Week #8

This week’s assignments and discussion boards really helped me to see the value of hiring the right people. One thing that we talked about back and forth on the discussion boards was how companies hire too fast and don’t know how to train the new hires. We pointed out how some companies hit a busy season and feel the need to hire someone even though they don’t have the resources or money to train the individual .The company also gets caught up in the need to hire so much that they hire fast and don’t take time to find the right candidate.
This week with Custom Pillow Covers, we experienced some trials followed by immediate success. We went from Monday to Thursday and had no business in that time period. We thought that this would be our first week where we generated $0 in revenue. Suddenly on Friday the pillow cover orders started piling up and we ended up having the best sales since we started the business. At first we doubted if this idea was sustainable over the course of the semester. We feared we might generate initial sales and then the interest would drop off. We keep trying to build customer loyalty and we have new ideas for building that loyalty for the upcoming week.