The past few weeks have been pretty hectic. On weekdays I've been getting up at 8am and not getting home until 9pm or 10pm. This has caused the days to fly by, it's crazy to think that October is almost over. I have also been coaching on the weekends. All in all, a lot of basketball.
I am just realizing that I never finished writing about Chengdu, which is really too bad because it was a fun trip. In a non-sequitur that will fill up the rest of this blog post, I've been getting more responsibilities around the office. This afternoon, I am going to start my search for more basketball coaches with my boss. I'm not sure how to recruit in Beijing. There are some expat websites and hangouts, but I'm going to have to sit down and brainstorm how to lure prospective basketball coaches into my snare. At the moment, the company I'm working for (Show1) is expanding like crazy.
Aside from weekend camps, one of the new ideas the company is trying out is getting into high schools to coach. I've been coaching at a boys and girls high school where the players are actually pretty good and so far it's been a lot more fun than trying to coach 10 year olds the fundamentals of basketball because their parents want them to learn skills rather than have fun even though that is one of the few ways to kill any kid's passion for basketball at an early age. But I digress. Apparently, Show 1 doesn't get money for coaching at the high schools, the idea is for the high schools (and middle schools that are connected with the high schools) to promote and encourage the kids in the schools to pay for and go to the weekend camps that Show1 puts on.
They are also opening up more camps around Beijing. They are hiring more people who will be in charge of organizing and facilitating the basketball camps in specific districts in Beijing. Part of what I've been doing over the past couple of weeks is putting on Demo camps in the new areas that we are expanding to. The idea is to show kids how great our camps are so they decide to pay for them. Show 1 has been advertising the free demo camps in newspapers and online, so I have been running around to coach all of those camps. However, in the future there are going to be what Sun Qiang calls "a lot" of demo camps, so I have to find some more coaches to help out.
Lastly, Show 1 is expanding outside of Beijing as well. We are trying to move into other provinces, with the overall goal to saturate all of China in a sea of little Chinese kids who will become the next generation of all star ballers and in time will dominate the NBA and in time turn it into merely an extension of the CBA (China Basketball Association). Although that is just me surmising. I think we just want more money. That's mostly likely why we're moving into other provinces.
So that's what I've been doing lately. I think that in the near future I'm going to start coming into the office less, which will be nice. The next couple of months should be interesting as to where the company is going. We have about 20 employees, and I think over half of them are marketing people.
Well, time for lunch!
I am just realizing that I never finished writing about Chengdu, which is really too bad because it was a fun trip. In a non-sequitur that will fill up the rest of this blog post, I've been getting more responsibilities around the office. This afternoon, I am going to start my search for more basketball coaches with my boss. I'm not sure how to recruit in Beijing. There are some expat websites and hangouts, but I'm going to have to sit down and brainstorm how to lure prospective basketball coaches into my snare. At the moment, the company I'm working for (Show1) is expanding like crazy.
Aside from weekend camps, one of the new ideas the company is trying out is getting into high schools to coach. I've been coaching at a boys and girls high school where the players are actually pretty good and so far it's been a lot more fun than trying to coach 10 year olds the fundamentals of basketball because their parents want them to learn skills rather than have fun even though that is one of the few ways to kill any kid's passion for basketball at an early age. But I digress. Apparently, Show 1 doesn't get money for coaching at the high schools, the idea is for the high schools (and middle schools that are connected with the high schools) to promote and encourage the kids in the schools to pay for and go to the weekend camps that Show1 puts on.
They are also opening up more camps around Beijing. They are hiring more people who will be in charge of organizing and facilitating the basketball camps in specific districts in Beijing. Part of what I've been doing over the past couple of weeks is putting on Demo camps in the new areas that we are expanding to. The idea is to show kids how great our camps are so they decide to pay for them. Show 1 has been advertising the free demo camps in newspapers and online, so I have been running around to coach all of those camps. However, in the future there are going to be what Sun Qiang calls "a lot" of demo camps, so I have to find some more coaches to help out.
Lastly, Show 1 is expanding outside of Beijing as well. We are trying to move into other provinces, with the overall goal to saturate all of China in a sea of little Chinese kids who will become the next generation of all star ballers and in time will dominate the NBA and in time turn it into merely an extension of the CBA (China Basketball Association). Although that is just me surmising. I think we just want more money. That's mostly likely why we're moving into other provinces.
So that's what I've been doing lately. I think that in the near future I'm going to start coming into the office less, which will be nice. The next couple of months should be interesting as to where the company is going. We have about 20 employees, and I think over half of them are marketing people.
Well, time for lunch!
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