I started to go to work last week, I've experienced uptill now five days of my traning month. First two days were boring I spent it listening and observing how work is going with my sales team. I paid attention to sales calls, I wrote notes and read more about the magazine. I felt the urge of calling a client as all of them were talking about work and clients and I am the only one who doesn't understand anything.
Yesterday one of the team members who had the longest experience suggested my full time coworker to provide me with clients' contacts for a trial. I started to call clients some of them didn't answer. Then only one client answered it was a travel agency and I was suposed to sell them ads for Travel Mag.
My bad luck that the man who replied hated the magazine, he believed that it doesn't have a good publicity and it doesn't reach abroad. He told me that his main target is outside Egypt and he is not looking for egyptian market. I should reply to him, others thought that I should have hunged up the phone especially when our magazine is targeting egyptians who are passionate about travelling.
I told him that in Egypt there is egyptians and foreigners so the magazine is read by foreigners who can travel abroad and read about his own agency and when they think of Egypt they can travel through his agency. Also we are planning to expand our business outside Egypt in the near future and he websie of Travel Mag is under construction but he can advertise with us through it.
He told me that the only condition he can advertise with us only when we expand our business outside Egypt.
My opinion that he is narrowing his business and he has a short vision, beause travel agencies' primary focus is organizing trips outside Egypt so Travel mag is a good communication mean to reach to the audience who are interested in travelling especially when it talks about other countries, other cultures & tourism.
And that was my first sale call and it didn't repeated again, I called several clients but they are either outside Egypt or not at their office or they didn't reply.
Today I had improvised sales calls with my coworker. It was really fruitful and I've discovered that this job is not easy at all and to grap a client to advertise it may take months. And I understood what does it mean that 6 months aren't enough for a work experience it should be at least one year.
I arrive work by 9:10 am I start checking my emails, facebook, twitter, sign in to msn and then I start to research about my clients, read more about my magazine, write notes, ask questions. I drink tea sometimes I order lunch with my team and sometimes I stick to the cookies.
I don't blog or tweet or read business articles like before. Of course I stopped watching movies, only The Vampire diaries cause the episode is short.
I miss sitting with my family, I rarely see them. Sometimes I return back home by 10 pm when I have a diploma after work. or when I return back early I find them watching talkshows and then each one of us head to bed. I miss going out with friends. It seems like workplace is my home, my hangouts and the coworkers should be my friends and my family!
What I really like the most about the workplace are the design and editorial team, their work requires a talent. If I ever went for my talent and made it my career path. I guess that would make a huge difference.
The good part of my life is the Advertising project I'm working on. It is about designing and advertisement for a product. I picked H&M store as my product, I prepared a questionnaire and started my marketing research.
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