No show for interviews

Guess what. I'm supposed to be interviewing 2 sales executives today and a few things happened.

First, my admin officer, in her hurry, forgot to print out the resume for both candidates.

Second, she has been calling them both since yesterday but nobody answered the phone.
She needed to be told that in such situations she should call other candidates to see if they could turn up instead.

Both candidates didn't turn up. There are various possible reasons why they did not turn up or switched off
their phones, and there is no point in going through them one by one.
They are just not the right people we want in our organization.
I expect at least the courtesy of a phone call or an email to say that he or she cannot make the appointment.

Well, we'll move on to the next few candidates then. Next ....

Branson and the Virgin Business Challenge

Virgin founder Richard Branson was in New Zealand to launch the Virgin Business Challenge, and the grand prize includes an hour with Richard Branson to get some entrepreneurial insight.

He said: "We’re always looking for the next big thing and Virgin is looking to New Zealand as a great source of talent and ideas.

"We know that there are many New Zealand businesses with the potential to succeed at the highest level and through the Virgin Business Challenge we hope to be able to play a role in helping them overcome the challenge of going global."

Hey, come over to Malaysia, Richard !

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Business expansion into Indonesia, anyone?

Today our Chief Operating Officer is leaving for a trip to Indonesia. Hope he gets some valuable information and networking there!

Meanwhile we are having a meeting this afternoon with our Web Developers and some SEO experts.
Hope we understand their jargons. There is also the small matter of preparing 2 corporate videos for our launch.

What I do know from Google SEO is that it is not really that important to be no.1 for a search keyword. Just be no.2 to 5 and that's already a BIG achievement.

Interviewing before hiring

It's the time of the year again. I'm hiring people to join the company which I've just started. This company will basically deliver an online Property Portal as a business by year-end.

We have to start small but start we will. To do that, I advertised for job positions in various online webpages namely Mudah, jobstreet and jenjobs. Great response , thanks to the Ads. We've been interviewing people for almost a month now and so far I've hired 4 people to join the company.

The positions they've filled are Admin officer, Personal Manager, Business Development Manager and a Sales Executive.

The admin officer has started work. She's hardworking & good natured. She's doing all the necessary data entry for our website so far.
The others are starting in November. Interesting times ahead.

Something BIG is happening this December !

Something BIG is happening this December. My pals and I are currently working on a unique online business.

Something in demand, pretty common but done slightly differently.
It might change the way you look for your assets.
Watch this space :)

Ramadhan Sales

Ramadhan is always a challenging month for a Kopitiam business.

We need innovative ideas to overcome this. Thinking cap .... 

Phase 2 Delivery Services

Finally we have succeeded in becoming the first Kopitiam Delivery service in Malaysia.
We have started local deliveries in nearby vicinities eg Metropolitan Sq condo as well as Ritz 2 condominium.

We are now moving into Phase 2 which will cover Mutiara Damansara, TTDI, Damansara Perdana and
Bandar Utama - the first Old Town White Coffee Outlet to be doing Deliveries ! Great !
We have secured 2 Riders and are looking for more.

Meanwhile, I have just seen a few patients with kidney disease today and given them proper advice
and treatment. Hope they get better soon.

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