What is the Best Business I Can Start with RM5000 or less in Malaysia?
From my personal experience, the best business you can start with RM5000.00 or less capital in Malaysia is the BE International business opportunity selling 1 core product which is the Aulora Pants with Kodenshi.
I have been an Independent Business Owner (IBO) of BE International since December 2017. Both my husband and I are fully time building our BE International business.
Above is Mommy Lynn sharing the BE International marketing plan in Johor Bahru (JB), Malaysia.
Who is CCA Loh Chia Lin (Mommy Lin)?
Loh Chia Lin (Mommy Lynn) is an official BE International Independent Business Owner. Her BE International Member ID is MY43660295.
Mommy Lynn offers BE International product consultation, onboarding support, and business mentoring across Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia and Hong Kong.
What Type of Business You Can Start with a Low Capital Investment in Malaysia?
For Mommy Lynn, and her husband (Daddy Will), the started a network marketing business.
There are a lot of negative stigma towards network marketing or MLM business, but you need to explore it further before you skip it.
If you are single, a stay at home mom or a stay at home father, if you want to start a home based business, you will definitely encounter 2 key challenges.
The 2 key challenges are:
- Limited capital to invest in your business
- Limited time daily to build your business
If you don’t have much start up capital and time, starting a conventional business from scratch is out of the question.
Reason being, a conventional business needs a lot of capital investment and also a lot of your time, energy and attention.
If you can’t start a conventional business, what else can you do to generate income for your family?
Well, you can take advantage of the many business opportunities available in the market.
The business opportunity which is proven and already has a track record in Malaysia for 50 years is none other than direct sales.
However, direct sales is an active involvement business meaning you will only get paid whenever your do the selling work.
If you stop selling, you don’t get paid.
What you want to aim for is to generate passive income.
Passive income is income that you receive month after month whether you work or not.
To do that, you have to build your business using the network marketing business model.
The growth of your business does not rely on your personal effort alone, rather you are leveraging on the power of NETWORK.
To learn how to you can create wealth with network marketing, check out the above video by Richard Brooke.
Richard is a successful full-time network marketing leader since 1977.
How Mommy Lynn Got Started With BE International?
The reason Mommy Lynn started her network marketing business was to build an income source for herself so that she can help to pay for her family’s expenses.
Previously, Mommy Lynn was a Human Resource (HR) manager for an office supplies manufacturing company in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
She resigned from her job back in 2010 when she got married.
After that, Mommy Lynn and her husband had their first child and 2 years later, their second child.
She was a full-time housewife for 6 years before she decided to get back into employment.
Back then, Daddy Will was the only breadwinner and our family’s cashflow was very tight.
With only one source of income, they don’t have much left money wise at the end of every month.
Mommy Lynn did try to find a job but after sending more than 90 resumes and going for 6 job interviews, no company wanted to hire her even though she was highly qualified and experienced.
The reason the companies don’t want to hire her was due to her 6 years gap of not working when she was a full-time housewife.
It was a disappointing experience for both Mommy Lynn and her husband.
Nonetheless, she had to find a solution to expand the income for her family.
That was when she started to look for business opportunities where she can operate from their rented house.
Mommy Lynn’s First Home Business Venture That Generated Only RM400 per Month
Mommy Lynn started a small home based business in early 2017 selling prepacked baby porridge.
She bought the prepacked baby porridge in bulk from Taiwan and started promoting them on social media such as Facebook and Carousell.
This blog was actually created by Daddy Will in order to market, promote and generate leads in order to sell the prepacked baby porridge.
You can find some of the early articles about the baby porridge still in this blog.
However, after a few months of selling the prepacked baby porridge, she had a realisation about her business.
Mommy Lynn realised the monthly income from her home business is very small and it is unlikely that she can grow it into a big business.
Reason being, the target market for the prepacked baby porridge was very small.
Back then, only mothers with 2 – 3 years old toddler who are going for a holiday are her target customers.
Can you see how small the target market was?
That was why on a good month such as during school holidays, Mommy Lynn’s home based business selling prepacked baby porridge could only generate RM400 – RM500 in net profit.
The net profit from her home business was too low.
She needed to find another product to sell in order to make it worth while.
