Week of 6/1-6/5

Monday: 10-4
Tuesday:10-4
Wednesday: 11-1
9-11 (from home)
Thursday: 10-4
Friday: 10-4
Total: 28 hours

Monday:
I spent a lot of time working at yellowpages.com trying to ensure that I had all of the appropriate contact information for the list of sponsors I made last year. It took a lot of time to finish because there was some sort of error that occured when I took the work home with me to work with over lunch. All the work I had done over lunch was basically erased when I opened it back up at work, I'm not sure if it was a mistake made on my part, or if I there was some sort of glitch with my computer. Either way, it took a lot longer than it should have, and by the end of the day I was pretty much back where I was when I finished working with it at lunch. I also printed out camp order forms at the end of the day. My supervisor told me that I am going to start making sales calls starting on Tuesday.

Tuesday:
My supervisor came in with a lot of things to do today and I was not informed of who I would be calling, or what I needed to address with them. I asked him about it and he said that he didn't want to pile everything on me at once. So I spent a lot of the day finishing up my list of addresses. He did ask my opinion on a couple of sales pitches he was going to pitch that afternoon, but I didn't make the phone calls. I did print off the camp purchase orders and take them to the business manager in the athletic department. Sometimes I feel as though I am doing a lot of busy work, but I will become marginally more involved in the next week or so, at least I hope. My supervisor told me that tommorrow will be a short day because no one would be in the office, so he wasn't going to keep me there for very long, but that he would give me some work to do from home.

Wednesday
I came in for a couple of hours, I finally finished the list of all the sponsors, and I printed off the purchase orders for camps. My supervisor gave me some research to do from home involving student spirit groups at different schools in North Carolina and surrounding states. Campbell's group is called the camel crazies. The purpose of this was to compare the other school's groups to other Campbell's, to make sure Campbell was on par with other schools as far as the types of benefits offered to the students for being members, membership costs, etc.

Thursday
My supervisor came in again with a lot of other stuff on his mind, so I did not get to make sales calls today either. I spent a lot of time working on the list of student spirit groups in various schools. I was surprised to find that a lot of schools really don't have something like that for students to be involved with. Practically every school has a booster club, and some have student versions of booster clubs that they label as spirit groups, but their primary focus is still fundraising and teaching students the importance of giving back to their schools. Campbell's student group, the Camel Crazies soul purpose is to provide support for the student athletes and give students incentives for attending games and supporting the camels. Obviously, Campbell cannot provide the same incentives that larger schools can, but they do try to make it comparable considering the size of the school. After lunch I printed off camp orders and took them to the business manager.

Friday
I finally got to make some sales calls today, which was a very beneficial experience. I was mostly making phone calls to people we had worked with in recent years to see if they wished to renew their contract. It helps that I am very familiar with this area and some of the people I am calling know who I am. A couple of the people I called were either not in or no longer worked there, so we are going to have to do some research as to who we should contact at those locations. I did make a sale at one of the local pharmacies though, and we will be running a contract over there next week. On Monday I will be calling one of the places I called today again, because they were out of the office today. In the afternoon I spent a little more time working on the list of student spirit groups, and sat in on a sales meeting with an outdoor advertising company, which was a very beneficial experience for me. I also printed off the camp orders after lunch and turned them into the business manager.

Even though at times this week I felt as though I was doing a lot of busy work or not doing much at all, I have come to realize that all of the tedious work I have done is really going to make someone else's job a whole lot easier.