Ex-TVB Actress Vivien Yeo, who has a chain of beauty stores, also manages an online academy teaching business skills

by Finn Patraic

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Since he left TVB in 2020, the actress of Malaysian origin who became the entrepreneur Vivien Yeo37 years old, focused on Cultivate your beauty business.

Her The eponymous beauty store, which started as an online store in 2013, would have generated a turnover of $ 100 million HK ($ 17.9 million) in five years and has spread to the brick and mortar space with points of sale Malaysia, Hongkong and Macao.

Her flourishing business also allowed her to afford a mansion in the Chicania sea in Malaysia, where she lives with her Businessman Mari, Yip Sai Yeung, 40 years old, and their two girlstwo and five months old.

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Help others launch their own biz online

In 2020, she decided to take advantage of her entrepreneurial experience to start a Online academy teaching online commercial skills.

According to the website, students will learn to create an online store, digital marketing, writing, photography and developing an entrepreneurial state of mind.

Vivien teaches and personally supervises students and to date more than 1,000 Students are graduates from the course.

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Sees growing demand for online companies

Calling on her adventure An “risk product”, Vivien said that she had decided to start the academy after many people approached her to get advice on how to start an online business during the pandemic.

“(During the pandemic), many friends in brick and mortar stores said that their companies were greatly affected and that some fans also dm, telling me that they were unemployed and could not find jobs. They asked me how to start an online business to sell handmade products, so I took short videos to share my entrepreneurial and have published them on Youtube …

She added that with the online purchases boom, electronic commerce has great development potential.

Photos: Vivien Yeo / Instagram, Vy Academy / Instagram

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