It is Finals week and everybody is pretty much feeling all pressured. I had just finished my final group presentation for my Advanced class tonight, and it is such a relief it is over. We were asked to come up with a Direct Marketing Plan for four existing plus-size apparel brand websites. In addition, we needed to identify strategic options, propose strategies for customer acquisition and retention, and incorporate them into a just one master portal/site.
Advanced is probably the toughest among my qualitative subjects and the rest is just a breeze. I have to say that my group did a very good job - perhaps an A material, even. (I'm totally biased) We were the last to present but in the end, we were commended for our content, as well as our presentation.
I was approached by my professor after class and it came as a surprise. Her exact words were
"You brought a lot of energy to the room. You owned the room. It was all yours."
I smiled brightly and was profusely thanking her. Little did she know that my heart was thumping loudly the whole time I was talking.
At the back of my mind however, I remembered an experience during my IMC days, when I had no choice but to get over the fear of presenting in front of a large group of people. Back then, we had a graded exercise where we were asked to pick (on-the-spot) a very obscure topic and talk about it for 3 full minutes. It has to be structured and substantial. I wasn't sure if I did well during the exercise - but I remember I had to talk about "Starbox". I mean, what the hell is that? Misspelled Starbucks? Or some kind of Pinoy pronunciation? ;-) What is substantial about Starbox? I don't remember what I said, but I really learned from that experience.
There was pizza and drinks for everyone tonight, which was probably the highlight of the evening! ;-) I had the mushroom one just before presenting, but the bonus is, I was able to take some pepper slices home! Ha! (Pinoy talaga: the "Take home kasi sayang" trait) Well, nobody wanted them? ;-)
So that is one Final down, and three more to go. Busy busy busy bee! I can't wait for this semester to end.
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gawd i remember IMC days!!! and i remember that exercise... unforgettable. I bet Dr K hasnt realised how much of an impact he had on us. my topic that first presentation day was: "a little dab will do ya"
Whaaaaaattt???!!!
And we had to talk for 5 minutes. Intro, three points, elaborate, conclude.
I had no idea what I said as well. But we were lucky we went thru that eh?
You seem to be doing well in school! Grabe, one semester is almost over and I remember the time you were here in HK and you were still working in Manila... wondering where to study, how to go about doing it, how to tell ur boss that you're quitting. It seemed like yesterday...........
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