One of the best things that came out of Covid-19 pandemic is that our company has decided to work from home (work remotely), permanently. Before the whole ordeal of Covid-19, we have been practising 2 days per week work from home (WFH), so we have got a head start on this. The last 1.5 months of MCO (movement control order) or lockdown in the three cities that we operate in is just the final acid test on whether we could go permanent work remotely (PWR).
Read MoreSales training sessions can be a headache. Striking a balance between feedback on mistakes and blindspots, as well as making it entertaining for everyone, can be a huge challenge, to some managers.
But worry not, we’ve prepared these five ideas that will ensure your training becomes effective and compelling for your team!
Read MoreThe lockdown period definitely was something no one expected, but despite that it was a productive period for our PRO and DEV teams, as they work (literally) around the clock to ship the new version of SalesCandy.
Read MoreWith the recent outbreak, focus has shifted to all things digital, and lead-to-sales, consumer-facing businesses are no different.
As online channels start to gain more attention, managers are finding ways to ensure their campaigns deliver optimum results.
Besides the usual campaign optimization routines, what else can you do?
Read MoreBack in 2018, SalesCandy engaged the Enabling Academy, an initiative by Yayasan Gamuda, the Group’s foundation arm. Enabling Academy (EA) was established in 2017, aimed at preparing more young adults with autism for gainful sustainable employment in corporate companies. The Enabling Academy conducts a 3-month Employment Transition Programme for adults on the autism spectrum who are 21 years old and above. Training under the programme focuses on personal development, career development, soft-skills training and a simulated office environment. It was through this programme that SalesCandy found yet another gainful Candyholic, Jonathan Soo – the company’s Junior Test Engineer.
Read MoreIt’s too early to see the scale of the coronavirus job losses, wage cuts, or even bankruptcies that might emerge across Southeast Asia’s tech industry, but it’s already clear that startups and other tech firms are being impacted in very different ways.
Read MoreWhen the Movement Control Order (MCO) in Malaysia was announced in March, business communities were thrown with lots of uncertainties especially about the sales activities of the consumer-facing and lead-to-sale companies.
More questions are left unanswered in these challenging times.
Read MoreOK, So you have a lead, they’re interested, then BAM! The sentence no one wants to hear during a sales process. “We’re going to hold off for now”... I think if you’re reading this then I can safely assume you’ve heard this quite a lot recently, I certainly have.
Read MoreAs more companies start to implement work from home programme as a way to curb COVID-19 and protect their workforce’s wellbeing, for some people this can be their first time experiencing such work arrangement. Adapting to a new work environment, which is at your home can be daunting for some.
Read MoreReal estate agents looking for new business face some challenges when it comes to capturing leads. Often, agents are operating in a crowded landscape, where hundreds or thousands of realtors compete for the same pool of buyers and sellers.
Read MoreReal estate attracts entrepreneurs, self-starters, the movers and shakers. It's appealing because you can make your own opportunities and with no cap on potential growth. Provided you don't get in your own way, that is.
Read MoreWe are excited to announce that we have secured the pre-series A funding round at a total of USD650,000.
The investment consists of USD500,000 from reputable B2B VC, Wavemaker Partners, together with USD150,000 from a group of super angel investors.
Read MoreMarketing and sales have been at war for what feels like millennia. According to Hubspot, 87% of the words both teams use to describe each other are negative. Sales teams are incompetent. Marketers are out of touch.
Read MoreAfter the successful inaugural CandyBowl conference last year in Kuala Lumpur, we have just repeated the same success with CandyBowl Philippines 2019. The conference was held last Thursday in Fairmont Makati, Philippines
Read MoreThe session revolves around the business model behind SalesCandy - how we managed to rapidly expand to other SEA countries as well as some lead-to-sale (L2S) insights from the data points we have processed in the past 1.5 years.
Read MoreWe are extremely pleased to announce that 18 months after the first launch in our home country, Malaysia, we have successfully set foot in Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam. We bagged multiple contracts across Southeast Asia in the first quarter of 2019 and now gearing up our operation to support the regional expansion.
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce that we have formed a collaboration agreement with our local partner, the Thailand-based Regional Corporate Innovation Accelerator (better known as RISE) in January 2019, which officially marked our first foray into the market.
Read MoreFive startups were chosen to participate in the program. These include the action-based instant routing lead management system SalesCandy, online content producer and provider SushiVid, robotics educational firm My Robot Time, multi-vendor e-commerce platform Avavaz, and digital patient experience management system CEMPIA.
Read MoreWe're excited to announce that Sales Candy International Sdn Bhd has been granted Tier-2 MSC status by the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) as of January 16th, 2018.
Read MoreSalesCandy is the winner of the inaugural HLB LaunchPad 2017 programme!
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