Thursday, May 31, 2007

Done Today:

Going over the Men's Clothing category in detail and figuring out all the questions we have to ask about these items (in addition to the ones we were asking before):
* Are we bundling these in 2 or three packs? If so, what are the prices?
* what material are they made out of?
* are they in assorted colors?
* are they in assorted sizes?
* do we need to take photos?
* what related items do they belong to?

Talking to vendors & Raul about questions for this category

Making a running list of what items need photographs from Jamaica

Met with dropshipper who had furniture/organizational items & high-end coffee makers

Had internal meeting (w/Matt & Wyeth) as to progress on site and what our priorities and next concerns are.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Done Today:

Contacted all Raul's vendors & sent them information requests & started to prepare the emailed data

Had meeting on feeds with Sammy & Matt

Had another meeting on feeds with Matt & Wyeth

Typed out all the fields for the M Rothman & Lehrhoff feeds & analyzed them against the fields for the backend

Went through Walmart for new TVs for Hidefster

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Done Today:

* Worked w/Elsie to get info on school uniforms
* worked with Raul to get info on men's clothing
* worked with Ike to get info on linens & such from Daintyhome
* Made information requests of vendors
* Met with dropshipper that Alan put me in touch with
* Had catch-up meeting w/Matt

Friday, May 25, 2007

Done Today:

* Went through all Haier information and put everything together necessary to list them on the site

* Wrote up Shopper's World SKU requests for all Haier items

* Started grouping Fruit of the Loom items by requested "bulk" amounts

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Done Today:

* Finished writing up Shopper's World SKU request for Summer products dropship items

* Had meeting with Haier representative

* Had meeting with Matt about setting up Cool Air Store for Haier dropship

* Had big meeting with Matt about the entire Shopper's World website project, going into detail about each element & making priorities

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Today:

* wrote up more SKUS for dropship items (Summer infant furniture)

* researched & contacted dropshippers for infant furniture per Sammy's request

* Talked with dropshippers we are working with & new ones like Haier

* Started making master list of separate tasks that need to be done for site

* explored on site & did research on product feeds

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Another big buyer's meeting

will type up meeting notes tomorrow morning

Monday, May 21, 2007

Entered product

Had big buyer's meeting. Will write up minutes tomorrow.

Friday, May 18, 2007

Done today:

* Added more stock to Cool Air Store -- all possible new stock from stores added
* Discussed adding SKUs to dropship items with Sammy

For Monday:
* add new dropship infant product

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Done Today:

* Finished entering dropship items for infant furniture/supply dropshipper. About 80 items total.

* Talk to Adam at Blueswitch about changes to fields -- they are still being worked on

* added product to Cool Air STore from J&R Electronics

For tomorrow:

* figure out w/Sammy how to make SKUs for dropship items

* add more Cool Air Store product

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Today:
* Finished up entering infant furniture dropshipper items; just have one more bedding set to do
* Talked to sales rep about feeds

tomorrow:

* add new received info & photos on existing entries
* touch base w/Sammy on creating dropshipper SKUs
* touch base with Adam at Blueswitch

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Done Today:
* Entered 1/2 of products from baby furniture dropshipper
* Set up bulletin board with status of all aspects of Shopper's World website

For tomorrow:
* finish entering in dropshipper products

Monday, May 14, 2007

Done today:
* Added new Haier airconditioners from Walmart on Cool Air Store
* Started work on infant furniture dropshipper's items

For tomorrow:
* Enter dropshipper items
* Talk w/ Adam at Blueswitch regarding question brought up in today's meeting

Friday, May 11, 2007

* Today: followed up on all vendor correspondence, information requests, etc.

* All SW site entries updated with new information, UPC/SKU, photos, etc

* Final list of missing info made -- not that big, we have most of it

* Added to Hidefster

Shopper's World site status:
* Adam at Blueswitch working on adding new fields to "variant product" section.
* All vendors (provided on lists so far) contacted for dropship status
* All vendors contacted/re-contacted for missing information, photos, etc.
* Still only received lists from Alan, Ike, & Raul
* Lehrhoff, Unical, T-Fal, Kripa, all have dropship programs

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Done today:

* continued to add UPC/SKUS & missing info to Shopper's World entries. Call & email vendors. Compile final list of missing information

* added TVs on Hidefster

For tomorrow:

* add more TVS & Air conditioners to sites unless get more info from buyers

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Shopper's World Site

* Contacted all of Alan & Ike's vendors (which have been provided to me so far) for dropshipping information. Got answers from most of them.

* I got dropship info from one out of the four vendors from Raul's list

* worked out more formatting issues with Adam @ Blueswitch

* adding UPC & SKU #s to newly-created fields on existing entries

* fielded vendor calls regarding missing photographs, information, etc.

have not received new raw data for entry yet, but David was working on it (for infant furniture, etc.)

For tomorrow:

Follow up with Raul's vendors

finish up adding UPC & SKU

maybe add more data if received

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Shopper's World Site:

* Talked to Adam @ Blueswitch about site issues

* Adam has just added new fields for vendor UPC and Shopper's World SKU

* There are still a couple of bugs/changes that have to be made. We need seperate fields for vendor/SW SKUS in the "variant" section. The SW SKU field won't save new information in it.

* Contacted major vendors about dropship programs/feeds. Of those so far, Lehrhoff & Unical have confirmed they do this. I think we might already have a feed thing with Lehrhoff, but they wanted to get formatting. I asked Unical how we get started.

* waiting on M Rothman contact on feed info

* Went over existing product entries to add UPC #s and missing data. Proofreading each entry so I can be sure it's ready to go live

For tomorrow:

* keep finalizing existing product entries

* keep following up on dropship

* Follow up with ADam on site bugs

* add more product

Monday, May 07, 2007

Shopper's World Site:

All received data has been entered


For tomorrow:
* go over all entries, work w/Blueswitch to catch up on progress with entering extra fields, etc.

Friday, May 04, 2007

Shopper's World site:

* Finished entering all Alan & Ike data I have received so far

* discussed futher field tweaks and changes w/Blueswitch (adding two fields for SKUS, ours and vendor's, in variant section, for example)

For Monday:

* start entering Raul's data

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Shopper's World Site:

* Almost finished entering all of Ike's data

* Talked w/Sammy regarding SKUs, etc

* Corresponded with vendors for information

For tomorrow:
* Finish Ike's lists
* start on Raul's lists

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Shoppers World site:

* Finished entering all information from Alan's list that I've received so far from vendors (2/3s of the entire list)

* Re-contacted all vendors who have not turned around information yet

* Contacted all of Raul's vendors based on what he has given me so far (shirts, fruit of the loom, hanes)

For Tomorrow:

* enter in Ike's data

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Done Today:
Kept adding product from Alan's list (very long list): electronics & housewares from Black & Decker, Presto, Conair, Toastmaster, Rowenta, Faberware, Aroma, more

Raul gave me some items to get info on

For tomorrow: finish Alan's list and go on to ike's