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Monday, 24 August 2015

MANDIMAAN- The Seller


Every student who takes part in the MAHAMANDI should be awarded as the MANDIMAAN.

Experiences of the MAHAMANDI Day

Mahamandi- An innovative idea in contrast to the traditional ways of classroom teaching which gives a hands-on experience of how to sell. Our module subject Business Communication was taught by Professor Prasad affectionately known as Professor Mandi and  from the first day he was keen in teaching us the  practical utilization of concepts and the essential ways of selling.
He taught us how to:-
  • Approach the Correct Customer- In order to optimally utilise our efforts to the fullest level we were taught to identify the right kind of people who would be interested and could be our prospective customers.
  • Pitching in the right manner- We were taught to include in our opening pitch key points- as to why our product was needed by our customers, what are the advantages that it would give as compared to others. 
  • Never say "PLEASE" - We were taught to sell the products an not to force others to purchase our products by saying "Please". We were taught that our pitching and product knowledge and selling ability should be so good that others will  buy it without forcing them.
Experiences- It was an unbelievable day and a day to cherish in every sense. The confidence boost it gave was of paramount importance for our future endeavors.

Customer 1-

"You can understand  it was worth the efforts when a person who has a problem in making his daily bread and butter, buys from you as a token of love and says to you you are doing a special thing. It can surely make anyone's day"

We started the day with Bandstand as our first market, there crowd was very less. Still we made our first sale of the day. We applied the techniques that we had been taught and that we had practised again and again and we succeeded. With the boost in confidence we moved to several other places including Lower Parel and Andheri.

Customer 2-

"The amount of  enthusiasm and optimism in you guys is fabulous. If every college do this at least one day, it will change our education very much".

We met one lady who then and there purchased 3 items because she was quite impressed by the new innovative way of learning and liked the way that we were taking a new approach to B-School Learning and said that it will be great if other colleges also start something innovative.

Takeaways-

A sense of accomplishment that we have achieved something and the confidence to sell and never stop ourselves and that we can achieve everything we want no matter how hard circumstances become.
The experience as to how does it feel to be actually on the streets and have an hands on experience of how to plan things according to the wants of the customers.
It was a wonderful change from the normal class room education in which I want to take part year after year. Thanks once again Mandi Sir for the experience.