TJ's Sales Week 1

On wednesday we met with Kevin for our first day in the sales rotation. He gave us our "Sales 101" class, which was a lot more useful than I first imagined it would be, and then went on to discuss interviews/interview techniques and resume ideas (what to highlight, what to leave out, etc). Kevin had Emily come up with a sales pitch for a pen that she pitched to the group. He then used her pitch to reflect on common trends and mistakes most salesmen make day to day. Emily did really well by first asking questions and feeling out her audience, which most people do not (they are too worried about talking about their product without actually finding the customers needs). 

We ended our session by going over resume ideas and how to approach your job search after graduation. Since Kevin actually takes part in the hiring process for the sales dept. at UT, he was a perfect candidate for us to learn from. His main point on Resume's was not to try and fabricate real work experience (since everyone knows we really don't have any), but rather to really focus on what sets you apart from the rest. Overall, it seems as if the Sales rotation is going to be a great learning experience about the driving force behind all of business. 

Happy Easter Everyone!!!

-TJ

Marketing

We had our first Marketing rotation today. i am really excited for this rotation, obviously since many of us are marketing majors. I think this will be a great way to show UT the skills we have from USD. THey want us to help them by looking at their current sites for various things and tell them how they can revamp them to get more traffic. I am personally doing contest which I am really excited about. When I studied abroad in Ireland one of my classes had a guest speaker who showed us their companies social media contest. Hopefully My knowledge from that class will help with this assignment!

We are he marketing group and our Goya was in a topic an how to better advertise and get the public more involved. Mine in particular is about night an day entertainment and how to get people to subscribe. We are giving a presentation to them next week about what we discovered like the traffic on the website and how to appeal to different target markets.

Content Rotation Day 1

Last week at the UT our group wrapped up the sales rotation. On Friday I was able to work one on one with two sales representatives. They both taught me about their orders and the importance of the loyalty of their customers. With each rep I had my own headset to listen and observe the outbound and incoming phone calls. It was a unique experience to work with each of the reps, especially because I have regularly taken advantage of ads that appear throughout the UT. This Monday we discussed the next plans for the artwalk. I really enjoyed today being apart of the content rotation. We met with one of our facilitators and learned about the background of content. It was a good experience to learn about the journalistic aspect at the UT. Each of us members received an organized syllabus and will each be asked to participate by covering a news event. I am really looking forward to resuming next Wednesday. Hope everyone is doing well. Enjoy your Easter Holiday.

As mentioned by my classmates, on monday we had a meeting at UT San Diego to talk about the art walk and each group was given a topic to work on. By friday we have to provide UT with some ideas on our section.

Today we have had our first meeting with content. It has been very interesting and almost like a class, giving us all sorts of insights and information about how journalism works, what it is, etc. The person who has given us the explanation was very nice, so we have shared a lot of questions and comments with him. I found it very useful, since we actually know very little about journalism and any information will definitely be good to increase our knowledge.

Im excited about covering the event! I will have to start looking at the events in the following weeks and see which suits my schedule and tastes the best.

I hope you have good weeks!!

Week 8 Sales

It was a busy week at the U-T

On Monday we discussed the Art Walk that we will be working in a few weeks. I was slightly disappointed to see that the U-T did not really take many of the ideas that we had, like the winning group's scavenger hunt. However I am sure they have a rhyme and reason for everything. Group to will be working on campus marketing to promote the contest and the art walk in general. We came up with a few ideas like utilizing USD radio, the vista, the kiosks, and USD televisions to promote the event. We also want to send promote to photography and art classes especially for the photo contest. Right now our group is just waiting for a u-t approved flyer so we can start our job.

Today, we went to the sales department and talked with Kevin. He is the sales guru and taught us the 3 V's of sales. I also had to pretend to sell a pen to the group, which was pretty challenging. I started my sale by asking questions of the group to convince them that that was the product for them. Turns out questions are clutch when making a sale so I was pretty impressed with myself =]

Kevin also talked to us about good interviewing skills and told us that it is important to have good questions to ask of the interviewer after the interview is over. He also gave us his number and said that if we had any other questions or wanted to practice interviewing skills that we were more then welcome to call him!

Happy Easter!
Em

Group 2- Art Walk and Sales

This week, we went over the Art Walk ideas, and my group started our rotation with the sales department today.

When going over the Art Walk ideas, Dan outlined their plan for the art walk centered around Group 4's Discover theme. Although they didn't keep the idea of the scavenger hunt, they did decide on a photo contest being specifically promoted to the University of San Diego. They had some other ideas as well such as including photo booths, foot prints leading to the booth, etc. that had been mentioned in presentations. Then, we were given responsibilities for each group. Our group is in charge of campus marketing. Aside from the social media that a different group is focusing on, we will be responsible for promoting it via our kiosks, our USD website, residence halls, art department, etc. We created an entire list of places we would contact as options for marketing this idea.

Today, Group 2 began our rotation with the sales department. It sounds like they had forgotten we were coming, so they asked one of their workers named Kevin to basically give us a Sales 101 talk. He outlined the basics of selling in a way that helped the seller secure their position, and helped the buyer find something that meets their need. He also applied his technique that he taught us to the job-interviewing process, and gave us some tips on interviewing that were very helpful. We're not sure what we will be doing with them next week, but so far it's been pretty interesting!

Have a good break everyone!