Tatler magazine : Fione interviewed as Role Model for Women
Fione Tan is featured as one of the best role models for successful women of this era in the Tatler magazine March issue in Malaysia. Tatler, the leading luxury magazine 3 page write up about this powerful internet marketing queen is summarised below.
In the Land of Women
Tatler Magazine March 2009
TO MARK INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY THIS MONTH, MANSOR TUN ABDUL AZIZ AND MICHELE THESEIRA SEEK INSPIRATION FROM FIVE MALAYSIAN WOMEN WHO HAVE TRAVELED DIVERSE HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN LIFE YET COMMUNICATE THE ESSENTIALS OF BRING A WOMAN
On March 8th the eyes of the world look to women – seeking to learn from their struggles alongside their achievements.
Fione Tan
She may only be a youthful looking 31-year-old but already she has notched up an impressive amount of experience. Pretty and petite she is a powerhouse of gutsy determination with the world now seemingly at her feet. It’s been only over a year since she walk down the wedding aisle with her business partner of many years, and she laughingly admits, “I wouldn’t mind getting married again – of course to my same husband.”
The CEO and President of the own company, eOneNet.com Sdn Bhd, Fione remembers how she ventured into her own business. “I worked for an insurance company and was astonished to see people who had dedicated 15 to 20 years of their lives working with the company, simply fired.” This got her thinking and with a four-page business plan she resigned and went out to look for a financier, someone who believed in her and her plan.
Coming from a family of non-business orientated individuals who all worked for companies, Fione was all the more determined. “My mother was a working mum and always encouraged me to be independent. I’ve learnt from her that it doesn’t prove a point that a mother who stays at home is the best mother. One can spend quantity time, yet not quality time with one’s children,” shares Fione, who reveals her mother is now working for her, running the company’s finance department.
Her mother has been constantly supportive, even when Fione quit that insurance job without another job in hand. “I come from a simple and hardworking family background and my mother never made me feed bad, nor flared up when I told her I resigned. Instead, she encouraged me although she had no idea what business I thought of going into.” And Fione admit, “She used to see me typing furiously on the computer, thinking I was working, when actually at that time, I was chatting online.”
Today Fione has office in KL, Singapore and Hong Kong, travelling the globe giving talks as a consultant in internet business and marketing.
One of the few CEOs of a top UK training company, Janette Faherty, comments, “Studies show that ethnic women are two-and-a-half times more likely to start a business than their white counterparts. However, women are less likely to believe they have the attributes to start or run their own business compared to men.” To this Fione agrees having traveled and given many business talks. “I notice there is a lack of self confidence in women, not necessarily the uneducated. I’ve come across many high-profile women who are not very confident in themselves and need a lot of reassuring. I have to keep telling them not to be so fearful of coming out into the world of business and assure them they can do it.”
To read the full article on Fione Tan, do get your copy of the Malaysia Tatler magazine from newsstands & bookstores nationwide.
For overseas readers, you can read the online version in our press room at http://www.eonenet.com/press/2009_03_malaysia_tatler_role_models_in_the_land_of_women.htm
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March 12th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Hi Fione,
Congratulations! You are absolutely the role model of success woman in both business world and in family. You deserve it!
Best regards,
Maria Ng
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March 12th, 2009 at 11:49 am
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You deserve for the success, congrats!
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March 12th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Congratulations! Fione, you are the top model for all of woman. Especially at such a difficult time. Many woman lost their job in this financial crisis, they don’t know how to do next step, especially for those middle aged woman. Your story can encourage them to pick up confidence and start again in their life road. Nothing to fear if you have a target. Working hard towards this target, everyone can be successes , I believe it. Your story encourage me too and opened a window to me, let sunshine fulfill in my house, although the road it not easy to go, but I feel very happy as I have a clearly target, all my effort are worthy and all the hard working days are for the closer to my target.
March 13th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Wow! That looks great. Thanks for posting this.