How is tablet business like HTC n Samsung. Seem like not many shops specialized in this yet. Mostly selling phones. I'm quite interested to venture in small kiosk just focusing on tablet. Do u guys think it's a great idea if I'm focus toward this niche market. I see the potential just like phone biz.

u ask like this i assumed u have no ubat lesen for ur ubat.kastam will tahan ur barang. not because of sanction. unless u masuk 1 small carton. mayb kastam will just let it go in.u better go check at jabatan farmasi. give them 1 sample and ask for importing ubat procedure.

Because this thread suppose meant for employers to exchange ideas. But when there is more spoon feeders joining in... most biz owners cabut already

Are you planning to do reselling or repair services and accessories? You need to involve in all kinds of jobs regarding the tablet market so that people will get to know you as a specialised store who really has knowledge in tablet.
Approval from Ministry first before you import anything. After you gain your approval and license, only then you starting importing them.
old age but still going strong....Current page is 95.

There are some other main contributor too...

I've just applying buying liscensee for brand hush puppies rights in order to produce spectacle frame using their brand, and I know shenzhen china factory (a friend to my dad) that would fullfill my request manufacturing spectacle frames in large quantity and many design, if my licensee approved then I will trying  to deal with optical chain store like focus point, M.O.G, 100vision, etc and any other possible optical shop around malaysia.. this field has very small competitor yet too many optical shop these days. very high chances to success and yet i've already hired 3staff helped me running this business selling Brand AAA frames like burberry, emperor armani, gucci and etc etc.. this time i am trying to scale something big, coz i know when im sticking with this replica stuff i won't reach the sky.. and still hope to hiring more staff.. coz malaysia is too big for 3 staff to handle, thus me sitting in the office ( my house ) doing packaging and send. note that hush puppies licensee it-self cost RM120,000+ for only usage of one year contract, that my small biz as a supplier. hope people here would share more idea, cause i hate relying on one source income.

Oily is because of the temperature of the oil. Too low temperature the batter will will absorb oil and too high will make it cook too fast on the outside but uncooked inside. The downside of high temperature is you must use high grade cooking oil which can with stand higher temperatures. Those in the plastic bags and also some of those plastic bottled ones are also of low grade. It is also carcinogenic and has cancer causing ability if the oil is overheated. Many a times you see 'cucur pisang' sellers oil is black and overheated and overused! This also happens in the chinese 'yau char koay' sellers.

In my experience, 'Chap Buroh' oil has the best temperature lasting quality but even that it can't last long. Deep frying oil actually has it's special kind of oil which comes in solid form like margarine. It's too expensive to use as normal deep frying oil in hawker's usage. They come in big tins and even some fast food franchise has stopped using them for french fries as their prices are quite high and furthermore the worse reason is normal palm oil is subsidized by our government.

Hai guys,

Anyone have deal business with developers or contractors? How would i can approach them on business. I would say, i'm still on the planning
stage and gathering information. Product would be electrical system.

Prepare your powerpoint slide and present by making appointment. Please do present to M&E engineer as they can always present the ideas to their client.

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Boss, just want to ask trans fat oil makes the fried thingy more crispy and last longer right?

all the best.

Once i drove to manjung for business purposes, along the way i saw huge banana plantation beside the road. Youmay get cheaper over there if you purchase bulk.

Try tropicana mall.

hackwire,

May I ask if you are planning to rent a retail lot? I'm asking this because you mention "stall" and I assume it'll be an indoor kiosk. I think the management wouldn't allow that. If you were to put up with retail lot, you need equipments such as fryers and oil filter duct system to suck out the oily smoke. Of which will cost alot for the "stall" of yours.

Managing those foreigners is a HUGE pain in the butt.

Indons, Pinoys, Burmese, Nepalese, Indians, Cambodians etc.....you name it, each of them got their own unique problem.

Language would be your first problem.
Common for Burmese, Nepalese, Cambodian & Vietnamese workers since they most probably didn't even learn English in school. Even if they do happen to know English, you would hardly understand it after their accent is added into their English.

