I went for dinner at Sunway Pyramid 2 on the weekend and noticed a couple of neat things they have implemented in the new wing to make your shopping experience a little bit easier. You ever get frustrated looking for a parking space? Ever wonder if driving round and round on the same floor is pointless since there aren’t any parking spaces left on that floor anyway? Well check out these simple solutions to those [ Read More... ]

Venturing out and starting your own business always stems from a first step, this being having a brilliant business idea or plan which you think you can do successfully. But where do you get brilliant business ideas? They don’t just fall from the sky you know. Let’s discuss. 1) From your frustrationsWho hasn’t been frustrated with one thing or another at any time in their lives? I have and I’m sure you have. What frustrates [ Read More... ]

In the past 2 weeks I’ve been reading article after article about how to drive traffic to a blog. From these tips, I’ve tried and tried different methods and for some reason, none seem to work that well. I still average about 50 unique visitors a day and this is only with the help of Project Petaling Street, a Malaysian blog ping service. Without it, I’d be lucky to get even half that amount of [ Read More... ]

Yes!! My new desk came today to replace that crappy old desk I showed in my last post on how to set up a good home office. Now I can get some real work done… (Well I hope so anyway) I’ve been telling people that the new desk is going to inspire me with brilliant ideas and help me start my business at lightning speed. But then again, I said the same thing about getting [ Read More... ]

The first part of the business plan that you should write after the executive summary is actually an overview of the business and its strategies for success. Now since I’m planning on starting an online business, my initial capital required is relatively low. My business plan may or may not be required to present to investors asking for funds and hence it is quite simplistic. How I’ve laid out the business overview is as follows: [ Read More... ]

A business plan to most people is probably as easy as: “Quit job, start business, make money” That is not how you write a business plan. You can find out extremely indepth information about writing a business plan from sites such as entrepreneur.com: Creating a Winning Startup Business Plan or at about.com where they provide you with business plan templates that you can download and modify for your own use. But possibly the best place [ Read More... ]

On a side note, I thought I’d share with you some business/ entrepreneurship reading material that probably contributed to me deciding to start my own business here in KL. An Australian entrepreneurship magazine. This issue detailed some case studies on successful business ventures and how cooperation makes innovation work so much better. You can find some useful resources on their website. This magazine however, was eye-opening for me. It is basically all about internet based [ Read More... ]