Tuesday, May 28, 2008Hong Kong
This is it—the whole reason I’m here. The “Latest Marketing Trends In the Gift Industry” seminar, of which I’m part five (they intentionally leave the UK and US for last, since everyone leaves after those two slots).
All in all, I’m really happy with my segment. Earlier on, there was a hiccup in the projector that literally derailed the video for Ryoko Mikami, the Japanese journalist participating. Sarah, being a true trooper, volunteered to step in since Ryoko’s presentation hinged on visuals. She was brilliant, in spite of engineers swarming around the podium and behind her perch on the mid-stage sofa chair. Not sure how many speakers could have pulled that off, let alone made it look so easy.
Since the audience had been sitting for nearly two hours by the time my segment began, I started out by asking them to participate in a little “move to the left, move to the right” diddy concocted during my own seventh inning squirm a half hour earlier. Turns out that’s all it took to light up the room; in the words of an attendee later on, “You were quintessentially American...it was great.”
Yup. I’m a happy camper.
(Photo credit: Hong Kong Trade Development Council)
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