Rabu, 20 Maret 2013

Merry Riana, Young and Phenomenal


Merry Riana is fairly phenomenal achievement. At the age of 25 and only 4 years of graduation, female entrepreneur who has won many awards was able to collect a wealth of up to 700 thousand dollars in Singapore, a fantastic amount.

The fact is that the proudest Merry Riana came from Indonesia. He was born in 1980 and grew up in Jakarta in a simple family. Parents Merry is a businessman and a homemaker. With great courage, the eldest of three brothers living in Singapore and try their luck there. Encouraged by his father, Merry dreams of becoming an engineer. Her goal was probably because he wanted to help his father in running the business.

Merry initially never intended to study in the neighboring country, Singapore. However, along with the multi dimensional turmoil of 1997-1998 in Indonesia and Asia, Merry father decided to send his son to study abroad. And Singapore when it is an option that makes the most sense because it is relatively close, safe environment and a good education system.

Merry began studying in college with a major in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 1998. Merry admitted majors become majors most sense to him at the time.

For education, Merry had debts of about 40 thousand Singapore dollars. While studying at NTU, Merry had to save to pay for daily expenses and tuition fees. Merry realizes that he has to think about his future. With so many loan repayment obligations after graduation from college, Merry began to work hard and want to achieve success at the age of 30 years.

Without the experience and business knowledge sufficient, Merry plunge into the world of business. That he did because he knew that having a regular job is not enough to fulfill his dream of success at 30 years of age. He tried a variety of business opportunities. Then one day Merry investing in stocks by relying on the hard-earned savings money he collected. Unfortunately, Merry lose all their investment and sunk. Even so, the Merry back up and trying hard to become an entrepreneur.

Merry started trying from the beginning to seriously study the ins and outs of the market. When you feel ready, he decided to pursue the financial planning industry. Merry think that's the thing that will enable him to realize his dream in a relatively short time.

When Merry began his career as a financial adviser, he must grapple with a number of challenges and obstacles. His parents, faculty and friends disagree with the decision Merry. Merry time did not have the ability to speak Mandarin when more than half of Singapore's population is ethnic Chinese. As a foreign migrants there, experience and relationships Merry extremely limited.

However, one reason that makes Merry unyielding was his young age and still single so he felt freer and more willing to take risks. Without feeling too overwhelmed by the possibility of failure or the need to succeed, Merry prefers to focus on the experiences and lessons that he could get during the early phases of his career.

Merry finally found his calling to join the Prudential Assurance Company as a financial advisor. In the first six months of his career at Prudential, Merry managed to pay off his debts amounted to 40 thousand dollars in Singapore.

Until 2003, Merry was awarded Top New Advisor Award coveted many people who pursue professional financial advisor. In 2004, Merry brilliant achievements promoted him as a manager.

Merry and start her own business after being appointed manager. He set up MRO (Merry Riana Organization). A year after that (2005), Merry received the award in recognition of Top Agency of the Year and Top Rookie award Agency.

Until now, Merry has motivated and trained thousands of professionals and executives in the areas of sales, marketing and motivation. In his company, Merry overshadow 40 financial advisors, which uniquely has a young age (between 21-30 years).

Merry said that his motivation was not only from the desire to provide a better life to his parents but also his ambition to help other young people to do the same. He hoped that the youth is able to provide a better life, not only for themselves but also their parents and other family members.
* Awards:
- One of the best employers in Singapore from the Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry (2008)
- One of the most successful and inspirational women of the Minister of Youth and Sports Singapore (2010)
- The most inspiring woman on one monthly magazine Inspirational Woman Magazine (2011)
- One of the most professional executives of appearance and communication skills of the newspaper My Paper, Singapore (2010)
- Ambassador of LG Asia, Watson, and Canon (2010-2011)