WHO's the Darevil?
Jo Kee and i used to go to the same college. A few years later i was surprised that she showed up at the agency i was working with. We were the only 2 visualisers back then. Scary, in tallying with the work that we had to do! Haha. That was like almost 8-9 years ago. Wow! How time flies!
She continued her career in another few agencies after that. I was delighted when she became a mum. And even more surprised when she set up her own online baby store called Coochicoo, how cute is that? ;)
WHAT is Coochicoo?
"It has always been my wish to have my own store in which I could sell things I loved a lot myself. At first I wanted to bring in overseas designer’s products, but one day while eating some roast chicken for someone’s baby full moon, I thought of selling unique baby full moon pack.
"It has always been my wish to have my own store in which I could sell things I loved a lot myself. At first I wanted to bring in overseas designer’s products, but one day while eating some roast chicken for someone’s baby full moon, I thought of selling unique baby full moon pack.
The traditional full moon pack is always focused on the food that is inside the pack and not much on the new born baby. I bet sometimes, when you are eating the food you don’t even recall the baby name or what the baby looks like! Plus I thought the packaging really needed some improvement. And so the idea was born to make a modern full moon pack which is more focused on the packaging and most important is personalized to your needs.
Recently I added another product line to Coochicoo. It's 100% organic cotton babywear, which is both chic and comfortable to wear. The babywear is from 2 designer brands from the USA: Kate Quinn Organics and Sckoon Organics. Coochicoo is proud to be the first partner in Malaysia to bring you these charming natural gifts from mother earth." :)
WHY did you do it?
"I was tired of making a lot of money for somebody else while working crazy hours. I rather work long hours and make money for myself even though I knew it wouldn’t be easy to get what I’m earning in advertising.
And another big reason was that I planned to have children at that time and wanted to stay with them. My baby boy is now 1 year old and so far my working from home online business can be combined easily with taking care of him."
WHAT's your advice to people who dare not?
"I guess you might have a good reason not to dare. One such reason would be loss of income. A bad reason would be that you are afraid you might fail.
I do agree that a major dare has to be thought through carefully. So after carefully thinking it over, and you think you won’t lose a lot, why not dare and gain a lot?"
Website: www.coochicoo.com.my
