2012 Resolution

DTG Printer

This is for business, will be a good investment.

A better IP in college

At least I could get above 3.00. Can't wait to finish college and enjoy the real world.

Vacation

Going abroad with family, 4 of us

Have an ability to make a business deal with executive people

I hope I can make a business deal that client won't be able to refuse, that includes a good speaking skill, great marketing skill, and courage which I don't really good at it.

Understand finance, investment, and business

This one is a must.

Upgrading revenue till 25m/year

So much things to buy, such as new laptop (old laptop already broken)

dotcom website
This one is important too

9 Summers 10 Autumns

Okay. Here I am, at 11.30 pm, still awake while everyone at my house is sleeping. I just finished reading a novel by Iwan Setyawan, titled 9 Summers 10 Autumns. And here it goes, a little review from myself.

This is an honest review from me. Okay, at first I bought this book because I watched Mr. Iwan at Kick Andy, I watched that show accidentally, because actually I don't really like watching talk show. Then I saw this guy and he shared his story at that show, and also promoted his book. I'm interested in his book and when I'm going to a bookstore I just bought it without thinking twice.

Apparently reading this book really open my eyes. I've always wanted to go to new york city, see the people there, how the move and walk very fast, see the street, the lights, the fashion, the skyscrapers, anything about new york. I like watching hollywood movies and tv series which most of the shooting are taken in nyc. So it makes me really want to go and feel the nyc so bad. I don't care if people say living in nyc is hard, this is a city that never sleeps, all I know is I just want to go there. From this novel, I learned nyc, and I found from this novel that nyc must be more interesting than what I've been watching on movies.

But, not only about that. This novel isn't about new york city. What I like the most is this is a great journey from a small guy from Batu to New York City, how an education can change his life. This is about a life changing, family, education, facing the fear, making dreams come true, or maybe more than his dreams even. However, his experience is very inspiring, and I'm so grateful that he shares his journey to people. I'm sure it will inspire everyone who read it.

However, I hope by reading this novel will give me more courage to chase my own dreams, and maybe Someday I will get my own nyc experience. Thank you Mr Iwan.

90210

I'm in a long holiday right now and since my store isn't doing so well lately, I guess people really don't buy new clothes in new year so it's just maybe not the season. But I don't want to write about it.

Lately I'm watching 90210, a tv series about LA teens in Beverly Hills. So, if gossip girl is about upper east side, 90210 is about upper west side. I think this series is pretty good. I'm addicted to it in fact. But it's so hard not to compare it with gossip girl. But it's really different from gossip girl. 90210 is more dramatic than gossip girl. The story is more intense I think. If I have to choose, I think I like gossip girl more. I think the gossip girl cast is better. And the gossip girl plot is so fast which I like, but 90210 is more drama, the plot sometimes a little bit slow. Because I don't like too much drama, so I'd rather watching gossip girl if I have to choose. But this show is really enjoyable to spend time. Also there's a interesting guy in this series. He is matt lanter. You might be know him from vampires suck. Yes he's the one who plays edward cullen but trust me, in this series he's totally different.

Anyway, although I love gossip girl more, it doesn't mean I don't like this series. I like it. I mean, I can see the life in Beverly hills although it's not like the reality but it seems like sometimes I want to experience a life like that. Living in a luxurious place, parties, beach, and having bunch of bestfriends, and the best part is they're never busy with their school work.

Why we should invest from now

Investment. Usually when we hear about it, we always think of money. It's called investing money. But actually there are still a lot of things that we can use it as investment. In fact, these are more important than investing your money.

Then what's that? It can be a lot of things, such health, knowledge, and attitude. Investing your health is important. Every people should have a healthy lifestyle. Don't work too much, but don't take rest too much too, eat healthy food, and do some sports. Remember that health is the most important thing in life, if you're sick, you can't do anything . It's so not good because when you're sick, you need other people to take care of you. It's okay sometimes but if it's too much you will disturb them.

