CommunicAsia 2007

I have been to several fairs, mostly career and book fairs, both large and small. But I have never really been to one that's professionally organized for businesses and professionals.

My company is exhibiting our product currently at CommunicAsia 2007. I am manning one of our 3 booths we have there, with another colleague. This meant that we had to introduce, talk about, explain, interest, convince, demo and answer queries about our product.

I realise that I am really bad at marketing. I can do fairly well talking about the product, but not on the sales side.

I realise, too, that it is absolutely so difficult to hold a decent technical conversation in Mandarin. Perhaps my grasp of Mandarin has deteriorated over the years. Or perhaps I am too intimidated by the Chinese technical terms a Chinese guy was using on me. But my boss is able to converse in Mandarin quite fluently and that is amazing.

Today's the first day and quite an eye-opener it is to me. I made some brief rounds visiting other booths today. I shall make my rounds again tomorrow, then write about how professionally done up each booth is such that career and book fairs can take a cue.

PS. My company's exhibiting at the fair, Singapore Expo Hall 3, 19-22 June 2007, 10.30am - 6.00pm. We're located at NSN (Nokia Siemens Network), IDA, and A*Star booths. I'm with A*Star. Look for mBit Pte Ltd :D
This fair is for anyone interested in the mobile/communications industry, bring along your business card for registration! :-)