Hours:
Monday: 8-2
Tuesday: off
Wednesday: 8-2
Thursday: 8-10
Friday: 8-2
subtotal 20 hours........68/400 total hours
Week #3 was a pretty busy week for me. As each week passes by, more and more different tasks keep popping up. I'm in charge of getting promotional material together for the 2009 Cumberland County High School Showcase game and the 2009 Fayetteville SwampDogs Kids Camp. I made flyers for the events and sent out e-mails to prospective campers and players for the showcase game. I was on Microsoft Excel a lot making tons of data bases for medical info for the players, the camp, the showcase, and other excel spreadsheets. Like the past two weeks, I met more business owners at meetings to sell sponsorships. I'm learning how to market and promote better when going to businesses to build partnerships. The SwampDogs are looking for long term sponsorships so they can grow through out Fayetteville. Also, I browsed the internet to find promotional door hangers that can be used in the summer when there are games. I had to contact the SID's at the schools who failed to send me there head shots for the online roster on our website. I called the secretary at Cumberland County schools athletic office to ask when the next athletic director's meeting is so the owner of the SwampDogs can talk to the athletic directors about the high school showcase game. I believe there is a ton more ahead of me and I'm learning so many different things each and every day at the workplace.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
Week #2
Hours:
Monday: 8-2
Tuesday:1-5
Wednesday: 8-2
Thursday:1-5
Friday:8-2
Subtotal 26 hours....50/400 total hours
This week went a whole lot more smoothly then my first week. My main duties this week were to find out when the little league opening day ceremonies were. I had to find this out because we would like for our mascot to go out and make an appearance and be part of the opening day ceremonies and promote the SwampDogs more in the community before the season starts. I called every rec center around Cumberland County and found out that every opening day is April 18th. So since every little league opening day is the same date, we have to pick the sites where we think will be the most traffic on that specific day. I learned how to do appearances as well. This means that when a company or group wants our mascot or a representative to come out to their event we add the event to the appearance book and write who, what, when, where, etc... and get the contact information from the person hosting the event. I attended many sponsorships meetings this week. I attended meetings with Cape Fear Barbeque, Century 21, Monster energy drink, and NWR. It is a good experience to sit down at these meetings and listen to the marketing and advertising lingo. I actually came up with a creative idea for a promotion for Century 21. The idea is that if a SwampDogs player steals home a fan will receive $21,000 towards a new home and the promotion would be called "The Steal of the Century". So i felt like i contributed more this week and gave out my ideas instead of holding back.
Monday: 8-2
Tuesday:1-5
Wednesday: 8-2
Thursday:1-5
Friday:8-2
Subtotal 26 hours....50/400 total hours
This week went a whole lot more smoothly then my first week. My main duties this week were to find out when the little league opening day ceremonies were. I had to find this out because we would like for our mascot to go out and make an appearance and be part of the opening day ceremonies and promote the SwampDogs more in the community before the season starts. I called every rec center around Cumberland County and found out that every opening day is April 18th. So since every little league opening day is the same date, we have to pick the sites where we think will be the most traffic on that specific day. I learned how to do appearances as well. This means that when a company or group wants our mascot or a representative to come out to their event we add the event to the appearance book and write who, what, when, where, etc... and get the contact information from the person hosting the event. I attended many sponsorships meetings this week. I attended meetings with Cape Fear Barbeque, Century 21, Monster energy drink, and NWR. It is a good experience to sit down at these meetings and listen to the marketing and advertising lingo. I actually came up with a creative idea for a promotion for Century 21. The idea is that if a SwampDogs player steals home a fan will receive $21,000 towards a new home and the promotion would be called "The Steal of the Century". So i felt like i contributed more this week and gave out my ideas instead of holding back.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Week # 1
Week #1
Tentative hours as of right now:
Monday, Wednesday: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday: 1 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturday: varies
24 subtotal hours out of 400 total hours 24/400
This was my first week working for the Fayetteville SwampDogs. The Fayetteville SwampDogs are part of the Coastal Plain League which is a competitive collegiate summer baseball league. The team consists of players from all over the nation from different colleges/universities. It’s amazing how much you can learn week. I had many new tasks that I have never accomplished before. I thought this week would be like trying to get my bearings and relax and know where everything is, but, I was wrong of course. As soon as I walked in the SwampDogs office at J.P. Riddle Stadium, I had my work laid out for me and everything was “go , go, go”. I didn’t even know everybody’s names when I started my first task (there are only four people in the office). So far, there has been three other guys that I work with. Darrell is the owner/director of baseball operations of the SwampDogs. Mark is the general manager and my boss, Jeremy, is the assistant general manager/internship coordinator. Since it’s the off season, there tasks are to sell sponsorships to local businesses in Cumberland County. They have a marketing kit that they hand out to the business owners to show them the menu of what is offered. My tasks this week included the following:
Contact the Sport Information Directors at the schools/universities where the players are from and receive headshots of the players for our website: www.goswampdogs.com
Make Excel spreadsheets for the players and their contact information (e-mail address, phone numbers) and the other one was schedules of the college teams playing in the area with 2009 SwampDog players.
Field maintenance work (put up signs knocked down by wind)
Answer phone calls
Went to meetings concerning selling future sponsorships
Write press releases
Tasks for the upcoming week are putting together the annual Kids Camp. I will have to make a spreadsheet of the kids that attended the camp last year and send out a blast e-mail to the parents to announce that the sign-ups for the camps our coming soon. Darrell’s father, Lou, is the part owner of the SwampDogs and he is coming into town this week so I have to step my game up and be on task.
Tentative hours as of right now:
Monday, Wednesday: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday: 1 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturday: varies
24 subtotal hours out of 400 total hours 24/400
This was my first week working for the Fayetteville SwampDogs. The Fayetteville SwampDogs are part of the Coastal Plain League which is a competitive collegiate summer baseball league. The team consists of players from all over the nation from different colleges/universities. It’s amazing how much you can learn week. I had many new tasks that I have never accomplished before. I thought this week would be like trying to get my bearings and relax and know where everything is, but, I was wrong of course. As soon as I walked in the SwampDogs office at J.P. Riddle Stadium, I had my work laid out for me and everything was “go , go, go”. I didn’t even know everybody’s names when I started my first task (there are only four people in the office). So far, there has been three other guys that I work with. Darrell is the owner/director of baseball operations of the SwampDogs. Mark is the general manager and my boss, Jeremy, is the assistant general manager/internship coordinator. Since it’s the off season, there tasks are to sell sponsorships to local businesses in Cumberland County. They have a marketing kit that they hand out to the business owners to show them the menu of what is offered. My tasks this week included the following:
Contact the Sport Information Directors at the schools/universities where the players are from and receive headshots of the players for our website: www.goswampdogs.com
Make Excel spreadsheets for the players and their contact information (e-mail address, phone numbers) and the other one was schedules of the college teams playing in the area with 2009 SwampDog players.
Field maintenance work (put up signs knocked down by wind)
Answer phone calls
Went to meetings concerning selling future sponsorships
Write press releases
Tasks for the upcoming week are putting together the annual Kids Camp. I will have to make a spreadsheet of the kids that attended the camp last year and send out a blast e-mail to the parents to announce that the sign-ups for the camps our coming soon. Darrell’s father, Lou, is the part owner of the SwampDogs and he is coming into town this week so I have to step my game up and be on task.
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