Online challenges

Sir Wil battles Covid-19 with bevy of competitions

With his spate of online competitions across all age groups, entrepreneur Wilbert ‘Sir Wil” Tolentino fights the Covid-19 global pandemic head on.

The online competitions are Ginoong Quarantino (King of ECQ Online Search), Online Star Influencer for teens (Season 2 and Season 3), Extreme Cutie Quest Challenge for kids, the Queen of Lockdown (Pa-Girl or Pa-Hard Challenge, Drag Queen Challenge (Ultimate Impersonation Contest), the Most Beautiful Beki Online Pageant, the Wil or No Wil Game Show, and The Voice a capella contest.

“Long before the pandemic struck most of the world, instinct told me to anticipate something that would greatly affect businesses, even closing down many. I just didn’t know it would come in the form of a pandemic.

Luckily, all of my SMEs have set aside contingency funds. Normally, we use that money as incentives during the holiday season. But, in this instance, we gave the money together with relief goods, to all staff members for them to ‘weather the storm’ so to speak,” shared Sir Wil, who operates a number of businesses that include a bar, a spa joint, a buy-and-sell venture of imported goods, as well as Wemsap, a nationwide network of marketing BPOs that promote products online.

“I’ve been following the traditional Chinese mindset of investing wherein you don’t put all your money in one and the same thing. Always diversify. Never put all your money in one product or merchandise.

“Entrepreneurs also need to adapt to the evolving business atmosphere. We should all embrace technology to cope with the fast changing market setting. It has become so competitive. Luckily, technology has afforded an avenue for sellers to offer their products or services online,” he continued.

As of presstime, the Philippines has reported 82,040 confirmed cases with 26, 446 surviving cases (and counting). Globally, there are 16,515,848 reported patients with 10,113,318 who have survived (and counting). The countries most affected by the pandemic are the United States, Brazil, Russia, South Africa, and India. All countries around the world are on the lookout for a vaccine that would bring things back to normal.