The 5 to 9 life to creating successful businesses while still having a full time job
Started from an Entrepreneur's dream to inject more colour into his office wear, The Sock Avenue is Singapore's leading socks B2B & B2C retailer that spear headed the movement to wear colourful funky socks
Born out of the Entrepreneur's passion to take and edit photos. The Collective Memories establishes itself as not just a photography or videography company, but as a wedding photographer in Singapore that is accurately able to tell stories of a person, a moment and a happening.
Created as the Mother Brand for all the Entrepreneur's sub brands. Investformation first started as a website that educates it's readers of the importance of financial literacy.
Award Winning Singapore Travel Blog Singapore Travel blog that shares the entrepreneur's travel journeys and provides glimpse of cities and countries that would have otherwise been a mystery to the readers who have never been there.
A fitness brand that empowers readers, viewers and customers to the benefits and insights of getting into shape. Provides customised personal fitness and martial arts coaching to help customers reach their goals.
A window furnishing disruptor, Shadespace revolutionises traditional curtains & blinds buying process and makes use of state of the art technology to offer a e-commerce made to measure solution at a fraction of the cost.
Offers quality home made snacks and drinks. Each bottle of Kombucha goes through 14 days of brewing and countless days of tasting and testing before it reaches the hands of a consumer.
Digital Marketing Agency tapping on the Digital Opportunity for businesses to utilize Digital tools such SEO, SEM, SMM etc to be able to better reach out to their clients.
The Entrepreneur ebook and lifestyle guide to creating successful businesses while still having a regular 9 to 5 job.
Walking in the footsteps of his father, Alvin had a keen interest towards entrepreneurship since young and started his first business at the tender age of only 13. It was a time before globalisation and he realised the stark price difference in Nike shoes sold in Singapore as compared to Vietnam. He made use of the fact that his dad was stationed in Vietnam for work, and got his dad to bring the Nike catalogue back. Alvin would then show the catalogue to his friends and got his dad to bring back the shoes his friends wanted, earning a quick $5 to 10 per shoe.
By the age of 25, Alvin has already seen success in an independent working environment and rose to be one of the youngest Investment Portfolio Managers managing a fund size of approximately SGD$600k.
Despite the success, he pursued his entrepreneurial calling and started The Sock Avenue, Singapore's leading B2B & B2C socks supplier that supplied apparels to National University of Singapore, Methodist Girls School, Singapore Police Force etc, and was even featured at the country's SG50 National Day Parade.
Alvin's ability to spot opportunities led him to continue starting many other businesses and websites such as Livelaughtravel.net (Award Winning Singapore Travel blog), The Collective Memories (Singapore Wedding Photographer), Shadespace (First e-commerce window furnishing platform), The Collective Intelligence (Singapore Artificial Intelligence Hub), The Collective Media (Singapore Singapore Digital Marketing Agency and many others.
Through his colourful career, Alvin has found his calling in Digital marketing and till date, manages more than 5 successful businesses, over half a dozen of webpages with over 100k+ followers across various platform, and plays an advisory role in several other businesses.
In an ideal world, most of us would want to leave our job to start the business of our dreams. But in the real world, it often isn't as simple as most of us would have monthly bills to pay and a family to feed, and leaving your job to start a business almost doesn't seem practical.
But the truth is that you don't heave to leave your job, not yet at least. Learn about how to create successful businesses while still having a full time job. Be a Part Time Entrepreneur and reap the benefits of having a stable stream of income while still being able to work on your dreams.
Alvin shares his tips and insights on how he managed to make it work based on his real life experience and entrepreneur journey. Learn from his mistakes and find out how you too can turn your side hustle into a proper legitimate business.
If you have always wanted to start a business and be an entrepreneur but do not know where to start, this is the perfect book for you.
January 31, 2021
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