Many a times, we always end up thinking that we are competing with another friend another company another country another…another…

Why is this so?

Again its because we have been place in a system which makes us think so. In truth the REAL competition is YOURSELF.

There’s an abundance of opportunities out there. There are places that some people just cannot access because of many reasons.

For example. Recently I’ve gotten a Non Muslim who tries to ask my company to promote an Electronic Device that helps to read the Quran. You see without understanding or knowing what is the Quran and understanding the Islamic Market, he has no business at all. 

The only way that he can penetrate into the market is through another Muslim who understands the products and understand the market to serve it to the Muslim market. 

Another example is as such..

I may know only so and so and when I advertise or promote my services, I can only reach a certain number of people who are within my network. Beyond that I need you to help me get there.

So you see. I have several designers and programmers in my network and hardly i see myself competiting with each other because we end up sharing the jobs. How much can one man or one company take. You see there are limitations. When one is full to the brim, you need to refer over to another company who can do the same work else you will lose the opportunity.

How do you gain? Sometimes you pass the jobs over without asking for any price but most of the time we should ask for a cut because without YOU, there is no Business for the other party. Get it? And when you do this DONT be Greedy! Take a reasonable cut perhaps 5% to 10% and empower your partnering companies

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What I’m really sad is that there are too many greedy entrepreneurs out there who really do not understand how to do business and how to share. They believe in the SURVIVAL of the FITTEST. If you believe in such nonsense, people will bound to hate you. You may not realise it now but someday when you are rich, people will remember how you become rich in a negative manner. Usually such businesses  have a very low life span. Perhaps 5 to 10 years Max.  

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The TRUE competition is within yourself… If you believe you have grown smarter and are much maturer than a year ago and compared to last time you have more knowledge and you have more friends. Isn’t that growth. Even if you fail but you learn am I right? That is what you need to learn from and grow from. As long there is growth and you keep exploring and learning new things, you will eventually get to your destination.

So go out there take the challenges and always tell yourself to be BETTER and DO IT! 

“Ada hikmahnya sebalik masalah yang kita alami” – There’s a better outcome that will appear from the troubles you are facing now.

Bro Saiful mention that there was a reason behind the tendon injury that he faced. It allowed him to slow down and think about his future. This is where he had the time to start his blog and eventually found his niche to develop his own coaching programs. Alhamdullilah, his online Motivational Programmes are doing very well now and he has recently made 4 figures or perhaps more from what he is doing.

Just like Abang Abu’s story, these guys went throught quite a suffering period before they got their act together and really moved forward with their lives but do we need an accident or injuries to tell us that we need to start changing and shifting our paradigms. It would help of course.

I hate the idea that people ask me did I regret dropping out from NUS. To be honest…NO because I was suffering quite a lot when I was in there. Its better to be out here running my businesses which I enjoy more than being in there forcing myself to get good grades. I’m not saying that you have to drop out like me but the question was it a mistake for me?

Nope. Being in NUS allowed me to network with one of the best league of friends that i have. Friends that encourage each other to pursue what they really want and today a few of them are my partners. Bro Hafihz is one of them and we currently working out some programmes together.

Anyway Bro Saiful’s post about Life’s whisper is a great read and I would recommend it to you.. Check out his coaching programme too. Click here to visit his site..

Our Bro Hafihz will be giving out a free talk tomorrow @ NOWASIA training room. Also an accomplish author of “10 Secret of Power Presentations”, he wrote the book while still in school and he was recently featured in BH for his accomplishments.

Bro Hafihz has been a good friend of mine since NUS days and he is among the rare few Malay Muslim accepted to NUS School of Business. Majoring in Marketing, he is one who can tell you the intriguing theories between marketing concepts and what may work for your business and not cos he has done much research to prove it.

Tomorrow he will be talking about Communications. He will be explaining to you the importance of good communication skills and people skills. How you can apply this to your life, to your work, your family and so on.

So free up your schedule and catch our Bro in action. Call 6220 0701 to book a seat..Limited to 25 places only.

You can visit his blog @ www.hafihz.com

Bro Hafihz is really becoming better in his area of expertise – Presentation. Lately he has released his latest tutorial on “How to design your First Presentation Slide”. Well in the countless of presentations that I did, it is true that the first page that you are gonna show will make the difference else people will just start snoring…Of course it must be back up by a good speaker.

What is shown above is just one example of an eye candy presentation. At first glance I was already hooked by the penguins…Aww so cute!!! Can I like keep it for a pet? haha..ok nvm. So yeah you see Bro Hafihz have really touched me with his ideas.

In this video, he mention about D+F+D+T = WOW

Want to know more what’s D+F+D+T? Click here to view his video.

Notice how I used the term ‘people’ and not customers. Because aside from correcting your product image, the following can also be used to analyze and correct your own personal branding.

The word is Perception – What is perceived of you and your product. Why should the stuff that others think about you and your product matter? Should you really be too concerned about the negative chatter? As long as you know you’re alright, nothing else should matter right?

That can be true. However, it matters a whole lot when the people whom you are trying to target, whom you would want to associate with, perceive you and your product in a way which hurts your initial branding ideas. It’s a bitter pill to swallow – realizing suddenly that you might have been caught in your own bubble, thinking that you were alright…

Click here to read more..

Bro Hafihz has a BA in Marketing. He’s among the few Malays that was accepted to NUS Business School and who have passion in Islam & Marketing.