Week of 6/30-7/4

Monday: 10-3:30
Tuesday: 10-4
Wednesday: 10-4:30
Thursday: 10-3
Friday: Holiday, No work
Total: 23

Monday
Today there was not a whole lot to do in the office. We did a lot of preparation for the new marketing assistant who will be coming in for his first day tommorrow. I did some work in excel as far as the marketing plans for soccer and volleyball. I also did some more research on promotional activities at games. In the afternoon I printed off camp orders and updated any of the camps that needed to be taken down because the registration deadline had expired. I inquired with my field supervisor Debbie about possibly spending some time in another department, namely compliance and/or operations. I am still going to have to be somewhat involved with the marketing deparment since that is where my major project will be focused. My primary goal for spending some time in other departments is to gain a larger perspective of what is involved with college athletics. Compliance is particularly interesting to me because of a lot of the research I did in my administration class last semester concerning NCAA rules and regulations.

Tuesday
The new Marketing Assistant came in today. He did a lot of first day stuff as far as taking care of some of the technicalities of starting a new job. I called one of the companies I have been trying to work with. They have been giving me a particularly difficult time because they haven't looked at the information I dropped off a month ago. Needless to say, they told me they would call back in the afternoon. In the afternoon I sat down and talked with the new assistant a little bit, which was important considering we are going to be working together for a while this summer. I showed him how to process the orders for camps that came in everyday and where we had to take them when we were done. We also did some brainstorming as far as some more ideas for promotions at sporting events this coming season. I went over all of the research I had done with him, and he took some notes and gave me some of his thoughts on some of the ideas. By the end of the day we had both kind of discovered that planning promotions was really not as easy as it looked. We were just having a difficult time thinking of games to play at these events. Some events are easier to plan for like soccer, or football for example, because they have very defined periods of time when there is nothing go on, and you can expect a bit of a crowd at both events. Volleyball is a little trickier because we don't know what kind of people to expect at the events, or how many. We also have to take into consideration that there will be certain days when we don't do anything at games because there was another event that day where we might do a big promotion ( Other than homecoming, there aren't too many of these occurences). The gentleman who was supposed to call me back never did, I suppose I will have to call him back tommorrow.

Wednesday
In the morning we went over a few more promotional ideas for soccer, volleyball, and football. I also called the gentleman who I mentioned earlier back because he never contacted me yesterday, and he once again asked me to call back next week. In the afternoon we walked over to Human Resources and helped Drew (New Marketing Assistant) get some of his stuff squared away as far as setting up an email address, etc. We walked over to the bookstore afterwards and talked with the bookstore manager who has been in charge of finding a new mascot Costume for the upcoming season. As I stated before the current Gaylord costume is broken, and is not really safe for anyone to wear. I've also still been communicating with Debbie about setting up a time to meet with the people in Compliance and set up a work schedule. Apparently she has been having some email problems, and I have not received all of the emails she sent me, though she does appear to be responding to my emails. Because of this, the process has taken a little bit longer. We did decide that we would set up a meeting on Monday to meet with the people in Compliance, due to the fact that Debbie has another meeting tommorrow. Drew and I did some research this afternoon for businesses in the Fuquay-Varina area. We are looking to expand our reach into that area and make our students more aware of all of the "stuff" that is in that area. It also provides us with a lot more opportunities for sales because that area in general is a lot bigger than the Harnett County area. We also searched through a stack of old business cards that the previous marketing director collected and decided which ones would be worth giving a call again. In the afternoon I printed off camp orders and took them to the business manager. We have had an increased number of issues with orders that come in for $0 dollars this week. We are not sure if there is some sort of issue with the ordering system, or if people are just overlooking it. However, it has been more of a process this week making sure all of the camps were in fact processed because of these issues.

Thursday
Phone calls, phone calls, and more phone calls. Kevin told me that he was waiting for Drew to come in until we did a lot of calling, and that is certainly what we did. One of the big problems with this is that today is the day before the 4th of July, so obviously most business owers or managers were on vacation, or they were closing early, and were not available to talk. Today was a good opportunity for me to observe some sales calls though, and kind of fine-tune my approach to making sales calls. We did manage to schedule a couple of sales meetings for next week, so it was a somewhat beneficial venture. I came back right after lunch and printed off the camp orders and took them to the business manager. We had an issue with a softball camp that the coach asked us to close registration for because they were full, and we had two orders come in right before we closed it. We left it with the business manager to handle, and it was most likely handled. After dropping off the orders, I left and went home a little bit early.