Hello everyone!
I’m the new Online Marketing Executive for 360innovate. If you keep up to date with our blogs, you will probably already know that I take a terrible picture and look like a vampire version of Spud from Trainspotting – I personally blame the camera angle!
Anyway, I have been here for nearly two weeks and this is my first job in the city centre, which has its pros and its cons. On the plus side, the choices of places to eat is amazing, Gerry, our Project Director, tipped me off about a cracking wee Mexican place that offers Burritos, Tacos and all other things Mexican. The only negative thing I have to say is that the freezing cold conditions has made it terrible to get into work – I suppose this is the same everywhere though. I look forward to the summer weather when I can relax on the train and read a book without having the dreaded tanoid announcement saying that you have to get off because of point failure – you’re on your own now people!
The guys at 360innovate have been amazing and really welcoming. My first impression of 360innovate is that they are a vibrant, forward thinking company that really care about their staff. They are a focused company, but still allow enough room for their staff to be innovative and creative. What I also love about here is how the projects are managed, everyone has their own specific discipline and our Project Director is here to bring everything together and make sure everything is going to plan. There is also a strong focus on teamwork, and although everyone has their own specific discipline to deal with, we are always encouraged to share knowledge and have an understanding of what everyone else in the office does.
My first few days consisted of getting me up to speed with some of our clients, mainly by researching and bugging Andrew with question after question – he has the patience of a saint to put up with me – thanks Andrew! As well as that I have been doing analytics reports which involves researching how our internet marketing clients are performing on the search engines, creating bar graphs, line charts, pie charts and writing reports to show these results. Gerry asked me how I was getting on with these reports – I told him that I actually quite enjoy analysing data. To which he replies “Geek”. Only moments after, he asked John how he was getting on reconfiguring a clients backend* – who’s the geek now!? I have also been working on increasing 360innovates exposure to the search engines for the search phrase internet marketing glasgow. There has already been some success and it’s something I will continue to work on.
As well as internet marketing, I enjoy gardening, various sports and new technology.
Lunch time already! The mornings are really flying in. I’m off to get something to eat – all this talk of pie charts has made me think about paying the bakers a visit, either that or I might go for some delicious Mexican Grub! I’ll flip a coin.
*backend: Behind the scene operations of a website.
