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Saturday, March 01, 2003
Bigfoot communication services expanded for use of over 2M users
By Arvy B. Enjambre
BIGFOOT Communications, which started as an e-mail forwarding company, now has an extensive array of products and services.
According to Bigfoot chief executive officer Joe Mercado, Bigfoot has added Enhanced Mail, Global Text Messaging, Domain Registration and Conference Call, and an anti-Spam solution to cater to its more than two million users worldwide.
These services are easy to use, budget friendly, highly reliable and are backed by 24-hour customer service to power the business in the international market.
Mercado said Bigfoot had evolved into a communications company, and invested in state-of-the-art equipment and increased its manpower to transport groundbreaking solutions for global communications to users.
Bigfoot also launched last December its Community Learning Center Program, which sponsors the computer requirements and other infrastructure needs of 21 schools.
Mercado added that the outreach program, which cost more or less P9 million, provides the 21 schools with two new computers and printers each that would have all the new and top-of-the-line software.
Bigfoot would also train teachers from these schools to become more proficient. Twenty of the schools are in Cebu; one is in Negros Oriental.
Bigfoot also acquired established companies to match its newest line of operations.
The staff of Creatron Ads, a pioneer and established advertising agency in Cebu, is now part of Bigfoot’s Creatives and Production Department with Lilu Aliño as its head.
Bigfoot, now located at the Bigfoot Communications building along F. Ramos St., has 11 floors that house the company’s different departments including Development, Call Center, and Creatives and Production. There is also a gym and spa for the employees’ benefit.
Bigfoot is the leading investor of Cleverlearn Learning Asia Inc., a rapidly growing Internet-based firm in the learning industry founded in the United States in 1999.
According to its website, Cleverlearn aims to personalize the learning process with the use of new technology for easy and efficient access.
Its primary focus is to teach English as a Second Language (ESL) at the speed of the flexibility of online communication.
Cleverlearn has a huge market for ESL with the Germans leading the number at 250,000 customers. Cleverlearn also provides services to other places in Asia like Vietnam, Korea, China, and Thailand.
(March 1, 2003 issue)
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