All about starting up your own business.

Do you ever think that you will be starting up any business of your own?

What do you think you will be selling?

I have tried doing small business in SIngapore when I am 19 years old so I know what will be the 101 things that you need to know when you are starting one business.

Firstly you need to know what kind of items you need to sell and where is the source of the products. Is it approved from SIngapore regulations.

For example,

At that time, we got our goods from local suppliers(gifts) and sells in offices and bazaars.

Item: Big Range of cute items(similar to Mini toons items)

Try to find a very unique product with low cost to start with but a product with purpose. Gifts will sell more slowly unless you are a shop in shopping centers.

The rate of rental for offices, canteen places, hospitals and bazaars.

Ranging from $30 to $100 per day for per table.

If you are selling small items 2 tables should be enough, do not sell regular items as there are plenty of vendors selling at the offices before you do.

Depending on the items you sell strictly, normally their profits will be 2 times or more depending on their cost and competition. More competition means that you need to sell at a lower profit.

Sales: Average is $100 to $1000 per day for my experience and the place you sell.

If you dont have a vehicle, remember that transport service is $50 - $100 per trip depending on the amount of items you need to bring to the place. Normally renting of place like this offices will be around 1 week.

One of my experience.

Sales=$3500 per week($500 daily)

Profit=($3500/3)x2

=$2333.34

(minus)Rental=$1400

(minus)Transport=$350

Total Profit and Loss=$583.34

This profit is base on one of the fairs that I have tried doing last time, the cost didn’t include the spoilt goods and the left over goods in the event of purchasing. Don’t forget that not every location you will have profit,sometimes it is a loss.

Bargaining is common in places like this as office ladies like to bargain a lot.

So if you want to start a business, please find a strong sell-able product before you start.

I will also continue to tell you more about doing business in SIngapore. Example pushcart and etc.

Rental are the lowest in places that I mention in this post, of course human flow is not perfect and only in the lunch time.

Places that I remember

per table is normally 1m by 1m, at certain location you have to take your own tables, no tables provided

Seagate-$50 per table

Alexandra Technopark-$70 per table

NUH-$50 per table ( organize by event company,monthly)

SGH-$50 per table (organize by SGH welfare offices,monthly)

NUS-$50 per table (organize by student,monthly at different location in NUS)

NTU-$50 per table (organize by student,monthly at different halls of NTU)

Offices in Eunos - $50 per table (organize by event companies)

*PS - Also note that the sales is always good on the first time. The crowd will be the same for the location as this is the people who is working there.

You can e-mail me any questions or comments if you need to know about any more details.

I feel that this incident is quite serious when teenagers are so implusive nowadays. Anger management is so low even staring and looking is a problem. So many people at Comex taking pictures are they going to bit everyone up?

Source from Stomp:

After all the “wind wind rain rain” the dispute is over. Very happy for them, hope that they can win another medal for us in 2012 in London.

Channel NewsAsia - Saturday, August 30

SINGAPORE: The controversy surrounding the Singapore Table Tennis Association has been called to a close by the Ministry for Community Development, Youth and Sports.

In a special media conference on Friday evening, it announced that team manager Antony Lee will continue for another three months, to finish up his Olympics reports. He will then move to the Singapore National Olympic Council in November.

The association will also have two separate head coaches, one each for the women’s and men’s teams.

President of the Singapore Table Tennis Association, Lee Bee Wah, apologised for causing grievances and stress. With that, the dust has settled over a week—long saga that mired Singapore’s silver medal win at the Olympic Games.

Minister of Community Development, Youth and Sports, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan said the issue was caused by misunderstandings and ties have been mended.

He added that the local sports scene, especially the Singapore Table Tennis Association, has emerged stronger from the incident.

He said the strong public reactions such as those online, showed how sports play an important role in unifying Singaporeans and that the sports scene here has come of age.

Dr Balakrishnan said: “Can I promise there will never be a problem? I can’t make such promises. What is more important is the trust and discipline is in place in the team to overcome these problems, get on with the mission, do their best and hopefully their best is good enough to win medals for us.”

When asked for their reactions, the table tennis team members stood up in solidarity and said they were all very satisfied with the discussions and decisions.

Other officials also called for Singaporeans’ continued support, especially for the association’s president Lee Bee Wah.

Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Community Development, Youth and Sports, Teo Ser Luck, said: “For Ms Lee to come in and carry on this work, she will need time. She is only a month—plus old.

“And I believe that she will need the time in order to know what’s happening and to gain that knowledge in order to run STTA and bring it to greater heights.”

Ng Ser Miang, vice—president, Singapore National Olympic Council, said: “Its time for the athletes to reflect on the values, become true Olympians and go back to our celebrations.”

The table tennis team will meet their fans on Saturday at a special autograph session in Ang Mo Kio. — CNA/vm

What happen to the long queue outside donut factory?

