The cliche "every good thing must come to an end" hits different when that good thing is one you have immersed yourself in, grown to love and simply wish for it's continuity.
The side hustle bootcamp has proven to be more than what anyone could have anticipated. In the past 4 weeks, we have experienced the fast paced,real time work and task execution,that I dare say yes helped us in mastering agility.
For our closing task for this bootcamp, Product Management created a launch plan/timeline for our product. We broke down our launch timeline into 4 months and expanded on activities for each month leading up to the launch date. We used Microsoft word, canva and Microsoft excel to achieve this.
The Graphic Design team created infographic flyers according to content provided by the digital marketing team, for social media. They also completed work on the launch flyers. This was achieved using Corel draw, Canva and Photoshop. The final work came out beautifully as always.
Digital Marketing and Content Creation were to automate our emails on Mailchimp. The emails were set up, tested and confirmed. They had to also continue uploading content according to the content calendar and the social media strategy.
Finally they completed an launch end-to-end marketing plan for the startup and work on a proposal for investors. The tools used for all these were Mailchimp, Hubspot proposal and canva.
Our one man team video animator created a launch video using the content from content team. She created a story streamlined with our product.
Product Design were to work with the Developers to ensure 100% compliance with the design and Improve the design where necessary. They were able to provide a prototype to show exactly all functionalities of the website, pending when it is fully up and running.
Customer Relationship Management using the HubSpot account created in the previous week were to Implement the email marketing system in collaboration with the digital marketing team. They also went through the flow again, updated the FAQ document.
Frontend Development completed Implementation of the UI design to 100%, making sure to stay compliant with the design.
Backend Development had to deliver all needed APIs to the FE Devs and work in collaboration with Frontend Developers and PMs. They finished their task using Postman and Mongodb atlas.
Lastly, our Data Analytics team worked on a marketing campaign performance analysis of competitive products in our industry. This was achieved using Google search engine Microsoft Excel Pivot Table Pivot Chart and Power BI.
Overall, the bootcamp experience has been surreal. It provided us an opportunity to meet and network with brilliant minds who I'm certain will make great impact in whatever they decide to do with the knowledge gathered so far.
From here, I can now say our journey into our respective new career paths has officially began. And while we wish this experience continues, we sadly must draw the curtains and open ourselves to new opportunities.
Huge thanks to Sidehustle internship program. And big thanks to everyone who followed our story from start till now.
Cheers to new beginnings.