A Woman Gets Rich thanks to a Business Idea

    During five years of working as a filling clerk in Dong Nai Labor Federation with a stable job and a happy family, it must have satisfied the woman’s current life. But an idea of doing business could not be aborted in her mind. She said business desire had seemingly absorbed her blood. Thus she has always kept that burning desire and waited an opportunity to come. But the concern was that which field of business she could pursue so that everyone could believe in and support her.

    In those days, she was equipped with two Compact computers (Version 386), which were considered the most updated ones in the office. Because of her certain knowledge of IT, she was also responsible for solving computer problems. When the problems exceeded her capacity, she herself had to take her heavy computer sets to Dong Nai computer center to have them mended. Because the center was the unique and expensive, and service quality was not very good, she decided passing a long journey to HCMC and had the computer mended there. An idea sparkled in her mind and she asked herself why did not develop this business right in Dong Nai. She decided doing as she thought. Her family, friends and colleagues thought her idea was crazy. But her husband was the only one person who totally supported her. With his support and encouragement, she decided moving State office for brand new field: computer business. In initiative phase, there were certain problems caused by low capital and market demand and hash competition with computer giants from HCMC, she merely traded in secondhand computer with small scale. However, as a rule in plight, one often has reckless decisions. She depended on customer tastes to develop her business with the guideline “working day was profit” and competitive price.

    Moreover, she built up warranty service differentiated from other opponents: three months warranty compared with one month of the others. Corrupted computer in warranty time could be compensated with a new one. Comprehending clients’ psychology and proposing suitable business strategies, her customers were increasing in line with the growth of Mai Phuong Company. In the last 6 years she converted a modest rental establishment in Nguyen Van Thuan Street into one of the biggest computer company in Dong Nai. Now the company has possessed a showroom supplied with a wide range of computers and their components, printers and so on.

    However, for her all her deeds are just primary. She said she had to pass a long path beyond to achieve the goals. At present, Mai Phuong is a well-known company. That is the fruit that has brought her joy and encouraged her to make more efforts.

    About life, she shared: “There is always a woman after the successful man as a saying goes. But for me, it is completely opposite because he is the man who is always by my side, stimulate and support me in any situations. I can be nothing without him.” I saw her utterly happy eyes as she mentioned her husband.

    It seems difficult for a person to get success in business. Especially for women or married women, it is much more difficult. When asked how she could share time budget among work and family care appropriately, she cheerfully said that women doing business often faced lots of difficulties as we did not have much free time for family so parents usually raise objections. Thus we ought to divide our time budget into proper portions.  She unceasingly thought that how successful she got, family was the top and a number one for her. Therefore, the business has taken her most of her time; she has well played her role as a mother, a wife in her family. As usual, her kids are brought by her; her husband is served with favorite breakfasts.

    She admitted that the work got worsening at the beginning, so she forgot her responsibility for family. Her kids used to be sick; she hardly met her friends and she used to get stressed. Once going to see a doctor, I was advised that I should balance work and family. Thus she was aware that a happy family could be an impetus for the business idea to go good and troubles in daily life to be settled. According to her, a modern woman should be good at housework, take part in social activities and sports events. Thus she often does charity to help poor students, people in distress and contribute to pagodas, etc.

    With an aim that doing business to satisfy her desire and improve family’s and relatives’ living standard, she has all business managed by two of her brothers. She just acts as a consultant and an idea provider meanwhile she spends the rest of her time taking care of her family. When asked about future development of the company, she says: “The company development out of Dong Nai is just a plan. I want to be experienced enough to start business in a new location. Now we intend to shifts to telecommunication when IT business really goes well because this two fields is interactive.”

    Success in business, happiness with a husband and 2 children, she, a woman at the age of 35, is too young to reach more deeds than what she has had.

(Reported by Nguyen Le, Translated by L.H)