3 meetings and 1 talk

Yesterday was quite a hectic day and I only got home around 2.30 am in the morning and here I am blogging at 8.30 am.

Who did we meet. Well its not really confidential and I hope by sharing this, you will realise the amount of work I personally put in to firstly survive and then grow our company.

So yeah in the morning, Luqman (IslamicSG Networks Partner) and I went down to meet people from SimplyIslam.sg. We had a good chat and sharing session where were looking into areas where we can collaborate and push each other services further.

They provided a few good pointers about professionalism and taking the bar higher. As they pointed out at the moment, we (Islamicevents.sg) can’t gauge our own standards cos there is no other web company that is doing what we are doing yet but it does not mean we can be complacent. So the bros from SimplyIslam.sg pointed to us to a few other websites of similar nature which we can choose to take up and implement the functions.

Outsourcing ideas. This used to be a problem a few months back as we did not have any capital to start with. So probably we can do it now to develop the different parts of our site.

Then we rushed off to NUS to have lunch and I needed to clear the weekly newsletter to be sent out. Had been working on it since 6am. Usually on average it takes 3-4 hours to clear the newsletter part. So you see my Thursday mornings are usually taken up by it. So I had to stop halfway through because we have to meet the Bros from SimplyIslam.sg. So yeah in NUS, I’ve quickly finished up the newsletter and it was sent out by 2.30pm. For those who subscribed should have received it. For those who wish to subscribe to Islamicevents.sg Newsletter and get updates weekly on upcoming events and news, please click here to reach our subscription form. 

So yeah then we head off to Science Park Drive where we met the people from RETRIVA. They are the Malay/Muslim IT company that had created a software for the Medical Sciences. There were in the papers a few months ago about creating a medical breakthrough software ( Can’t remember details ). Anyway they wanted to outsource a project  and based on our meeting, the work is a lot but the returns we quite good as it was looking at a $20K to $30K range. But we told them frankly that we are already tied down this 3rd quarter of the year. We will still propose to them a quotation and timeline but we can only start in the 4th quarter insyallah.

So where up to next!! Bukit Batok Blk 150 - Let’s meet a Tauke Kedai Jamu and Kedai Kopi.  He needed a web host and a domain for his site as he wanted to market his “kueh-kueh”. So we discussed a little about business strategy and his positioning for this business. The Kueh Business is a tough market place but very few are online at the moment. Even if there are any, they are not publicised and advertised properly cos I dont seem to know of any site that is shouting loud enough.

So yeah finally after all those meetings its back in the office to prepare for Hafihz’s talk. I’ll put this up on another post as my notes are in the office at the moment. Do look forward for that one.