Cultural differences is your second problem.
Things that are not okay to you is very okay for them. Things that are totally not acceptable to you are very commonly practiced by them. You should see how they do things some times (as in micro managing them), you might faint when you discover their way of doing things. For instance, I discovered that cleaners from a certain country generally use the same mop to clean every single inch of the washroom (the floor, bowl, sink etc) & then rinse the mop by repeatedly flushing it in the toilet bowl.

Government is your third problem
Permit approvals & such, our government is already giving us enough headache, their government will add more salt to your wound. If you think corruption is bad in Malaysia, wait till you start dealing with those foreign governments.

So unless you're very familiar with those countries, their language, culture & regulations. It's best to at least be very familiar with one if you're planning to do this. Else you'll end up pulling your hair until you go bald.

It's rather discouraging, but if you're lucky, you'll to get obedient ones who are willing to listen & learn. I've seen quite a number of these type. Damn lucky boss to have found those workers.

hi, im very new to this post. currently working in one IT MNC company. makan gaji as engineer consider not bad since pay almost touching 5 figure. but this is the end already unless i move into management level. by looking at my managers, he earns a lot but no life. everyday meeting, email, meeting and email. this is not the life i wanted to be. somehow i got this business idea but dont know works or not. few of my frens who open a shop always complaint very hard to get ppl especially foreigners. suddenly this idea came into my mind instead of helping ppl find for new workers from indon and myanmar, why not open one agency mainly looking for foreigners which already got permit in malaysia? anyone from here can share some exp about work force agency business?

mind you, they are 100 times better than locals in their level

Have you find out why the industrial deep fryer can't produce pisang goreng similar to the one which uses wok? You may already know this. But again in my opinion, the missing bits might be temperature control (which is very important) or the oil volume of the fryer as compared to wok. Temperature control is important because when you put in the banana to fry, all the batter (water) will lower down the cooking temperature. And it depends on the power rating (how fast) of the fryer to return to the temperature that you initially set. If you put more and more banana (overload) into the fryer while the temperature drop down, the outcome will be bad. Buy one industrial deep fryer and try experiment with it.

Perhaps you can try working in a authentic Japanese restaurant (not sushi king or sakae sushi) and see/learn how they make tempuras. All those crunchy flowery and lacy bits of the tempuras that you eat required "kung-fu". Hahaha... 

I do not have friends looking for retailers. But I, myself is looking for a kiosk space in shopping malls.

I mean in labour intensive work.. e.g.

locals doing crop harvesting vs bangla doing crop harvesting....

YES... goben say that we should move up the value added level, you expect the SME to fork up 1mill to buy those machines?

biasanya diorang akan ambil banyak dan mereka akan mintak "hutang". atau terms. terms tu pulak bukan sebulan 2 bulan boleh jadik 3 bulan. pastu kalau produk ko tu produk baru atau nama cam pelik pelik sikit dia akan letak ko punya produk tu bahagian belakang hujung sekali. yang depan depan semua jenis top top sold out cepat.

kalau terms tu dah habis barang tu x boleh jual diorang akan cuba utk pulangkan balik (x nak bayar satu sen pun).diorang akan bayar ikut jumlah barang dan kuantiti barang yang dijual.

walaupun ko bagi barang terms 3 bulan ko nak tunggu payment dari kompeni besar ni ko punya naik turun naik turun tu lebih 5 kali. bagi macam macam alasan. bos keluar la. cheq dah siap tapi belum sign la.

part yang paling menyakitkan hati dan jantung serta merosakkan buah pinggang ko time bila cheq tu dah siap cth 4 hb / 1 / 2014 diaorang akan call ko pada 29/1/2014 .    kalau katalah ko ada supply barang A pada bulan lepas dan bulan ni ko supply barang B tiba tiba lah barang A ko tu ada warranty atau complain ...

payment barang B ko diorang akan "tahan" payment ko utk berapa minggu dulu until kes ko setle. diorang puas hati problem settle diorang release payment.    

ni biasanya berlaku kalau company ko "enterprise" "solepriopator" ko nak deal dengan Sdn Bhd atau Listed company. kalau ko punya company sama "besar" dengan company yang ko nak deal tu mereka macam respect ko sikit. (macam bagi muka sikit)