Happy, her use of telecoms solutions from Globe Business helps her have a balanced life: she can effectively run her business even when she's on-the-go, and she has more free time to be there for her husband and kids |
In
her efforts to balance her many roles, Happy is thankful that she uses modern
telecoms technology provided by Globe Business solutions.
“I
got my first mobile phone more than 20 years ago,” she says. “When my Dad got me one, on the very
first year Globe offered mobile phones. It felt really great having to be able
to communicate with other people just with a gadget.”
Through
Globe Business solutions, Happy can instantly reach her employees through call,
SMS, landline and vice versa.
“As
an entrepreneur, I am able to fulfil my responsibilities with the efficient
assistance of Globe’s product lines,” she said.
Especially
since most of her businesses are out of town or abroad, her needs for mobile
phone, land line, and the Internet is crucial to running and troubleshooting
the day-to-day needs of an enterprise.
While
no business will ever succeed without the owner’s hands-on presence, a reliable
Internet connection and a clear line on a phone can enable Happy to delegate,
manage and connect instantly when the need arises.
Filipino
entrepreneurs like Happy, who adopt the newest communications services and
technology available to get in touch instantly with personnel on the ground for
business, are finding it easier to manage their operations even from afar.
“Especially
in the kind of business that I am in, it’s a 24-hour monitoring thing,” she
explains. ”You can get calls in the middle of the night to solve or answer
queries. I have to say that modern telecoms technology is indispensible in this
time & age. To be able to monitor your business from wherever you are at
any time of the day is of utmost importance to ensure good service and finished
products.”
More powerful texting
Globe
Business Unlitext and Call is the solution to making affordable calls within a
given team or staff of associates. It provides discounted rates on Globe
Prepaid, Globe Postpaid, and Globe Landline.
Happy
also uses Globe Business TxtConnect to maximize the reach of the SMS that she
sends. TxtConnect is ideal for high-volume text campaigns and SMS blasts to
employees and customers—with just one send, the SMS is broadcast to a large
group of recipients. The service is Web-based, so it’s much easier to send
compared to regular text messaging or making phone calls.
TxtConnect
is charges lower text message rates. Subscribing to TxtConnect can save an
entrepreneur as much as 35% in cost compared to a regular text messaging
service. TxtConnect subscription plans start at as low as P1500 per month.
As
the kind of entrepreneur who takes advantage of the current tech services, Happy
has had to learn to use both mobile phones and the Internet to keep track of
her many professional commitment.
“Whichever
is needed,” she agrees. “I do surf the Internet a lot especially nowadays that
it’s almost impossible to transact business without it.”
In
a time when modern telecom technology is developing at an exponential rate,
each year offers more and more advantages for the Pinoy entrepreneur on the go.
Its benefits are essential to bringing forward the success of any activity at a
level where things are communicated clearer; problems are solved easier, at a
pace that you dictate and doesn’t need to slow down.
Get
business done quicker and, like Happy, enjoy time with your family free of the
pressures of always having to be there.
“Globe
products and services is my connection not only to my employees but to my
clients as well,” smiles Happy. “Globe is definitely a reliable partner in my
day-to-day living”
Globe
Business is the corporate arm of Globe Telecom, the leading telecommunications
company in the Philippines. Globe Business provides wireless and wireline
solutions for a diverse set of industries, businesses, and commercial
enterprises.
Globe
Business assures SMEs of affordable, reliable, and dependable services for all
communication needs, both wireless and wireline solutions, to generate the
highest possible profit at the lowest possible cost. For more information, call
+632 730-1010 or log on to http://www.globe.com.ph/business.
