A continued….
“ you remember how good was I with numbers and presentations. I made a smashing presentation in blue green red and what not colours… used every possible tool that Bill Gates could think of including in his Office Suites into the presentation, painted some really rosy ambitious but statistically possible growth and profit figures… all this came in a fully air-conditioned presentation room with eateries such as Chicken tikka, Paneer Tikka, French fries never stopping to flow into the room. By the end of the presentation, the team that came to assess us could not assess what was better – the Chicken Tikkas or the Profit and Growth Scenario that was painted to them by us. Eventually they gave us the benefit of doubt and out came that cheque book. He wrote an obscene and unimagined amount which made our head spin. And we were thinking of it in Indian Rupees. We were again for a pleasant shock when we saw him put that lovely USD mark at the end of it. And the rest as they say “Is History” See where I am. Well that’s that. Nothing more to add.
B curiously asked. But then what did you do with the money? I mean where did the business go from there?
Ohh That. Ok the joy of seeing such amounts in our banks made our entire team numb for a few days that we could not really think of anything. Eventually I realised we cannot just sit tight like that and be content earning 8% taxed returns on the the bank deposits. So I galvanised the entire strategy team to put our heads together to find out ways to spend this money. After lots of brain storming, we realised that we have to start selling almost everything. So our list of offerings grew to include, households such as Phenyl, Mustard oil ( and all other conceivable oils in the market), ghee, Sugar, Dal, Rice, toys, sarees, dress materials, CDs, movies, furniture, white goods and what not. Still we realised that we would not be able to spend even a fraction of it. Someone came up with a bright idea of advertising. That would burn the money real fast which was our concern no 1. And we couldn’t help but praising his intelligence. So now you would see our ads in print, net, TV, Radio and even at 3 past mid night on TVs when no one is really awake and watching TV!!!
B, C and D clapped together marvelling at the success story of their dear friend A. then it was the turn of B to tell his tale.
And he started…..
…to be continued
PS: This is an imaginary story with no relevance to actual incidents or otherwise. Meant for light hearted reading. J
Hi, I am Sanchita and a fond reader, writer of any and everything about E-commerce. I write regularly in my blog,www.gizmobhai.com and am also a wannabe E-com business owner trying to set up and run my own little business website www.indiacod.com
Read the First Part of this running story on rodinhood.
