ONLIINE WEDDING PLANNERS

Wedding planning is probably one of the biggest events of any woman’s life and whether it will be a big or intimate event. These future brides would want to get it done for their dream to become a beautiful bride. There are online wedding directory services catering to everything for the big day. iKahwin.my is one of the online portal that provide wedding planner for the customers. It created and managed by a group of entrepreneurs in their early 20s which are Azmierul Che Mat, Charmaine Nash, Azrul Rahim and Fakhruzzaman Jusoh.

It is an  easy-to-navigate “trading ground” website for various vendors to showcase their services. “iKahwin caters mostly to Generation Y as they are the predominant age group who are thinking about tying the knot this year and in the next five years. It is a growing industry and business in Malaysia. It has 80% rate of returning visitor.

There are about 15,000 visits per month and 70,000 page views. iKahwin.my started as an online service tool since most people, especially those in their 20s to 40s, are using the Internet as a source of information and research. In fact, 72% of iKhawin users are 23 to 28 years old. Wedding industry is still quite traditional in the way that they advertise through print media and are used to being involved with tangible forms of exposure.

 

In my opinion, it is an interesting business for young entrepreneur to start their own business through website as their media to promote product and service. Nowadays, Malaysian entrepreneurs are more confident in success compared to before with the help of government of agency such as Multimedia Development Corp for the financial, technical and training assistance. For example, iKahwin.my is a successful online wedding planner for young entrepreneur to realize the selling strategies and platform of their business. They will be able to attract customers through internet rather than selling their services door to door that made them appear irritating and desperate sales people. In addition, Global Entrepreneur Monitor Global Report will be able to assist entrepreneurs in develop their business. 

MEET INDIA’S TOP 10 SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR HEROES

MEET INDIA’S TOP 10 SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR HEROES

Based on the article, the top 10 social entrepreneur heroes in India are Mahatma Gandhi, Dr Verghese Kurien, Sanjit, Anil Kumar Gupta, Harish Hande, Dr. G. Venkataswamy, Sunil Bharti Mittal,  Vineet Rai, Vikram Akula, and Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda. When it comes to social entrepreneurship, India is often referred to as the epicenter of impact investing, and the world’s laboratory for testing new ideas. With a billion dollars waiting to be invested in social enterprises and success stories like Husk Power Systems, Rangsutra, dLight, Waterlife and Vaatsalya Healthcare regularly making the rounds in global social entrepreneurship circles, the country is clearly a very important market.

TOP 1 

Firstly, Mahatma was a man obsessed with sustainability, being environment friendly, making the best use of local resources, growth of villages, power of cooperatives, promoting local industry and community-driven initiatives. 

TOP 2

Secondly, Dr Verghese Kurien is a father of Indian’s milk revolution. He  might have founded The Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union in 1946. Kurien’s foresight, planning and execution, India through the ‘white revolution’, went from a milk importing country to the world’s largest producer.

TOP 3

Thirdly, Sanjit “Bunker” Roy is the founder of Barefoot College. he volunteered to spend the summer mapping 100 drought prone areas in famine-affected Palamu District. He founded Social Works and Research Centre (SWRC) in 1972 to find ways to address rural poverty by using new models and strategies. 

Fourthly, Gupta is a professor at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad since 1981, He’s famous for recognizing rural innovators, helping commercializing their inventions, protecting the intellectual property rights of inventors by filing patents and creating a knowledge network at different levels for augmenting grassroots innovations and inventions.

From my point of view, India’s journey into the world of social entrepreneurship has been led by the vision and energy of outstanding individuals. Today, on Independence Day, we salute these social entrepreneurship heroes who have shaped India’s tryst with social entrepreneurship. For example, Mahatma Gandhi described as visionaries who solve old problems with new ways of thinking Gandhi to develop Indian. In order to conduct a successful social entrepreneur, entrepreneur can develop a purpose in helping mankind. Malaysian ranked 25^th out of 144 countries in health and primary education. Hence, good social networking relationship and high determination can ensure long term business co- partnership to provide good service for residence in the country. 

PROFILE OF A SUCCESSFUL MALAYSIAN ENTREPRENEUR

Name of entrepreneur : Ms Helen Elizabeth Read

Age                               : 55

Company                      : Ms.Read & DELIcious Cafe

Based on the article, entrepreneurship is said to be the symbol of business tenacity and achievement. Entrepreneurs are the pioneers of today’s new business venture successes. Their keen sense of recognizing opportunity, their passion and drive for creativity and innovation, and their capacity for excellence and achievement have become the standard by which free enterprise is now measured.

