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I, a campaign manager

so in addition to being a CTO, a CS major, and a dorm vice president, i was also a campaign manager for 2 weeks (the exact campaign that I was managing is not entirely difficult to figure out if you really want to know, especially if you click on the links BUT i will be trying to not mention it specifically here lol). You might be wondering - (1) why and (2) how did you end up becoming a campaign manager..... you're not even a poli sci/gov/humanities/literally anything vaguely related to this major??

You're correct, yes, how did this happen? Well that's a great place to start this story:

How in the world this happened

Friends drag you into stuff. This happens to be the same friend that dragged me to New York, and then was 20% of the reason I got dragged into the negotiation class, and then was maybe 15% of the reason i got dragged into nonprofit activities? In terms of providing unique opportunities in my life, she definitely takes the cake. So one day, she says "I'm running for this position," and me and the squad says "we gotchu." What does that mean? Clearly wasn't sure in the beginning, but we were texting campaign strategies and slogans and tiktok ideas in the chat for fun. None of us had any real responsibilities, especially since the actual candidates were still weighing the playing field and figuring out their platform.

I also was a course 6, so I guess there was some expectation that I would make the website, even though I didn't actually code the website from scratch.

but anyways, it was actual campaign time.

CAMPAIGN SZN

After they figured out the campaign platform, it was game on for the campaign materials. We spent a lot of time on artwork, we photoshopped pictures from a photo shoot, we came up with campaign motto ideas, we brainstormed strategies for officially announcing the campaign. We had an actual campaign meeting to talk over things in mid-April where I met like six different people, friends from both candidates on this ticket, who were supporting this effort. We had a google drive AND a Dropbox. Look at this:

Despite this seemingly organized effort, it was not that organized because this publicity team didn't actually actively do anything for like a week. Many reasons for this: one being it was actually the semester, and it was also CPW weekend. Unfortunately for me, that weekend was literally hell for me, because I was managing this site for our nonprofit, CPW events (so like five zoom calls on a Saturday), classes (because those are still happening), and then the campaign thing finally started, about a week before voting opened. In the form, of a website.

So the tl;dr is I developed an entire Squarespace website in one night. Yes, one night. I had to model it from I think the website from a Harvard campaign site, which took me like three or four hours on a Saturday night, which is a very fast time in my opinion to learn how to use Squarespace. I also bought a domain and figured out how to connect it to Squarespace at like 1 in the morning, which was the first domain I ever bought in my life!

(It expires in a month. I am absolutely going to let it die.)

Also, if anyone from squarespace is reading this for some reason, yall made a really solid product. I actually was very happy with my experience. You all should use it, I am 100% not sponsored by them at all, but honestly it was a very good experience. If you need to develop a website in four hours and don't have a lot of webdev experience, definitely consider it. You can even see website clicks and user analytics, it's actually really put together.

The next day we spend a lot of time going through website changes and artwork changes. It's bad. We had so many discussions about color palettes and the advantages of a 3 column vs 4 column layout. Yes. I'm serious. I'm starting to go crazy.

If anyone's interested, I would say that our website definitely was better than the other campaign's website. Like objectively. Like both campaigns were great, but the website? well. Here's the link (archived because I only paid for 1 month of squarespace :D) The amount of detail that went into it is actually incredible, the amount of spacing, i even had to custom CSS the header image so that mobile headers would show up correctly.

THE CAMPAIGN VIDEO

so sometime during this week, I had this thought about making a really good campaign video. I was very inspired by some of these Google ads that started with a Google search bar. (Yes, I am aware that I am that much of a Google simp.) To be honest, rewatching this ad, I really definitely just copied this entire ad lol, it's ok we don't have to talk about that.

That Wednesday, we coincidentally talked about what makes campaign videos successful. We talked about how Trump's incendiary imagery helped stoke the flames and how it was really effective in getting people to vote, and eventually helped him beat Clinton in the presidential election. So I went and took that and grabbed news clips and campus videos and overlayed that in the video, and it went from like a solid 6 to an 8 immediately, in my honest, unbiased opinion. You can see what I mean in the video itself: [link].

We also had to put together quite a few interviews about what they wanted from the school and were looking for in their candidates, which took a million years of coordination, but we somehow got it done in three days, and everything was put together in a flurry of a weekend, unending changes and small fixes for sixteen hours straight. I could not even tell you how much I learned about premiere pro and how to use layer masks and everything. I even composed the music for the first fifteen seconds of it. Literally, composed, it.

And so on a Sunday afternoon FINALLY right before voting, the video drops. I'm sitting in my backyard absorbing the sun because I hadn't left my computer for 48 hours straight.

