Are you like me, in that you often look at a business (a shop, a restaurant, a barber) and wonder what’s their real business model, i.e. how do the business earn money? Sometimes, I look at a hawker store and wonder how do they do it? How do they earn enough money to cover the […]
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Beyond The Plastic Pollution
The zero waste movement gains momentum everyday, and I agree plastic waste are polluting our natural environment at a scale like never before and are causing harm on the natural eco-system, especially the oceans. Yet, I like to call attention to other human practises that are destroying our natural resources, in my pov, at a […]
Moving Out of Your Home To A Self Storage Warehouse
As a small business, keeping cost down was always the 2nd most important priority, right after driving sales. Like me, many small business start off from their homes, where we convert a small room into our warehouse for keeping stock. For the most part, if your product was small and light, that would have worked […]
What Is Your Value?
When we look at any business, it really is a transaction between the company and the customer. In this transaction there is an exchange of value and money (in most cases). What is value? Value is extremely difficult to quantify as a small encompassing figure. Value means different things to different people. Some people value […]
Made Where?
In a global economy, the everyday products we used are made from every corner of the earth. Made in ChinaMade in JapanMade in KoreaMade in IndiaMade in MalaysiaMade in AustraliaMade in New ZealandMade in USA The list goes on … Does it matter? It seems, it does to a lot of people. But, does it […]
Shopify vs Goliath
I use Shopify. Shopify is good, though not great, but it does a good job for you to start and run your online shop. More on Shopify below, but first … WooCommerce. I tried WooCommerce, after a brief start with Shopify. I was looking to save operation costs. What I found over the 6 months […]
Technology Made It Easier, Not Easy
It’s much easier to start a business today than any other time in history. With the advancement of technology, there are now tools that allow anyone to setup an online shop in 1 hours, there are marketplace platforms you can leverage that allows you to sell to anyone, there are logistics platform that allows you […]
In the beginning
In the beginning of every business there was a desire to do something more than the mundane. To be able to get out of the 9-6 job routine. To be able to earn “exponentially” more money. To be able to create something that is valuable and offer it to people. To be able to bring […]