The other investment is knowledge. It's not about what grade you have gotten, or what's your degree, but it's more about what you have learned so far. We don't learn only from books or literatures, we can learn from experience, other people, or even movies. Knowledge isn't all abot academic and achievement, it's about what you have gotten that can be useful for your life.

Attitude, by having a good attitude it will help us a lot. This one is the most difficult I think because no matter how hard we try, sometimes we make mistakes. We're human and that's what we do in life. Making mistakes. But I have a good quote from Miley cyrus, "a mistake is a mistake if we don't learn from it." This is so true, we may make mistakes, but we shouldn't do the same mistakes twice.

By writing these I don't mean that money isn't a good investment too. I know it's a good investment. And I want to share a little knowledge that I have learned about momey investment.

I think we all should make an investment from now, no matter what age we are. (I assumed people who's reading this is at age 14 or more). If you have some money, don't always try to spend it all, just try to save some to your bank account. It's the easiest step to make an investment. Buying things such gadget, shoes, clothes isn't investment. It's okay to buy it sometimes but don't drop your bank account into zero nominal.

The other thing I learned about investment is don't think that depositing money to a bank is a good investment because every year there's always inflation that makes all the prices go up. And by depositing your money, you let inflation eats your money. I think I can't explain it clearly but if you want to know more about it you can google why depositing money isn't always good. But I'm not saying that don't do depositing, it's okay if you want to deposit your money, because with another consideration, sometimes depositing money is a good way.

Invest your money to property or gold. This one is still a new thing for me. In fact I still need to learn a lot about this. Even if you have 4 houses that doesn't mean you make a good investment. And about investing in gold, You can also learn about it. I can't say anything about these because I don't want to make a wrong advice because I'm not an expert. There are a lot of books about investment in property or gold you can look for it at the bookstores. But if you want to know more about investment I recommend Robert Kiyosaki book. He's a good teacher and writer I think.

Ps by writing this doesn't mean I'm good enough to do what I've written. It's just a little knowledge that I want to share. There are a lot of smarter people and smarter books better than my posts.

Posting Pendapatan & Omset Usaha Kamu disini (form Kaskus)

Berawal dari thread di kaskus ini http://kask.us/10103991, jadinya pengen ngepost usaha sendiri nih...meski belum ada apa-apanya dibanding yang lain

Jenis usaha : Dynasty TEES (www.facebook.com/dynastytees)
Sudah berjalan selama : 1 tahun
Modal awal : sekitar 1,7 jt + koneksi internet unlimited + PC / laptop
Omset perbulan : ga mesti, karena dulu sistemnya preorder, sekarang udah mulai berani ready stok.. Sekarang omset perbulan sekitar 1 juta an
Omset pertahun : ga mesti juga, karena ga selalu aktif tiap bulannya
Rata-rata profit perbulan : 400.000
Usaha ini : saya sendiri, dibantu adik, mama
Jumlah staf : belum ada
Tantangan yang ada : bikin desain harus bagus, promosi harus ke orang2 yang tepat

Jenis usaha : Dynasty Toys & Merchandise (www.facebook.com/dynastytoys) -> jual merchandise Hollywood movies & musics
Sudah berjalan selama : 1 bulan
Modal awal : sekitar 1,5 jt + koneksi internet unlimited + PC / laptop
Omset perbulan : masih ga jelas karena masih baru
Omset pertahun : masih ga jelas karena masih baru
Rata-rata profit perbulan : masih ga jelas karena masih baru
Usaha ini : saya sendiri, dibantu adik, mama
Jumlah staf : belum ada
Tantangan yang ada : pintar2 nyari momen yang pas aja, nyari barang dengan harga semurah2nya

