Selling Cleaning Products on a Sidewalk

London Ski Show; I had an excellent opportunity to make a presentation on behalf of NONSTOPSKI on "How to become a Ski Instructor" at the London Ski Show.

Power Point prepared, ran through it a couple of times, ready to go, or so I thought! What I was not prepared for was the venue! I had in my mind a picture of the venue being in a special presentation room or at least of it being in a somewhat designated area. To my astonishment, it was right in the middle of the show where hundreds of people were milling about. Sounds great except that the hundreds of people had no interest in a presentation and predictably continued on with their milling about as I began discussing my very interesting topic. The most unusual presentation situation for me ever. My norm is making a presentation at CSIA instructor certification courses where participants at least pretend to be interested in what I have to say. Quite uncomfortatble! To make matters worse, the TV screen, on which my power point was displayed was tiny in comparison to the venue, and the sound system (I was on a microphone) was absolutely enormous. I felt like one of those guys demonstrating cleaning products on a busy sidewalk, only it felt like I was not wearing any pants.