I honestly have tried lotsa business, but it has never work on me. Maybe because i dont push that hard to excel! Boo me. Each and everyday i have to remind myself of all these things to make me realize exactly in which im standing. There are lots more to learn, dont be selfish! *note to self.
Keep track in whatever you do, put a weekly reminder (if you are as forgetful as i am), and try to finish your objectives! A MUST!
Grocery store
Years ago, i helped my dad run a grocery store (as his side income). Almost everyday i would come to the shop just to be the cashier, i had fun doing it, no joke! Years after, competitor starts to grow, supermarket starts to build our family business had some difficulties. We are only rolling our cost money, which obv is not a good sign because you need to get profit when you do business right. And we ended up losing so much money that my dad had no choice to sell the shop.
Boutique
While doing the grocery business, dad had bought a property (shop lot). This time round dad was soooo excited and mom as well. Simply because our family is going to open up a BOUTIQUE!!! Mom loves fashion so much (you can tell by looking at her overflowing wardrobe, hehe). It's a wedding concept kind-of boutique. Mom took orders of doing hantaran. You know decorate bunga-bunga all that. Her favourite!!
No i lie, it's not really wedding concept of boutique. But it was more like ALL KIND OF EVERYTHING concept of boutique. You can find Muslimah fashion apparel, wedding gown you can sewa, pelamin, telekung, kain pelikat?, baju batik ummm, FLOWERS!, shoes, slippers. OH MY GOD everything lah we sell in the boutique. Aku pun confuse tgk the boutique. Haha
It didnt last long as well. What's wrong with the business? We dont do any research, we never sit down and discuss, all we ever do is JUST DO IT. Which was obviously wrong. And the place to open the boutique is not strategic at all even until now the shop lot is soooooo dull.
After awhile, me and my sister took over the business but we no longer use the boutique only the name. It'd be easier because it is a registered company. So we only focus on hijabs...
Online Business
This is where we gained few skills in business. We promote the business via online, instagram to be exact. We sell shawls, square scarves, cardigans and skirts. We do get the profit, we do get the customers but there's always a 'but'. It dindt last long as well.
Why? We're not consistent, even some of the shawls i wont buy myself. Like come on most of the ideas are from my sister. I know that i wont buy those stuffs tho. Haha. But some we managed to sell it sampai habis. We literally bring our Shawls Box to everywhere we go just to promote the shawl.
Dropship
The money i got from the shawls business, i tried to venture in other business. A business that people are aware of the brand. I tried to become a dropshipper. Which was hard actually, i didnt get any profit from it. A dropship business is when you pay some money to the actual business, and your work is just to promote the business. All other works are taken care by the one who runs the actual business. So when you promote, you get the buyer, you get the profit. That simple! So simple right! But trust me i didnt even get 4 - digit for my profit. It's a waste so i stop.
Stockist
Now it's different, i am one of the stockists of a very well-known hijab brand. I still need to find customers but there are alwasys there. It's not hard for me to find them. I really had fun in this business until now. But still you have to promote! You want money, you want profit, you get your lazy bumm ass offf, and start PROMOTE.
More business keep coming in my mind. And im still figuring out on what to do. What's my real plan in my future life. Hopefully i would gain enough money from this stockist business to live. Insyaallah.
