Opening Assignment December 20/11

Olive garden. The Keg. Montanas. Sumo. Subway. Swiss Chalet.  Earls. Cactus Club.

Opening Assignment December19/11

https://www.expedia.ca/daily/enc4105/packages/vacations/searchresults.asp?rfrr=-58582
This trip is to Los Cobos and is all inclusive. The price per person is $2299 so for a family of 4 it would cost $9196. Its for two weeks and you will be in the sol tower with an ocean view. Departure is on December 26/2011. The Vacation has been given a 4 out of 5 star rating and is a beachfront resort. Includes things like a swim up bar and a golf course.

Opening Assignment December 16/11

I would open a Mc Donalds

Burger King would be the competition.

Then I would open a fruit smoothie shop

Booster Juice would be the main competition.

I would open a Tim Hortons 

Starbucks would be my main competition.

I would open a Clothing store for teens 

American Eagle would be my competition

I would open a Barber shop 

First choice would be my competition

I would open a Sports store

SportCheck woud be my main competition.

Opening Assignment December 15/11

LG Xenon For Sale

1 Year old, Good condition, few scratches.

Comes with charger and heavy duty case.

Sliding QWERTY keyboard.

2Gb Memory card Included.

$50 - Contact at 555-9902 

Opening Assignment December 14/11

Plaid is huge, for guys and girls. Places ranging from Mark's to American Eagle sell Plaid shirts and sweaters. List : Plaid shirts, Pull over sweaters, Slim fitting low rise jeans, Retro Christmas sweaters, Retro toques, Moccasins, Letterman jackets, Anything nike, Cardigan sweaters

West jet video

Well if the employees at the titans school store worked with passion and enthusiasm as the employees of westjest did they would be a lot more effective at selling things. They treat it as something boring but if they acted like they enjoyed it then i think the customer moral would be higher.

Opening Assignment December 9/11

What I learned about marketing from physics class.
The Speaker likened 3 physics laws to marketing. Newtons Law of Acceleration equals Force over mass. He likened it to the more massive the brand the harder it is to change directions. The second one was that you can't measure a particle accurately, He likened it to try to measure what consumers actually do rather than what they say they do. The third was that you can amass all the data you can but you can't prove a hypothesis but one piece of data can disprove it. No matter how must you invest in a brand it only takes one bad mistake to ruin all of your company's credibility.

radio ad

Opening Assignment December 8/11

4 P's - Product
                       - What are you selling?
           Promotion
                       - Marketing your product
           Price
                       - How much is your product?
           Place
                       - Where are you selling your product?

AIDA - Attention (Awareness), Interest, Desire, Action


1) 13/15
2) 14/15
3) 13/15

Student Council Advertising Project.

1)

Product – Food for the Food Bank

Promotion – Mr. Whitbread in an ugly student council chosen outfit if 750lbs of food is collected. Mr. Davies in a too-too if 1000lbs of food is collected

Price – How much a can of food is.

Place – To Be Announced

Radio ad. Technique - Guilt, Simple solutions.

2)

Product – Variety the childrens charity.

Promotion – Pie a teacher in the face, if the raffle ticket you buy is drawn.

Price 1 for 1 3 for 2 5 for 3, auction to pie Mr. Davies

Place – Rotunda at lunch December 7 Buy the tickets at the student council store.

Power point
Bandwagon, Bribery/Guilt

Opening Assignment November 22/11

1) Not everyone in the world has cash, sometimes it is better to use the barter system for people in poor countries. so i disagree.

2) That isn't the case because of credit, just because you don't have the money in hand doesn't mean you can't buy it. Disagree

3) Not a good idea because of credit card interest, you could find yourself in debt really fast. Disagree

4) Having a good credit rating is important for things like getting a mortgage. Agree.

Opening Assignment November 18/11

 Planning - It deals with chalking out a future course of action & deciding in advance the most appropriate course of actions for achievement of pre-determined goals. Planning is determination of courses of action to achieve desired goals. 

 Organizing - It is the process of bringing together physical, financial and human resources and developing productive relationship amongst them for achievement of organizational goals. It involves identification of activities, classification of grouping of activities, assignment of duties, delegation of authority and creation of responsibility, and coordinating authority and responsibility relationships. 

