VIP Class Notes (Olivia)

Warmup:

last week activities:

it is a busy week, I had my business everyday, I must do some report and had so much meetings. I just have a big dinner in Thursday with my team, we ate BBQ together. Yesterday I slept a whole day because I was so tired to do such a big workload. I think I need a big rest.

FOCUS:

grammar, complex and compound sentences – building more complex/constructed sentences,

therefore, hence, due to, – to show relations

which, where, when, how, what – show compound and complexity

1: what is your observation of the current Chinese economy

boost/increase/rise/downturn/slowing down/sluggish/fluctuating/consumption behavior

Actually, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic in retail used to be very bad/weak, but now it is recovering slowly. Now we recovered return to work and tried to do some marketing invest to improve our products and introduced our products to the public.

Now for my company in retail, it’s became a better sales in compared to last years.

we invited a spokesperson to represent our product next year. So we made a large investment/ invested a lot  to him to let our product known in China. He is an actor and his work will be on/aired in Nov, we think it’ll be a hit show, maybe we can realize our expectation of him.

worse – bad

the company is devoting more resource/investment into the market

Now, the company’s sales performance is much stronger in comparison to previous years.

sales performance – strong, weak, good, bad.

launch – product launch, v/n – introduce a new product

spokesperson

command a large sales growth – drive

generate return –

positive image

showing skins – exposed skin

Chinese myth

Shang Dynasty

emperor –  dynasties

kings – kingdoms

riots/rebellions – overthrow the emperor

collaborations/brand partnership/endorsement – barbie – merchandise in the market

motivated – self driven

wlb – work-life balance

nature of work – time consuming, accurate, detail-oriented

style – work style

stay indoors – I’m an indoor person

feed – automatic feeder – set up the time to feed cats

camera – camera to monitor/look at my cats

browse – browse the internet, browse the store

algorithms – behind the application is very strong.