Friday 7-17-09

Friday (7-17-09) was presentation day. Most of the morning and early afternoon was spent preparing for the presentation. During the presentation, B&B and Carelifornia did an excellent job presenting. Kenny gave us wonderful presentation and marketing tips. Even though my group did not get a chance to present that day, we did learn from the other groups and got a better idea of how to do a better job on our presentation, and of what to include.

Today, we did last minute prep on our presentations, and the other two groups, joan/carson and brian/brittany, did their presentations already. They were really good! Jason and I will have to go on Monday and I think they may be expecting us to do better. Eek!

This week, we did a lot of data entry verifications and although it was pretty mind numbing, I really didn't mind. We also learned to do cold calling.

I'm really looking forward to next week because after a week with a lot of down time, we're going to be busy busy busy! :D

July 17, 2009

Today, we spent almost the entire day working on our marketing projects because the Hawksoft program wouldn’t work. At the end of the day, Carson and I finally presented. It went pretty smoothly, I think. Brittany and Brian went after us, and they did an awesome job! Poor Adonia and Jason didn't get to go :[ Through the presentations, I learned a lot about marketing, from Kenny and from Britney’s group. Running a business is a lot more complicated than I expected… So this is my very first blog entry. Hope it's not too lame..? :]

-Joan W.

Presentation Day

Well, it's now 5:27 PM, and I'm ready to leave for the weekend =) After two weeks working on our Marketing Research Presentation (as well as cold calling and data verification, among other things), Brittany and I finally presented our project today. I didn't really get nervous until just before we started, but I got over it by my second slide. Overall I think we did pretty well. Joan and Carson went before us; theirs was pretty bomb too. Adonia and Jason go first thing Monday, good luck guys. If you can't tell, I'm new at this blogging thing, and now its past 5:30, so now I'm gonna go enjoy my two days off. Bye =)

-Brian

Friday, July 17, 2009

It's finally Friday! After a long week of verifying data entries, 2 out of the 3 groups (Joan/Carson, Brittany/Brian) have finally presented their Market Research Projects! Kenny had some business to address and was unable to stay any longer so the last group (Adonia/Jason) will give their presentation on Monday morning. The presentation went much better than I had anticipated. Hooray! I will be gone all of next week; I hope I don't miss TOO much. I am very excited to go to Woodland Hills with the team sometime during the first week of August :) There is so much left to come!

Until next time,
Brittany

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

After a long morning of checking and double-checking endless data entries for errors, the 2009 internship team finally finished going through innumerous stacks of packets at approximately 3:00 P.M. At that time, each of the three pairs of "aspiring business men and women" (Joan/Carson, Adonia/Jason, Brittany/Brian) were given the rest of the day to work on their first research project. Although not officially due until Friday, when each group will be presenting its findings to Kenny, all three groups have been told by their respective mentors that outlines of the presentations are expected by Thursday. Luckily, Brian and I are almost completely done with our presentation. We definitely have a few tweaks to make here and there, but after compiling a thorough 40-slide show, we have decided to take a quick break from staring at the PowerPoint window and work, instead, on the mini-project that our mentor, Annie, assigned to us earlier today. The assignment is to help research the most frequently asked questions and the biggest concerns that most people have regarding group health insurance. Annie told us that KCAL is planning to make an 80-page booklet to offer to its customers that will address any question and concern that they may have. The presentations that we are going to give on Friday must be a minimum of 10 minutes long (per group). Brian and I anticipate our presentation to last about 30 minutes. Yikes! I hope there isn't a maximum time limit allotted to each group! Brian and I are also very curious to see what the "prize" that will be rewarded to the "winning team" will be. I hope it's a good prize (and I hope we win it! =]) Two more hours in the office for me (one more hour for the rest of them).

Until next time,
Brittany