Two Mentor Jutawan

Last Tuesday, I had the opportunity to sit down with 2 Mentor Jutawans in Singapore, Sujmy Mohd ( Screenbox) and who else Abang Abu lah..heh. This was a catch session for both of them and learning session for me. To tell you the truth I was more quiet that I used when meeting people. i guess its out of respect and I want to hear more from them than I would want to be the one talking..

 

Entrepreneurial Kits

Just let me leak some info to you. hehe. Both of them are in the plans of creating entreprenuerial kits to help create and push our people into entrepreneurships…. Either its in the form of CDs, books and so on. So this will be more like a joint venture between these two teachers. One a super Coach in Financial and Entrepreneurship and the other a Media Giant who have ready distribution points, knowledge and access to CD shops, TV advertisements and more.. Its really leveraging on each other strong areas. 

 

You can advertise $1000 but yet get $10,000 worth of airtime..

That line caught my attention when Sujimy mention it…”You need to know the right contacts and know how to do it”….. In any industry there is this thing called the WHOLESALERS! These are the people who buy in BULK and resell it at smaller prices because they can get it cheap! So you see you can advertise in TV at lower costs yet get so much value from it.. Well if you are interested in advertising through TV and reach a large audience you can contact and consult Mr Sujimy’s company.. Screenbox

So now let’s wait for the actions and the timeline…I hear productions will start somewhere late January next year..So let’s wait for an exciting year ahead…

 

Entrepreneurs Happy problems

Sujimy sounded this off and perhaps this is a very good learning lesson. Of all the people who he send down to market his services, very few of them could close sales but when he goes down personally. More often the deals gets closed. This is actually a dilemma for him because if that is to be so, he would need to be in the game for a long run. 

Perhaps from here on he needs to learn from TRUMP or the bigger Companies on how to deal with such matters.  How do deals get close without you being there..

In fact I’m having that problem too but compare to Sujimy’s problem I can rectify it now. For example when I go down meet people to close sales, its always me doing it. How about Fadzrun my marketing director, he should also be able to do it. Well here we cannot compare you see, I’m trained in several areas that he does not and he comes from the theory world that has yet to be practised. So the problem is I cannot duplicate myself and people trust me more than other people. So how does a CEO handle and trust his Marketeers to handle the problem? 

All I can figure out now is to empower the directors from the start. Get them to sell, get them to connect get them to be BUSINESS people.

Abang Abu Father 

The good thing about having a mentor is that we seem to share a lot of things and stories. One of the stories Abang Abu shared was about his father…

When Abang Abu was in his teens he had no idea why his father would jump from opening one shop to another shop. End up some of them had to close and he had to re-open it again and again. So his father explained to him one day that going into Business is not about YOURSELF and the money, its about creating LIVELIHOODs for more people. So for example, the moment you open another shop, you create 8 more jobs and you are RESPONSIBLE of feeding 8 families. So the more shops you open you create more jobs for them and insyallah blessing will come in several forms. 

 

Sounds scary right? 

So how many of you before embarking into Business have such thoughts? You will be responsible of many lives ahead of you? Well maybe not when you are small but do you have that vision of expansion and growing bigger?  

Some thoughts for you to ponder on…

I’m off for the seminar at EXPO!