English 420, Business Writing

This week our group had our final meeting at Boiler Market before the project is due. We met Thursday with our contact Ben to show him our latest version of the updated pamphlet. This was our fourth update, and we had made several revisions from the original draft. Ben was very pleased with the pamphlet and had no more suggestions for improvement. We will be dropping off printed color copies of the pamphlet by Friday. Matt and I decided that since we had leftover money from our printing allowances, we would use the rest of our funds to supply color copies to the Boiler Market.

This week we met with both Mark and our Boiler Market contact Ben. We showed Mark our progress and a rough draft of the brochure we had been working on. We also talked about making a flyer and possibly tabletop advertisements for specials to replace the instruction manual we had originally planned on making (this is not needed because Copy Mat creates and maintains the document files for Boiler Market).

This week we met our contact Ben at Boiler Market to discuss our progress. Evan made a sample draft of the brochure that we had been planning for us to show Ben. We chose to get weekly updates on this project so our group could get constructive feedback about what Ben liked and what he would liked to be changed. That way, at the end of the year we could give the client exactly what they want. Evan did such an awesome job that he already really liked it.

Proposal 1 is for the client (Boiler Market)
Proposal 2 is for the class deliverables

This week we started our service learning project for Boiler Market. Boiler Market is a restaurant located on campus that also features alcoholic beverages, jazz music and catering services. On Friday, Matt and I met with Ben, the Manager, and discussed what he was looking for out of this project. He told us we would like a tri-fold pamphlet that highlighted the atmosphere, custom catering services, and also some of the more popular menu items that Boiler Market features. He also said he would supply the pictures that he would like us to use for the project.

MEMORANDUM

To: Mark Hannah
From: The Sales Team
Date: March 17, 2008
RE: Potential Service Learning Project Site