Ms Helen Elizabeth Read, Founder and Managing Director of MS READ related her success story as an entrepreneur as well as her personal struggles and achievements. We had a first-hand glimpse into a real success story and lessons which we can learn from our own successful Malaysian entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurship is the process by which individuals pursue opportunities without regards to resources they currently control. The essence of entrepreneurial behavior is identifying opportunities and putting useful ideas into practice. This standard has spread to almost all countries throughout the world, and Malaysia is no exception.

An entrepreneur assembles and then integrates all the resources needed-the money, the people, the business model, the strategy and the risk-bearing ability to transform the invention into a viable business. The tasks called for by this behavior can be accomplished by either an individual or a group and typically requires creativity, drive and a willingness to take risks.

In my opinion, this article is encouraging women to become an entrepreneur. There are some of the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs which are be passion for the business. For example, Ms Helen Elizabeth Read is a successful women entrepreneur in Malaysia. She believes that she can be success like male entrepreneurs as long as she has great potential to contribute in the economic growth of Malaysia. Besides that, she also focuses in product and customer. Women entrepreneur continue to involve in their business venture and breaking out the mindset that women can only good in selective profession. From the article, I believe that tenacity despite failure can overcome difficulties of a person in order to achieve his/her goal. 

REFLECTION OF BLOGGING EXPERIENCE

At the beginning, I was afraid of what if I cannot understand its tool or how is it working. After the review paper of my blog, I find the blog is enjoyable and useful. It is easy to write ideas or experiences. I can work and share my ideas, thoughts, news about the entrepreneurs. It is like working in collaboration. Day by day, I found that this is the new techniques to explore the idea through blog posts. To know this blog will read by others, people from every part of the world can follow me and read my reflections and make comments on my blog. This is an advantage for me because when I use the blog, I’m situated in a bigger group or a community. This blog make me improve my reading abilities. On the other hand, I have also improved my research abilities to write some posts in my blogs. 

In develop the blogging, there are three entrepreneurs who succeed in developing entrepreneurship which are Tony Fernandes from AirAsia, Tan Sri Dato' Kee Sin Liew from SP Setia  Bhd Group  and Mr. Tan Eng Soon from Tan Chong Motor Holdings Berhad (TCMH) .

Besides that, there are six articles that in my blog as the review article for the people. It makes the blog more interesting and provides more information in order to attract viewers. Profile of a successful Malaysian entrepreneur, meet India’s top 10 social entrepreneur heroes, online wedding planners, Malaysia’s search for young entrepreneurs, the innovation secret of Steve Jobs and 4 approaches introduced by Malaysian Prime Minister to encourage the growth of entrepreneur and local business are the articles that provided inside the blog.

In addition, I had put in the business set up of my business with my course mates in the blog. Our business is selling handmade crepe roses and brooch in the University. From this business, I had learnt a lot of experiences which strives my entrepreneur skill for me to become a better person in my future. It provides a good experience for the new learner in develop their business.

I have learnt many experiences from the development of my blog. First and foremost, before I access the blog, I learn how to propose a concept paper of my blog to attract and alert more people about my blog. Secondly, I have selected 6 articles regarding to entrepreneurship that consider interesting for the people. This is because a blog is a useful tool for me to reflect, but it also useful for people by giving an opportunity to reflect on their methods and practices. 

Thirdly, blogging created a space for open dialogue. It is an effective tool to facilitate reflection of people’s idea and comment regarding to the post in the blog. I can review and explore different kind of ideas and comments from different kind of people that all around the world.

On the other hand, In order to be professional and progressive, I must be willing to reflect upon the comment in the blog, and provide constructive criticism to make the respond of the blog as effective as possible. This is because a blog is likely to be about a topic that viewers are interested in and gain more information. It is a best time for me to reflect and recap on what to put inside the blog as the good topic for all the viewers. It is an effective way for a learning environment in recent years.

In addition, I can explore the blog on how to create, monitor, respond to, and participate in those experiences that create trust, foster relationships, unleash advocacy and drive business results. People are welcome to participate, criticize, praise, critique, expand, or correct the information and opinions found on this blog.

From the blogging experience, there are few ways that this exercise affected my life. The blogging experience has been so fantastic. I have developed a real skill for blog writing and a broader way of thinking about topics involving the media. There are two main part of my blog posts, which I think best reflect on the weekly topics from the 6 articles perhaps I could have delved a little deeper into the articles. However, I think I met the requirement of the task with my blog posts, especially with the use of links to relative articles.

I feel that the blog posts gave a very light-hearted view on the whole concept of sharing via the internet and I think that by using the links to online articles on the subject may support my concept paper of the blog sufficiently.