As Time Flies...

Wow, so much has been going on in my hectic alumni life, that I felt this was the perfect opportunity to hop on here and catch everyone up! I have to first say that it was only one year ago that I was dwindling down on my final quarter at Berkeley College, not knowing where I would be or what I would be doing after graduation. I was totally pumped and excited to know that within a months time, I would be closing those books for good! I won't deny that it feels great, and I mean REALLY great to be done with college and have my degree, but I sure do miss it. Graduation just means moving on to bigger and better things in life. I myself have definitely felt the benefits of moving on to these exciting aspects of life.

I've been heading a marketing department for just about 5 months now and I can't even begin to say how much I am enjoying it. Every month I have been learning a whole bunch of different skills that improve my daily work functions. It's been such a learning experience both for myself and the sales team at my job because they've never had just one person solely focusing on the marketing. It's rewarding for me to hear that everyone is happy with the way things are going, because it means I'm doing something right! I always look for critiques because I want to know what needs to be fixed or even if it's a suggestion for future marketing plans, I just rather know so I can make any necessary changes. Over the next few months, I am going to be taking on some additional marketing projects with our sister company to help establish their marketing plans & strategies for the upcoming months.

For July into August, I decided to plan a promotion around the Olympic Games. What I decided to do was to make a promotion that was a little more interactive, rather than just setting a target for an item and that being it. What I did was since it's the Olympics, I decided to select the XBOX 360 Kinect Sports Bundle as my prize. There are 2 drawings for this promotion. The 1st drawing is based on a survey, in which our customers had to click into and answer 3 very simple questions based on how many medals will the US win, how many medals will China win, and how many medals will Russia win? Those answers needed to be submitted by July 27th, since after that date, the Olympics would be in full swing. Then, for the second half of the Olympics, I set it up as any requirements or request for quotes that come through, we would award them with ONE entry into the drawing for the XBOX 360. If that requirement turned into an order, we will award an additional 10 entries. So far, it's been quite an interactive promotion and everyone has been giving really great feedback.

I'm also working on re-designing our website, so there is so much going on that I am looking forward to continuing with. This is just my update as to what's been going on! Work has been very exciting and I'm still finding it SO hard to believe that I've been there 5 months already. Like they say, time flies by when you're having fun!!

I hope everyone is having a great summer!