Last night I went to bed with 2. dollars and. Thir. teen. cents (said in the automated voice that has been announcing that sad balance to me for the past 2 weeks via phone banking) in my bank account-I know, yikes- and I woke up this morning with my first paycheck deposited! Perfect timing because there are several instances where I am required to pay for things and just include them on my expense report whenever I choose to turn it in...who honestly thinks I'm going to remember to fill out all of my expense reports? Not this girl. Today was one of those days and so I was happy when I bought 30 dollars worth of beverages for a meeting and the lady said "Girrrl, you done got the best sweet tea on the aisle", instead of "I'm sorry, your card's been declined". Tomorrow night, I'm cooking dinner for Ann and Bobby as a small thank you for letting me stay in their home...what to make, what to make?
Today was the first meeting that we got to coordinate, and it actually went very nicely. The meeting was with the 6 general managers of the Leatherheads. Basically, these guys (and 1 lady...yes, there are lady leather heads. both surprising and encouraging) are the team captains of the six teams we have within the Leatherheads and their job is to keep their guys on track, motivate to sell, and be leaders among the leatherheads. The meeting went really well, and I learned several things. Camille's Sidewalk Cafe does not make a regular large Chef Salad...so it was great that that was my boss's order, but it does have some of the best oatmeal raisin cookies with CARAMEL running through them...yes, I said oatmeal, raisin, caramel all in one cookie. Dad, feel free to wipe the drool from your chin. Also, preparation for a meeting of 13 people, no matter how simple it may be takes a lot of preparation. Whether it be creating agendas getting the right materials together for each person, getting lunch taken care of on time, printing and reprinting from different computers because someone (ehhmmm...we won't say names baha) jammed the copier to the point where the man fixing it wanted names of possible subjects, all of these things require planning in advance which is not one of my strongest suits. However, I'm learning how to plan ahead, and consequently the meeting was executed well. Snaps for Bryson! (someone clearly needs to get me the hell off of the Kappa List Serve...and get me out of the sorority mindset.)
A large portion of today, in and out of meetings was discussing the leatherheads incentives program, which Sarah and I have spent a good time working and reworking, and presenting to people, and changing...and then ultimately realizing that the way we had is worked out best. Anyways, some of the incentives that we are looking at for leatherheads are things like field passes, hospitality access/box access at games, tickets to private events, etc...My thoughts on the leatherheads incentives are that most of these guys can by whatever they want-money is not an obstacle. What they can't by is access to things that are invite only and that's the way you motivate the leatherheads to sell so that is the mindset we are trying to take when considering what Leatherheads would really respond most positively to. Tomorrow we will be meeting with the Leatherheads gifts committee about gifts for Players, Media, and VIP's and so we are hoping to make some progress as far as narrowing down our gift ideas even further. Any athletes have any fabulous ideas as far as what they would want in a Bowl gift or ACC Championship present??? Feel free to let me know before 11 tomorrow!
Will Webb came into our office with a branding iron he is going to use to personalize some gifts for the leatherheads...if nothing else, by the end of this internship I will hopefully be able to use my new found skills in branding on a cattle ranch of some sort. While he was in our office figuring out the iron, one of the Raycom staff came into our office and brought up his daughter who is in high school, and is apparently excelling in social circles, more so than in her academics. The way he described this struggle with his daughter almost made me sick to my stomach because it was literally like going back to 2002-2005 and listening to the bi-weekly talking to I got, eye rolls included, from my parents. I had to laugh and tell the him that I was certain my father described my less than bright academic future the same way to his colleagues when I was a junior in High School. He actually asked if we wouldn't mind taking his daughter to lunch on Friday, which I am actually very excited to do because I think I am far enough away from my own similar experiences that I can give her an objective adult perspective, while still understanding where she's coming from. The sad thing is that he said she probably is not going to want to come to lunch with us, and with that I looked at Sarah and said 'you here that, we are now the old people that young cool people are embarrassed to go to lunch with!'...growing up is overrated.
My final thoughts for the night are: 1. I have got to stop leaving subject lines blank in emails...frankly, it just looks tacky. 2. 'Y'all' is not an acceptable word in professional, written conversation and 3. If you asked me if I was addicted to my blackberry yet, I wouldn't lie to you...I don't think I've gone 10 minutes without at least checking it except for when I was sleeping...and even then I'm pretty sure I woke up a couple of times just to make sure it was still laying beside me (I won't be taking it into meetings with me anymore because it's too much of a temptation...like facebooking in class). Is it too soon to give my communication device a name? I feel like I've developed a relationship with it already.
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