Recently, I met with a businessman and he gives me a few business tips on how to do well in business.

In business, we need to have networking and find ways to create good networking. Smart people will find ways to increase their networking as right people can bring greater success to your business.

e.g – If you only network with normal people, your sales will be among those normal people. However, if you network with bigger people, your target audience will also be bigger.

So choose your network and find ways to network.

What does it mean being different when most of the product in the market is already being sold by other people. Well, that’s how the average joe thinks.

e.g whoever goes to Petronas will definitely knows Anis Chocolate cake. (http://anisfood.com.my/) . 

What is so special about this cake as compared to other moist cake? The specialty is the owners managed to sell in Petronas and unlike others.

That is the difference! Volume! Right place for the right people. Be creative in your channel distribution. Create your own channel and definitely business will flow accordingly.

How many of us have heard this? Sell product that can satisfy and be the solution to the customer. Otherwise, there is no specialty in your business.

Be a proud businessman and knows that you are one step ahead of others who are still working as an employee. There are a lot of challenges especially among competitors. Well, that’s the beauty of doing business. If you yourself are not confident with your own company, your customer will definitely not be confident with you.

Change your view and be confident as that is one crucial key to be successful.

We live in a world where there are many people who has reached success and there are definitely many successful people around us. Get to know them and treat them as your mentor. Without guidance, we will be lost. This is something that Allah has showed to us. Prophet Muhammad’s mentor was Allah and Gabrael. Therefore, we need to learn from there and take advantage from people to short-cut the ways to success.

Looking back at this 5 tips, it is true that all this are very important tops indeed.

Writing tips

In one of the seminar we attended, one of the participant asked a question of:

“Sir, how can we write a powerful marketing content?”

The speaker was silent for a few minutes and then he answered 

“To have a powerful marketing content, the secret is to read.”

What does this mean? It shows that reading can actually increase the content of marketing in our business. When we look back at our Islamic teaching, the first ayat is read. Read. Read. How powerful is reading? 

Reading the right materials can enhance our knowledge and that’s why Allah has asked us to read. But what to read? That is another question. When Allah said read, it doesn’t mean we should be reading any sort of materials although there are no sayings that disallow someone to read anything he wishes.

In Islam, if we want to know more about Islamic teachings, definitely we need to read, understand and seek knowledge from the Quran. Quran teachings are being supported by Hadith. Therefore, in our daily modern life, if we want to be better in our forte, we should be studying and reading in that forte. There is no shortcut to success. 

Salam.