Week IX

Since we are rounding down to the best chef competition, I needed to create cue cards for the DJ’s, thank you cards for the chefs, finalize times for both the interviews and the food pick-up/drop-off times, and start working on the post press release in anticipation for after the contest. It’s really exciting to be able to work on a huge project like this from beginning to end and watch its growth in anticipation for the event. So far I have created attention in four different newspapers (CDT, Altoona Mirror, Lewistown-Sentinel, Lancaster Farming), one magazine (Town & Gown) two websites (Pheonixvillenews.com, NittanyLiving.net), two radio stations (WRSC, 95.3 3wz), and one TV station (WJAC). And I have been saving copies not only for our client but also for me to put in a portfolio.

Now that the bridal workshop is over, it was my job this week to keep in touch with the contacts that were made on Thursday. Between Michelle and myself, six out of the ten companies that came to the workshop had expressed interest in learning more about preparing for this trade show through the networking session part of the workshop. I was able to make contact with all of them after the show and four of the six went further into depth of wanting quotes on items. It was my job to create proposals for those four companies with quotes of the items requested and explanation of those items. Creating proposals is fun because I have to contact printers to find out prices, add our markup to the printing costs, place other quotes in there for design and such, then email it to client once I get Michelle's approval.