Why did you start your business?

leap of faith

Photo credit: Mr Chris Johnson

You are doing it right when becoming an entrepreneur, or is it not?

Most people (including me) when taking the leap from employment to starting a business, with the wrong reasons.

Why did I started my business?

Oh! because I can make more money. I’m not limited to my salary and I have flexible time (no getting stucked in traffic jams will be a good reason).

It is true that with business, we can achieve those mentioned but is that all we wanted?

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3 Years Later…

ka-ing

My lovely son sleeping

If you noticed, I’ve not been actively blogging for 3 years. There’s much happened during this period. For one, my daughter is now 4 years old and now I’ve got a son which is less than 2 months old. My hair count is getting lesser too.

Besides being a proud father of two, what happened during the last 3 years was really amazing.

I’ve been working hard on an idea with my team, that will simplify the way we work. It is a software that allows anyone to create their Business Apps easily and all that without database programming or knowledge of it.

I’m going to post the link of the website soon which introduces you to it.

Currently it is still in private beta, which I hope that we can have a public beta in September this year. You may want to opt-in your email there and be notified on its availability.

Thanks and have an awesome day!

Do I Start Blogging or Improve My Writing First?

thinkerAlternative title would be: Is there such thing as perfection?

This is solely my personal opinion but you’re welcome to add in yours at the comment section.

As for me, I would start blogging first, and keep on improving by practicing. As there are no end to improvements, so it would mean that we will not get started at all if we wait until our writing is perfect.

Is there such a thing call perfect?

As long as you are able to write an email or SMS, you have the ability to communicate in writing.

Being perfect is to take action now, not waiting for something that would not materialise. Perfect means to have a right mind, whether the outcome is perfect or not is insignificant. The right mind is not to waste time. Once we know what needs to be done, don’t give ourselves excuses or reasons, just get it done.

With such mindset, I am able to take action now just like the song “It’s Now Or Never”.

If we are waiting for things to happen, chances are it will happen but by someone else.

Hope this short note can be a reminder for myself and also for anyone that find this useful. Happy taking action!

PowerPoint Do’s and Dont’s

This is interesting yet entertaining…

Show Live Webcam Video On Your Website


It’s interesting how web technology is making life easier (and changing the way we work). Right now, there’s a web app that allow us to conduct video chat on our website for free.

Engage your audience with group video chat. Host live, group video discussions and talk shows directly on your website

It can work for both standard websites by embedding some html codes or install it as a plugin for self-hosted wordpress sites. Check out tokbox website for more details.

The current plugin is available as a live public video chat. Apart from the plugin, tokbox is also available as API, which means that we can develop our own apps to use the video chatting functions but with different features.

Imagine what can be done. Web trainings, seminars, meetings, and more.

What do you think would be the best application for group live video chats?

Fastest Way to Make Money without Money

If you are serious in making money, you had probably tried a few ways on making money, online or not, and probably discovered that some works and some not.

After years in business and trying different things, I’ve come to increase my expectations and always ask the same question: Is there something better and faster?
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A Business Fact

It needs to grow and innovate consistently or it will loose it’s glow.

We are either growing or dying, there’s no in between.

What I’ve been occupied with? Well, you can find out more on updates in my company’s website and at Datum4U@Facebook

Will You Forward This To Your Friends?

I just received an email from my friend, with subject – How Did He Do It?

A simple link in the email brings me to Youtube website with the below video.

Question is – How viral is this marketing campaign?

Or should I ask, will you forward this to your friends?

A Neat Trick for Cash Businesses

As it was raining, my wife and I decided to head to a nearby shopping center’s food court as it have covered car parks. Most food courts are managed by the property management with profit-sharing model with the respective outlets.

The outlet owner have systemized their operations, so that they can hire cheap labor to operate the business without them being there, just like those major fast food chains.

However, since most food business is cash business, it is not easy to deal with money issues. As I am paying for my food, I stumbled across this interesting solution and believe that you should know it too.

They placed a sign in front of each cash register:

Your meal is free if you are not given a receipt. With exception of technical breakdown.

To ensure that there’s no undeclared income, the management come up with a clever and simple neat trick.

However, there is still a minor loophole in this practice, how can we be sure that it is not a technical breakdown?

I’m Back…

It’s been awhile since I posted to my blog. For the past six months or so, I have been spending time preparing for ProLine launching and welcoming baby Olivia to our world.

If you’re curious on what ProLine is all about, it is a software designed for small to medium business, a flexible and customizable system with workflow oriented processing.

And just to make it worthwhile, ProLine is free to use without limitations. Try it out and let me know your feedbacks.

I’ll be continuing my posting soon. Till then, take care!


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