PROBLEMS FACED AND THEIR SOLUTIONS
In facing the manufacturing industry, the company also does not run away from facing any challenges that may affect. Among the challenges that may occur are such as lack of raw materials if high price offers are made in the fresh market. Of course banana entrepreneurs will focus on the fresh market.
In addition, the quality of factory raw materials can be affected if banana grades are concentrated in the fresh market on the basis of high bid prices in the fresh market. This may affect the operation of the factory to produce the quality and quality of the company's products.
WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU/YOUR MEMBERS/COMPANY COULD DO BETTER OR DIFFERENTLY IN THE FUTURE?
In the future, we want to do better to promote our company and to be recognized as one of the successful companies out there. This means that we will improve our techniques to sell our products to attract more customers in the future. This includes providing varieties of banana crisp flavor not to be forgotten providing a better quality of our products. We would also like to improve our promotion of products by doing direct selling at any shops for a better approach of our customers. In addition, we will still be promoting our products in the social media such as Facebook and Instagram to get more followers of our products as we will always update our information related to our products via social media. We will make sure that every product that we are selling will give satisfaction to our customer until they become our loyal customers.
WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM APK?
From this Asas Pembudayaan Keusahawanan (APK), we gained so much knowledge and experiences on how to run a business. APK gave so much information on how to be a successful entrepreneur. To be a successful entrepreneur, we must have passion for the business that we run, we must focus on the customers and our products, we also must have the tenacity despite going through failures and lastly able to execute business idea. In addition, by learning this course we were able to identify the opportunity in business. The business opportunities can be identified by observing the trends in business, solving the problem in existence product that was noticed and by finding the gaps in the marketplace to know when will a service or product will be needed.
As we went through the course, we learned the fundamental of marketing. We were assisted on running our business company which was Acuminata Sdn Bhd. We learned on how to promote our products via social media such as Facebook and Instagram by creating our company’s Facebook and Instagram pages. Promoting via social media that became the trend in business gave advantages for the entrepreneurs to get a better approach to their customers. The advantages include increasing the followers of the company and the sales of the products provided.
Moreover, we have learned the importance of financial accounting. Financial accounting was important to analyse the company’s financial position, to ensure adequate financial resources, to evaluate the success that the company achieve financially, assist the decision making and help to generate corporate finance. For overall, this course able to assist us on running our business as a company. We were able to cooperate with our suppliers and acknowledge that they were also important part in our business.