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1:05 AM Sunday, June 20, 2010
{ Street Sales – 18th June 2010 }

Our volunteers were really enthusiastic – some of them arrived earlier than expected, and we were all getting excited to start our street sales immediately! Soon after, rain started to fall – and this was something in which we were totally unprepared for! However, this did not dampen our spirits at all, and we still went on to do our street sales.

We must agree that the unexpected weather had affected our sales as lesser people were on the streets for us to approach. We also realized that people whom we approach on this particular day were less willing to buy jellybeans as compared to the crowd on Sunday. Competition was also present, as other Youth for Causes teams were also stationing at Orchard Road to carry out their street sales. Nevertheless, we still tried our best to sell our products!

Our morning street sales concluded at 1pm, and the amount of jellybeans that we had managed to sell did not really meet our expectations. However, we realized that Orchard Road was starting to fill up with the afternoon crowd – and we were all hoping that our street sales would improve! Besides an increase in the number of afternoon shoppers which greatly boosted our street sales, we also realized that many of our friends were also shopping along Orchard Road – and it was indeed such a small world, as we did not expect ourselves to meet people we know during our street sales! Well, this was actually advantageous for us as our friends had obligations to buy from us, since this was what friends are all about after all – ad this once again increased our sales to a large extent!

Personally, for both John and I, we actually stationed ourselves outside Somerset@313 to sell our jellybeans, and we found out that it was actually an ideal location to conduct street sales as people there were more willing to purchase our products! On the other hand, the girls used a different strategy to combat for street sales – and that is, they made use of their sweet voices to melt people’s hearts and constant persuasion to ensure that people were convinced to purchase for them!

We continued our street sales in the evening, as we thought that the evening crowd would be more receptive to our street sales. However, this proved wrong as our sales were no meeting our expectations at all! Even though we shouted our lungs out and made use of different kinds of stunts to attract attention, this did not really boost our street sales to any extent…

Overall, we were happy with our performance, as the amount of bottles that we had sold on Friday was rather remarkable. Of course, this would not have been possible without the help and passion from our volunteers – and we were really thankful for that!

Posted by: Eng Han