Business and Money Tips

You are a manager, executive, technician or professional. You have achieved certain success in life, yet deep at night, you wake up and wonder if this is what your life is about. You also realize that with the advent of mobile phones, relationships between you and your spouse, children, parents, siblings, friends and relatives are getting more and more distant. You guys just don't seem to talk as much as in the past! We all know that every problem we faced in our life is all because subconsciously, we are still living in a slumber state. Hence, true awakening is the only answer to unlocking the key to the problems. ·       Only when you are truly awake, can your consciousness be enlightened, ·       Only when you are truly awake, can your energy stay fresh, ·       Only when you are truly awake, can you have surpassed power ·       Only when you are truly awake, can you see your future path clearly If you too want to be awake and have fulfilment in your life

We know that in WeChat, you can simply add strangers as your friends using 'People Nearby' feature, search for contacts and add from Groupchats.  But what determines people's acceptance of you is your profile.   Your Profile must have the following features for people to accept you readily:  1. Use Your Real Name, not Psesodonym  2. A proper or Professional photo that is not far from your real self 3. 'Whats up' to state what you are currently most occupied with.  If you put in things like 'Like to add new friends', it shows that you are more a seller than a real contact.  This will put people off.   4. Use both Chinese and English names, because 90% of WeChat users are Chinese but they also like English names 5. Do not expose your phone number in your profile, for it shows that you are too hard-up for business and people will fear to accept you as their friend For instance, my profile (search for me under the ID 'AndyTheCoach') is 吴家

Other than the common 10 misunderstandings about WeChat, there following three prevalent thinking that must be corrected: 1. People in China Cannot Follow My WeChat Account I have over 211 friends who live in China and they follow my Moments posting every day.  I even taught one of them English via WeChat. Definitely, people in China can follow my WeChat account.  But if I were to create my overseas Official Account, people in China cannot follow and read my overseas Official Account.  But if these people from China opened their WeChat accounts using their e-mails and QQ accounts and not their mobile number, they can follow all overseas official accounts.   Note that official accounts are mini-sites on WeChat, they are not the same as the usual personal WeChat account that most people use every day 2. WeChat Wallet Cannot Be Opened Outside China Anyone in this world can open WeChat Wallet easily. They just need one of the following: bank card from China (meaning you h

WeChat is a very powerful tool.  It has 28 unique useful functions that Whatsapp and Facebook don't have.  Why are people not using WeChat as much as Whatsapp? Lack of friends on WeChat? We use Whatsapp and Facebook more often as most of our friends are on FB & Whatsapp but not on Wechat. Do you know that in Singapore, 3 out of 4 mobile phone users are using WeChat? That's 4 million people using WeChat. Are your friends using WeChat?   If they are, are YOU their WeChat friends?  *People from China only use WeChat* So if you want to connect with them, you have no choice but to use WeChat. Don't know Chinese? WeChat can now translate 21 languages including moments posts and news! And voice translation too! WeChat Moments work like Facebook newsfeeds, you can post anything you like, including 9 photos and videos within 10 seconds.   Now you too can learn WeChat and become a pro! Come and join our 36th class of

Sales trainers like to teach people the concept of overcoming objections. To me, objections are a waste of time. This is because closing is an inside job. The salesperson deep down must believe in closing the sale and not focus on overcoming objections.  When salespeople start overcoming objections, they are placing themselves in conflict with their customers when they should be establishing collaborative relationships instead. Often overcoming objections set the stage for polite disagreements and respectful differences of opinion, forcing salespeople to defend their solutions. At worst, it turns the sales process into a battle in which the salesperson goes into a battle an attack mode to 'win' the sale. In fact, words like 'persist', 'convince', 'persuade' all imply such aggressive behaviour. We all know that you could win an argument and lose the sale. It doesn't have to be this way. Salespeople can choose another approach: prevent

We all know WeChat is such a powerful tool as it has 28 unique useful functions that Whatsapp and Facebook do not have.  Why are people not using WeChat as much as Whatsapp? There are 3 hurdles when it comes to using WeChat: 1. Lack of friends Yes, the reason we use Whatsapp and Facebook so much is that we have many friends on them but we have few friends on WeChat.   We know that in Singapore, 3 out of 4 mobile phone users are using WeChat. This means that there are not few but at least 4 million people using WeChat in Singapore . The question is are your friends using WeChat?  If they are, are you guys WeChat friends?  One way to check if your friends are using WeChat is to simply find them on your phone's contact list. Simply go to 'Contacts' page on WeChat, press the '+' on top, select 'Add Contacts', then select 'Mobile Contact' and press 'Upload Contacts'.  Your WeChat account will simply tell you which of your friends on yo

