Roving Team part I

Love & Joy Charity Fair 2010 is to raise fund for PR4A, a support group for families with autistic children. The event is in conjunction with the United Nations’ annual Autism Awareness campaign, which falls on the entire month of April. The aim is to raise a minimum fund of RM100, 000. The money raise in this fair will be used to help the autistic children in various ways such as to build better homes, operation activities and expenses.

Reference: All rights reserved. Love & Joy Charity Fair 2010 (24th-25th April 2010)

Day #1 – Roving Team A (2 person)

Had my usual healthy breakfast early in the morning. Went to the 3C building at 8.30am as told by my supervisor. Most of my work mates are already there. Kevin (Supervisor) brief us once again regarding our job description throughout the day. Roving Team is divided into two teams, Team A & B where each team will be assigned one male and female.

So ever wondered what does a Roving Team do?

1. Distribute flyers at assigned location/venue
2. Inform and grab visitors to visit the fair
3. Familiar with Subang area
4. Convincing skills

Tzyy Yin and I are in Team A. Our job locations will be Carrefour, Subang Parade, Sunway Pyramid, bus and KTM stations. We were unable to distribute flyers at Subang Parade – kena halau by security. Went to the car park area, kena halau 2nd time. Oh well, we went to Sunway and try our “luck”. If you realize, the event mainly targets parents with children. 80% of the crowd in Sunway Pyramid consists of teens! Imagine them taking our flyers and throwing it into the bins. Waste no? I’d rather take that whole stack and recycle it on the spot.

Sunway Pyramid spot

KTM station – we skip haha. Bus station was even worst! Out of 10 people, only 3-4 of them took our flyers. Looks like we’re going back to Carrefour and distribute them at the escalator – the best spot of all times!

My spot in Carrefour

Understanding that we had 4 stacks of flyers, we had to do more than just distributing one flyer for one person. One stack – 1000 flyers. 4 stacks? You do the maths!

The solution:
Give two flyers at a time. That’s the max I gave alright!
Put the flyers onto the car vipers in Carrefour. Most – 2 flyers for one car. I was kind enough...

A test was made by me to check on the amount of flyers that people would take from me.

Greetings: “Charity Fair for autistic children Ms/Sir”.
Feedback: “It’s ok, no thanks”
Greetings: “Sir/Maam/Ms”, then hand out the flyer
Feedback: They’ll just take it out of curiosity.

Enhancements:

The flyer was printed on two sides, where one side shows about kids/games and etc and the other is about the artist appearance. The kids section was shown to the parents where else the artist section was shown to teens/couples.

Tzyy Yin and I successfully gave out 2 ½ of flyers – 2500 pieces. Pretty good I would say. 1 ½ more to go for the next day...