There is usually a 1/2 hour queue outside donut factory for the past year. My girlfriend will always called me to queue up for the donuts when the start of donut craze but now she will pull me away from any donut shop. She says that she don’t have any appetite when looking at the donuts now. Maybe too many shops now all around singapore has bring down the sales for the donut. This looks very similar to bubble tea shop. So hope that the donuts shops can maintein the standard and produce good donuts to prevent the sales from going downhill. Do you still buy donuts when you see a donut shop?

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Highest Page View and Visitors for August 2008

This figure is the clearest one I can get from my dashboard.

Highest Page View per day is 11224.

Highest Vistors is 3558 per day.

Highest Unique Visitors is 589 per day.

Average of 5000 pageview everyday

Average of 1000 vistors everday.

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Do your neighbour cares about how many shoes you have outside your house?

I also have a lot of shoes outside my house and don’t bother to keep them inside the house. Looks like there are 30 pairs outside now but do you think your neighbour minds about that?

I just visited the stomp website and realised that people really mind. Imagine your neighbour takes pictures of your corridor for the amount of shoes you have and post into stomp? Shocked?

Hope my neighbour dont do that to me, I can clear some if they want to.

Honestly looks like only 2-3 people as looks like the same sizes.

SOurce from Stomp!

How come so many tenants at this Jurong West flat?

STOMPer HeartnSoul wonders why this brand new Jurong West flat is occupied by so many tenants, and is amazed by how the people involved did not bother to hide that fact.

In the STOMPer’s email to STOMP yesterday (Aug 28), the STOMPer wrote:

“Is this another case of Balestier apartment overcrowded by foreign workers?

“Imagine this is just a new ground floor unit at Blk 986B Jurong West St 93 which is merely less than a year of occupation.

“Look at that huge shelf displaying numerous working boots in an outright fashion and considering this unit is right at the ground floor lift lobby?”

After the many blows for the Table Tennis team. The CEO of table tennis team has been fored to resign after all the incident. I think that should be the better choice if the whole team if they really have a lot of communication problems.

Source from Yahoo!

SINGAPORE : A resolution is expected to be reached soon over the controversial decision by the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA) to end its team manager’s services.

While extensive meetings have been held over the past few days between STTA and the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports to resolve the issue, the controversy has got the online community abuzz.

There was even an online petition calling for the president of STTA to step down. It has so far collected about 500 signatures. It was emailed to the media on Thursday afternoon by a representative who asked to remain anonymous.

When contacted, the representative said in an email that he is a 40—year—old self—employed businessman who has been following the progress of table tennis since Jing Junhong represented Singapore in the Games.

He said he does not endorse the personal attacks put up by online users who have signed the petition, which was started on August 26 after many forum members called for it.

When asked what he hopes to get out of the petition, he said: “We hope that a more suitable candidate can be put in place to lead our charge towards a gold medal in 2012. We do not think Ms Lee Bee Wah is the person to do the job.”

He added: “It is regrettable that our petition has been perceived as an attempt to create trouble and flame the fire. Whatever the outcome of the petition may be, we have spoken our mind and hope that something good will come out from this whole episode.”

When contacted, the STTA and its president, Ms Lee Bee Wah, declined comment.

Mr Teo Ser Luck, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, would only say that his ministry “is in the process of resolving the issue” and “meetings have been held between all parties involved”.

A search online saw the issue being discussed in many Internet forums, including those on the Young People’s Action Party website and www.channelnewsasia.com.

One Internet user even started a straw poll on whether the STTA president should resign. The poll results showed that 83 per cent of users said “yes” and 16 per cent said “no”.

Channel NewsAsia said that when the issue reached its peak at the beginning of the week, its Internet forum saw an average of 500 posts per day. Now, things have quietened down and the issue saw less than 10 posts each day.

The controversy started when table tennis player Gao Ning had to play without a coach on the sidelines during the Olympic Games as his assigned coach had been held up at an earlier match which overran.

The STTA president had expressed unhappiness over this and said action would be taken after the Olympic Games. — CNA/ls

This year comex fair is at level2,3,4 and 6.

Level 1 Reception.

Level 2 is SIngtel,samsung and starhub.

Level 3(SONY all products)

Level 4 Hall (Major Electronic brands)

I just went to the comex fair this afternoon, people mountain people sea. I waited for almost 1 hour to get to the carpark and a lot of cars at all zones.If you are going, I think the nearest and less crowed place is Shaw opposite Suntec City. All buildings around Suntec CIty is crowed with people and cars,very hard to to get in. But I think it is quite worth it. I have signed the broadband plan for 2 years already Now I have signed to the new plan of singtel.

8mbps(unlimited plan)

Superior upload speed: up to 512kbps

$55 per mth (24 mths contract)

FREE Etheret modem

Top up $4/mth to get an integrated wireless modem

FREE $30 Taka Voucher

FREE registration worth $42.80

FREE

Acer Aspire one AOA150(seashell White) worth $1195

Very good buy at the Comex Fair this year!

If you dont have the plan now. Remember to sign up now!