Expos! Presentations! Quite a busy past week we had.
We put up stalls in Mogappair Golden Colony Park. It was supposed to be just a one day affair. But we decided to extend it to a few more days. The first day was the best of course. We had advertised through Mogappair Mail. They had even put up a small one column article for us. Thanks to those and the news paper inserts we had sent out, there were loads of people from nearby areas like Padi , Korattur, Porur etc who had taken the trouble to come on out to our expo on a Sunday. I know that is difficult. It is after all our only rest-day! 🙂 Some came with an idea to buy, some were just curious to know what they were in for. There were a few people who asked a lot about our products, and went back enriched with information.
So the Expo was very robust till lunchtime and then again after 4:00 pm when everyone came out of their homes, all set for a walk, after taking a siesta from the scorching midday sun and heat. And we were there ready.
This was a lot different from our experience from selling at Pallikaranai I have to say. The approach, the attitude everything was different. And it was a huge learning curve for us. As we were just getting exposed to the “customer-dealing” front of our business.
So a lot of our well wishers were explaining that the morning crowd is much more than the evening crowd and that we should stick on for some more time. And the park authorities were more than happy to let us stay for then entire week if possible. 🙂
Here are some pics which I clicked, whenever i could, from the Expo:-
The whole team at work!! :):) (above)
The next big thing were our presentations over the weekend , added to all this were a birthday and an anniversary of our dear friends , SPACES had a fun and hard time juggling it all! 🙂 🙂
So the presentation work began overnight and got completed hours before our first presentation. It felt like a college assignment :P. Anyway the first one was for E-farm. I’m sure a lot of you would’ve heard about them. They are pioneers at what they do. Helping farmers, suppliers and the buyers to meet at a common ground and bringing them together. It was a great experience for us to go back to the place where we were one among the audiences a year ago at their very workshop for which we were asked to talk. It was all very informal and we all warmed to the audience right away. After our talk and a little bit of connecting with the crowd and light chit-chat, Mr.Venkat dove right back into his discussions which were worth listening to. He is a very straight forward, down to earth guy who tells it as it is.
The following day was for Madras Day Celebrations, where the event called Chennai Big Idea was held for people to talk about the civic issues and find a unique, realistic, creative idea to overcome them. We were one among 15 ideas and honestly we felt humbled to be a part of it. Ideas as creative as making potholes-street-art  to having grandiose stage for our rich cultured art to show off, everything under the sun was discussed. Even though our presentation was one among the last, and we were somewhat pressed for time, we had a nice time. It was refreshing to actually hear everybody think out of their box and hearing them out. Unfortunately there are no pictures of these two presentations yet, will post them as soon as we get a hold of them.
Again, it was a weekend well spent i would say!
It’s important that we do contribute, in any way possible, to the community that has given us so much. It’s not just enough to crib about the corporation.If we do have some idea, find a way to implement it. As a gentleman pointed out on Sunday at the Chennai Big Idea Event, no better way to follow through an idea to just START. In any small way possible. It is time we do something to make our little world a better place to live in before we move on to discuss/crib about the “global issues”.
SPACES 