Core Committee Business Development (2013)

This is going to be a 9 part series where each member of the Core Committee Business Development 2013 known as "The Dogfather" describes and writes about how the last 3 months have been for them as a part of this dynamic team. Each story talks about the what the individual felt throughout this experience as well as what was happening around them at the time.

The first in the series is written by Rishika Bhatia.

The Dogfather, our Core Committee.

This is just one part of the journey which just a handful of us had the luck to cherish. My journey in the CC started with that one call late that night. That was Naina. Out of the blue she put Raghav on conference & they asked, “Rishika, do you have any idea what this call is about?” I was blank. I couldn't say a word. They asked me to make a wild guess & I ended up saying, “Is this about LCong OC?” Clearly, I was wrong. That one call was all about honour It was about being in the CC. It was all too unexpected & a little too great to be true. When the form for being in the CC was out, I cried because there was no option for a March recruit to apply for the CC. Words fail me when it comes to the feeling of getting that one call from the VP BD.

A team of nine came together the next day to start-off with a kick-ass journey that it was going to be. We never knew what awaited us. Personally, I was very scared but at the same time, felt a lot more responsible than I ever was.

Making a database of some 150 companies & making endless cold calls, some of which failing miserably, while some were just dead-ends in the first place, it got frustrating. Seeing the CC working their ass off day & night and at the end of the day seeing them fall, it got annoying. There was a time when all we talked about was JUST work. CC synergy was gone. We fell. We got bruised. It was hurtful. A feeling of disbelief started taking over. Every cold call I made was just another annoyed receptionist or some Marketing Head who simply put the phone down in my face. There was confusion. I questioned myself, “Am I really good enough to be in the CC?” Everyone questioned us. Everyone lost faith in us. But, somewhere in the middle we forgot that The Dogfather is not just a name, it’s a family that stood together all this while. It’s our pride & honor.
The feeling of happiness & satisfaction of a successful cold call, that feeling of joy of getting a meeting fixed- it was almost too good to be true. We had dead leads, but we knew what we had to do.

The Dogfather- yes, we had our failures. Yes, we fell. Yes, we got bruised. YES WE LEARNT. We never wished for less challenges, we only wished to have more wisdom. It has already been 3 months, but when I look back it seems as if this all started yesterday. I am proud to have failed & get back better and stronger. I am proud to have learnt from these 3 months. I am honoured to be The Dogfather- I always have been & I always will be.

CCBD-2013 , aka The Dogfather has been formed for the purpose of getting in sponsors and partnerships for a number of Events coming up, like Udaan, Lead MUN, Global Village, Corporate Dinner, Empower and Youth Carnival.

So while the OCs are out there organizing the events, its the CC running the show from behind.

Getting in the money for all of the events combined is no cakewalk, specially when we do not have a lot to sell right now, so the CCBD team has its work cut out for it.

The team for this is nothing short of badass, with the hardest working people from various departments coming together, aiming to match the colossal target, under the supervision of VP BD and master skoller

Naina Thirani