Jenis usaha : Grette Collection (www.facebook.com/grettecollection) -> jual asesoris cewek
Sudah berjalan selama : 1 bulan
Modal awal : sekitar 1jt + koneksi internet unlimited + PC / laptop
Omset perbulan : masih ga jelas karena masih baru
Omset pertahun : masih ga jelas karena masih baru
Rata-rata profit perbulan : masih ga jelas karena masih baru
Usaha ini : saya sama temen
Jumlah staf : belum ada
Tantangan yang ada : promosi, nyari2 barang2 murah, nyari trend juga

Suka duka :
suka :
- bisa nambahin penghasilan selagi kuliah
- bisa buat nyari pengalaman bisnis
- nambah relasi
- nambah kantong..hehe
- bisa belajar bisnis secara learning by doing
- jadi lebih ngerti finansial

duka :
- kadang diremehin sama orang laen, bahkan temen sendiri, kebanyakan temen kuliah udah mapan ortunya, udah punya usaha sendiri, jadi mereka ga pernah kepikiran susahnya nyari uang
- kerepotan bagi waktu

Review : Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure

Who miss High School Musical series? I do of course. I'm a fan of High School Musical series, and I was super excited when I heard Disney will create this movie. Actually, it's not really about High School Musical because High School Musical was over. It's about the most memorable character in High School Musical, Sharpay Evans. Everyone who watched High School Musical must understand why I call her "memorable". She's like the mean girl, just like Blair Waldorf in Gossip Girl, but only in Disney version. And now, Disney gave you an adventure with Sharpay in New York City, so for all High School Musical fans, you must watch this movie although you hate Sharpay. Okay???

The story is about Sharpay who wanted to reach her dream by going to New York City. She hoped she could be an amazing actress in Broadway. But actually it wasn't as easy as the way it sounded. Cheesy story of course, but I still love it. I don't want to tell all the stories because it will make you bored when you watch the movie, I just wanted to say I enjoyed this movie. If in High School Musical Series it was all about Troy and Gabriella, now it's time for Sharpay to shine. She had her dream and she was on her way to reach it. Of course, Sharpay is Sharpay. She couldn't leave the "fabulous" word and pink stuff. So, there would be a lot of pink when you watch this movie.

I actually hope there will be all High School Musical cast becoming cameo, but actuallly it's only Ryan Evans. I reallly want to see the cast get reunited but I think it's so hard to reunite them now, because everyone is busy doing their own movie, promoting stuff, and something. I think it's okay because everyone has their own way, so if they can't be together again I totally understand. However, because this movie is the end of High School Musical series, you should watch it. It's fun, fabulous, and it's New York baby!!!!!!!!!

Diversifikasi

Terlalu rumit kalau dibuat dalam bahasa Inggris, jadi bahasa Indonesia aja ya...

Diversifikasi. Dari dulu pas SMP sebenernya sudah tau kata-kata ini, cuma sering lupa artinya. Mengutip dari sini, diversifikasi sama maksudnya dengan jangan taruh telur-telur dalam satu keranjang. Kenapa? Kalau keranjang itu jatuh, semua telur akan pecah. tapi kalau menaruh telur-telur ke beberapa keranjang, kalau 1 keranjang jatuh paling nggak masih ada telur yang lain.

Kalau dari wikipedia, arti diversifikasi ekonomi adalah usaha penganekaragaman product (bidang usaha) atau lokasi perusahaan yang dilakukan suatu perusahaan untuk memaksimalkan keuntungan sehingga arus kas perusahaan dapat lebih stabil, ini dilakukan perusahaan untuk mengatasi krisis ekonomi, sehingga apabila suatu perusahaan mengalami kemerosotan pendapatan di salah satu product atau negara/daerah, di product atau negara/daerah lain mendapatkan kelebihan pendapatan, sehingga kekurangan yang terjadi bisa tertutupi. Biasanya hal ini dilakukan oleh perusahan besar Multi Nasional Coorporation (MNC) karena dengan demikian perusahaan dapat menjamin pendapatan / arus kas yang lebih stabil sehingga meningkatkan trust kepada pemegang saham.