It gets like 1000 views or impressions or something in like two days, which is incredible for me, since I'm not a professional by any standards, but I am considering being a professional campaign manager at this point. By the way, we're also managing an Instagram page, a Facebook page, a tiktok page, a website, our individual social media pages, and we're trying to synchronize this video drop and all of our publicity efforts across every single one of these channels. It's chaotic at best.

VOTING SZN

So it's voting week, where we give everyone an entire week to vote. Across the week, it's mostly a waiting game, we make a few more tiktoks and funny videos that we publicize to get out the vote more. The last day, we're thinking about it, and we know the final vote's gonna be close, so we message every. single. person. in our Facebook friends list. I think I singlehandedly convinced like twenty people to vote (and hopefully vote for our ticket).

There's a lot of drama about different stuff. I won't really talk about it because I think it got really messy, but this week and entire couple weeks was a lot to get through honestly. As a reminder, I'm also working on my senior thesis and my nonprofit website work is peaking at this point, so everything is very, very bad and none of us have slept in a while. Also it's the pandemic.

Finally, the results come out. We lost by like 20 votes or something, out of 1500 or so total votes casted or something like that. It's one of the highest voter turnouts in school history or something, I don't quite remember. After that, we're so emotionally drained from this whole thing that we just don't talk about it for a while and that's that.

If the ticket won, I wonder how it would've turned out. I feel like things would've continued to be busy, and maybe that's not a great thing. So maybe everything happened for a reason. I don't know, but those three weeks were quite interesting, quite fun, quite odd. I'm putting those videos in my personal portfolio and am putting Adobe Premiere Pro and Squarespace on my resume and moving on.

Anyways, thought I'd just share! i haven't posted in a while, and this was definitely one of my #weird #odd stories from my time at MIT, which is quite reminiscent of #weird #odd at MIT in general.

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This Instructor Earns $three,000 a Month on the Aspect by Upcycling Furnishings on Fb

After a protracted day of educating Chinese language to center and excessive schoolers, cooking dinner for her daughter and husband and prepping her spare bed room for Airbnb visitors, Sara Chen likes to name out to her Echo Dot:

“Hey, play some soft music.”

That is when most individuals would plop on the coach and set free a deep sigh of exhaustion. Possibly pour a glass of wine and name it an evening. However Chen isn’t most individuals. She’s simply getting began.

Gentle music buzzing within the background, she heads to her storage and begins sanding, priming and portray furnishings – often mid-century trendy dressers – for her aspect gig, Sara Chen Design.

Till earlier this 12 months, Chen, 40, hadn’t discovered the correct outlet for her sturdy inventive streak. It was by likelihood that she stumbled upon upcycling furnishings, work she finds energizing and provoking. The additional $2,500 to $three,000 a month is simply an additional benefit.

Discovering Furnishings, Achievement With Sara Chen Design

When Chen left her HR job in China to maneuver to the U.S. 10 years in the past, she felt like she was taking a step down professionally.

“All of the advantages I had deteriorated,” Chen stated, noting the shortage of parallels in hiring practices between Denver and Shanghai.

So she pivoted her profession circa 2009 and took a job educating Chinese language. It allowed her and husband Justin Herbertson to lift their new child daughter, Gemma. She’s been a Chinese language trainer ever since, and she or he enjoys the work. It’s steady. It pays the payments. The medical health insurance is nice. And now Gemma attends the identical faculty.

However Chen yearns to be inventive.

In 2015, she discovered about Airbnb, and, by extension, the concept of beginning her personal gig when the household moved from Denver to Charlotte, North Carolina. Chen jokingly calls herself a “control freak,” and itemizing rooms on Airbnb permits her to flex each creativity and management. Whereas she will get to curate well-manicured rooms for lease, Airbnb doesn’t totally quell her want to be inventive.

Then she obtained her first style of furnishings flipping. On Fb Market, Chen discovered “a steal”: a mid-century trendy dresser for $200 that may go completely in her bed room. She introduced a good friend to fulfill the vendor. “So, I went in and found out she actually had two dressers… both mid-century modern style,” Chen stated. “I told my friend, ‘You know what? You should buy the other one.’”

Her good friend stated no. “It looks so ugly,” she advised Chen.

Chen purchased each items for $400 anyway. The primary piece she saved as is. For enjoyable, she determined to color the second. She purchased sandpaper, tack material and a can of white paint – in all, a couple of $30 funding. Then she arrange store in her storage and set to work. In two or three hours, the dresser was like new — however higher.

“Then my friend came over and she was like, ‘Is that the dresser you [tried to] convince me to buy? It looks so good! Can I have it now?’” Chen recalled.

On the spot, she made a sale: $350. And that gave Chen the braveness to start out upcycled furnishings flipping as a aspect gig.

“That’s what I like about America,” Chen stated. “This is a country that really promotes hard work and creativity.”

