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Small-Office-Home-Small-Office-Home-Office (SOHO)Office (SOHO)Lean Start-up / Kick-start Lean Start-up / Kick-start

Methodology for Financial FreedomMethodology for Financial Freedom(International Trading Opportunities)(International Trading Opportunities)

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What is the SOHO Culture

• Personal Motivation / Mindset• Knowledge / Skill-set / Creativity• Supporting Facilities & Services• Growth Path & Personal

Transformation• House That Transforms You


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Personal Motivation• Un-employment / Under-employment• Self-Employment / Entrepreneurship• Employee / Self-Employed / Business-

Person / Investor (Earned Income vs. Passive Incomes)

• Financial Freedom & Freedom of Choice• OPT (Other People’s Time) / OPM

(Money) / OPE (Experience) / OPW (Website)


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Knowledge / Skill-set / Creativity

• Basic Business Knowledge (Marketing & Sale, Banking & Finance, Laws, Management, International Trade, Franchise, Taxation etc)

• Communication / Negotiating Skills, Social Networking and Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc).

• ICT (Information-Communication Technology) / Internet / Web 2.0, Smart-phone etc

• Creativity & Innovations• Market Competition (Red Sea) / Niche Market

(Blue Ocean): Niche Know-how & Passion


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Supporting Facilities & Services

• Co-Working locations / Shared Offices• Business Centers / Incubators• Training / Coaching / Mentoring• Seed Money / Business Angel / Venture

Capitalist / IPO (Initial Public Offering)• Government Grants / Subsidies etc• Crowd-sourcing: Fund & Market


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SOHO Examples• Produce your own e-book and market

internationally via Clickbank, Amazon etc.• Become an Affiliate Marketer for digital

products on Clickbank etc.• Market your physical products on eBay,

Amazon etc. Your Passions / Hobby!• Monetize your websites / blogs via Adsense,

Commission Junction, Kontera etc.• Affiliate Marketing for Home-stay programs /

Vacation homes etc.• MONETIZE your Passion / Hobby!


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Growth Path & Personal

Transformation• Lean Start-up / Kick-start• Small-Medium Enterprise (SME)• Self-Employed (Glorified Employee) vs.

Corporation (System on Auto-pilot)• Ownership (Investor) vs. Management• Financial Freedom & Freedom of Choice• Triple-Bottom-Line: Profit-People-Planet• Simplify / Simplicity / Sustainability (Transition)• Transition to SOHO 2.0 (One Full Cycle: Retiree!)• Life-Long-Learning & Your Passion / Hobby!


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House (LWLP) That Transforms You

• Live: Quality of Living (House)• Work: Quality of Working (Business)• Learn: Quality of Connections (Web)• Play: Quality of Life (Passion/Poetry)


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SOHO & LWLP & Transition

• Come & Join the Social Movement for a truly Integral Lifestyle…that is truly sustainable for the planet!

• SOHO & SOHO 2.0


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Contact

+ Web-site: www.sohominium.com

+ Email: [email protected]+ Blog:

www.sohominium.blogspot.com

• Mobile: +6012-2134968


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How to start Social Movement (Video)


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Resilience Circle / Common Security

Club

• Are you resilient in face of the convergence of the three crisis of Food-Finance-Fuel?

• Join the Resilience Circle / Common Security Club, as part of the SOHO Culture.


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Thank You

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Profile of Eric Y.F. Lim• Retired Third-Ager

actively engaged in place-making, especially Third Places (such as Co-Working sites).

• Worked with Public Listed companies in property development, marketing & sales in Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and China.

• Involved in operation of private Business Incubators in Beijing, China.

• Currently, a licensed Realtor with the Board of Valuers, Appraisers and Real Estate Agents, Malaysia.

• Active in property investment especially via the auction markets.