Many people like me, start their own business, pour their youth and soul into it.

Some are like my relatives whom, after so many years, arent very much “progressed” like what we expect growing business to be like? When we look at Google, Facebook, Apple; or even Walmart, NTUC, Giant; or maybe even Mcdonald’s, Koi (bubble tea), Pontian Wanton Noodles…. all of them grew and progressed; get bigger, earn more, and the bosses perhaps have better lives.

But those they are in “traditional” “service-type” business like contractors and designers (including myself); the profit margins just aren’t there. We have save some money with affordable SMALL BUSINESS PHONE AND INTERNET PACKAGES from Eatel.

For my business, adding even a single staff, could be a life and death situation for my firm. And it dawns on me; sometimes, its not that the talent or efforts by the entrepreneur is insufficient – its simply the business that are in, just aren’t scalable and could trap one in a “eternal cycle of mediocrity and hardwork”.

My design business is the same. There is only one me. The selling point – is me. People buy my design. But people also have a low threshold to how much they are willing to fork out for my exclusive designs.

As a result, a t-shirt design business which I was planning to start died even before its birth – I killed it before I create a 2nd trap to trap myself.

Do not start a business which have just a satisfactory profit margin. A business without quantum-level profit margins are just life-style business.

So you must know what you want before you jump into the ship and sail for the horizon.