Open For Business
BFM Media
The flagship entrepreneurship show on BFM, featuring personal business stories from early stage start-ups, all the way to billionaire octogenarians in Malaysia and abroad. Notable guests include Martin Cooper (father of the mobile phone), Julian Assange (founder of WikiLeaks), Ralph Henry Baer (father of video games), Tony Buzan (Mindmap Guru), Isaac Tigrett (Hard Rock Cafe founder), Robert Kiyosaki (Financial Guru), Nick Vujicic (motivational speaker) and more. Tap into this valuable resource of shared experiences for the SME industry, which also touches on news, issues and trends affecting the business community and beyond.
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Jun 11, 2019 • 42min
Guaranteed Protection With Proguard Safety
As the leading brand in Personal Protective Equipment [PPE] in Malaysia and South East Asia, Proguard Safety provide every product pertaining to safety from literally head to toe. Dato NM Lee and Datin Cindy Choh discuss Proguard Safety’s achievements and goals for the future.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 10, 2019 • 26min
Failing Forward Ep.01 : The One Metric That Matters
Failing Forward features real-life stories from entrepreneurs who have failed and are stronger for it. We kick off the series by speaking to Founder of PTT Outdoors Mike Chu, who went from burning cash on vanity metrics to champions of the AmBank BizRace in a year.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 7, 2019 • 21min
Close More Sales!
The time it takes for a business to reply to a potential customer can make all the difference when it comes to sales. That window of opportunity doesn’t last long, which is why SalesCandy rapidly connects available personnel to interested persons while increasing the chances of a sale tenfold. We speak to SalesCandy CEO, Stanley Chee, about working in this niche space, capitalizing on unexpected opportunities, and securing funding for the future of his company.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 4, 2019 • 20min
The New Era Of Designer Furniture
Husband and wife team, Frank and Grace Wong, always saw designer furniture as something marketed exclusively to the über-rich, with furniture showrooms projecting a vision seemingly out of the everyday consumer’s reach. In order to take designer furniture to the masses, they founded More Design - a made-in-Malaysia online designer furniture shop looking to tackle the ASEAN furniture market.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 3, 2019 • 28min
19 Questions To Assess, Calibrate, & Improve Your Sales Performance
Many salespeople struggle with how to assess, calibrate, and improve their levels of sales performance. Jeevan Sahadevan, founder of Leverage Lab, shares 19 questions that you can ask yourself or your sales team to get everyone focusing on immediately taking control of their sales process and improving their sales, with the assistance of some case studies.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 31, 2019 • 20min
Mastering Finance With A Board Game (Part 2)
We continue our discussion with Hemant Doshi about the gamification of financial literacy, the decision to keep things tangible in an age of tech-driven solutions, as well as the future of Praxis in an increasingly cashless world.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 30, 2019 • 30min
Content Nation - Real World, Digital Solutions
Content Nation are a local creative content agency that delivers innovative marketing solutions to engage and grow your brand audience via content creation, web design, branding and digital marketing. With clients that range from MNCs to SMEs, we discuss how important digital strategies are for your brand, and what makes Content Nation stand out from the crowd.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 29, 2019 • 25min
The Business of Affordable Luxury Holidays
Imagine a holiday in the Maldives, Greece or even Bora Bora, without burning a hole in your pocket. Impossible? Not according to Luxury Escapes. Since its soft launch in Malaysia six months ago, the online travel brand - known for its great-value exclusive offers to premium travel destinations - has seen over 100 thousand Malaysians joining the platform, making it one of the fastest growing travel brands in the country. So what’s the catch? And how affordable is affordable, exactly? We discuss.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 28, 2019 • 21min
SukaSucre Bistro
Among his multiple achievements and accreditation’s as well as having graduated from Le Cordon Bleu Malaysia & Paris, Dato’ Fazley Yaakob is here to discuss his multi-cuisine restaurant SukaSucre Bistro, for which he received the Golden Chef Award.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 27, 2019 • 34min
Showing Appreciation To Enhance Motivation And Performance
How does appreciation translate into recognition? Why is it so important? And how can companies and individuals show appreciation in tangible, acceptable ways? It’s the last Monday of the month and, as usual, we have Human Equation founder Sheila Singam to discuss showing appreciation to enhance motivation and performance, with the use of case studies.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