In our previous article , we talked about the one and only reason to use WeChat is to go back to our Chinese roots.  In that article (you can read it at here ), I mentioned that being an ethnic Chinese, it is important to know and live the Chinese culture.  The other day my friend Divandran, who's has roots in India, asked me how can he as an Indian go back to his Indian roots with WeChat, a predominantly Chinese tool.  I told him, "Yes, of course, you have Chinese roots in your blood".  He was shocked!  We all know that the word 'Chinese' is not a racial or political term. In fact, if you look at China's history you will realize that throughout its 5,000 years of unbroken civilisation, there are many non-Chinese that invaded and ruled China. Some even established large dynasties lasting several hundred years, like the Jurchen's Jin Dynasty (109 years), Mongolian's Yuan Dynasty (97 years) and Manchurian's Qing Dynasty (268 years). If you lo

You got a problem in sales. Your product is not first in its class, nor is it second. Maybe your product is outmoded. Or it hasn’t been positioned correctly.  Maybe it is competing in a very crowded market. It doesn’t matter the reason.  The fact is people are not going to buy your product, no matter how you sell. Welcome to Selling Sand to the Arabs, the situation faced by people from selling ice to the Eskimos to selling hot weather to Singaporeans. If you are now selling a product that few have, like iPhone, or you are selling something at the lowest price, like Xiaomi, do not read further. This course is for people who want to sell when people don’t want to buy. SELING SAND TO THE ARABS Date: 23 Feb 2018 Friday 9 am to 12.30 pm Fee: $149 each (usual fee: $298)         $99 each for 2 and above         $59 each for 5 and above (80% off) Venue: 89 Short St 09-03A, Golden Wall Centre , Singapore 188216 3 MRTs: Rochor (3 min walk), Bugis 5 min

Yesterday I met a Sales Director from a Fortune 500 company. He commented that many of the so-called sales training in Singapore and Asia are actually motivational and goal setting training disguised as sales training. They often get people on the high during the course but leave them unsure of what to do after the training.  Most of the sales training do not have adequate sales strategies and techniques. They often teach things that even 10-year old kids know: ask questions, overcome objections and close the sale.  We teach people more than that. We often cover situations that people consider impossible - how to Sell the Impossible. Many people consider the following 10 situations to be selling the impossible: 1.      Prospect has just bought from your closest competitor 2.      Your product pricing is way too high to be considered 3.      Your salespeople have little knowledge to close the sale 4.      Prospect has no money to buy 5.      Prospect has no time to ev

As most of us know, the main reason for using WeChat is to get connected with people from China.  Recently one of my friends asked me, "I don't go to China, and I am already very busy serving the Singapore market and have no time serving the Chinese (non-Singaporean Chinese) living here. Can I don't use WeChat?" Well, you don't have to use WeChat if you are not interested in serving the market that uses WeChat, which is mainly the non-Singaporean Chinese living in Singapore and the region.  Many of us would think of WeChat as a business tool, and the incentive for using WeChat is to capture a wider market so that we can earn more money and probably get rich. Is it so?  If your reason for using WeChat is mainly to make money and nothing else, I suggest you don't use WeChat.  For sooner or later, your selfish motives will be known to people and people will start to abandon you for being so money-minded. To me, the one and the only reason to use WeChat is

In our previous article (you can read it here ), we stressed the importance of becoming an active WeChat user if you too want to tap into the immense rewards that WeChat offers.  'Active WeChat user' means to use WeChat daily, with 1 to 3 Moments postings a day and adding new friends every day.  There are 5 steps that anyone can become an active WeChat user: Step 1: Make Sure Your WeChat Profile Stands For Something Until you make a dent with your WeChat profile, people will not take you seriously, even if you were an active WeChat user.  To create a high impact profile, upload a professional photograph, like the one I have in this article.  Other than profile photo, you need to describe yourself in a way that makes you stand out. Step 2: Put your WeChat icon on the front page of your mobile phone.   Step 3: Post WeChat Moments 1 to 3 times a day If you are like most people, you post a few times every day on Facebook and find posting daily on WeChat too much work,