Week 5

Communicate with our client through phone and email only is a huge challenge for us, especially for Wenqing and me - the two international students in one group. We had a phone meeting with ASSCRE two days ago, to be honest, this meeting made me feel even more confusing, I am not so sure what our clients want. Communicating in a different language through phone would be a huge challenge for international students, it is hard to have effective interaction on the phone call. But I bet Mariah have a better  understanding of client, we would have an inperson group meeting today, I think that would help a lot.

However, the meeting gives us many connections to the people who understand the signage industry. As I concerned for the last 5 weeks, we do not understand signage industry at all. I sent out email to many signage companies last week, but only one replied that they are willing to help us. Two days ago, Patty gave us 8 or 9 people to contact with, and most of them are willing to help us. So our next task for now is to talk to these people one by one, which hopefully would give us a much better understanding of what we are doing now. 

Lastly, for our next meeting with client. I would try to request them to talk through Skype video chatting. I think that would be better for us to understand each other.