Tuesday, October 29, 2019

MBA in a Nutshell #11 - Marketing : Marketing Mix - Product - Product Lifecycle

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Like many living things, a product has a life cycle and evolves through multiple stages. i) Introduction At this stage, there is a lot...
Sunday, October 27, 2019

Thinking at the margins.

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One reason I would like Economics to be introduced to O level students despite only starting to study it serious at my Masters is its im...
Friday, October 25, 2019

Why engineers and tech professionals hate immigration and what can be done about this ?

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I will do a little bit of social-political blogging today. A hot topic of the next elections is likely going to be about CECA because I ...
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Monday, October 21, 2019

MBA in a Nutshell #10 - Marketing : Marketing Mix - Product - IP Protection

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Beyond product design and differentiation IP protection is important to protect your product. As I never really wanted to AVOID being ster...
Saturday, October 19, 2019

Real issues in retirement and how to deal with them.

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Most financial bloggers deal with only the financial aspects of retirement. Even my course, as it attempts to build a generation of early ...
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Thursday, October 17, 2019

MBA in a Nutshell #9 - Marketing : Marketing Mix - Product - Differentiation

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We're heading into the marketing mix taught to most MBAs which is the 4Ps of  Product, Price, Place and Promotion. Interestingly the aut...
Monday, October 14, 2019

Personal Update

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Right now, I'm blogging from Festive Hotel in Sentosa. We decided that we needed a short break so my wife got us a 3D2N stay in Sentos...
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Saturday, October 12, 2019

Lessons from my Dad #1 : Never let anyone count your abacus ( 打įŽ—į›˜ )

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Right now my biggest priority in my life is to resolve my father's probate matters so that me and mother can move on in our lives. Natur...
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Thursday, October 10, 2019

MBA in a Nutshell #8 - Marketing : Product Positioning

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Product position can potentially be an offensive blog post, so I will not go all out to share my real thinking behind where I stand vis-a-...
Monday, October 07, 2019

Letter to Batch 8 of the Early Retirement Masterclass.

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Dear Students of Batch 8, It’s been a great honour and privilege to be able to conduct a 2-Day Early Retirement Workshop for you. ...
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Tuesday, October 01, 2019

MBA in a Nutshell #7 - Marketing : Market Strategy

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From the last article, I have only advanced one page of text. Marketing strategies are surprisingly simple consisting only of three basic st...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

Building better Personal Finance online communities.

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So here are some of the changes in the way I do my blog articles. This blog, which has a small and dedicated readership will become more ...
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Friday, September 27, 2019

Dealing with Maid Problems...

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One the same day we buried my dad at sea, my mum and myself went over to the police station to make a police report. This is first time in m...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019

How should FAs sell their insurance products ?

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First of all, calm the fuck down. [ Note that this post was removed from the Seedly discussion group because of my use of the four lette...
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Monday, September 23, 2019

MBA in a Nutshell #6 - Marketing : Market Segmentation

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[ Thank you for the well wishes. It is time for this blog and myself to move on. We will be slowly getting back to our regular programming. ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

How I arranged for my father's wake.

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A good friend reminded me that I have to undergo six stages of grief. Right now, I have no idea which stage I am - I still feel sad and woul...
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Monday, September 16, 2019

Eulogy to my father, Kenneth Ng Fook San (1942 - 2019)

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[ This eulogy was never delivered during my father's wake. I was too distraught and cried throughout both attempts to finish this writ...
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Friday, September 13, 2019

A meaningful gift.

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One of my students gave me a very meaningful gift last weekend along with a touching hand-written note. Perhaps I share a little bit of ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

MBA in a Nutshell #5 - Marketing : Miscellaneous considerations

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When marketing to a customer, there are a series of extra considerations that has to be made. a) Other participants in the buying proces...
Monday, September 09, 2019

Letter to Batch 7 of Early Retirement Masterclass students

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Dear Students of Batch 7, It’s been a great honour and privilege to be able to conduct a 2-Day Early Retirement Workshop for you. ...