Real Estate Adventures / Lessons from Exhibitions
MIPIM. Days 2, 3 and 4: We do have clients Do we also have the right product for them?
In few hours I will be traveling back to Bucharest (via Paris). Today the exhibition ends around 12.00 – 13.00 (workers will start deconstructing the stands after this time) and MIPIM 2009 will be history in few hours. I am writing these lines being inside the exhibition, while we have started packing our boxes…... »
Cannes, day 1: Time for Quality – Quantity is history…
The no. 1 Real Estate exhibition of the World showed us more than clearly that the World is still approaching cautiously the available investment opportunities. Half of the private companies which were present as exhibitors last year are absent now, most of them did not even appear as visitors. The vast majority of investors... »
Flying for Cannes…
Hello and have a wonderful week! Yesterday I returned from Greece back to Romania, so as to have the time to finish 6 (!) meetings (2 last night and 4 today) before I go to the airport in the afternoon and fly to Nice. From there Cannes is just half an hour drive and... »
Memories from Munich - EXPO REAL
“Call them, are they still going to make it?”. “Man, are you crazy? It is one of the most important Real Estate exhibitions of the world, in the top 3 of Europe”. “Ask… with this crisis, maybe they will think more wisely and they will cancel it”. Fortunately for me, my friend was wrong... »
My Speech: A moment to remember
It was raining again, as it happened in all the previous days. But even while raining, Madrid is still lovely. This is why last night I was walking on some of the main boulevards, just to relax and think, after a hard day (ok, I admit it, I was also checking the marketing mix... »
Talking sports in exhibitions – I simply love it
The first time I remember myself watching sports was in the spring of 1979. It was a game between Panionios and Olympiakos for the Greek Cup, two Greek football teams. My family had a black and white television, Olympiakos lost 2 – 1 (Panionios later on won the Cup). I, not even 4 years... »
“You look like a Turkish man and this is a compliment”
I know that my physique can mislead people. When I travel to England, I am always questioned for 5 – 10 minutes, separately than the rest of my friends, just because they find me Arab… I have been called Italian, Spanish and many more. Yesterday I became a Turkish man too! “You know, mr... »
Loneliness is better, than you, who I can not reach…
SIMA exhibition has started yesterday and I can not really say that I am fascinated by it. Of course “Hope dies last” as we say in Greek, but the first signs are not exactly satisfying… • The organizers have forgotten something. Based on what happens here, I guess they had in mind to give to every... »
Hola! I am in love with… Madrid!
Hello to all my friends. No, there was no problem, nothing serious caused my… disappearance all these previous days. We just had some very serious problems with out servers, but now we are back in business. I apologize for this and I hope that it is the last time that it happens… Well, now that... »
Memories from Cannes (part 2)
The 50 years old gentleman came to my stand, without knowing much about me, I guess nothing at all. He was a Romanian citizen living abroad for most of the time. He asked to sit and to talk to the boss, so my people informed me to join the conversation. He started talking by... »
