For the last one year, I’ve been engaged actively in finding information about how to run your own business. I joined a business mailing list to see if I can find another business idea to enrich mine. At first, I was very enthusiastic to follow the news and had so many ideas in my mind that I wanted to pursue. So far, here’s the list of what I’ve tried:

1. Selling shaved cone ice cream. I did have some plan about how to sell it and how to make the ice cream, but somehow, I didn’t follow it up. So, it ended up somewhere in my computer.
2. Selling pempek in my office. Result: only 1 batch of order. I did have my “modal” back with a little profit. But I stopped selling it cause I wasn’t quite comfortable in selling food in my office. I always think that I wasn’t the kind that will be success in selling something directly. Why? I don’t know. Maybe I just need some more courage. So, there goes my career in selling pempek.
3. Selling muslimah outfit. Only once though ^^;; One day, I wore my new outfit to office. My friend was interested in it and want to buy it. I told her I could help her to buy it. So, that’s it. I bought the outfit at the same place, gained a little profit from it to cover transportation expense, and sold it to my friend. She still wanted another outfit, but I haven’t had the time to search it. So, until now, I haven’t processed her order.
4. Selling martabak har (well known food in Palembang). My family have tried to sell it in Bekasi using consignation method. But it didn’t work well, the location of the food stall wasn’t very good. I spotted a good location at Otista street, but until now, I haven’t had the nerve to ask the owner.
5. Publishing an agenda for daily muslim activity. This one is still an on going process. I’ve reach 75% of it. But until now, I stopped working cause my computer crashed and I don’t have the software installer. And I also lost the momentum of Islamic New Year this year T_T  What a pain.

There are other plenty of ideas that I didn’t mention here. Although I never had a loss, but the profit I got wasn’t significant. I think my problems are :

• I had so many ideas that I didn’t have time to focus on one.
• I don’t have a gut to try selling things to friends or people I know. There’s some kind of uneasy feeling in me. So I guess I still have to found out how to get rid of this uneasy feeling.

Last but not least, I’m proud that I have tried. There are still some actions that I’ve done.
Borrowing a phrase from a friend in my mailing list: “No action, nothing happen. Take Action, miracle happen”. I can’t wait to see when that miracle happen to my business life ;D