20% Time Project: Week #2

This week my goal for the 20% Time Project was to finish the general procedures list for Bulldog Manufacturing. To do this I had to talk with all of the departments to get a detailed list of how they do things. While working on these procedures, I realized that they are going to be constantly changing as we improve how we do things and new changes come up. For example, the day after I finished the final lists of all of the processes that need to be in the procedures, including how and when each person uses QuickBooks, we had to switch to using the online version of QuickBooks which looks very different from the desktop version, and therefore is used differently which needs to be updated in the procedures. Overall, I have an informal list of all of the procedures in our company OneNote, now I need to work on writing them all formally to be put in a packet.

eCommerce Article #4

https://www.shopify.ca/blog/bfcm-checklist

My article this week was "The 27-Point Checklist to Prepare Your Store for Black Friday Cyber Monday." by Corey Ferreira. As the title suggests, this article is about all of the things businesses should do to prepare for the extra sales and stress of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Reading this was super interesting because I never thought about all of the extra work stores have to put into advertising to make sure they get the max amount of sales and returning customers. 

20% Time Project: Week #1

For my 20% Project, I am working on my business skills at Bulldog Manufacturing. My goal for this past week was to implement better organization throughout the company to help us stay on top of projects. We did this mainly by setting up Monday.com, a website that uses multiple boards to help organize projects. Everyone in the company updates projects on various boards based on what they finished that day, which lets everyone else see what they need to work on and prioritize tasks. Although the sales team still needs to finish updating all of the projects, I think Monday so far has been a success and has already start helping other team members communicate on projects.

eCommerce Article #3

https://www.shopify.ca/blog/instagram-marketing

This week the article I read was "Instagram Marketing 101: Using Hashtags, Stories, and More to Grow Your Business" by Ana Gotter. This article discusses the best ways to market companies on Instagram, mainly using hashtags and stories. I found this super interesting because I see products advertised on Instagram all the time and it's cool to see how you can increase your sales and get more followers by grouping hashtags in certain ways and including story highlights. The article also includes several statistics that show how important it is to pay attention to how you market things on Instagram. This includes 80% of users follow at least one brand on Instagram and 65% of top performing Instagram posts clearly feature products.