2009 is the Birth of my first company , Ignite Revolutiuon. I got this name spontaneously at the Registrar office. Well, not really spontaneously, I had the term Ignite in my mind two days before that while I was doing a Business Update meeting at my current company. "Ignite" based on the dictionary definition means to cause or to start to burn or lite something,and revolution on the other hand means big change in terms of social, technology or achievement. That is what i concluded when I chose the name. It has always been my dream to ignite something big and I am very sure I will achieve that. With some effort, focus and help from friends and family. I still hold the motto of Scholarship, Virtue and Service for my company undertakings, which I uphold from UUM motto of " Ilmu, Budi, Bakti". I was engineereed there, at least I should be carrying some values to the community. I guess the motto make much sense now. The other motto is "Finis Coronut Opus" - my secondary school motto that means "Effort is the stairways to success". Make sense huh ? I have not specified the core business of company as year 2009 is an experimental year. I have tried out property management and service marketing, its quite challenging. It requires knowledge, creativity, problem solving, follow up and perserverence. But I learnt a lot from my father when it comes to property management. I learnt some from the books of Mr Kiyosaki and Mr Trump. Though it's not apple to apple comparison but the concept somehow leads to the right direction. Some people say that involving in Malaysia business equals to involving with politics and government, well to certain extend they are right but not necessary all the cases. Probably that is why I have invested some time understanding the political turmoils nowadays. And I have tried to involve my self with political movement. And am still trying to adapt my mind to it. You may say politic is dirty but I cant figure out yet what is not in today's world when it comes to human interaction and money.
Apart from property , I am also trying to link my company portfolios with servicing business. Why servicing ? Because this requires a minimal amount of money for start up. and i dont have much to spend around. That's where I found a friend who is so keen of doing servicing job. He introduced me to the world of business arts. We kicked off our first project teaching the communities doing Fruit and Vegetables Carving. We partnered with Kulim Community College as they have the facilities that we need. Though I love arts very much, this kind of art requires more than skills, it has to do with passions and imagination. But I still want to continue doing this as part of my business experiment. My friend whom I called Cikgu Mary Think Big. He wants to make a giant leap of this art to the world level. And it is part of our plan to explore more of this skills at our neighbouring country, Thailand, where the art is believed to have been originated 700 years ago. My friend somehow has the interest on Feng Shui too . He told me that one Chinese Sifu told him that he will success in food industry. And he sees fruit carving as the baseline of his success. On contrary, I see this as an opportunity to bring the servicing business with almost zero capital to move ahead. Lets see what will happen next. Hope the income tax folks wont be chasing after me as the profit is not really significant. Only the knowledge is priceless.
Another portfolio that I am looking forward to expand is photography. Photography has always been my interest since I was a kid. I still remember that I wish my sister to buy me a camera as a birthday gift back in the 80's. In 1981, my father bought a classic SLR Camera. But I was very hot hot chicken shit as it was hard to use that camera, I was 7 then. Anyhow , photography continue to part of my interest. With the new DSLR technology, photography is made so easy. That's why I dont mind involving this as my part time income. I like video shooting too but it requires lot of time and research to master the skills and to process and edit. There are courses available but having too many things to do at the same time is really a challenge. Laziness is no doubt the biggest constraint that put me in mediocrity in the photo business. Like any other business, photography can be a big boom business too. There should be a way how to break the code to get rich in this business. Something Donald Trump migth not recommend but it is worth doing something that you like and getting some bucks into your wallet. So I this is a keeper of my Ignite Revolution portfolio.
Another portfolio that I am looking forward to expand is photography. Photography has always been my interest since I was a kid. I still remember that I wish my sister to buy me a camera as a birthday gift back in the 80's. In 1981, my father bought a classic SLR Camera. But I was very hot hot chicken shit as it was hard to use that camera, I was 7 then. Anyhow , photography continue to part of my interest. With the new DSLR technology, photography is made so easy. That's why I dont mind involving this as my part time income. I like video shooting too but it requires lot of time and research to master the skills and to process and edit. There are courses available but having too many things to do at the same time is really a challenge. Laziness is no doubt the biggest constraint that put me in mediocrity in the photo business. Like any other business, photography can be a big boom business too. There should be a way how to break the code to get rich in this business. Something Donald Trump migth not recommend but it is worth doing something that you like and getting some bucks into your wallet. So I this is a keeper of my Ignite Revolution portfolio.
