Attire: School uniform or school-related tee shirts

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS!

What will I be doing?
Street Sales of Straw Heart Pins @ $1 each.

• Approach people
• Tell them about the cause (VAI patients, TTSH)
• Ask if they would like to make a donation or purchase a Straw Heart Pin
• Try to sell as many as you can or get as much donation! :)

Please note that you will be going around in pairs as it is safer and you will share donation bags.

How do I explain the cause to people?
The main aim of this street sales you will be attending is to raise funds for ventilator assisted individuals in Tan Tock Seng Hospital. These ailing patients need the aid of ventilators to help them sustain their life, and many of the patients spend a lot of time in hospital without the support of their loved ones.
These ventilators do not come cheap and thus, the aim of this street sales is to raise money to help them buy the necessary health equipments and let them spend their final days at home.
We would also like to promote awareness about these patients to the public using the straw heart pins.


------------------------------------Some hints and tips :)---------------------------------------------------------


1) Please do NOT stick together and try to sell 1 straw heart pin together. yes you will feel nervous, but still. try NOT to stick together. Which means in the first few sales, you may feel more comfortable approaching a passer-by together with your partner, but still, grow up. After the first few, try to approach them by yourself. If you don't take the first step, you will never be able to acheive. After you take the first step, everything would be much easier. I PROMISE.

2) Smile ALOT!

3) Eye Contact. Extremely important factor. And one of the most difficult ones. C'mon you really have to have, MUST MUST HAVE eye contact with the person you are talking to. It gives off the feel "I know what I'm doing. I'm not scared of you". One smile secret. If really really cannot stare into eye, look at forehead, or nose etc

4) Know what you are doing. Ask yourself, what are these heart pins for? What do they represent? Where does the money go to? What is the condition of the patients we are helping? Why should they donate? How to make someone donate more than the original price of $1? What if someone says, "Aiya don't want larh!!!!! $1 for just this cheap little thing?! I also can make!!!!" (**speaking of this, please take note. each and everyone heart pin was hand madepainstakingly and with love and love and love, and sweat and soul.**) If you still are ermming and ahhing to these qns, go find some answers! Share with your friends your answers and learn some from them!

5) Talk clearly, which is related to point 4. you must know what you are doing in order to be able to talk clearly. Treat thurs as oral practice. ARTICULATE EACH AND EVERY WORD CLEEARLLLLY. quite difficult to sell if you are like "mmhhm,.yeah,,.,.,. the heart pins. mhmhmhm. please donate..mhmh."

6) Emotional hook. grab onto their heart strings and pull them. hard. make them feel so touched and touched about the project. *yeap, make them cry.* Cmon. We are talking about these poor people that are going to pass away soon, and about giving them comfortable last days. Pull out your puppy eyes and attack!

7) Mass Purchase. Most of the customers you have would be office people. So try and convince them to buy for their colleagues too. Or get them to wear it and see how they can help to promote it to their own customers/ get colleagues to come down and buy. Or basically, just get that customer that you just managed to capture the attention of, and get that person to buy as many as possible.

8) Do not go into MRT stations and Shopping Centers. We need permission for that and we don't. But notice i saidinto, hahahaha. which means. hehe. you can be outside these places. Well, until the security guard chases you away.....

I leave you with something to remember. That time i was doing flagday, and was hesitating whether to go up to this guy, but did in the end. and he said "You guys (me and my partner) should learn to APPROACH people, and not just stand there." You never know who's the next person that will donate.