I attended a seminar / product marketing event of a supplier that we’d like to work with recently. Their products seemed awesome, but the guy that came down from Gauteng to host the whole show was a bit funny. And not funny as in haha, but funny as in weird.
You expect people that come to do a presentation about their products to have a certain way of talking to people and stay away from border-line jokes. The jokes we heard were racists, sexist, rude and at some points bordering on filthy. Perhaps I’m just too critical, but I expected a better performance from him especially when he introduced himself as the marketing director and owner (I might be wrong) of the company.
I’m not someone that is put off by dirty jokes or when people joke about religion, race or anything else for that matter, but when it comes to business you expect a certain type of tact when speaking to the attendees. I also felt that some other people might have felt a bit uneasy about it. Thank goodness there were no non-whites to hear the stuff being said.
His mannerisms were also quite abrasive. Perhaps I’m just more pedantic lately towards things, but just from the presentation I attended I will forever have the image in my head of him whenever I think about their products. It’s quite off putting.
I’m sure if I feel like this, there must be a few other people that experience the same feeling when they’re at a seminar or presentation. So whenever you have someone promote your product, get someone that will verbally and visually represent the way you want your product to be remembered.
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