Ignite Revolution and my wife :
I have never known after 9 years of marriage that my wife has the talent in doing sales. I have always underestimated her in doing sales based on her introvert characteristic . But in 2009, I decided to give it a try in small retailing business. I started off with the handicraft business. I have 3 partners by then. This is also an experimental business. Its a Labu Sayong business, or described in Wikipedia as earthenware, gourd-shaped jars for keeping drinking water cool. It was just a small capital start up. This is where I saw the talent of my wife doing sales. In just 3 months, she really sold the goods and become the champion of the sales force (at least we got break even in 3 months) . This business is not to say very successful or very failure, but what I learned is that product knowledge, marketing strategies , consumer behaviour, costing and follow up is the key element to success. Though we stopped the activity after 5 months, I was thinking to KIV this business for Ignite Revolution. I learned a great deal of doing the research, dealing with people and solving business issues. With the initial talent shown by my wife in doing sales and book keeping, I have moved another step to getting another business that is more suitable for her. The ladies accessories , clothing or women apparels. She is doing great. And I can see her passions in doing this kind of business. Arguments is almost inevitable in starting up a business with her. Decisions making make it worst sometimes. Not to add financial issues. But we made it somehow until the business runs quite smooth. Again, the profit is not really big but as a green man in this field, I would rate the business as Exceeding Expectation. Surprisingly my wife can have her own network of people to run the business for her. She started off with immediate family members, colleagues and now outsiders started to approach her. Its still long way to go. She needs to adapt more style in doing a bigger scale business. And this is definetely one of the core business under my wife supervision. Hopefully she can have her own shop to run this business soon. My daughther who is turning 7 next year shall be her right hand to run the business. Yes, I am brainswashing her to run business, so that she will be getting rich 20 years faster than me. Though you have seen so many time I use the term "rich", rich is not everything of course. There is a reason why I want to be rich. I will story that in the next note. On the other hand , my son (5), has not shown any interest in money making business at the moment, he likes expenses indeed. I will train him slowly not be a liability. I hope that he will continue my business in future. Lets see how it goes.
I have never known after 9 years of marriage that my wife has the talent in doing sales. I have always underestimated her in doing sales based on her introvert characteristic . But in 2009, I decided to give it a try in small retailing business. I started off with the handicraft business. I have 3 partners by then. This is also an experimental business. Its a Labu Sayong business, or described in Wikipedia as earthenware, gourd-shaped jars for keeping drinking water cool. It was just a small capital start up. This is where I saw the talent of my wife doing sales. In just 3 months, she really sold the goods and become the champion of the sales force (at least we got break even in 3 months) . This business is not to say very successful or very failure, but what I learned is that product knowledge, marketing strategies , consumer behaviour, costing and follow up is the key element to success. Though we stopped the activity after 5 months, I was thinking to KIV this business for Ignite Revolution. I learned a great deal of doing the research, dealing with people and solving business issues. With the initial talent shown by my wife in doing sales and book keeping, I have moved another step to getting another business that is more suitable for her. The ladies accessories , clothing or women apparels. She is doing great. And I can see her passions in doing this kind of business. Arguments is almost inevitable in starting up a business with her. Decisions making make it worst sometimes. Not to add financial issues. But we made it somehow until the business runs quite smooth. Again, the profit is not really big but as a green man in this field, I would rate the business as Exceeding Expectation. Surprisingly my wife can have her own network of people to run the business for her. She started off with immediate family members, colleagues and now outsiders started to approach her. Its still long way to go. She needs to adapt more style in doing a bigger scale business. And this is definetely one of the core business under my wife supervision. Hopefully she can have her own shop to run this business soon. My daughther who is turning 7 next year shall be her right hand to run the business. Yes, I am brainswashing her to run business, so that she will be getting rich 20 years faster than me. Though you have seen so many time I use the term "rich", rich is not everything of course. There is a reason why I want to be rich. I will story that in the next note. On the other hand , my son (5), has not shown any interest in money making business at the moment, he likes expenses indeed. I will train him slowly not be a liability. I hope that he will continue my business in future. Lets see how it goes.
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