Directing - Direction is that inert-personnel aspect of management which deals directly with influencing, guiding, supervising, motivating sub-ordinate for the achievement of organizational goals.

Controlling - To ensure that everything occurs in conformities with the standards. Controlling is the measurement and correction of performance activities of subordinates in order to make sure that the enterprise objectives and plans desired to obtain them as being accomplished.

Opening Assignment November 17/11

Well the managing is going alright, I'm definitely still new at this but I think that I can definitely keep doing this. My mom is a great motivator and manager in life, partly because she works in a position where she has lead over a team, and partly because she has been parenting for sixteen years so she has experience at it. She is patient but she doesn't take crap excuses. She is respectful to those under her and in that way she earns their respect. She is also a hard worker herself. I think by just using those three things I can become a better manager for my company.

Opening Assignment November 16/11

I'm not sure if this counts, but I'm gonna roll with it. Microsoft's failure of an mp3 player the Zune. I'm not sure if there really was a time that people wanted a Zune to be completely honest. But i know for a fact that no one wants to buy one now. Microsoft made a mistake trying to make a product to match apple's iPod. It actually made the iPod look more desirable to consumers. There isn't really anything that I can offer to Microsoft to save this product in the form of advice. The product is dead. Give up and stick to computers and video games.

Opening Assignment November 15/11

This it's a pretty cool product. It offers a wide range of customization to the pages. You can customize the background with a great selection, you can customize the size of your pictures and create things like captions and speech bubbles as well. I like the fact that you can get your pictures from Facebook but i was disappointed at the fact that it wasn't working when i used it. I didn't really see any faults to the product when i used it or hey are just not coming to mind. This will appeal to the students in our school, especially grade twelve students. Well we are talking about marketing right now.

Ads

My favourite ad must be the Dos Equis ads featuring the "most interesting man in the world". They make me laugh and it is such a catchy ad that stays with you, their slogan is great and the character is great. The Dairy Queen ads of late have been really bad in my opinion, they seem to have ripped off the idea that worked so well for old spice. I am uninterested and kind of turned off DQ when i see these ads.

Opening Assignment November 10/11

Food ads, Shoe ads, Social networking ads, Computer ads, Phone ads, Magazine ads, Newspaper ads, Television ads, Radio ads, Billboard ads, Poster ads, Bus ads, Banner ads,

Opening Assignment November 9/11

I think Product placement is a really effective way to market your product. People follow what celebrities do, what they wear what they eat. So of course they will try out the product if their favourite celebrity has it. My favourite guerilla marketing idea would definitely have to be the volkswagen ad with the slide, what a genius idea, let people ride down a slide and have fun, while marketing your brand. Without a doubt I'm sure it was really successful. I also thought the nike ad with putting shoes on tires is a really good idea too.

Opening Assignment November 8/11

I believe that the information is true for other businesses but i don't rea;;y see how it applies to a coffee shop in the school, it makes sense for a clothing brand or and electronics company. It even makes sense for a coffee company like tim hortons or star bucks but i just don't see how it would affect my business, its pretty clear cut, coffee at the school in the mornings for a good price and for good quality. I don't really think that we have time to change everything to adapt to gen y. But i still think the concept is interesting.

Opening Assignment November 7/11

Customer service - The cab driver made sure that his cab was clean that the A/C worked and also provided ice cold pop and candy for the customer.
Customer Loyalty - At the end of the trip the cab driver and the passenger exchange business card and the cab driver tells the passenger that whenever he is back in town to call him and he will pack hi up at the airport for no extra charge.
Customer Relations - The cab driver was from the sounds of it, one of the nicest people. Pleasant to talk to, friendly and he went out of his way to make sure to see to the customers needs.
Customer Experience - The cab driver must be experienced because of how well he does his job and the exceptional standard he preforms at.

Opening Assignment November 3/11

I suppose that it is possible that a business can be solvent and non profitable, but only under certain conditions. Solvency is being able to pay your debts when you need to. So in order for a business to be solvent but not profitable it must break even and just even. You can't have any less or anymore money. Like i said this only happens in certain situations.

