Sitex IT fair.
Able to survive the 4 days of IT fair is quite an impressive feat.
The 4 days of IT fair is really arduous. We had to report at around 10am, and we are usually dismissed at 9.30pm. For the whole day (except lunch and dinner), I will have to be standing at the booth...
I was actually assigned to Toshiba's laptop booth. I can only say, my first time working didn't turn out to be very lucky. There are quite a number of Toshiba's booth from other retailers and my retailer's booth happens to be trap in between 2 other Toshibas. In the end, we didn't even managed to get much customers because our booth was so isolated and trapped by 2 other Toshiba booths.
And when I walked around the Sitex fair, I can barely squeeze through the walkway. This shows how the people inundated the whole hall 5 and 6 at expo. The irony is, when I walk back to my booth, I can actually walk with both arms spread wide out. Totally empty with only a few customers walking by...
Enough of the rantings. Basically my job scope is to promote and sell the Toshiba laptop. Haha, I couldn't believe I can be such a good liar. I had to weave up some lies in order to persuade the customers to buy the laptop... In the end of the 4 days, I only managed to sell a total of 12 laptops, and usually 12 laptops is what other promoters sell in 1 day...
Poor result I must say, but I blame it on the poor location, poor brand as well as my inexperience in IT fair + my flu and sore throat...
Still, working at the IT fair is definitely an eye opener and a great learning experience for me. The other promoters working in the same booth as me were pretty helpful too. They tried to help me to answer some of the customer's questions when I couldn't handle it well and some of the more experienced promoters gave me some tips to sell the laptops.
Although tiring, but worthwhile.

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