During the end of last week, Kim and I sat down and decided to make a calendar with everything laid out that we want to accomplish by the end of my time at Demarquette. That took a good hour and a half... partly because Kim is always getting interrupted by phone calls and random things that come up throughout the day, and partly because there was so much to think about! We're quickly learning that even with both of us working on things, it's going to be close to impossible to get everything done.
Monday was supposed to start with preparing product drops to different newspaper/magazine companies. By that, I mean I would be going to different places to drop off our Easter products for taste tests, reviews, and product features that newspapers may be doing in order to get essentially free press. We quickly realized that wasn't going to happen... so many things had come up over the weekend that those were moved to the top of our priority list. By the end of the week, none of the product drops ended up happening, but we did accomplish lots of other things!
We've been doing a good job of keeping our blog updated to attract readers, who will hopefully turn into customers or promoters for the company. This week, we added a blog having to do with Mother's Day, and we also developed a newsletter for the holiday. Just about every newsletter we send out has some type of offer on it to try and increase our orders, but that doesn't always happen. Either way, we took about a day to get both of those done and that put us behind for all the other things we had to do.
I worked on the 10th so that I could be out of the office for one day the following week as my boyfriend was coming to visit. Again, we were supposed to get product drops done that day and it didn't happen again. Packing boxes to ship always seems to get in the way somehow and that day was no exception. We were also beginning to work on the event that I am planning for the week after Easter. Hopefully, it will have a decent turnout!
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