Opening Assignment November 2/11

Cash assets -A current asset account which includes currency, coins, checking accounts, and undeposited checks received from customers.
Petty cash assets -A current asset account that represents an amount of cash for making small disbursements for postage due, supplies, etc.
Temporary Investments -A current asset account which contains the amount of investments that can and will be sold in the near future.
Inventory -A current asset whose ending balance should report the cost of a merchandiser's products awaiting to be sold.
Supplies -A current asset representing the cost of supplies on hand at a point in time. The account is usually listed on the balance sheet after the Inventory account.
Doubtful accounts - Credit accounts.
Assets - What you have
Liabilities - What you have to spend money on.
Equity - The potential money you have in your stuff from the profit.

Coffee Lovers.

Opening Assignment October 27/11

Old spice probably had the best ads. Just the way they were written and presented was phenomenal. The actor had amazing charisma. Everyone knows those ads and that is the reason old spice is really popular again. I din;t really have a favourite store i usually just by clothes that i think are nice and my style from wherever. I prefer pepsi over coke because of the taste. There is a definite taste difference between the two and i just like Pepsi's taste better.

Opening Assignment October 26/11

Well our design for our company is coming together quite nicely. But in all honesty there is something about our idea that just isn't clicking with me. It seems like a brilliant idea on paper but in practice it just doesn't seem attainable. The longer and longer I am in this class and have this idea I realize that I am not cut out to create a successful business. I don't know it just seems like my moral is down at this point. But i need to get out of this slump and help motivate my coworkers. It seems like I need some motivation myself.....

Opening Assignment October 24/11

Things like having your products made in sweatshops in third world countries can give your company a bad reputation. Another thing could be something like a scandal can give a company a bad name. Sometimes it isn't necessarily the company's fault. But a lot of the time the do have some hand in it. I think a good P.R. stunt would be something like giving a large amount of money to a charitable organization.

Opening assignment October 21/11

While this guy's intentions are good willed, i think that cutting the costs of energy would harm the economy because energy is such a big market. Not only that but if energy costed less wouldn't more people be consuming more energy? So it would also not harm the environment? If the energy was greener and held less of an impact on the environment i think his idea would hold more premise. I understand his idea but it needs work.

Opening Assignment October 20/11

I think he meant that you should ignore your morals in order to achieve success and if you think its right you should do it. If you want to do it you should ignore your morals if you are having second thoughts. I would guess that he has some sort of power and used this saying to get there. i would disagree with him personally because of my strong moral conviction. But hey if he feels that it works good for him, but i will stick to my morals to achieve success.

Opening Assignment October 19/11

I wouldn't add time to his sheet because first of all its dishonest and second of all it would not only get him in trouble, it would get me in serious trouble as well and i would most likely lose my job.
I wouldn't take up the offer. It's stealing first of all and second of all it's dishonest again.
I would alert the teller of his mistake.
I was raised on honesty and thats the way i carry my life now that i am responsible for my own actions.

google doc

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Ae91qKs9_0bAZGM2Nm1tc2JfMGdtajM2Z2Ri&hl=en_US

Opening Assignment October 17/11

Occupy Wall street was the starting domino in a line or protests. They had their own reasons to protest. This started a chain reaction of protests around the globe. They may or may not have stayed with the same issue as occupy wall street, not that it really matters. Everyone has reasons to protest for their own beliefs. Occupy Wall Street started a revolution that spread like a fever for people standing up and saying they don't like how things are being run.

Career fair questions

Rcmp: Government funded, she didn't know off the top of her head how many attend, High school kids at fairs like this one.
Canadian armed forces: Government funded, didn't ask, Commercials and fairs.

Opening Assignment October 12/11

I think because there is a rich person that is showing empathy with the less fortunate people in society. Its a rare sight to see someone care for those below them in this day and age. It is also unheard of to hear of a rich person say they have too much money. I personally admire that she is doing what she is doing, and I believe that this is the reason the picture is spreading so fast over numerous social networking sites on the internet.

Occupy Wall Street Questions

• Who is Occupy Wallstreet about? The people. the bottom 90%.
• What happened? People gather together to start a protest and are camping outat a plaza.
• Where did it take place? New York initially. but has spread around the world.
• When did it take place? Within the past few weeks and is still on going.
• Why did it happen? Because people are fed up with the inequality and the way things are being run.
• How did it happen? People united together for a common cause that the had passion for.

Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes.

