Thoughts about the recent withdrawal of Halloween Horrors from Wildlife Reserves Singapore

This is one good case study for the rest of us who are learning about managing the social media. While there could have been many reasons for the CEO to remove this event at the very last minute, this is simply a move which is too drastic to make especially when people are able to [...]

What Steve Jobs had taught me indirectly?

When I first heard the news, I was really sad about it. I have never ever seen him or known him in my life, but he has taught me many things as a role model whom I have taken as a benchmark in entrepreneurship. Unlike most of the businesses out there where they always fight [...]

How social media should be utilized by the companies

In order for a company to grow big, companies have turned to automation so as to strive to become scalable. When a company is still small, they can still say “Welcome Charles.  Do you still want to have your favorite drink for your meal?”  When they grew big, they forgot their customers’ name.  But they [...]

The more you trim your web work, the better focus you will get!

Recently, I had a chance to speak to Mr Vincent Lauria (a successful startup geek from United States) over a coffee at Starbucks.  He has enlightened me a lot in many of things that I have done. I am not sure where I should start in this blog post to talk about his enlightenment.  However, [...]

The importance of a web division in a company

Since 2007 when Jeffrey Zeldman blogged about “Let there be web divisions“, I have yet to see many companies having a web division today.  It is still  either falling under marketing department or IT department.  In fact, web belongs to neither of them. Who should be in charge of the web? Both marketing department and IT [...]

Pareto 80/20 rule may no longer apply in sales and marketing today

When I was doing sales as well as my own businesses, I was taught by my mentors that I should focus on the 20% of my customers who are the best customers, and refer away 80% of my customers to other people who are wasting too much of my time.  This used to be a [...]

It may take a while for companies to change their focus to relationship building

For many years, people have been working professionally.  They are here to sell their products and services.  They are investing in something, and they are expecting a return out of it.  This is what they called “Return-on-Investment”.  But they are missing out something over here. Yesterday, our salespeople had trained us to be aware of [...]

Catching up with the social media

While working on my full time job as a senior e-marketing executive, I have the opportunity to catch up with my social media endeavors.  It has led me to discover even more things for my colleagues to explore while they can focus on the more important things. I started writing a weekly update to my [...]

Are you still hiding behind your brand in the social media?

It is becoming obvious that you are all just human beings.  You are the ones who stand behind your brands, talking to us.  Your brands may have been talking to us through the various medias for many years.  In our mind, your brands are so perfect that it is not very humane. Since the birth [...]

You have no time to prepare ahead. You have to do it now. Real time.

For any events out there, or any newspaper/magazine printing, or any television commercial.  They tend to have a lead time to prepare everything properly before they are being made live.  Because of the nature that they are in, they have to be scheduled accordingly. The Internet waits for no one.  You either tell us right [...]