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My IT Roadshow Fair Experience

I must say there is a lot to learn while I was helping out as a promoter in the Harvey Norman IT roadshow at both Funan and Suntec. I was a newbie at start but I picked up the skills needed as a promoter very fast. Even my supervisor did complimented me about these attributes.

While I was at the roadshow, I got to know a few people and basically how Harvey Norman works and even how the prices of laptops and desktops were slashed. One very important thing that I learned from this roadshow is that if you really want to get some computers, nevermind if it is a laptop or a desktop, a roadshow is the best value for money venue you have to be at.

Prices are normally below retail prices and they still throw in freebies for you. Sometimes, you can also ask to change the freebies if you don’t want them. Some of my customers don’t even want all the freebies but just asked for the price to be reduced. Well, that is just one bargaining method that you as a customer can do. Plus, one good thing about Harvey Norman is that they will try their very best to fulfill whatever the customer wants within reasonable limits.

So as for friends, I got to know 4 people working there. It was just a good experience for me to practice my networking skills again. It just seems to me that I haven’t been using it for some time and from this small experience, I must say although my skills is still there but it will definitely need some more improvements.

So all in all, this roadshow experience is really a great experience to me as I got to talk to many people during just 4 days from labour day onwards. I guess I must have talked to at least 100 people a day and managed a reasonable amount of sales considering that I am totally new to this line.

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First IT Roadshow

Yesterday, I got a call from Eddie asking me if I want to do a job in selling Acer laptops in roadshow. He called me around 12 plus at night when I was chatting with Jack about some relationship problems I had. It just seems that every time I’m with Jack, something good will happen to either of us. First few times, was that he got some prospects calling him and now I got some job lobang.

Now back to the eddie’s story, I told him that I got an interview on Friday and if his boss is okay with that, then I’m ok with the job itself. After talking to his boss and agreeing on the job, I just realized that I have no idea on what I’m getting into. I have no idea how to even approach a customer who might even know more about PCs and laptops more than me, let alone sell a laptop to them. But I did not let that fear inside of me control my decision making. I decided to give it a go and I might even will get some much better in return.

Later on, I will be going down to Suntec to report for work. I’m still quite excited about what I will be learning though. Jack just told me that it will be a great experience to gain. After many mistakes learned from Jack, I have already learned to trust him much more. So I went ahead for the job.

Well, see ya soon again when I get back from work.

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