Planet Pulse - Does it work

What's the ad banner up there? I found it about a year ago. It's an international market research/survey company whereby the get big clients and undergo research for the company. The catchy thing is that, they use Internet user for this purpose and the benefit is that, they actually pay you. Not much but about USD 1.00 each. The will invite you to participate after you fill our your details for free and shortlist you based on your info needed by their clients. I didn't wanna spread too much on this because I wasn't sure it true or not. Although people don't lose out on anything because it's free but i don't want anyone to be dishearted not being paid for their effort.

But now they have made a justified payment channel. You can either transfer to your Paypal - www.paypal.com or Mol Freedom mastercard www.molfreedom.com . You can use the money anyway u want it and you can also refer people and get a small amount for their effort to undergo the survey...believe it...

Closing deals

In business the ultimate challenge is not only restricted to finding a sound and viable business but always to approach potential clients and closing the deal. Proposals and presentation can take forever, you walk in and out and give the same information again and again but what matters most is you closing deals and getting what you deserve. How is that possible?

Simplify your presentation, make it all in one, make it complete so you'll never have to present again. Make it straight forward, state your attention that you're there to offer and we need the deal. Give them a shorter time to decide, if they don't decide then and then just move on to other clients, never wait for only them to decide. It's all about ratio, more clients presentation more chances of closing the deal but look back on your presentation...would you buy what you're offering??

Consultant and client

Counsultant are defined as the know it alls of the business. If he or she is a management consultant, then everything relates to management is in the palm knowledge of the beholder. Is this the case? It has to be as consultant are paid a sum of money, usually less that what they have to pay for if they employee internal consultant but still enough to feed the big bosses of the company to be happy. With that, the client expects the consultant to know every single detail of the business processes and how does this goes?

Consultant has to be able to present and to deliver. How can you consult people if you can't present. The quality of the work is also measured with the amount of contract money given. The bottom line of this, how much does a consultant know? enough knowleadge but probably not enough sense of communication. It's all about consulting skills.

Business Ethics

Ethics and guidelines are less defined for businesses and business people. Or should i put it slef defined. There are business people who stuggles day and night and involved people around them to work around their time. I had people calling me day and night for businesses without knowing I have many more prior responsibility to attend to. Talking about timing punctuality are the main values of business people. We are usually lack of that we tend to be too aggresive in setting up our appointments which leads our appointments to over lap...TBC

Merger and acquisition

Companies that merge and that is a acquired and acquiring have to go through such a tedious and long process from the top of the pyramid until the lowest of it. I was asked to comment on such activities even when i was a consultant before. My answer still stands as this practice are always unpredictable. It's unpredictable to the second layer of the pyramid until the lowest. Everyone can make assumptions and speculate but the only people who knows whats gonna happen are the BOD or the board of directors.

Obviously the BOD has to know because the process will involve much of their money and if anything happens beyond their knowledge, they will definitely withdraw their money/shares and this will cause a sudden drop in equity and share prices. The speculation will go on until the merge is stabilized which can take years. It will take just a few months to finalised the transaction but the whole transition will take ages.

Merging are revenue focused. After the merge they will concentrate to do anything and everything to boost the revenue. This is why we always see job cuts after merging, they have excess staffs, they want to reduce overheads and other liabilities that caused a burden on the revenue.

Sweet promises are often given by companies that are merging to their employees
They tell that everything will be alright and actually they are telling the truth, it is gonna be alright but for the people that have a strong stand in the company, the category of must stay, must groom and must change in employees are immediately put to the test...however this is all business..nothing personal...

Places of gold

Many has asked me on opning businesses in the UK, yes i have spen most of my life in the UK and i know a lot of people has gone to UK to get easy money by either working or opening a business. I consider these people are just plain selfish and not knowing the true business acumen. Sorry to say that because true business people would approach untapped market and create a niche market for their own.

Places ideal for businessses are places that arehighly populated. we work on volume for this but you have to understand the governing law, intellectual proprty law, business law for you to understand more

A come back

It's been a while i've written any post in this part of the blog, it's because i haven't been actively involved in any business transaction and it's so lame and boring not doing so. However i had talks with a few people that recognise and still remembers my contribution to the business world, and i shall write i can remember from my spontaneous remarks. Opportunity...

We seek business opportunity like we seeka new beginning. How do we starta new beginning, without a doubt in business the most crucial thing is money and excess money. What is defined by money is the money we will use for capital, this is pure money you're compiled, you've gained from loans, investors and etc and to be used for working capital. Buy stock or anything for the startup and the conitinuing of the business.

