One Good Reason Why Your Startup Will Fail
Lessons I've learned to differentiate my business from competitors in a crowded market These days, you can hardly start a fully brand-new, unique business idea or startup. Chances are there’s already one or many out there. Seems like almost everything you see in the...
How To Promote Your Service Business Online For Free
What I learned about getting clients without looking desperate If you’re running a business, be it as a freelancer, a consultant, a startup, an agency, or as someone selling products, you must always make marketing strategies a priority. I learned this the hard way....
9 Steps To Start A Service-Based Side Hustle
These steps will help you quit your day job and get paid doing what you love A lot of my friends couldn’t wait to start their own businesses. Many of them complain about their jobs and bring up great ideas for new ventures. Some got moving with something on the...
Top 8 Tips On How To Set Goals And Accomplish Them In 2020
For 10 years as a freelance graphic designer, I struggled to achieve many goals in my business. Not because I did not work hard enough, but it was because either I wanted something way out of reach, or I did not make proper planning and steps to strategise my way to...
How To Start A Business With No Money
With half a million dollars in debt, I was lost. This was my own doing: getting married, having a baby and getting our own home shouldn’t all come together at one shot, but they did. Especially in Singapore where housing isn’t cheap (you’d be lucky to find an 800 sq...
How To Market Your Business Online With No Money
No looks, no following and no talent When I heard Gary Vaynerchuk says “to succeed we need to have some form of talent” via one of his podcast episodes, my heart sunk. That’s it, I can’t sing, can’t dance, don’t look good on video and no gift of the gab, I’m not...
What You Should Know Before Starting A Business
Early lessons for a first-time entrepreneur Just to be fair, I didn’t start the right way and took more than ten years to start seeing some fruits of labour. For ten years since 2005, I slogged to deliver graphic design work to clients in exchange for money, only to...
Building A Business To Run Without You
What would you do to grow a business that can run on its own? Recently I was asked to answer this question on Quora, and got stuck because I am still in the process of getting there. Meanwhile, is this something you are looking to do? 4 years since I started a graphic...
The Best Way to Make Your New Business Stand Out
It’s not about being cheaper, better or sexier “There are so many great designers in the world, and I’m not super cheap, why are you working with me?” Just when I stopped talking, my customer couldn’t seem to wait and said: “ Instead of giving me the techie...
7 Steps To Starting A Graphic Design Business
How to break free from owning a job to owning a service-based business Here’s what I’ve done from starting with half a million dollars in debt to growing a profitable graphic design business in 4 years and counting. After working as a full-time freelance graphic...