Everyday is a Learning Day

Just came back from Tokyo, Japan with the family. In Tokyo, we decided to visit Tokyo Disneyland or, actually Disneysea.


The night before we went, I was just looking at the direction to Disneyland. In the brochure, it mentioned that we can go from Tokyo station to Maihama - gate at Disneyland. However, from where we stayed, we needed to take a train to Tokyo station. We had to walk about 500m to catch a train to connect us to Tokyo station.

Direction from brochure

Out of curiosity, I decided to ask the hotel concierge for direction. Here is the learning point ... The guy helping me was a trainee. I clearly saw his badge as "Trainee". Hence, I didn't think much of him. When he showed me the direction to Disneyland, it was completely different from the brochure. My first reaction was, what does he know ... ??

Guess what? When I showed the direction to my cousin - my cousin actually told me that the trainee's direction is better for us!! We do not need the 500m walk as he used the train station directly in front of our hotel, Higashi Ginza - which was a mere 10m walk! Really 10m.

I realised that I can learn something anytime and from anyone. What a lesson.

Direction from the trainee

Well, at least Disneyland was worth it.

Ticket

Social Commerce

It's been 2 and 1/2 years since I left the corporate world.

Much have happened since ... I went into business of retailing Apple products as an APR (Apple Premium Reseller) and as AAR (Apple Authorised Reseller). I closed the Apple retail business last year. Retailing is a very tough business especially with the ever increasing rental. (will share more of this later)

This past year, I have been looking at what I want to focus in. One thing I am sure about is that, I want to continue to sell. I love selling ...

With the changes that I am experiencing, I have decided to focus on social commerce. 

In wikipedia, social commerce is defined as :

1. Social commerce is a subset of electronic commerce that involves social media, online media that supports social interaction, and user contributions to assist online buying and selling of products and services. More succinctly, social commerce is the use of socialnetwork(s) in the context of e-commerce transactions.
   
   
   

   
   

   This is real ...

   
   

   
   

   

   
   

   
   

   We are starting our social business soon ...