Ideally, the product has to be of higher value so that she can earn higher profit.
The product also has to able to cater for a bigger market.
People of all ages, men and women of every ethnicity in Malaysia should be able to use the product.
With the above 2 criteria in mind, Mommy Lynn started to look for a new product for her home based business.
As fate has it, she found the product we were looking for in the comment section of a Facebook post.
The ideal product that she found on Facebook was the Aulora Pants with Kodenshi from Japan and the product brand owner was BE International.
Above is a picture of the Aulora Pants from Japan.
As luck has it, BE International has a referral program to market and sell the Aulora Pants as an Independent Business Owner (IBO).
By being an IBO with the company, Mommy Lynn had an ideal main product to sell from her home business.
It’s Huge Potential! BE International Business Selling Aulora Pants
When Mommy Lynn first got started in the BE business, her husband asked her why she chose the direct selling industry.
Back then, she does not know much about the industry or the market size, but what she saw was the POTENTIAL of the Aulora Pants.
She began researching and learning about the market size.
Do you know how big is the direct selling industry in Malaysia?
It’s HUGE!
According to the 2024 Global Annual Direct Selling Statistical Data Report published by the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations (WFDSA), a leading international, non-governmental, voluntary organization representing the global direct selling industry in more than 170 countries fact sheet, Malaysia was ranked number 5 globally in term of total sales generated.
For the year 2024, the total sales from the Malaysian direct selling industry was USD10.197 billion!
As per the statistic from WFDSA, the top 10 direct selling markets in the world are:
1) United States of America (USA)
2) Germany
3) China
4) South Korea
5) Malaysia
6) Japan
7) Brazil
8) Mexico
9) France
10) Taiwan
The above is a list of top 10 direct selling markets as per WFDSA.
As you can see in the list above, Malaysia is at the number 5 position.
The Malaysia direct selling market is on par with Japan!
Direct selling in Malaysia has a lot of potential due to its large size.
How Much Was Mommy Lynn’s Investment to Start Her BE International Business?
It was less than RM5000.
How Much Mommy Lynn’s Initial Investment to Start Her BE Business Selling the Aulora Pants?
Mommy Lynn started with an investment of less than RM2000.
The money was used to purchase a two pairs of the Aulora Pants for trial purposes.
The reason she purchased the pants because she was looking for a solution to help to relieve her back pain and leg cramps.
She also wanted to experience wearing the pants personally.
After wearing the Aulora Pants for a few days, her back ache and leg cramps surprisingly went away.
She was now convinced that the pants works and started to promote it as the core product for her business.
Initially, Daddy Will didn’t think there were much potential in the business.
He didn’t focus much on it other than being a supporting husband.
He helped her to create content and maintain this blog and also helped to drive her to appointments to meet with prospects.
This blog became Mommy Lynn’s main medium to generate leads for her business.
In the first month, the commission that she got from promoting and selling the Aulora Pants was more than RM1000!
It was definitely a much better option than selling prepacked baby porridge.
She kept on building her business and it started to grow.
Third month into the business, her monthly commission from selling the Aulora Pants has exceeded RM5000!
Honestly, she was surprised by the results.
She was wondering why the Aulora Pants was selling so well?
After some research and deep thinking, she realised the Aulora Pants was a Blue Ocean product.
The concept of a blue ocean product is from the book Blue Ocean Strategy written by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.
A blue ocean product is in contrast to a red ocean product where the competition is very stiff and profit margin very low.
In a red ocean, everyone is fighting each other just to get their hands on a small profit.
The book Blue Ocean Strategy talks about creating a product or service in a totally new category where the competitor does not exist.
This makes competition in the market irrelevant therefore it has the potential to generate a higher profit.
By chance, Mommy Lynn stumbled upon a blue ocean product in Malaysia which was the Aulora Pants.
How to Get In Touch with Mommy Lynn?
You can WhatsApp message Mommy Lynn at +60176037698.
Before you leave, please take some time to read the disclaimer page on this blog.
The content above are for information and educational purposes only.
The income potential is not typical. What worked for Mommy Lynn may or may not work for you.
If you want to explore the network marketing business by partnering with Mommy Lynn, click the link below and she will help you.