Most business events out there are in English, but we have a huge population speaking other languages such as Malay and Chinese. There is no reason why there can’t be more events in our own mother tongues.
A member contacted us earlier to express interest to collaborate on a new event series in Chinese. The owner of Trep Alley, a new co-working space in Serdang, also contacted us to offer his place for our events.
As a result, we decided to organize two back-to-back events in Trep Alley on 12th July 2014. The first session was a demo meeting in Chinese to showcase Pitch ‘n’ Win event to the member. This was followed by the second session, a pitching event in English on raising funds.
The first event 中文 Pitch ‘n’ Win @ Trep Alley started at 1pm and was hosted by Eric Lim from SOHOland. Eric started by briefing the group what the event was about, and then he had all of us introducing ourselves.
Each of us then took 5 minutes to share about ourselves, our business, our projects, and anything about ourselves. As we needed to decide the best presenter later on, we listened attentively to one another in the meeting.
We had the privilege to invite Mr Johnson Liang (连俊维) as the featured speaker in the event. Born in Malaysia, Johnson became a well known speaker in China and just came back to homeland recently. He is a corporate trainer, certified NLP practitioner, and coach in communication and soft skills.
Johnson spoke 15 minutes on the topic called Secret of Communication – Building Rapport Instantly (沟通秘密－如何建立瞬间亲和感). He shared with us tips on communicating and developing relationships with people using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).
Johnson Liang taught us on building rapport
Wireless marketing specialist John Kong was voted for his best sharing in the group. He elaborated on his mobile solution to help businesses for another 10 minutes. The host Eric also spoke on his offer from SOHOland to help people own houses.
The event was the first public event hosted in Trep Alley, a new co-working space in Serdang serving entrepreneurs, freelancers and small business owners.
中文 Pitch ‘n’ Win @ Trep Alley – Photo album
