Flying Made

Last week was a week full of excitements for me. On wednesday, I went to club momo to see a Pitching competition (pitching is where a person explains his business idea to attract the investors' to finance it). Most of the presentation were high-tech ideas ranging from bioinformatics (mostly), Virtual banking System for Multi-Player Online Game (MPOG), and inter-changeable bra cups that make it possible for women to customise their own bra styles.

Regarding the title of this post, On Saturday, I participated in Lime's fleamarket. Located just next to Orchard's cineleisure, it drew considerable amount of attention from the public. Not a real big crowd, though, it was just good enough. My sister sent me some stuff from Bali for me to sell.

Fellen, donny, Dei and I operated the booth. Though Singapore has a not-so-good remark for the quality of its customer service, we realised that most customers won't mind to have a good customer service. This are some snippets on how the conversation in our booth went on:

(Two ladies pass by)
Dei: Hi there, want to feel Bali experience? Unique design with a very good price *smile*.

Dei: "How do you like your weekend?"
Customer: "It's okay"
Made: "Hey, there's no such thing as 'okay' weekend, .., but I do know that there's 'wonderful' weekend *smile*. It's not raining today, isn't it. This past few days, it rained every afternoon"
Customer: "Yeah2. So hopefully, it's not gonna rain so I can execute my plan"
... Some transaction and the customer is about to leave ...
Made: "Thank you. Enjoy your weekend, okay. Ahhh... don't forget that next week is a holiday, Good Friday"
Customer: "Ah, you're right. I will enjoy my weekend and holiday. Anyways, enjoy your weekend too, ya" *smile*
Made: "Of course, I always do" *smile*

Plenty of smiling involved, but it paid off. I love the experience. Giving me a thought to jump in to service industry. Anyways, by the end of the day, I shall give an award to Dei for the best marketer of the day.