UNAIR NEWS Childhood moment mostly spend the time with playing, have high curiosity, and try to do something new. It improves the physic and motor development. Every child has his own hobby such as cycling, raising animal and collecting thing.
Maulana Ridho Aryanto, student of Faculty of Economics and Business 51动漫 makes his hobby raising animal as a business. His business of raising cat and reptile earn hundreds million rupiah per year. He guessed that the thing that you interested in could be your business. The great thing about him is he started his own business since primary school.
淪ince I was kid I love cats so much, the smell was so lovable. When I came home after school I always looked for my cats, my mom either, he said
This business began from his hobby adopted street cat. Then he saved his money to buy cats. After had enough money, he bought couple of Persian cats. At the time, he was on 6th grade of elementary school and it only took a year half he could buy sires. Both certified cats and uncertified cats. After he came to mating cat service to mating his cat sires with male cat of others, for first time he success in selling fiver cats with the cost 12 million for each cats.
According to this Surabaya-born man, the certified cat referred to ownership protection. In addition to get the certificate of ownership, the kitten body would be implanted the micro chip so it would never be confused with others.
When in the senior high school, the man who addressed as Barlan, bought the Sphinx cat with cost 15 million rupiah.
He also often became winner in many pet competitions in Bandung, Jakarta and even in Malaysia.
淔or cat assessment was often about the beauty and body structure, meanwhile for snakes (reptile) was about genital color and the brightness of color, He said
Other than cat, he has been raising the reptile for the last two years. For the first time, he imported three ball python snakes from U.S.A with 20 million rupiah. He preferred to import the reptiles because they have many genital colors, is about 4 6 genital colors. According to him, the more genital color it makes the skin colors more beautiful. Eben, his reptile was adored by Lucky Hakim, an actor.
Marketing and treatment
In marketing process, He uses social media facebook to join in animal lover groups. He has sold it to his friends. He chooses not only domestic market for his target but also export to other country, such as Canada and Australia. He earns 100 million per year for selling cat and also more than 100 million for reptile selling. To keep the health of animals, he needs to pay 15 million per month for treatment by buying vitamin, food, and electricity to dry cat檚 fur.
He also ever faced the failure when he attempted raising chameleon. But unfortunately, the chameleon unable to incubate the eggs so it made him sold the chameleon.
For the next, he told that he planned for travel agent business. He thought that he could see the profit chance by his hobby, travelling.
Author :Siti Nur Umami
Editor : Nuri Hermawan