A Good First Buyer

Picture courtesy of Sara Chen

Chen determined to play it secure with the primary piece she made obtainable to the general public. To search out the correct piece to flip, she once more turned to Fb Market, investing a lot much less the second time round: $70 for a 1930s dresser from Singapore.

“My rationale is that I really like this piece,” Chen stated. “And if it doesn’t sell, I’m going to use this for myself.”

She selected a dresser as a result of it’s a flexible piece of furnishings for flipping. It could possibly double as a baby-changing station or an leisure stand, if wanted. And with a sturdy teal coat, newly put in cup-pull handles and a easy black-and-white liner for the drawers, Chen reworked the piece from rustic to stylish.

Her first buyer drove greater than two hours to choose it up. When the lady arrived, she marveled – and shelled out $420. Together with provides, Chen earned about $300 in revenue on her first sale.

On her means out, the client inspired Chen to create an Instagram account to showcase her work. The girl had a big social media following and stated she would give Chen a shout-out. 

Chen took that recommendation to coronary heart. In lower than a 12 months, with the assistance of her glad first buyer, she has amassed greater than 1,700 followers on Instagram.

Professional Tip

Social media websites are free and infrequently underutilized instruments for budding companies to draw prospects. Use these social media greatest practices to get your footing, the sooner the higher. 

However Chen’s luck along with her godsent buyer didn’t finish there.

“After she got the green dresser, I noticed she was pregnant,” Chen stated. “I got another dresser, also from Facebook Marketplace… and then I painted it pink. I added black handles.”

“You’re looking for a dresser for your girl?” Chen texted her. “Well, I might have a piece you want.”

Chen photographed the brand new pink dresser and despatched over the photographs. Fingers crossed.

“This is exactly what I want!” the lady replied.

The second piece, which Chen bought for about $60, bought for $400. 

  Sale 1: Teal Dresser Sale 2: Pink Dresser

Buy worth: $70 $60

Price of supplies (sandpaper, paint, material, and so on.): $30 $30

Gross sales worth: $420 $400

Revenue: $320 $310

And people worth factors weren’t one-offs from an enthusiastic purchaser. Chen’s instincts have been useless on. After researching her rivals on Market, she usually shoots for these revenue margins with every undertaking.

For tallboys, just like the pink dresser, Chen spends $40 to $70 and flips them for $325 to $425 on common. The margins for lengthy dressers are even higher – a $60 to $120 buy worth and a $475 to $525 gross sales worth. Relying on the undertaking, which means she recurrently sees revenue margins between 70% and 90%.

“You need to find a sweet spot,” Chen stated. “I try to keep it in the median-high level. I feel like that’s the right spot [for me].”

Flipping Furnishings Is All Concerning the Images

After tallying about 70 items of classic furnishings hunted, cleaned, patched, sanded, repatched, primed and painted since early 2019, Chen has her upcycling course of right down to a science. However when the paint dries, her work is just somewhat previous the midway mark.

Subsequent, she phases the piece for high-quality photographs to incorporate in her listings on Market or Instagram. It’s now her favourite a part of the method.

“It’s also probably the most important part,” Chen stated. “It’s gone from a regular piece to a stunning piece, and I want people to see that.”

The added love actually goes a good distance.

When Chen listed the primary teal dresser, she added potted cherry blossoms, a wood self-importance tray and a stool adorned with books to provide the photograph further pizzazz. These particulars are what satisfied a pregnant woman to drive greater than two hours to choose it up.

The well-produced product photographs double as an efficient technique to showcase her earlier initiatives on her portfolio web site, which brings in additional prospects.

Chen even makes use of her photo-editing chops to revenue off of her competitors. A lot of folks promote furnishings on Market, however darkish and grainy photographs abound. In an experiment, she edited one native vendor’s footage utilizing Photoshop and despatched them over. Their furnishings began promoting sooner.

“She loved my photos,” Chen stated. She advised the vendor, “I can help you post photos, I’m just going to charge you $20 every time you ask me to do a listing.”

It was a deal, which sparked a brand new income stream for Chen and yet one more moneymaking concept: photography-staging programs on Udemy or Teachable, an ideal mesh of her expertise.

She has already began planning the programs, however with the college 12 months in full swing, Chen admits that she’s maxed out. Two or three furnishings initiatives per week is her restrict. And the self-described management freak isn’t prepared to rent another person to assist discover or flip furnishings anytime quickly.

“But I don’t feel stressed out because I’m doing the things I like to do,” she stated.

So for now, as many lecturers do, Chen counts down the times till faculty’s out – not in anticipation of a lavish trip. 

She simply desires extra free time to color furnishings and additional daylight to snap high quality photographs.

Adam Hardy is a workers author at The Penny Hoarder. He focuses on methods to earn money that don’t contain stuffy company places of work. Learn his ​newest articles right here, or say hello on Twitter @hardyjournalism.

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