PC expo

 

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My very first part time job is PC Expo here in MITC Melaka, 8 til 10th of April 2010~

Went applied for a PC Expo job at the shop Stygix nearby with hsemates and sis and we all got the job ^_^

First day was fun, we all had no experience/knowledge at all on laptops but we're willing to try selling for laptops. So we volunteered and they assigned us to MSI booth, selling its laptops.

We've never heard of MSI brand! Have you heard of it? Guess no right? lol

Not one of the people there can recognise this brand too, only one middle aged girl mumbled something like "Oh MSI which manufacture motherboard and now they do laptops too?" when she passed by me, but showed no interest at all T_T

Our booth is the huge black booth around the entrance, bearing the huge shiny MSI logo.

But we lost to Acer, which have huge-r ACER ROTATING logo above and colourful booths that attracted many customers. Grr so cunning huh Acer.

But its so thrilling to able to be laptops promoters for the first time, even though we hv no experience whatsoever on laptops. 

But most of our customers are malay families with 0 knowledge on laptops, so we're safe reading the specs of the lappies off the pamphlets and tags :P

We're slightly briefed before the fair started, about the speciality of each and every laptops displayed on the counter.

Basically we have to sell about 6 MSI laptops only so its not vry hard.

And difference between AMD and Intel processor, which laptops is atom, dual core, i3 or i5, which laptops have graphic card or HD viewing or not, this 14'' inch that 15, and got 10'' inch too, this lappie offers what free gifts,if dunwan free gifts can discount how much,etc etc..

We had to memorize all these infos and promote for the not-so-popular brand!

"Very affordable laptops, free printers and pendrives!" is all i speak all day! Repeated over and over again while handling out pamphlets to the customers coming in. Most of the customers shook their heads and refused to take the flyers. *Eh take lar free one lar T_T* 

( But this is what i'll do when im offered a flyer by promoters hehe. Now i know how annoying is that and its better to accept the flyers instead cuz the promoters had been standing all day there. yikes now i understand! )

Those old people with families one were our potential customers.
And when some customers stopped and squinted their eyes on the pamphlets, we can begin to explain our hot selling products, where MSI is from and need not to be worried cuz we have one service center here in Malim..blah blah blah...and try to bait them to come to our counter.

There, the pro sellers are standing behind the counters and they'll take over explaining deep each and every computers there. And we'll stand beside listening intently and trying to learn more about the brand and laptops too.

And after about 5 or 10 minutes, if the deal is on, we'll go get the receipt form, fill up customer's details and also the most important thing - our numbers. Because this is how they know who sold how many units and gonna give us commissions hehehe. (Altho commission rather low la haha)

Day 1 was vry fun, Roy worked with us also ^^(quite pro noe!) and opposite was Peggy's brother Ming Hui selling hard disks(kept shouting hard disk! hard disk! all day long haha), and also a classmate of mine selling HP laptops. Then at the Asus booth further, is Su Leung.
And CJ and Lidren worked at another booth at the back, selling all kinds of laptops, from Toshiba to Lenovo.

Then at the other side, HanKai and Charlene selling computer components like mouse those, and also around the exit, theres Lance donned in bright apple green selling Maxis Broadband

So fun working with so many friends haha.

Our company provided us meals too! And the meals were quite decent and yummy ^_^

Mix rice, 3 types of dishes. We expected simple food like fried rice, fried mee or nasi lemak.

So mix rice tasted like heaven to us wahaha.

Day 1 was okay, not many people as its still Friday, but i managed to sell a couple of units.

My throat was abit unwell before i started my job, so at the end of the first day my voice was kinda coarse.

Plus my voice naturally is kinda soft, so i have to raise my voice so that the people can notice me haha.

On Day2, i promoted with very hoarse voice! Doubt anyone able to understand what am i talking about *sobsss. Everyone else's voice was okay except mine :(

Day2, alot of customers swarmed in as its Saturday. Especially around evening and night, families came to hunt for computers stuffs.

Since our booth was around the entrance, many ppl came thru and those interested ones said they need to survey the whole PC Expo first before coming back to buy from us.

And when they're gone, its vry high chance they wont be back again, attracted by other colourful laptops, who wants black dull MSI laptops..

But our laptops offered very affordable price and very good specs la thats our attraction haha.

When day2 is over, my voice was like super hoarse and cant speak properly already =(

Then on Day 3, today. When i woke up to a real nightmare : I. Have. No. Voice. At. All!!!

Cant even utter a word properly!!! I sat on my bed and think hard, theres nothing much i can do T_T and i told sis (combined whisper and sign language actually).

So im not able to go work today. Kinda self blame at first haha cuz didnt took good care of my body and now i coudnt make it to the most important day of the PC Expo, couldnt see hows MSI sales and how my friends doing on this day, and couldnt see how chaos isit on the last day (im pretty sure it'll be a mess inside when its near closing time =) )

Gahh very very important lessons learnt! Will never try to raise my voice when doing promoter dy. Even if i try to hard sell i'll leave it to the last day lol.

And being a promoter, altho vry hard have to stand all day long and u come back with sore feet, its still very happy and very fun can work with friends hehehe.

And now im proud to say that iv worked part time job before ^_^
And also, next time gonna work with a rather popular brand dy. Many ppl doubted our brand and we saw opposite ppl nonid to promote so strong, the customers all approach their booth one T_T

Now i still cant speak normally. Just now hsemate asked why am i not working today,i have trouble getting my words out T_T

Really seriously hope that my voice will able to recover by tomorrow, if not i cant speak anything at all during my meetings dy T_T
And also today anyone called me i have to disconnect them, and type in msg " I. Have. No. Voice. Anything. msg. pls" LOL 

Went U center and bought a bottle of honey, not much options there and i dont think the honey helps lol. Drinking my 4th cup of honey and a ubat batuk Pi Pa Gao waiting beside lol.

Bless me!!!