PANDAY GROUP CONSTRUCTION LTD. RIALI GODDARD PANDAY GROUP BACKGROUND Panday Group was founded October 28 th 2010 Their main office is located in Toronto, ON Companies main founder is Arjun Panday PANDAY GROUP MISSION From start to finish, Panday Group Construction Ltd. Is fully committed to helping our clients achieve their construction needs. At PGCL client satisfaction is our first priority. PCGL takes a the personal relationship approach because we understand the challenge of choosing someone to work on your home. PANDAY DESCRIPTION Panday Group is considered a unique construction company because their primary focus is on Residential, Commercial, and New Build Homes. Panday Group is considered the first of their type, because they have chosen to affiliate themselves with Ford Canada, Porsche, Audi & Lincoln, giving their clients an advantage pricing in Ontario. PANDAY COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION PANDAY NEW BUILD HOMES & INTERIOR DESIGN AFFLIATIONS Panday Group has chosen to affiliate itself with four different car companies, Ford Canada, Porsche, Lincoln & Audi. The partnership between Panday Group and all four car companies offers an advantage pricing on vehicles in Ontario, for clients who choose to work with Panday Construction when renovating or building a new home. The affiliation is not only used to promote the advantage pricing that Panday offers in Ontario when working with them, but each company advertises the image of the Panday company itself. AFFILIATIONS CONTD Ford & Audi are recognized as the reliable car companies and their partnership with Panday Group demonstrates their trust in reliable customer satisfaction when it comes to choosing the Panday Group as a partner and home building company. The affiliations with Ford & Audi are directed towards clients in the field of construction such as contractors, who would be interested in a Super Duty Ford truck that can help them get through messy job sites. Ford Lincoln, is for outside of the construction world and for families looking for a reliable car they know they can trust. The affiliation with Porsche and Audi is recognized as Pandays interior design side of their company. Both cars are considered sleek and classy, which reflects the work Pandays interior designers do. Porsche & Audi with their new designs such as the Porsche Boxster and Audi S6 introduce a new modern way of driving, giving their customer the feeling of real life, and Panday therefore, this reflects the Panday interior design because they are trying to introduce new modern, and fresh ideas. AFFLIATIONS RELATIONS ASSIGNMENT ONE As my first assignment and for Mr. Panday to take a look at my work, my first assignment was to create a news letter that would be handed out within the office and to people outside of the office. It was Pandays first ever news letter and it was based around the new affiliations Panday had with Ford Canada, as well as the start to further introducing their company to the Toronto district INTERNSHIP OFFER Dear Riali Goddard: I am pleased to offer you an internship as the Social Media/Public Relations Intern for a period of one school semester. Your internship becomes effective on September 1st,2012 and ends December 31st,2012. You will report to Arjun Panday, President of Panday Group Construction Ltd. Your internship at Panday Group Construction will be focused on all social media platforms from Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube. Your experience and knowledge will be brought on board during our newsletter releases, as well as our press releases. You are required to come to the offices of Panday Group Construction Ltd. once a week where weekly updates will be conducted. As an intern, you will be required to complete an exit interview at the end of your internship. Feedback obtained from the exit interview will be used to make improvements to the internship program. If you agree with the above conditions, please indicate your acceptance by signing the second copy of this letter and return it to my office. The original of this letter and job description are attached for your records. Congratulations on your internship as we all look forward bringing you onto to the team. Should you have any questions concerning this job offer, please contact me at (416) Sincerely, Arjun Panday President ASSIGNMENT TWO: PRESS RELEASE Press release is based around introducing a younger generation into the field of construction, and how students new ideas are looking to be embraced. The press release also looked into Panday Group itself, introducing itself for the first time, and making itself more well known for future clients such as; real-estate agents, contractors and homeowners. The press release was given to a newspaper called Indian Abroad TUMBLRPanday Group is looking for a new way to reach out to a younger audience, but also still intrigue their old audience in a new way The TUMBLR account was not only used to promote the company itself, but also keep the Panday followers interested, and each Friday it was my job to post new articles, videos or upcoming events. Each season there was a segment, so far there was one for Fall/ Halloween and Winter/ Christmas, each segment introduced ideas that people could use to decorate their houses for the upcoming events, DIY craft ideas, and renovation ideas for the upcoming cold weather TUMBLR is also used to fully introduce the advantage pricing of Ford Canada, Audi, Porsche and Lincoln, as well as their company affiliation. PINTEREST Spreadable media, "the process by which a large number of people make active decisions to pass along an image, text, song or bit of video (Savage 2012). Spreadable media is taken into consideration when the PINTEREST account was created for Panday Group PINTEREST allowed Panday to create different boards that related to interior design, architecture, and their affiliations People are able to follow Pandays account and can look through their work (construction, homes, interior design) as well as from other peoples boards and as long as Panday keeps their boards interesting more people who are possibly looking for new renovations ideas, can take these ideas or the work Panday has previously done and choose to working with Panday when looking to renovate. FACEBOOK Facebook is one of the main social networking sites used by Panday Group, one which an account was already created for before I started as the social media intern The Panday Group Construction page has 87 Likes as of now The page is used highly to keep the Panday followers up to date with recent finished projects that Panday has done and as well as news that happens within the Toronto district Since Panday has most of it followers on Facebook, much of what I did not TUMBLR and PINTEREST was connected directly to the Facebook page and therefore, would be able to update followers automatically on news, and get them interested in following Pandays different accounts https://www.facebook.com/PandayGrp?fref=ts OVERALL EXPERIENCE Overall I had an excellent work experience with Panday Group I really enjoyed having Mr. Panday as an internship boss The company itself is very dedicated to its work and providing 100% excellent customer satisfaction, which is something I myself highly value I learned important audience skills, ones that I will be able to use in the future Have come to the conclusion that social networking is a highly effective way to reach out to an audience and gain their attention