MacDonald's meetup on the 26/10/14

We met up on last sunday at Clementi Mall to discuss potential ideas that we can pitch to Joash, so we scribbled stuff on the foolscap paper and divided the work according to the type of articles that we were going to look for. I picked food as my topic to research on. Being a pretty general category, and since we're collaborating with between I felt that the information should be more couple oriented.

So after discussing, I went on the net to find places which might be enjoyed by couples. Mainly places with a great scenery and cafes with good food.

Hungry go where was a useful tool in aiding me with my search cause' they have a rating system which makes it easier for me to screen out the cafes by ratings. Also it made it easier for me to categorize them by location as we want this to be a weekly thing on their facebook site (eg. Cafes in the north for week one and in the south for week two etc.)

A picture of the paper would be posted up by one of the other members cause the paper isn't with me

Research on how to plan a date (For Between App)

 I did a research on how to plan a date. Turns out , i found lots of information about how to plan a date successfully so that two parties will be able to spend quality time together and know each other better and improve their relationship. My research on this will be posted on "Between" Facebook page to give advise to couples how to plan their dates.

Based on this research, i found that there are many important factors that will affect the atmosphere and spirit during the date. Such as Venue, your own actions, activity,time, dressing and your own confidence as well. 

Reply from spruce

So Spruce replied and expressed interest to work with us.I didn't really expect them to reply so I thought of passing on the project to Javier's group since they got rejected by daylight studios. Unfortunately, they'll probably be working together with vulcan post instead. Feel kinda bad that I've got to reject them
Hope I still can go there for food lul

Approaching a company

As stated in our assignment requirement, each of us in the team is required to find, research and approach a company of our choice to help them with their online marketing. While searching online, i came across the company Paywhere Pte Ltd. Paywhere is an e-commerce company which aims to empower businesses with our technology and watch them grow exponentially with their product TrackThis! and i thought it was rather interesting. I think it would be a fantastic learning opportunity for us if we are able to work with them as what they are doing has a relevance to our course. Below is a screenshot of the email sent to them. 

More details about the company:

Paywhere Pte Ltd

Blk 71 Ayer  Rajah Crescent

#07-03

Singapore 139951

Telephone: +65 6778 0861

Fax: +65 3151 0991

Email: info@paywhere.com

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PayWhere

Blog Post by Yang Ping :] 

Email To My Intended Company (Spruce)

As directed by the information on blackboard, I proceeded to look for my intended company for collaboration.
I decided to pick a bar/cafe-ish/restaurant close to my home. The location near my place was previously a fire station, which I think adds to the appeal of the place.
They've got live bands every other day and not to mention they have great looking food, it'll probably  be fun to work with them if they accept our request but unfortunately we already have another company to work for.
But either way, hope they reply me soon

Email: enquiries@spruce.com.sg 

I contacted them on the 26 of october 2014 at 4PM.

I've inserted my email to them in this blogpost.

BTW they have really good eggs Benedict, you guys should go try it out 

Company Site: http://www.spruce.com.sg/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SprucePhoenixPark

Unfortunately they aren't really active on other platforms.

They currently have 2 locations:

320 Tanglin Road, Singapore 247980
T: 6836 5528
Mon – Fri: 10.30am – 10.30pm
Sat, Sun & PH: 9am – 10.30pm

260 Upper Bukit Timah Road, #01-01, Singapore 588213
T: 6466 5582
Mon – Thurs: 11.30am – 12.30am
Friday: 11.30am – 1.30am
Saturday: 9am – 1.30am
Sunday & PH: 9am – 12.30am

Seeking a company

Our practical 2, question 2 require each member of the team to find a company and seek for collaboration with them in order to promote their company and increase in their sales revenue through the use of social media.

I found a cafe called 'Miam Miam' . This cafe is quite unique because it is a mixture of French and Japanese styles of food . It is kinda unique and interesting and the food are nice as well. Such as home made spaghetti, French bisque and sandwiches, pancakes, souffles, parfaits, rice and coffee. It’s distinctively Japanese but with French cooking techniques, which is very unique and hard to find in Singapore.