Once you start you can do a full set of accounts and financial planning, thinking after one month, yyou'll get your clients/customers and buy your items or services and you'll get your money rolling and pay your employees and yourself. Being a business propritor is not a walk in the park, in that money or working capital is your salary but on top of that is pther people's salary. Your money is in the excess money which other words is your saving.

As business is a risky thing i had to use the terminology of excess money as our saving account are not open to cater stupid ventures and obviously until it's not stupid which i after we've overcome allt he startup obstacle...just a start

Express yourself on the road

Just want to share with you all a product that I and few others are trying to push in Malaysia. We have the car messaging sign (pamphlet attached). Either you want to show your appreciation and say thanks to other drivers, show a smiling face or show your dissatisfaction with a sad face or as a speeding car behind you to back off.



The product - features & selling points


Drivemocion™


An illuminating Car Message Sign


An illuminating car sign, allowing for more communication between drivers. Weather it’s boredom in traffic or the frustration of other drivers, users can express themselves with a series of emotions & words.


- Simple emocion message display
- No wires with a wireless remote control (Infra-Red)
- No cigarette lighter wire, battery operated (4 x AA)
- Low power consumption with automatic power-save
- Choice of versions (2, 3 or 5 message version)
- No installation skills required, simply suction cup fix
- Easy, fun & low cost

5 message version from (We only have this in stock) MYR 175


Drivemocion™ (rear display module & remote control)
160 mm, round, rear window display module
Up-to 5 pre-programmed messages
Red LED illumination (individual LED MCD valuation of 1500 minimum)
Filtered red front screen
Screw suction cup fixing method
4 x AA battery power (batteries not included)

Wireless remote control
Infra Red signal transmission technology (up-to 10 metres)
Up-to 5 buttons (dependant on 2, 3, or 5 message version)
Unused buttons blanked.
Surface silk screened button graphics
2 x AAA battery powered
Screw suction cup fixing method

Battery Life: (based on using 1.5V 2500 mAH AA & 1.5V 1500 mAH AAA). Based on a
daily usage of 5 times p/day = approximately 5 months for both main unit & remote control

Captain of the ship

Being an entrepreneur means a lot of sacrifices, a lot of hardship and unnecessary and necessary obstacles. As a captain, it's an obligation to make sure, the hardship doesn't goes to the rest of the crew. Through my years of experience, looking at businesses, it's painful to see how Captains suffer by just looking at what their crew has to go through by just achieving great heights dreamt by the captain. They are many types of crew and amongst it are crews that share the same dreams, crews that are there for rewards, crews just there to learn and etc. I hate to classify the types of people in an organisation but it's truly a fact that a burden is still on the captain's shoulder. The rest of the crew can either ease the burden or make it much worst.

As captains, a filter of a proper crew should be done to determine and to avoid unnecessary problems in the future. As captain's we should be able to carry ourselves an extra mile, but it doesn't meant our crew is able to catch up with us. Our dreams will remain our dreams until our crew is in line with us.

Business Travel

Through days and time of business evolution, we could see how businesses expand aggressively which requires extensive travelling. From just a car ride with the same county to hours and thousand of miles to be travelled through to reach the destination and now there’s a lot of option to reach that destination. Companies and businesses spend from hundreds to thousand and even millions on travelling itself. Travelling expense has been on of the major expense and investment in a business.

To expand and realise a business dream, entrepreneurs should not put a limitation to where they should head and could achieve. Meeting people face to face has always been the best option in meeting clients and potential networking. Meeting face to face gives clients and futures networks a sense of exclusivity and a good impression on the potential of having a good business relationship in the future

As discussed previously, there’s numerous ways to travel. As an entrepreneur, we should have a mind set that we have the capability to reach far and wide. Identifying the best method of travelling usually depends on the cost, efficiency, convenience and safest. There’s a lot of option available in the world today, you can choose to drive, take busses, take the train and even take a flight. Budgeted airlines offer good rates on destination worldwide. Just that we have to plan the journey in advance.

Business travelling to the overseas is not usually a priority to new entrepreneurs. Even having the intention to meet counterparts from across the world, that option is usually put as the least priority due to the high cost. However, expanding internationally should be in an expansion plan. To be ahead and stay ahead, entrepreneurs have to be bold and creative in pursuing their dreams.