Kurang lebih begitulah maksudnya diversifikasi. Diversifikasi memang banyak dipakai di bidang bisnis. Manfaat diversifikasi ini jelas seperti perumpamaan telur-telur itu. Masalahnya sekarang, banyak ahli-ahli bisnis yang bilang kalau diversifikasi bukanlah hal yang terbaik. Saya masih awam sekali di bidang bisnis, jadi kayaknya terlalu jauh kalau belajar ilmu-ilmu ekonomi macam ini. Tapi paling nggak sih nggak ada salahnya untuk sekedar tahu. Saya pribadi banyak mempraktekkan cara diversifikasi ini. Untuk lebih jelasnya saja, berikut ini usaha-usaha yang sedang saya kerjakan :

• Dynasty TEES (jual T-shirt online)
• Jasa eBay (jual jasa pembelian di ebay.com)
• Jualan di eBay
• New project (masih dimatangkan dulu..hihihi....)

Kalau dulu, penghasilan utama saya dari jualan di eBay, tapi sekarang sudah tidak lagi. Kenapa? Karena saya memutuskan untuk perlahan-lahan mundur dari eBay. Alasannya, karena barang jualan yang saya jual sudah tidak selaris dulu, eBay sekarang peraturannya lebih ketat daripada dulu terutama untuk seller Indonesia, dan saya melihat kalau jualan lewat ebay saja ini belum bisa menjadi jaminan. Kalau memang untung ya untung lumayan besar, tapi kalau rugi juga bisa sampai rugi besar. Selain itu, kalau cuma jualan di ebay ini saja, saya akhirnya kurang bisa berkembang. Bagaimana jika suatu saat eBay ditutup? Bagaimana jika eBay sudah tidak bisa ke Indonesia? Ini cuma contohnya saja, saya tidak yakin eBay akan pernah bangkrut. Intinya, di eBay saya kurang bisa berkembang. Akhirnya, saya memutuskan untuk mundur teratur dari eBay.

Sekarang, saya lebih fokus ke Dynasty TEES. Ini adalah sebuah toko online yang menjual T-SHIRT. Area mencakup seluruh Indonesia. T-SHIRT yang dijual masih memakai sistem preorder. T-SHIRTnya juga bukan merk sendiri, tapi seperti membuat T-SHIRT artis-artis,musisi,atau film-film. Untungnya tidak terlalu banyak, tapi prospeknya lumayan. Bisa dikembangkan ke tahap selanjutnya, seperti membuat merk sendiri, atau bahkan memproduksi T-SHIRT sendiri. hehehe... Yang jelas, untuk jualan T-SHIRT ini potensi berkembangnya besar kalau menurut saya.

Untuk yang jasa order pembelian barang di eBay ini sebenarnya cuma buat sampingan aja. Jadi, bukan sesuatu yang saya ingin jadikan penghasilan utama. Tapi, bukan berarti dijalani dengan asal-asalan. Tiap ada buyer, tetap saya usahakan serius menangani. Untuk yang new project, ini masih dalam tahap maju-mundur :P. Jadi belum tentu bisa jalan juga. Sekarang lagi dimatangkan dulu persiapannya karena emang butuh modal dan keberanian yang cukup besar untuk ukuran saya.

Sekarang, yang jadi masalah, kadang diversifikasi ini malah bisa membuat saya tidak fokus. Sebentar-sebentar ingin serius eBay, sebentar kemudian ingin serius di T-SHIRT. Kalau untuk sekarang sih, semuanya masih bisa berjalan lancar karena memang bekerja bukan menjadi tanggungan utama saya untuk saat ini. tapi untuk 2 tahun ke depan saya nggak yakin. Terlebih, sekarang ijasah kuliah juga bukan jaminan untuk sukses. Argghhhh..... Jadi bingung kan kalau kayak gini..... Any solutions?