Joanna+Davis+Double+Up+Project


 * Business:** Run Like a Mother Race (not business, but charity run)
 * Group Members:** Joanna Davis and Angela Haroon

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Run-Like-a-Mother-Race/364759280237397 Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/RunLikeAMother_

I am happy to say that we have finally found someone not only willing to work with us but excited about what we can do for her!

I have set up the Facebook account and Angela set up the Twitter account, Diana (who plans the race), has now joined Twitter as well which is exciting. Pinterest is invite only so I am waiting on my invite but that will be started soon!

Facebook: I have made the account with the details of the race in multiple place, the description, photos, and an event. Diana requested that I add the sponsors so I added that as well. I have uploaded the pictures she gave me and she has given me some ideas that she would like me to implement: Add a count down to Facebook (not sure how to do this I am going to look in to it) Add a map of the course and express the need for volunteers for the course (she is getting me the PDF of the course soon and it will be up) Contest! This I am very excited about! I told her that we should wait until we have a bit of a following until we get it started, and it gives us time to plan a fun contest. She also asked if 4Square would work, we're going to look into that as well.

I asked her for a list of places the race is already promoted where we could get our links up. I am going to get in touch with them today to draw more people in. I am also going to share the page on my own Facebook. Things are looking very good, I'm excited!


 * Business:** Run Like a Mother Race (not business, but charity run)
 * Group Members:** Joanna Davis and Angela Haroon

Once again we have had to change our company! I guess it is a good preview of the real world and the fact that not everyone is honest about their willingness to work with you. My aunt helps put on many charity events, included the Run Like A Mother race in Harrison Township. She had the reaction you were hoping for “Free help! I love it.” I’m confident this one is going to be great! She gave me some flyers and sent me a PDF tonight and we will be starting Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest accounts.

I think the Pinterest will be pretty cool. I have a few ideas for different boards.

- Past Races - Training exercises and plans - Training diets

I will be setting up these accounts in the next couple days and plan to send the links to Diana and call her to move forward. She also mentioned helping update the website that my cousin set up last year. I am definitely open to this, but am not really familiar with web developing. I have a good feeling about this and hopefully we can work out some cool contests and things. Thank you so much for understanding.

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 * Business:** Double Up
 * Group Members:** Joanna Davis and Angela Haroon

I made a facebook group (per their request as the best way to contact them) on Saturday with no response from them even though they had been posting statuses after I made the group. We went in on Monday to get our pictures and discuss our plans and they promised to look at the facebook group and seemed on board and excited about us helping make the facebook event, and sending us the PDF of the flyer to get the word out on our own pages. I went home and commented on the group and tagged him in it so that he got a double notification, but I still got no response. Then, tonight I see that the event has been made with the flyer as the picture, and they made no effort to contact us. They told us the people at the venue were being difficult and as soon as they got the info they would let us know. I'm really at a loss and a bit shocked and disappointed. When we talk to them in person they seem very excited, but once we leave there is no communication even though we have stressed how important this is. I'm getting very scared that we have once again hit a wall on this project, and it is due to something that we simply cannot control. I'm really not understanding why they seem to love our ideas and then give us no backing or communication whatsoever. We also pitched our idea of live tweeting at the event which they seemed to love, but again who knows if we will get any backing.

I am very frustrated and don't know what to do. We asked them if they would be willing to work with us on our project and they agreed so I'm really not sure what the problem is.

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 * Business:** Double Up
 * Group Members:** Joanna Davis and Angela Haroon

Yesterday we met with Karl to discuss our concerns. We were very lost, and a bit stuck considering our company was an hour and a half away and extremely new to social media. After discussing the concerns we had we decided that we should switch our company. We are now working with Double Up, a store on Grand River that sells urban wear.

After our meeting we went to the store to pitch our idea to the guys (Al and Mike). They were excited that our project would bring them publicity and really liked our ideas, and offered some of their own. We discussed setting up a Google Doc or Facebook group to keep in touch, as well as Twitter for quick things. We are working on a plan and will have it set up in the next couple of days.

Al and Mike said that our project came at a perfect time because they have planned an event at Landshark bar on April 12 to launch 2 new clothing lines and want as much publicity as they can get. We thought it would be a good idea to live tweet the event, with a continuous hash tag and ask people at the event to do the same, and/or tweet us pictures of the event after. We will use these pictures in an album on Facebook. We also thought updating Instragram from the event would be cool as well.

That being said, they have made an Instagram for the store but rarely update it because they have personal accounts they use regularly. They would like us to take over the Instagram account. Angela will be in charge of this account and I took a photo in the store yesterday of the new hats that just came in to put on Instagram when we get the info.

We also decided that they should be on Pinterest. They were not really crazy about Pinterest because it is mostly women, and they don’t really see the business advantage to it, but they were open to trying it. We thought I would be good because their clothing often does not say Double Up on it; rather it represents one of the many local clothing lines in the store. We were thinking of making a board for each clothing line, a “spotted” board of people wearing the clothing, or special customers who come in, and an events board. I will in charge of this account and will be setting it up this week. My plan is to take my 3 pictures for this week and putting them up on Pinterest.

We had an idea to join the hoodie campaign in remembrance of Trayvon Martin. They liked this idea and added to it saying that they could have each person represent a different clothing line in the store and take a picture of them in front of the store with their hoods on and upload it to Twitter and Facebook. We could maybe open it up to the public as well.

They already have a Twitter and Facebook account, but it needs to be a bit more business focused which we are going to help them do. Our main focus is going to be using other social media outlets like Instagram and Pinterest to reach even more people in a more creative way.

Our main concern is that the Double Up website only lists the Birmingham location and we are not sure that it has been updated in a while. We are going to ask them why this is. Sorry this was so long, for once we have too much to talk about!