No Excuses

This is a video from Nike featuring basketball player Matt Scott. If you are having a day when your doubts are bigger than your dreams, you have to watch this. It’s brilliant!

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Tropical Spice Garden Launches Cooking School

In early May, we were invited by Kat, the MD of Tropical Spice Garden, a long-time client of ours to the launch of their cooking school. This cooking school, the first of its kind in Penang, brings together a variety of local chefs and cooks to teach you all you ever wanted to know about [...]

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We Almost Gave Up On Our Website

Here’s a story of Jamie and Ryoko Scott, the owners of a yacht cruise company located in Langkawi. If they sound or look familiar to you, it may be that you’ve seen or heard or read about them in the newspapers or magazines. It’s natural as they have been running their sunset cruises in Langkawi [...]

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How To Live An Extraordinary Life!

Being in business for the last 13 years, it’ll be an understatement if we said business is challenging. Business is not for the faint of heart as it will take up your time and it will drive you nuts sometimes. Nic and I are oddly very resourceful and optimistic when it comes to challenges. Maybe [...]

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How Often Should I Update My Fans?

Was at a client’s office yesterday. One of the key questions that she asked was this: how often do we need to update our fans who follow us on Facebook and our tweets on Twitter? They said they were updating their Facebook statuses once every 3 days. Was that enough to keep their fans and [...]

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Internship Positions Available

Do you know that we’re always on the look out for students from Graphic Design and Mass Comm courses who would like to be our interns? If you’re a college student from either Graphic Design or Mass Communication and would love to gain valuable learning experience at our company, do email us! As interns, you’d [...]

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Why This Appeal Email Failed

Do you know why half of the emails (OK, maybe more than half – maybe 99%) of emails sent out from charity bodies or NGOs get deleted even before they get forwarded? Reasons People Don’t Read Your Emails It’s because (drum roll people and let’s get the answers): …they’re badly written. …the emails are a [...]

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How To Engage The 5 Senses of Your Customers

Just because we design websites for business does not mean we don’t get beyond our digital world. In fact, we love going offline. Because lots of what we know and love about marketing and business strategy really comes from human interaction. I came across this post about using aromas to tempt and tantalize and engage [...]

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Gobsmacked!

I’ve always been awed by how fast and furious Korean skincare and cosmetic brands infiltrate our Malaysian shores. It started with the BB Cream craze and I think the “madly in love with all things Korean” have yet to abate. Once in a while, my cousin and I would go makeup shopping. Top of her [...]

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Didn’t Want To Do Stock Checking – That’s How We Started

Last week, I had the opportunity to share about our entrepreneurial journey at Sembang-sembang (which means Casual Conversations) with a group of ladies. Sembang-sembang is a monthly networking session for women entrepreneurs and women wanting to go into business. This event, although held for the first time in Penang, has been held for sometime now [...]

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