My Story - Karla Singson

Hello!

Karla Singson is an
award-winning writer, public
speaker, and entrepreneur.

Her entrepreneurial journey started when she graduated college at 19, thinking companies would fight over her. My, she was very wrong about that! With a debate championship, a table tennis championship, and great grades, it made sense that they would fawn all over her.

Turns out, nobody wanted to hire a teenager. They found her risky, flippant, and too “hyper”. She eventually found her home in an ad agency– where they accepted all sorts of misfits.

She was accepted as a writer and she started writing ads for a living. She wrote social media ads, newspaper press releases, advertorials, radio ads, and even did translation work for soap operas.

After eight months, she called it quits with employment and started her own freelance writing gig.

Hello!

Karla Singson is an
award-winning writer, public
speaker, and entrepreneur.

Turns out, nobody wanted to hire a teenager. They found her risky, flippant, and too “hyper”. She eventually found her home in an ad agency– where they accepted all sorts of misfits.

She was accepted as a writer and she started writing ads for a living. She wrote social media ads, newspaper press releases, advertorials, radio ads, and even did translation work for soap operas.

After eight months, she called it quits with employment and started her own freelance writing gig.

Seeing as she had some free time, she also taught Marketing at the Ateneo de Davao University, and started her gift shop, as well as an events company. Not long, she was able to bring both businesses to the mainstream.

She spent the next few years growing her businesses, doing leadership training on the side, and eventually explored business and executive coaching.

Currently, she leads Proximity Outsourcing, a managed outsourcing company with offices in Austin (USA), Playa del Carmen (Mexico) and Davao (Philippines). Karla’s biggest win is taking her outsourcing company from zero to a seven figure company in a little over a year without spending anything on ads.

With Daymond John of Shark Tank

With Ryan Deiss, Richard Lindner and Roland Frasier of Scalable / Digital Marketer

Karla now resides in the sunny beach town of Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Aside from business, she enjoys visiting beautiful mountain ranges, cooking Filipino food, Pilates, psychological thrillers, behavioral economics, stand-up comedy, real estate investing, and drinking dark red wines.