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2010-04-07

Reflect of Learning

I am very lucky to take subject IT Entrepreneurship. I can learn many things that will give me many advantages, knowledge, and experiences in business field. Our lecturer, Madam Rafidah Abd Razak, is very blessed us. She has been helped our business very much. She shared and told us some knowledge and suggestions to run our business activity well.

From this business activity, firstly, I can improve my personal communication. I have a business group that helps me to improve my communication skills. I learn to speak, to share and tell my ideas, opinions, and suggestions for our business activity. I am not ashame anymore to speak out my mind to other people. This business activity helps me so much to kill my nervous.

In this group, I can learn how to work with other people in different country, culture, vision, and background. It is awesome when you can work with people that are different with you. We can learn their culture, and we can increase our knowledge about other culture.

Then, these business activities also change me into a calm people. I was a girl that is easy to panic, before. But in this business, I learn how to control my emotional. I learn how to face all of problems calmly. Then I learn how to solve those problems with cold head and calm condition.

All of benefits and advantages that I got while running this business can be my provisions for my future.

Lastly, I want to say thank you for all of my group members. Thank you for you all for our hard work.. Hope we can always be friends ..

Charity Event at Taman Sinar Harapan Jitra


Few days ago, on 2nd April 2010, our business group went to Taman Sinar Haparan Jitra to do charity event. As we promised in pre-production of our business, we would like to donate our profit to house of disability people, Taman Sinar Harapan Jitra. Our original plan, we would give donation 20% of our profit. But finally, we decided to give RM300 to Taman Sinar Harapan Jitra.

That morning, we went to Jitra at 9.00am by two cars. Me and my group members went to Jitra Mall first to buy goods as donations. Then, around 11.00am we arrived at Taman Sinar Harapan Jitra.

Unfortunately, after we met the officers there, we could not inside Taman Sinar Harapan Jitra. Because in order to go inside, we should sent a permission letter first. Because this is government's institution. So, we just met the officers and gave the donations through them.

We toke some photos with the officers and outside the Taman Sinar Harapan Jitra. Then, we went back to our university, Unversity Utara Malaysia.

We were very happy to give the donations, although what we gave was very little. But we gave it with sincerity. We hope that our donations can be used by them.

PROMOTIONS !!

Just like other company, The Colour of Life Photography Service also wants to promote our service to the target customers. We think that promotion is the most important thing in our business activities. If we can promote our business well, I am sure that we could get many orders from customers. But if we can not do that, I am afraid that our business can not run well.

For the best promotion, The Colour of Life decided to do the promotion in five sections. There are promotion through Pusat Ko-Kurikulum, promotion through poster, flyer, Facebook, and the last promotion through Blog. We tried to catch many intentions and interest from all UUM students.


The main promotion strategic is to obtain the cooperation from the Pusat Ko- Kurikulum in UUM. Our business will be more successful if Pusat Ko- Kurikulum can help us promote this business to all co-curiculum’s lecturer. By this, the business idea will be spread widely in the campus. Thus, we can get a lot of business in short period of time.

Then, our marketing manager, Pipin Ramadhani tried to make a poster and flyer to be distributed to some potential place in UUM. We stuck our poster in every DPP and every DKG in UUM. Then, we distributed our flyers for one week around our campus and DPPs.

The picture below is our poster.

Starting a New Mini Business


Hi everybody..
Finally, after my class finish the topics of business idea and business plan, our lecturer, Madam Rafidah Abd Razak give us a chance to start a new business activity. All of my classmate are excited to except this project. Our class has been divided into 3 big groups. Each group consist of 10-11 group members.

My group decided to make a new business in photography field. This is because we have 2 group members that are expert in photograpy. Our business company name is The Colour of Life. The picture below is our business company logo.


I know, you must be wondering, why we call our business company The Colour of Life..
As we know that, most of the students will not even stop their steps to view the “colour” of the environment that around them.

By our photography business, we wish to give all the students in University Utara Malaysia (UUM) an insight into how the “Colour of Life” can bring them sweet memory in their University life. We can help students to capture their classmates, course mates, club mates and many more to give them memorized their life in University.

This is why we want to name our business as “Colour of Life”. Colour of Life is a method of enabling individual to remember their “colour” in UUM. We provide service for any group in UUM that want to capture their memory. Our target market are co-curriculum classes, clubs in UUM, classes in UUM, organizations, or any other groups.

There are 11 group members in my business group. There are Choong Hon Kit as director, Mohd Zaidi Bin Desa as manager, Tee Chee Seong as finance department manager, Chin Ting Ting as administrative department manager, me as administrative department personnel, Nor Liyana Zakaria as administrative department personnel, Pipin Ramadhani as marketing department manager, Wong Sze Hoey, Leong Kwei Fung, and Keok Shin Siew that work in marketing department, and last Putra Aulia as logistic department manager.

The picture below is our group members photo, that is taken for the sample of our service.

The Most valuable thing that I learned in Project Business Plan


Many people say, a good plan will produce a good result and success. It is true. I agreed. In order to achieve success, we should start with a detail plan. We cannot directly run the business without thinking about the planning and preparation.

Most people who had done it could not run their business in long time. The business will run only for a moment.

The business plan should consist of the business information, management team, company structure, ownership, and intellectual property, industry analysis, marketing plan, operation plan, financial plan, and critical risk factors.

This business plan must explain in detail the whole thing that will be done in the business activities. So, it should be written with great detail.

When me and my group members was doing this business plan, we tried to make it as detail as possible. We tried to plan all of the possibilities that would be happened in the business activities. But one thing that made me learn, we should make the business plan that possible to be done.

We cannot plan something that is impossible to be done. If we do that, then the only thing that will happen is we will be trouble when running the business.

2010-04-05

Reflect on learning – The most valuable thing that I learned in Project Business Idea


Like I said in my previous post. When we work on a project, we have to think outside the box. It means that we can not think only on our perspective.

We should think from many perspectives. It is because when we think from many perspectives, we can understand a problem or a certain thing in various understanding.

Working in a group helps us to do that. With 11 people in a group, I can understand and look at a thing or problem in various views. It is because every people has their own mind, every people has different perspective and view.

When different people are working in a group, there would be many views and ideas that can help lead the group in the project and facing problems in group.

It is same like my group, The Colour of Life. It is amazing to have been joined into this group. I was very surprised and amazed when we implement our first meeting. When our lecturer, Madam Rafidah, asked my class to do some questions, we started to discuss and share our opinions and views. We done the brainstorming for this discussion. We speaked out all of our opinions and views in our mind.

In that time, I was surprised that my group member thought a thing in different views like she thought. I was not imagine before that it could happened. It is so valuable for me, that we can learn from other people views and perspectives. It makes us become rich of knowledge.