Tuesday, October 31, 2006

White Board Wonders

Now I know Mr. Fix-It over in the Kitchen is the King of All Things White Board, but he's not the only one who has one. As Elliott & Nelson started picking up jobs, I bought a nice white board at Staples. Ended up getting a good deal on it and listing our jobs and marketing efforts. It worked OK, but the way I had it organized, I had to erase some of a client's information to enter new information. "Submitted 9/1" would get replaced with "Approved 9/15" for instance. This is dumb.

Then when we were making a marketing call with a prospective client, I saw the way he had his white board set up. Using black art tape, he made rows and columns and his white board looked like a nice, neat spreadsheet. Took me two minutes to decide to steal his idea and two weeks to find the tape. But now I have a 10-column board with labels for each column: Job, client, designer, due, staff, submitted, approved, invoiced, paid, follow-up. There are 12 rows down the board for open jobs.

Eleven of them are filled.

9 comments:

Next Stop Oregon said...

Good news is that it sounds like you need a 2nd white board!

Sonnjea said...

That IS good news! At Mr. Fix-it's old job, they had a ginormous white board, and they'd gridded it off using a black Sharpie and a ruler. Tape is a good idea.

Filling the columns is a great idea.

Steve said...

It does mean I'll be working late, but I'm not complaining!

Word Imp said...

I like the tape idea too.
I think I'll steal it.
Not the tape.
You sound very organised.
Also, thanks for entering my word imperfect word meaning game thingy. You're a finalist for "tumulus". Congratulations!

Steve said...

Thanks for not stealing my tape. I'd feel very cornuted! (Or something...)

Sonnjea said...

Pictures of the white board would be nice.

Steve said...

I agree. Just was too busy making it (and working on the tasks on it) last night to take one. Soon!

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