The bazaar/bizarre experience

The entrepreneur development cell of my college conducts an annual event for its students to showcase their business talents/tactics. Every year I used to think of participating but back off. But this time I wanted different experiences to remember my college days as my last semester going to end soon. So, I pushed my comfort levels and attended the meeting regarding the bazaar. The first thing required was forming a team. I wasn’t serious about keeping a stall until I spoke with my classmate about the details. The next thing was to choose what to sell at the stall. (I kept a food stall.) Delicious as it sounds keeping a stall that have perishable or requires purchase of many materials and cooking of those materials in bulk is not a fun thing to do.

After registering our stall, we get to sell tickets for the event. Let me give an important piece of advice from my ticket selling experience. Never feel sad, afraid or nervous while selling tickets; trust me that never work. At the same time, you need to analyse the body language, attitude and emotional state of the buyer because come on they are also common human being just like us. So in order to sell a ticket think like a buyer, think what you will offer along with the ticket, grab or provoke need for buying the ticket, etc. So, ticket selling was hard still the feel you get when a ticket gets sold is something you can brag about.

Due to floods in Chennai the date was postponed to December 26 & 27, 2015. Christmas night was a horror time for me; I started to think that I made a huge mistake investing in the stall. On the day of the event, I and my team members arranged all the required things on the table. Food stall gets crowded at a particular time and during some other time no one even gives a damn to at least see the menu and offers a food stall has. So, if any of you thinking of keeping a food stall the only mantra that helps is “Patience”. But still you can use other strategies like dragging known people and make them buy from you. Even though, I wasn’t astounded with my first stall experience still some new experience is better than nothing to remember 2015.

Belated happy new year!!