Archive for the ‘profile’ Category
Sunday, September 25th, 2011 |
As reported in The Star, 21 August 2011
Ammar Zahar, 24, was on a landscape architecture degree course at Universiti Putra Malaysia when he started selling information products during his first year. His motivation was to get money to buy colour prints and paper, as he came from a poor family and couldn’t simply ask his parents for the funds.
To get himself up and running, he attended many web seminars. Probably he had to scrimp and save to save on conference calls.
In his third year at university in 2008, he set up his own company, Ammar Zahar Sdn Bhd.
By 2011, it had achieved RM500,000 revenue.
He sells information products on topics like finance, investments, internet marketing, acne cure, weight loss, even the Facebook game Farmville. He gets experts to write on the products.
By next year, Ammar thinks that he’ll finally be a millionaire.
In his own words:
A lot of people from all over the world are buying these things. Anyone can go into internet business. I have no plans to use my degree for now
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Saturday, September 24th, 2011 |
Joel Neoh, 28, graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering but discovered his knack for business.
While modelling part-time during his semester break, he realised the huge demand for such work, which prompted him to set up a company that recruited youth for events. Within a year, that company collected revenue worth RM1 million. He then went on to set up NGO Youth Malaysia, which ran several big youth-based projects.
In late 2010, Neoh founded Groupsmore, a discount website that offered deals on food, products, services and lifestyle activities.
In January 2011, it was acquired by the billion-dollar American company Groupon. He became CEO of Groupon Malaysia.
In his own words:
Many youngsters do not realise their dreams by taking the safe route of working for corporations. To succeed, one needs to enjoy their work and be good at what they are doing.
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Saturday, September 24th, 2011 |
As reported in The Star, 21 August 2011
Anthony Poh (not real name) became a millionaire in his early 20s by “being at the right place at the right time and daring to take risks.”
At university, he made some money through IPOs. Upon graduating, he became a remisier, during which he earned five-figure (RM) amounts daily, his record being RM37,000 earned in ONE day.
Yet he decided to move on due to the fact that “internet trading was on the horizon and more remisiers were entering the market.”
Move on he did, into real estate and birds nest.
His Midas touch continued – today he exports premium birds nest to several countries and his real estate business is booming.
Still, he maintains a modest lifestyle, spending wisely – his care nothing more flashy than a Toyota Camry.
Now that’s someone whose golden touch needs a built-in appetite control!
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Saturday, September 24th, 2011 |
As reported in The Star, 21 August 2011.
Suthan Mookaiah, 25, online entrepreneur and internet marketing coach earned his first million after working for 7 years.
He said:
- for him, business started picking up when PayPal was introduced in Malaysia
- he uses eBay, and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to push his products
In one of his websites, he claims that he earns on average RM20,000 per month.
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Sunday, July 10th, 2011 |
The BBC reported on 7th June 2011 that Zong Qinghou (b. 1945) is head honcho at Wahaha, which makes, amongst others, soft drinks and kids’ clothing.
He’s China’s 3rd-richest man and 169th in the world, with a wealth estimated at USD5.9 billion.
Over 20 years his company rose from a school shop selling ice lollies and vitamin drinks to controlling 15% of China’s soft drinks market, and almost a billion dollars in children’s apparel.
He is the embodiment of The Workaholic.
His office is located in an unremarkable building in Hangzhou.
He eats the same meals as his staff.
He reportedy reviews every office expense, including brooms.
He says he lives on USD20 a day.
His only exercise is doing market research.
His only hobbies smoking and drinking Lipton tea.
Probably he doesn’t have a nice jetted clawfoot tub at his house either, just the plain old shower.
Best of all, unusual amongst Chinese businessmen, he focuses a lot on philanthropy.
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Saturday, July 9th, 2011 |
Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of owned by Saudi Arabia, is the world’s most valuable company.
Its estimated value in 2010 was between USD2.2 trillion and USD7 trillion.
It has the largest proven crude oil reserves and production, producing 3.4 BILLION barrels of oil from more than 100 oil and gas fields in Saudi Arabia, including the Ghawar Field, the world’s largest oil field.
The corporation has at least 264 billion barrels of oil reserves and 253 trillion scf of gas reserves.
Source: Wikipedia
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Saturday, May 14th, 2011 |
Chris Gardner’s life story was featured in Reader’s Digest, January 2007 edition. His turning point was in 1982 when he gave his parking spot to a man driving a Ferrari. He asked, “how much do you earn in a month?” The guy answered, “USD80,000 a month.” At that time, the top salesmen in Gardner’s firm earned USD80,000 A YEAR. Next question: “What do you do?” Answer: “Stockbroking.” With that, Gardner found his vocation. The two men hit it off, and 5 years later, Gardner had his own Ferrari. (more…)
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Friday, February 18th, 2011 |
William Lee, in his February 2010 article mentioned that Kenny Sia, a popular Malaysian blogger has been blogging for 5 years.
However, the traffic his blog gets seems to be steadily dropping. If I remember correctly, he was getting more than 10,000 unique visitors per day some years ago. Checking his public sitemeter just now, which shows his site’s traffic trend in the last 12 months, he was averaging around 9,000 uniques per day in March 2010, but it’s all downhill after that, and now stands at around 3,600 uniques per day.
Why? Too many paid posts?
A primary blogger for Nuffnang, he gets requests to do a lot of advertorials (sponsored blog post), which reputedly earns him “almost RM2,000″ per post, which you can identify with the letters “ADV” at the beginning of his paid posts.
Lee estimates that Sia can get anywhere between RM10,000 and RM20,000 per month from the paid posts and income from selling advertisement space on his site.
Wow, that surely buys a lot of toshiba laptop computers!
Source
onlinebusinessmalaysia.com
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Thursday, November 18th, 2010 |
It was reported in Forbes.com in August 2010 that Natalie Tran, 22, of Australia, makes videos of herself which she posts to youtube.
She is one of 10 independent made-by-youtube celebrities who’ve made more than USD100,000 in 2009.
She made around USD101,000. That is more than RM25,000 per month.
Her youtube channel has 740,000 subscribers.
Her top video is “how to fake a six-pack” which has had more than 27 million views. From July 2009 to 2010 she got almost 139 million views. Yes, she gets millions of views by videoing herself talking about lightweight topics. Who knows, next she might be talking about how to product more breast milk!
The money comes from “shared banner ad revenue” which is from “YouTube’s partner program.”
However, only the most popular youtube users are entitled to this: which is to earn half of the advertising income from their videoclips.
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Monday, October 4th, 2010 |
The Star reported on 30th Sept 2010 that Kevin “Lil’ Kev” Arokiasamy signed a 2 year contract to host hitz.fm’s Morning Show on 29th August 2002 in which he’d be paid RM24,000 per month in the first year, and RM26,000 per month for the second.
At that time, he’d co-hosted the same show since 1997.
Well, what are we all waiting for – let’s all be radio DJs!!
Think about it: you don’t need to tart yourself up to the nines, the list including hgh spray if needed, unlike those VJs, and you still end up being paid more!
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