Week Three: Organizational/Personal Goals of my Internship

Upon applying for this internship I had set upon some goals for myself after being hired.  The job description asked for an independent student who can work in a flexible setting to aid in the creation on the West Side Business Network.  The goals I had made for myself were to set up hours around my own schedule and stick to them.  In these hours I would go door to door from each business that falls in the jurisdiction and pitch the WSBN idea.  After the walk around I decided that callbacks needed to be made by myself to follow up with whom I met with.  My ultimate goal after meeting with all these businesses is to create a spreadsheet that’s easily read to be able to contact all the business that were interested in joining the WSBN. 

The goals that were set out for me by the company are similar to the ones I set for myself.  They wanted me to create my own schedule and approach all the businesses in a timely fashion, as well as keep track of all of them.  In addition to just going to the businesses, they wanted me to design a brochure and give it out to all the businesses, which I did.  Along with the brochure, they asked me to come up with a quick pitch to sell the WSBN to the businesses. 

For the most part the goals are about the same, except for the addition brochure.  I enjoyed doing the brochure though because it expanded on some of my communication skills.  Hopefully as the workload progresses, new goals will be formed that I can reach which will expand on my knowledge even more. 

Week One: The Organization and Its Mission

        The internship I am working for is the West Side Business Network.  The purpose of the WSBN is to create a sense of neighborhood in the West Side of Worcester and to make the area more attractive for current businesses to stay in the area, and also to attract more business to move here.  Before now, the West Side Business Network didn’t exist; it is just being created now.

         The newly organized West Side Business Network is comprised of a geographic area roughly bounded by Park Ave. to the east, Mill St./June St. to the south, Salisbury St. to the north, and the Paxton line to the west.  There is no central location that the WSBN is out of but the mailing address is:

West Side Business Network

118A June Street

Worcester MA, 01602

email:

worcwestsidebiz@gmail.com

website:

www.westsidebiz.com

For phone inquiries contact

Cathy at Sprout:

(508) 757-5300

The goal of the West Side Business Network is to build relationships between all businesses on the West Side of Worcester. The purpose of building these relationships is to create and maintain an encouraging business environment to draw in more businesses and to foster current ones. These relations will provide networking opportunities as well as a boost in support of the local community.

The potential happenings of the WSBN are to increase commercial activity in the area, group marketing programs, networking events, business workshops, 5k road race, beautification, and safety. 

The logo of the WSBN has a tagline that reads: “Be prepared – for business.”  The really like the creative tagline because it reflects exactly what the mission statement reads, which is to get the West Side area in its best position to operate successful businesses.  

Mentor Information:

Cathy Walsh- proprietor

(508) 757-5300

118A June St. Worcester MA 01602

www.sprout-flowers.com