Friday, November 24, 2006
OH MY GOD! I have never in the entire seventeen years of my life been so freakin embarrassed. Like... huh? What the hell? How the hell did that happen i don't even have a clue. And what more SOOOOO MANY GUYS were around and everyone must think i'm some despo slut.
Curious to know what happened?
I'll like to find out too.
After work we sat around the void deck tables chit- chatting and slacking as usual. THere was me, Joey, Siangwei, Darryl, Anna and Jashawn some guy who has fantastic sales and just recently came back to work again. Yep so basically they were playing with their camera phones, complaining about our lack of sales (With the exception of Darryl) and laughing at Joey's lack of voice and Darryl's "Bimbu" when Jashawn out of boredem grabbed my phone and started browsing my songs.
Okay... seriously, that's rather rude that he didn't exactly ASK FOR PERMISSION before browsing and he started asking... "Eh... you got... VIDEOS not?"
Errmhmmm.... I am soooooo not Tammy and definitely don't have special hobbies like her.
THAT WAS WHEN THE CRITICAL MOMENT STRUCK!
Somehow Jashawn found his way to some hidden soundclip in god knows where in my phone and started playing and it turn out to be some fake moaning sound like... err... sounds from a Tammy video.
I was totally like 0.0? What the hell is that? I didn't even know I had that in my phone. And everyone just started laughing and said... "Wah... didn't know you had that kinda hobbies."
But i swear for heaven sake... purlease... i won't do that kinda retarded thing. And even if i were, I won't be as stupid to let Jashawn browse my songs with that in my phone right? Gosh... i totally no face to go to work anymore... HELP!!!!!
In the end... i returned home and just told my bro the story for fun and then he had this shocked expression and then he started laughing uncontrollably. Okay... i guess i know where that sound clip came from.
Monday, November 13, 2006
After 2 weeks of chionging, I finally broke 10 sales!!!!! Weeeeee~~~~~
*clapclap*
Really proud of myself that i tolerated at this job through all the sad days without sales and proudly say to everyone, "NO! I'm not quitting yet!"
Hahaz... thinking back during training, I can remember Andy asking me... "2 sales per day okay?"
At that moment he made making sales sound like super easy and I was thinking any idiot can make 2 sales per day kind so i thick skinnedly replied "Sure, no prob!"
Hurhur... 2 sales per day indeed. I'm having enough trouble hitting one per day less to say two.
But just some interesting facts i notice bout customers during my door knocking days that I wanted to share with you in case one day you wanna try door knocking sales...
1. You DEFINITELY need the BHB spirit. This is not the time to be demure or shy, no matter what insults customers throw you have to turn it into a compliment and brag about your product like bragging about yourself. The whole point is to convince the customer to consider buying your product before they get so irritated they slam the door in your face.
2. LOOKS DO MATTER in a job like hours. Not that you have to look like Miss Universe or something to get sales, but I'm sure if you did you'll get alot more Ah Pek sales. You have to at least look presentable and decent so customers DARE to open the door. One colleague of mine with purple hair, a thousand piercings and tattoos actually had customers asking "Are you a bad guy?" I mean... that's a totally retarded question, what do they expect in return? "yes i am, I'm here to rob your house!"?
3. Chinese Ah peks like to say cold jokes to you and then tell you they already have the service or they're not interested. -_-'''
4. Indians don't seem to be able to afford pajamas. The men all seem to be half naked and the kids run nude around in the house. >.< Worst of all is that they stand half naked and talk to you at the door while circling their chest hair... something you definitely don't wanna experience.
5. If a Malay customer opens the door and doesn't have the product, SMILE and give all the charm you possess.
6. I used to think that everyone is equal in the world. But when it comes to making sales, you tend to become a little more racist, sexist and ageist.
If a Malay man in his thirties open the door, 65% he will consider buying your product.
If a Malay woman in her thirties opens the door, 45% she will consider buying your product.
If a Malay man or woman about fifty opens the door, 80% he/she will not understand a single shit you've just said. So two words "move on"
If an indian man in his thirties opens the door, 100% he will ask you for ALL your product brochures. One even chased me from 11th floor to 8th floor to ask me for a brochure. Maybe only about 20% are interested.
If a Chinese man in his thirties or about opens the door, 50% will try to chat with you, but only 5% will be interested in buying your product.
If a Chinese woman around her thirties opens the door, 100% will act uninterested, even the 2% that are really interested.
If a Chinese woman above fifties opens the door, she spells the word "menopause", either she's gonna slam the door in your face or she's gonna mumble some weird dialect or she's gonna start grumbling and complaining to you about god knows what... so LEAVE!
Yep! All in all... this job requires 2% product knowledge, 8% thick skinness, 40% perseverence and 50% luck.
One colleague of mine said I possess the perseverence and hardworking required for a great salesman, like him when he started. (He claims!) But i think luck is the most important thing. You have to be at the right place at the right time. If you meet a customer already wanting to sign up, unless you're a shit salesman, any idiot can make the deal.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Woohoo... Finally ended the whole PW trauma after one whole year of burning midnight oils and writing stupid stuff we don't exactly understand.
Think we did rather well for presentation, Yuan Hong totally shocked me with his performence that day, it was so different from his usual self during rehersals.
Totally been immersing myself in work these few days that i kinda feel I've been neglecting all my other friends. Like May, Cherlyn and Yulin... quite long haven't been hanging out with them, less to say my six eleven gang. And my beach date with Cheresa... haha... sorry girl... and then the movie marathon I owe Ever, Kia and Weiduo... its supposed to be sometime this week. God knows how I'm gonna squeeze out two days for them. I hardly have enough time to sleep and i've been missing loadsa trainings and HC meetings. So sorry everyone.
But well... at least I've been having fun at my job. Think MOST people are really cool even though some people really irritate me, others are really cool. Some people whom I had bad impressions about initially turned out to be really friendly and nice. But i guess i shouldn't be so friendly to people i don't know to stop getting myself into shit like some weirdo keep pestering and talking to me and don't understand my expression reads "piss off!"
The greatest problem with my job is there are too few girls, there's basically me, agnes, liu hui, zahira and auntie sharon. So basically i've been constantly hanging out with the guys which I ain't that used to considering I'm a very girl gang person, always in a group of girls and after my four years in nanyang, I feel like a nun just stepping out of a nunnery and shocked that there are actually creatures called men in this world.
But i think I'll slowly get used to hanging out with guys. Its alot easier than making friends with girls as I was discussing with Cheresa that day... less bitching, you don't really have to "read between the lines". They're very straightfoward. Like or not, its all on the face.
But my sales aren't looking any better. I notice this weird trend,my sales all come in at the start of the week and by the end of the week i hand in eggs everyday. -_-''' What if I can't even hit 15? Sigh~ HOW?!?!?!?!
The Gurl