Today Only, 2 For The Price of 1
Alright, so yesterday was my first day and I was not able to post. Darn! Well the reason is we had soccer practice and I didn’t get home til late and I was exhausted. Anyways….
My first day was awesome! My boss is supercool, couldn’t ask for anyone better. Very flexible and accomodating. I got my Laptop and my Desk and access card, E-mail, etc. I’m official now! I took a picture of the outside of the office, I’ll post it here soon. The office is in Plano so it’s about a 40 minute drive each way. Not too bad.
Well our marketing group of about 7 people went to lunch and the company paid, very nice. Got to know everyone, they seem like very cool co-workers. Everyone was genuinely nice, that’s the key word “genuinely”!
After lunch I had a meeting with the boss, she gave me a quick run down of the company and where they are and where they expect to be. After that I got started with some projects for PPC. The boss lady hinted that I could leave around 4, but since I started at 9 I felt bad leaving early, I’m not used to that! So I left about 5:40, 20 minutes early and I still felt kinda bad.
Fastforward to today… I got in about 8:45, I like this flex start time.. LOL – I told the boss lady that I would be in from 8 to 5, she had told me I could start anywhere from 7 to 9 in the AM as long as I put in my 8 hours. The 8 to 5 thing seemed to be cool with her.
For lunch, the IT guy and I went to Mi Cocina. We talked about IT stuff and what I will be doing for the CO. He wants me to design some buttons and a flash splash page for their software for PDAs for finding Lounges. I told him I would be more that willing to help. He said just put in the request for the software I needed and he would take care of it. So obviously I will be sending in the request to get the Adobe CS3 Web Design Suite. He paid for lunch, so now I’ve had 2 days with free lunch, sweeet.
In the afternoon I had another meeting with the boss lady and got more details about the people in our department and other key people within the company and I will be setting up a 30 minute meeting with each of them so I can get info on what promotions and other things they are doing that can help me in my online marketing efforts. Then I prepared a report on some search engines and directories in the US and Latin America, places like Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Mexico of course.
I also set up an account with Google for the US market, next will be a campaign for Latin America, then other accounts with Yahoo, Miva, SP.com (yes the previous job still lingers – lol) etc.. These are more targeted campaigns that the ones they have currently running for the UK side.
Enough for today. C ya tomorrow.
