Weekly Rundown: Week 3

This week I spent a lot of time in the office. I worked 17 hours last week, bringing my grand total to 44 hours completed. I was able to get accomplish most of what I wanted to do, while also doing some spontaneous activities.

My main priority last week was to get all of the program artwork in, and to put them all on a flash drive, so that all of the artwork can be stored in a central location. To be honest, at the beginning of the week I was pretty far behind on getting this done. So the first thing I did on Monday afternoon was to make a list of all the artwork I still needed, and I distributed the list to all sales people. The reason I did this was so that they could contact their clients and remind them to send in their artwork.

Also, while updating my spreadsheet to reflect new artwork submissions, I realized I had made a couple of errors that I needed to fix. First, I hadn't collected all of last years artwork that we were reusing. In order to fix this, I had to contact the man who produced last years program, and get him to email me what I was missing. He promptly emailed me the files and I was caught up on that end. Secondly, when I sent out the list of what I was missing, I had omitted a few clients, so I had to go around and tell all the salespeople the accounts that were not listed. Fixing these two problems helped me learn how to communicate well, and more specifically, how to communicate to others when you are trying to correct an error.

On Tuesday I ran in to some something that I had avoided up until this point; I had to do some busy work. The FireAntz have a promotion called "Chuck-a-Puck". At every game, fans can buy a foam puck for a dollar, and during intermission, have a chance to throw it in to the bed of a truck. Unfortunately, every off season the pucks have to be renumbered. This means that each puck gets a sticker put on it and they are numbered sequentially. This year, the task of renumbering the puck fell to me, so I had to spend a few hours numbering puck after puck. It was unavoidable, and honestly it wasn't that bad. Sooner or later, I will end up having to renumber a lot more pucks.

Also a there were a couple of afternoons that I got to accompany salespeople on stop ins. Meaning I got to go see real sports marketers preform. You will remember that I had the opportunity to do this last week as well. This week, showed me another facet of selling, and that is following up with your customers. Account executive Erika Taylor had just taken over the count of a local business. To make sure she and the client were on the same page, she stopped by to introduce herself, and ensure the client that their contract was going to be fulfilled. This was a great example of how to maintain your relationship with clients.

I really only have one objective, and that is to completely finish gathering all the artwork that is not yet in. Friday is the deadline to have this submitted, so I will be working my hardest to have it done by then.