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  The past week and today has been so crazy for us here at work. On one hand we celebrated that we had very potential clients for the kids furniture while on the other, we were greatly disappointed by one client and by one supplier. Stay with me as I vent out please. A couple walked in last week, Wednesday and the lady introduced herself to me and explained that we had earlier communicated with her regarding a pink bunk bed.  Bunk beds are hot cakes and we had sold out the pink model she wanted but had another that she agreed to take.  After consulting amongst themselves,they promised that the husband would come back to make the payment on Thursday and actually drew for us a map to their house for delivery on Saturday. On Thursday, I went to our warehouse and we put aside the items they had selected((it sounds quite easy but it took u)s 4 hours and organised for transport for Saturday morning. As we wound up, the client's husband called and without apology he jokingly s...

Have you ever put your heart into something and it fails so hard and it hurts? Well my Saturday was so disappointing I couldn't even believe it myself. When we came from India, I got an email from a friend saying there would be a kids events in December. Naturally I got excited because for us its an opportunity to display our furniture and also interact with parents and let them know about SAS Impressions www.sasimpressions.com . So we got into lengthy discussions with the event organisers and had a deal. The same Saturday there was also another event targeting mums at a diffrent venue. I talked to the organisers and luckily they allowed me to distribute our fliers for free. Thank God for relatives because I had marshalled my sister Purity and cousin Monica to help us. Anyways Saturday morning came and we were at the first event by 8.30a.m only to find that it had rained heavily the previous night and the grounds were soaking wet, the tents were in place but the organisers wanted...

I studied International Business Administration and majored in marketing while doing my undergraduate. We did Intercultural communication and despite enjoying the class, at the time I wasn't sure where we would apply the lessons learned. Here I am many years later and really appreciating what was taught. Do you recall learning how different cultures/countries have major differences in their attitudes towards time, business, communication i.e. like some may want to be so close while talking to you, while others prefer to be given space, for others business meetings are punctual while some they are delayed etc. Anyways, last month we had taken baby girl for surgery in India and just before we left, I got a chance to do some shopping for our kids shop. I was lucky to have a taxi guy take me around and even help translate for me where need be.One store agreed to keep the luggage for us on the basis that someone would collect the boxes and send them to Mumbai on my behalf. Before ...