They have a Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/miam.sg

They have two outlets, one is located in Westgate and the other is at Bugis.

Westgate Outlet Contact Number- 63699065

Bugis Outlet Contact Number - 68370301

Their website is http://www.miam.sg/ 

The screenshot of my proposal. 

Approaching a company (Max Tuition Center)

For our practical two each of us were task with finding a company to work with to improve their awareness through online marketing method.

For me I have found a tuition center which is around my neighborhood and my brother attend tuition lesson there and so I went to ask my brother for the number of the tuition center and my brother told me that he could give me the number of the boss to me so I text him directly on 25 October 2014 to ask his interest in our project

He replied expressing his interest and since we have already a company Between we decided to reject him so I ask my lecturer Miss Dora on how to go on. Below are the screen shot of the conversation.

The company email is  info@maxtc.com.sg

Their website is http://www.maxtc.com.sg/

They also have an existing Facebook website https://www.facebook.com/MaxTuitionCentre

Telephone number would be 6899 8422 / 9823 4406 and in this case I contacted his phone

Their main office is located at Block 151 Bukit Batok Street 11 #04-248 Singapore 650151 

 

Blog Entry #1 (amanda)

As part of the assignment, each of us have to email one company too, seeking for collaboration and below, this is a screenshot of the email I sent out, seeking for collaboration.

The company I choose to seek collaboration with is Komars Group. I was just seeking collaboration with Food Company, but as I was searching, “Benten Café” caught my eyes as it is a restaurant that combines western and japanese food. I decided to find out more about the background of the company and I found out it is under Komars Group. Under Komars Group, not only is there Benten Café but also other restaurants like Bishamon Sapporo Ramen. Other than food and beverage, they are also into retail service business like EC House and Regina (hair removal specialist). Thus I decided to email them, seeking a chance of collaboration.

Komars Group's website is http://www.komarsgroup.com/
Their company email is enquires@komarsgroup.com
Their contact number is +65 6339 1440 or fax at +65 6339 8797 
Their Singapore Company headquaters is located at 70 Bendemeer Road #04-01 Luzeme Singapore 339940
Other than their contact details, for their different business, they do have social medias lik facebook for it.

First Meeting With Between App GM :]

On the 9th of October 2014, my group members and I went to Plug-In @Blk 71 a local co-working space to visit the General Manager Joash Wee and Value Innovator Pat Mekasuvanrogj of Between App to understand more about their company and deduce what we could do for them.

The first time I know about this company was on a recent school technopreneurship trip to Korea and VCNC was one of the companies we visited. I thought that the idea was pretty unique to have just a private chat room for couples only. I was pretty surprised when my lecturer Ms Dora called me and asked me to take on this project.

Before meeting the client, we had done our own research on the company and learnt a bit of how the idea for the app came about and the popularity it has received since it's launch. We also checked out their social media marketing sites to gauge how high we should set our target as well as come up with some ideas which could help them be more engaging with their users.

It was quite exciting yet intimidating for us to meet Joash and Pat as it was the first time we're working with a real company and we're worried that we are not able to meet up to their demands. But, it turned out that they were really nice and patient with us. They even helped my team mates with their other projects by giving them loads of valuable suggestions.

They slowly explained the different functions featured in the app and told us more about their current online marketing strategy. We shared some of the ideas which we had in mind and surprisingly, they were very open to our suggestions and gave us a lot of freedom to do what we think could help boost their Facebook likes and Instagram users. On the condition that we have to let them check the content of our work before posting it online. We decided to set ourselves a target to help increase their Facebook likes by 250 and posting at least 3 posts per week and increased Instagram followers by 200. Sounds like a hard goal but I believe that our team is capable of doing it.

Overall, I am really glad to be working with this company and i hope my team can do well to hit the target which we have set for ourselves by the end of this assignment. :]

Blog Post by : Yang Ping (1414590)

Name of company: VCNC
Application name: Between
Web: http://between.us/en/