iPho @ Singapore Education Summit

And I am officially on day four of being iPho’s CEO!

The SES went well. It was great to see all the positive responses from the crowd! Each participant were given the chance to have a photo taken for free. Subsequent photos are at $1 per namecard size and $2 per 4R size. It was cheap no doubt (Original Price @ $2 for namecard size & @5 for 4R size) , but it’s only the start and it was a special promotion at the SES. Glad to know that people appreciate the effort we are putting in to make their pictures look beautiful.

Someone actually stole my black angry bird. I suspected it was a little boy who took it and 'good thing' he came back to steal the blue one. So I caught him and followed him around until he went back to the safety of his father. After speaking to the father, he turned to ask the boy, who lied saying no. It was his younger brother who  happily broke his cover and took the black bird out of their school bag. And he still refused to do anything, saying that some auntie annie told him it is free and he could take it. When the younger boy took the bird and gave it back to me, he came along and tried to snatch it back! And the father just sat there and do nothing! ARUGH. Luckily I did not let go. Such a disgrace. I simply told him he can’t have it because it is not his, thank the father and left. I hope the father gave the boy a good lecture.

Never expected that I'll need to play detective on second day of work!

The two days of the first tryout gave me invaluable experience. I have also learnt some lessons. In order of time sequence:

1.       Always have the quotation well explained and defined.

2.       Need to include floor space needed, 4 chairs, table length, ceiling height & no of plugs needed (min 2 preferbly 4)

3.       Free parking coupons?

4.       Do not let people choose what was taken. They'll take forever.

5.       To have computer faced against the wall so that people do not get to see what we do and try to intercept the flow.

6.       Photoshop was a bottleneck. We need to rectify this.

7.       Manpower – One photographer, two photoshoper, one cutter and one to manage the crowd.

8.       Signs must state clearly the prices

9.       Crowd manager has to try to garner mailing list people so we can inform them when the photos are up on face book

10.   There must be a cut off time to pack up.

11.   A netbook for mailing lists. I spent the last 1 hour typing in emails which could have been done in afew minutes simply by importing the contacts from a excel sheet. Bard. 30% of the emails bounched back due to wrong mail. Never knew there were so many doctors around.

Here are some fabulous pictures taken!

iPho is for the very young to the old! iPho rocks!