8 Tips to Setting Up Your Food and Beverage Business in Singapore

The Food-and-Beverage (F & B) services industry is booming in Singapore. In view of the upcoming launch of the Integrated Resorts (IR), the F & B services industry is set to see phenomenal growth in the next 5 years. From 4,489 in 2005, the number of F & B establishments has surged significantly to 4,900 in 2006 (a short 1 year span).

Increasingly, students from renowned institutions such as ITE and SHATEC look forward to honing their entrepreneurial skills after graduation by setting up their own F&B brand names. This trend could be attributed to the swell in media attention placed on the F & B industry in recent years. Read more

A Foreign Entrepreneur Finds It Hard To Scale A Team In Singapore

French entrepreneur Hugo Angelmar has been based in Singapore working on a startup he co-founded with a few others. Here, he shares his experiences on trying to find computer scientists in Singapore. Read more

The Difference That is Invent Singapore

This was written by Guest Contributor, Abhinav Jain.

Never thought in just one day I’ll be learning things which will put me miles ahead to realize my dream of a greener world. 7 hours on a weekend, amazing talks and discussions by prominent speakers, a knowledge-hungry audience and diligent planning and effort of the organizers – that was all it took (plus some) for Invent 09 Singapore conference to become a prominent conference for budding entrepreneurs and inventors.

With the courtesy of SGEntrepreneurs (who selected me in one of their competitions), I managed to attend the conference on the beautiful morning of 24th October 09. Read more

Navigating the Visa Jungle for Foreign Entrepreneurs in Singapore

Singapore is pretty well known by now as an ideal hub to start your own company, ideally in sectors which are of high strategic importance to the government policies, such as new media (web start-ups), biotechnology and the gaming sector. With several government funding schemes in place, an ideal business environment and strong ecosystem, many foreign entrepreneurs aim to set up shop in the city-state. But the first hurdle to master on the way to your successful business launch in Singapore is to identify which type of visa suits your requirements best. Read more

SEO Series – Onpage and Offpage Optimization

Second in this special SEO series by SEO consulting firm, Net Minds, this takes a look at the optimization process. You might want to read the author’s introduction to SEO if you have not.

Before you start the optimization process it is always advisable to take a look at the current state of your site (SEO-wise). This is what SEO firms call the “Site Audit”. Read more

SEO – The Icing on the E-Marketing Cake?

First in a series of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) articles, this piece by SEO consulting firm, Net Minds introduces to the general crowd SEO. Moving forward, they will examine the particularities of Singapore SEO campaigns. Read more

Ten Ways to Survive the Crunch

Any economic downturn makes start-up companies in particular prone to go bust – so then, let’s hear advice from a start-up insider and investor on how to prepare to keep young companies afloat. William Klippgen , the co-founder and executive director of the Singapore seed investment fund BAF Spectrum Pte Ltd will share with you ten ways on how to survive the credit crunch. Read more

Preventing Click Fraud

After giving us an introduction to Online Customer Acqusition: SEM and Contextual Advertising, Bing (Director, Product Management & Marketing of Kriyari Inc) returns with a post on Click Fraud, in response to a request for the topic. Read on for some suggestions as to how to prevent click fraud. Read more

Online Customer Acquisition: SEM and Contextual Advertising

It’s time for Back to Basics. No, not clothing fashions…Online Customer Acquisition that is. Bing, (Director, Product Management & Marketing of Kriyari Inc) our new contributor debuts here at SGE with an introduction to Search Engine Marketing and Contextual Advertising (the by-now standard way of gaining revenue – read: AdWords/AdSense). Here are some topics you can expect to be covered over the course of the next several months: Affiliate Marketing, Display Ad Networks, Incentive Promotion, E-mail Marketing, List Management, Lead Generation, Co-registration, Search Engine Optimization, New Media Guerilla Marketing, Lifetime Value of Customer, Ad Copy, Creative, Landing Pages, Metrics and Reporting. Phew! Read more

Human Capital

Finally, Christopher Ng Wai Chung, the author of “Growing your tree of prosperity” has now released his second book Harvesting the Seeds of Prosperity. This book can now be found on sale at the World Book Fair’s Marketasia stall in Suntec City at about $22.90. In a special tribute, he has decided to spoil part of his latest book Harvesting the Seeds of Prosperity in the most intelligent Singaporean blogs in cyberspace. The book details his manifesto in reaching a state of Financial Nirvana, the ability to live within one’s investment income while still keeping day job to grow his portfolio even bigger. In this special post, he will share excerpts from his book, centering on the notion of human capital. Read more

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