My Job Description
I am not a full time blogger. I am work as a Sales & Marketing officer in one of the hotels in Port Dickson. My Friends always keep asking me, what i am doing as a sales & marketing officer in hotel? answer call? sales call? out station?..Working in hotel's sales & marketing department is not an easy job as what you may think.
Okay, i will briefly tell you what i am doing every day.
1) Taking lead from call- written down customers' info and what kind of function they will have in our resort
2) Doing quotation -After taken lead, do a quotation based on what kind of function they will have in our resort (normally are day trip, family day & meeting)
3) Guest Inspection- After the client agreed with the prices we given in our quotation, they will do a site inspection in our resort. (We will show them around the resort & rooms)
4) Discussing -Discuss with client for the coming event programmes.
5) Confirmation- Client will send us the confirmation letter to us.
6) Proforma Invoice- After we received the confirmation letter, we will send them a proforma invoice. Then they will bank in 50% deposit. Balance to be settled upon check in.
7) Doing Event Order- Once we received 50% deposit, then we have to prepare EO to each department. Such as Front office, account, kitchen, house keeping, reservation, food & beverage, recreation, artist and AV & engineering department. Each department have to perform their task based on written down in the EO given by sales & marketing department.
The day event, we still have to monitor the function to make sure everything is running smoothly.
Group registration counter 
Sometimes our group registration counter was always full, so we will set up a canopy outside for group registration too
Enjoying their pool activitiesAlthough we did our best for the whole event, but sometime we will still received complaints from our guests.
You know, Some guests are really really demanding & fussy! But what we can do? Guests are always right what..
Sometimes, i really damn busy & fucking tired! Of course + tension. But after listen this song, 'Fragrant Rice', i felt better. I like this song very much. If you don't understand chinese, the video got English sub. Enjoy it!
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Posted by Francis Tan at Thursday, November 27, 2008





