Week 3: Work Experience and Valuable Lessons

 While finalizing my designs, I would work with others at Ten 10 to complete some tasks that needed to be done. These tasks included mailing letters and packing different orders to ship out. This other new guy and I worked together to package 100 shirts for verizon. This incluced looking at an order form for the type of shirt then figuring out the size and quantity. We then had to find the shirts place them in a bag that we stuck a shipping label on. This was fun to learn about how to properly pack a larger order.  

We also did some other packing of 100 electronic devices with cords. This one was easier as all the boxes had to be the same. I also got over 100 letters ready to mail out as a thank you for some company. All of these orders were neat to help out with as they all gave insight into just some of the projects Ten 10 takes part in along with understanding how to pack orders to ship. 

I was also fortunate to talk to almost everyone who works at Ten 10 in Chardon and they all had some great things to share. Some of the big take aways from the marketing and sales folks were:

-to be ready for any opportunity

-availability is what's most important 

-"telling isn't selling"

-don't chase sales chase profit

-you can never guarantee price, quality, and service (you can only provide two). 

They also talked about solving other peoples problems. That is how you sell something you solve their pain. An example would be if their current supplier isn't getting them items fast enough you could step in and explain how you could fix that. While talking about pricing and options while selling a product, it is important to give a variety of options with different examples for the customer to see. 

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