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We can learn from the business strategy Empek-Empek merchants. Empek-Empek a Palembang specialty foods made from dough of flour and fish flour dough filled with egg and vinegar sauce. My friend and her nephew is Empek-Empek traders who came from Palembang.

Wife of my friend is a manufacturer-Empek Empek I think the most famous in Yogyakarta. My friend themselves former sailor who speaks fluent English. By the time I met him the first time, when we opened the branch and test the guidance of my friend as an intermediary to rent a house in Jalan Sultan Agung. When it was my friend as a seller of food and beverages. While his wife sells Empek-Empek with the most famous brand in Yogyakarta.

Now my friend build a new business with her sister and nephew, since my wife joined his friends in Jakarta. They started a business with not wearing a brand-Empek Empek already famous. Although my friend has had many grandchildren, but still energetic and agile sell fixed-Empek Empek from office to office, even from house to house. One day I stopped by my friends shop to buy Empek-by-Empek for my child and my driver. Arriving at the place, my friend just sold Empek-Empek to its customers, which is his nephew. I introduced myself when friends uncle. After I started talking about different things. Then I started to ask about the business-Empek Empek who lived with his uncle was. “Indeed, I open just in Yogya Pak Yanto. Me and my Mom made, an uncle who sells around. Once the early-uncle initially I could sell one day about 50 Empek-Empek, making it difficult to cover the cost of production. Alhamdulillah now can reach 700-Empek Empek, so sudahmulai generate profits. What strategy, how it can reach 700 Empek-Empek per day. “That should not I who asked Mr. Yanto, but I have to ask about the strategy to Pak Yanto” he replied modestly. Read the rest of this entry »

Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon.com, which was originally just a bookstore. Why is he named his company with Amazon? Because, “the Amazon River is the largest river in the world,” said Jeff Bezos.

What about the river Nile? River Nile is the longest river in the world, when compared with the Amazon River water volume is only a tributary of the Amazon. Amazon River contains 20 percent of the world clean water, then had Jeff Bezos about his company would become the company that controls 20 percent of the world market.

Amazon.com to open the E-Commernya site in July 1995, starting from the bookstore and then extended to the compact disk (CD) and then to the auction and now thousands of different products and different vendors. In the year 1996 to sell 15.7 million dollars and increased to 600 million dollars in 1998. Read the rest of this entry »

Organizations must make changes to adjust to the competitive environment. Changes to do with about making something else. Technology, competition, economic shocks, social change, ecological change, the labor force and world politics is a force driving change. Advanced information technology can change the way competitive, thus increasing the company’s competitive advantage. The existence of the internet makes geographical boundaries almost meaningless.
In any industry, whether industrial or international domistik, whether producing goods or services, competition rules contained in the five competitive factors, namely the entry of new entrants, threat of substitute products, bargaining power of buyers, bargaining power of suppliers and rivalry among competitors existing (Porter, 1985). Porter-style competition needs to be changed with the new competition rules that need to be aware of three things.

First, the new economy or digital economy, which encroached on the market a revolutionary company, such as Amazon.com that formerly only the bookstore, but now sells a variety of products. eBay auction is only used on the internet, but now a variety of products sold. Even some added features, such as PayPal, which allows individuals or companies to pay online. Facility that allows Skype voice and video communication for free between the users who use Skype software. Shopping.com as a facility that allows users to compare prices in the shop. Rent.com is a facility serving the rental apartments in the United States and crossed into another country. Online Claaified designed for people who meet, exchange ideas, do business together at the local level. Read the rest of this entry »

In business activities, a business ethics can maintain a good business rules, far from being greedy and selfishness, so that the business as a mediator in the form of a loving community with each other. In business, both parties have required adequate capacity to conduct business transactions. This includes the ability to distinguish good and bad, and not under duress and did not have the assumption that there is the right to vote. God forbid to do business directly with the weak reason. In surat Al-Baqarah verse 282: If the borrower is not strong or weak reason (it) or he himself could not mengimlakkan, then let his guardian mengimlakkan honestly.

Weak reason people can come from God and those who are weak because of what human reason itself. The weak reason because it comes from God, such as a lunatic, idiot, fainting, sleep, pain and death. Crazy can occur because there is brain damage caused due to depression. Crazy can eliminate a person’s ability in the sense he was carrying out his task, so that all activities undertaken by it could be null and void and vain, no trace at all. Obligation to pay zakat on his property is not contradictory, but bear dirusakannya goods. However, be accountable to the guardian. Read the rest of this entry »

According to Marxism, justice is to remove personal property and making state-owned production facilities. While capitalist defines an act of justice to do frees people and act without capur hands with any party except the very limits of the principle set by law. So justice can be defined to give the rights to the owner in accordance with its rights without dilebihi or reduced. But the next question is who gave you the right? Who would receive the rights? What groups are eligible and which groups are not entitled? Who would restrict the rights? The issue becomes more complicated.

Qaradawi explains that justice is a balance between individuals with the material and spiritual elements it has, the balance between individual and society, between a society and other societies. This balance will not be realized without implementing sharia has been established by God.

God recommends to do justice in business and other activities. In the letter Al An’am paragraph 152: Give full measure and weight with justice. In a letter Hud verse 85: And He said: “O my people cukupkanlah measure and balance with a fair.” In the letter Al-Israa verse 35: Give full measure when ye measure, and weigh with a right balance. That is more important (for you) and a better result. In the letter Al A’raf verse 29: Say: “My Lord hath commanded to do justice”. And (say): “Make straight face (himself) at every prayer and worship God with mengikhlaskan obedience to Him. As He has created you in the beginning (so also) you will return to Him. There is also in surah Al A’raf verse 85: Then complete the measure and balance and do not subtract for human goods and weights and measures do not do mischief on earth after God to fix it. That is better for you if you are really people who believe. Read the rest of this entry »