My Own Business

To start off, I do say people never get going without a kick in the butt.
I am retrenched due to my former company wanna withdraw the whole operation back to Japan, combining the operation with another.
It is only after this piece of information/shock that really sinked in deep down my core that I realise that there is nothing called stable work and anything can help to an organization.

But from this event, it ticked me to ignite my engine and the dream that I do like to have many years back i.e. to be your own boss and be in control. I looked through the internet for information, chatted with my friends, and read up on books. Ideas are swarming into my head many times but to be shelved somewhere else after much analysis of the facts and market.

I decided to go into travel related business and software business which I have loved all along only after much analysis and finding the right partners. We discussed on the business, our goals, visions and missions. I analysed the market we are targeting, calculate the possible costs, the breakeven time and the roadmap and schedule for our business.

For my travel related business, we have decided to bring it on the worldwide web so that everybody can know us. I registered my business, get a paypal account, learned to build my sites and uploaded it in about a month or two. The work does not stop there as I registered my site for search engines, build valuable lines to existing travel networks, go to the place where I wanted my customer to go and then blog on it. Best of all, get nice pictures to show the rest that it is a good place to go.

Believe it or not, there is always a gem somewhere for you to recognize even though it is very simple. We have created brochures/pamplets for ditribution and even talked to tour agencies.

It takes sometime for the first customer to enquire and go to our beach resort. After which the traffic slowly builds up and we sort of get hold of the trends and can identify when customers would be coming in. This can help in our promotion of our activities.

I would stay that we are currently get back nearer and nearer to our breakeven point. What to say for a low cost venture! Good enough for us as a part time business! We are crossing our fingers, hope the traffic builds up. :)