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15 Apr 2012

How I run a business entirely on my laptop and phone…

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Hi folks,

Long time no blog =D

I know, I know.. I have been super lazy and not blogging lately at all. Before you judge me and decide to hate me forever, please let me explain. I’m a student goes to uni and runs 2 businesses. And being a student means you have assignments to conquer. Being a last year student means you have to conquer even harder tasks…( Actually, I lied, all I seem to do is watch How I met you mother… but that’s another story =D) Not to mention running my time consuming biz..

 

Hence, no time for blogging…

But now I’m on holiday now ( for 2 weeks. Hooray for holidays!) and I have heaps of time in my hands. =D

In my attempt to advertise Cool Geek, I contacted heaps of journalists to get them to feature myself and my biz, I was fortunate enough to be offered to write a small column for Australia’s biggest business magazine: Smarter Business Ideas. Needless to say how excited I feel being offered this role by Jonno- web editor of the mag

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20 Mar 2012

How important is First Impression to you?

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This is our short ‘Our Story’ for Cool Geek that I have been writing all afternoon

Like the ‘About page’ of this blog, the ‘Our Story’section is as important as ever. Why?

Because it creates THE ULTIMATE FIRST IMPRESSION -a first ever point of contact in building personal relationship with readers/ customers.

No one wants to talk to the masked-man.

Everyone wants to talk to a real person.

At Cool Geek, we are as real as our-real-self and that’s how it should be.

Anyways, This post is quite short but I hope you do enjoy, to know more about the Awesome Three behind Cool Geek

Van Anh is the head frame picker of Cool Geek, all of our awesome frames are hand-picked by her.

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16 Mar 2012

A post for us- All the pretty girls

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I have been writing a lot about start-ups, money-making, businesses…and it seems the guys are more interested in this kind of stuff more than us girls… Now it is the time I write up something more relevant to us : Pretty Dresses to wear at your wedding.

Guys, please excuse me while I indulge and share a sense of womanly moment with all my female readers.

AIN’T we lucky we are women?

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13 Mar 2012

Holiday, Shopping and Start-up…

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Hi guys,

It’s now nearly 1 am and I have uni plus work the day after ( or should I say today?=D) but here I am writing a new blob post. Well, this post will be short because:

a, I need sleep zzz

b, I just want to tell you a quick story with an end that you can’t even guess (or can you?=D)

OK, let my story begin!

As you all know I went to Vietnam for holiday 2 months ago ( For those who are new on the blog, YEP! I went holiday in Vietnam, BEST. TIME. EVER). So what you do when you go holiday?…

SHOP and EAT of course!

And that’s exactly what I did. ( You can check out the yummy dishes and drool over here=D)

And I shopped up a storm too. Everything is so cheap.

Well, now is the part where you tell me:” You get what you pay for, cheap stuff means low quality… etc etc“. And now this is me flashing my smile like so =D and tell you:” Not when you know where to shop, dear”

While the truth is that EVERYTHING IS MADE IN CHINA, there is another truth that not everyone knows: THERE ARE SEVERAL STAGES OF QUALITY STANDARD.

What this really means is you gotta know the right people aka connection to get the GOOD STUFF FOR CHEAPER.

And that’s exactly what I did=D

Anyhow, I had a blast shopping for glasses (both prescription and sunnies) because

a/ the quality is as good as any glasses bought within Australia

b/ the choice is endless and very up- to -date

c/ the price is great. And by great I mean, you can still afford 7 pairs, each for a day of the week and won’t go broke. I’m just so sick of having 1 pair of glasses for the rest of my life. Do you?

That’s enough to make me happy.

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01 Mar 2012

Unveiling our new site… YAY!

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Hi guys!,
I hope the weather has been treating you well. For us, Sydneysiders, I hope these rainy days won’t extinguish our burning young entrepreneurial start-up spirit =D.

The reason for this short blog post is that I can’t wait to share my new e-biz with you guys. Even though, the site is not launched YET, but I’m just too excited, I can’t wait. Also, the purpose of this blog is to provide a guide for youngsters to the beautiful and exciting journey of start-up, using my real life experience ( Which really means, even if a noob like me can successfully start-up and be financially independent, you can too).

Anyways, I’m so glad that my idea and strong belief of transparency on the internet is really clicked and supported by these awesome guys at 22 Michaels. They are the founders of Shoes of Prey- an awesome site that let you design your OWN SHOES and they ‘ll make it from scratch FOR YOU, how awesome is that?

Truth be told, it may takes days to tell you how awesome this idea is, their execution and transparency on how to start your own business really is helpful for us to learn and apply their experiences to our own start-ups.

Back to me saying I will unveil the e-biz my partner and I have been thinking and working on for a while. But first, let me tell you a secret: I’m almost blinded

BANANA

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20 Feb 2012

Mid Feb 2012 progress and why I didn’t do GOALS for FEB 2012

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Hi guys,

How are you? I hope all is well and life is beautiful as always.

If you follow this SYFF blog regularly, you will notice that I do monthly goals and achievements EVERY MONTH (DUH! They are monthly reports) to a/ keep track of my progress and b/ motive my lazy self to get stuff done.

However, at the beginning of this Feb 2012, I didn’t jot down any goals for the month to come, hence there won’t be any Feb achievement report =(. BUT…

That doesn’t mean I won’t be updating this SYFF blog regularly. In fact, I just did a whole bunch of things to update it AND I’m writting this new blog post as you can see =D

By the way, please note that some of the links are affiliate links and I do earn some form of commission if you do buy from my links, I thank you so much for your awesome support =D

The reason I don’t do monthly report for this Feb being life is too short for rules. I mean, I have been putting myself under my self-made rules that I have to follow in certain ways ( for example: publish goals and achievements every month).

So to break free of myself plus a little bit adventure and rebellion ( rather than being lazy), I decided NOT TO jot down what I would like to do for Feb 2012 and see if things STILL WORK.

image credit of sureiscute.com

 

 

SO FAR SO GOOD!

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