Passion, Work, Good, Focus, Push, Serve, Ideas, Persist are the 8 things that lead people to success. With eight words the speaker unlocked what truly leads to people's success. It really clicked and I mean the points were broken down in a simple manner that everyone could understand and feel like they could achieve. You need to be passionate about what you are doing, you need to work at the goal that you set,  you need to get good at what you do, you need to focus on the goal you set and the work that you are doing, you need to push through failures and roadblocks, you need to serve others needs, you have to have ideas, and you must persist no matter what.

Opening Assignment October 5/11

A good advertisement is one that catches your eye, or makes you laugh and most important, makes you remember the product. Old spice ads are super effective because they stay in your mind they make you think of the product. Bad advertisements are boring, don't make sense, and don't stay with you. Part if being a bad ad is that no one remembers your product so i can't even think of any that would fall under the category of a bad advertisement.

Things we need for our business- meeting.

Start of meeting : 1:15 End of meeting 1:33.
Coffee maker
coffee- tim hortons
Sugar
Coffee mate
Cups
we have a table and coffee warmer
we NEED to talk to the principal about setting up in the rotunda or cafeteria
70$ budget
Noor- coffee
Marcus - sugar, coffee mate cups
laurin - Coffee maker
Vivian - Talk to the principal about arranging a meeting to ask permission to set up in the rotunda.

Opening Assignment October 4/11

For pride and also for a good mark in the class.
I don't really know if it is or not. I suppose it could have more motivation behind it.
Our business will look successful and all things considering it will be pretty successful.

My Jobs

President and head of finances

Opening assignment October 3/11

1. Charisma - you can't be a good leader if no one likes you or believes in your cause.
2. Responsibility - Your company won't go anywhere but down if you are not a responsible leader.
3. Able to think on the fly - Sometimes you need to make on your toes decisions that could make or break your company.
4. Morals - Sometimes morals will gain you more respect than results.
5. Intelligence - Pretty simple. If you aren't smart you won't succeed.

market analysis

My groups's is on lauren's blog

Opening Assignment September 29/11

I really agree with this lady. She really brought out some good points. I agree that woman need to take more initiative in the work force to be at the top. I think having more woman on top of the world would be a good thing. For a long time woman haven't had their opinions and ideas heard. Having fresh ideas has the potential to be a great thing for the world. Maybe it would bring some great change to the world. But at the same time it could change nothing and the world would be the same. It's all speculation.

Opening Assignment September 28

Well as far as i could read our name doesn't fall under any of the don't points. "Coffee lovers" tell the consumer what we sell and that we are passionate about our product that we are selling. I suppose it could fall under the category of being too specific if we decided to branch out to selling baked goods or hot chocolate. But I don't really see it as too much of an issue. Maybe something like Forest Cafe would be more functional.

Opening Assignment September 27

1. I think excel has a template that we will use.
2. That it is defiantly expensive to start a business and it takes time to actually break even.
3. Well all of our payments will be as we give them the product so I don't see a way that we wont get paid. It is simple for our group, no money no coffee.

Opening Assignment September 26/11

So the only one of my competitors that i was able to see was Tim Hortons. Sadly my picture of their menu was poor quality. What I do remember of it though is that their coffee was very well priced. i knew before that Tim's had the cheapest coffee for a coffee chain. I plan to be checking out more competition this week. This includes Starbucks second cup and 7 11. Off the top of my head i know that 7 11 will be cheaper than second cup and Starbucks. I am actually curious as to which one out of Second Cup and Starbucks is more expensive.

Opening assignment September 22/11

The speaker's message was very compelling. It was very interesting to learn on how in just 12 years his company reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 83%. That really makes it evident how other businesses and corporations should be able to follow in that company's footsteps and make a change in order to save our planet. I agree with the fact that corporations and enterprises in the business industry are the leaders in destroying the earth so they should be the leaders trying to get us out of the mess that they had a big part of causing.

Opening assignment Sept 21/11

Does our business plan have to be as long and in depth as some of the examples?
What if we still have unknown variables concerning our business?

Opening Assignment Sept 20

Possible survey question: Do you drink coffee in the morning or at some point in the day?

Yes?

No?

Sometimes?

My groups SMART goal is to be known by 80% of the school population and to have a large groups of regular customers by the end of the semester.

opening activity 3

Well getting lost was quite interesting i must say. I know now that Ms. Keilty doesn't have to best sense of direction. Although i can't blame her for everything. There was a stall on Deerfoot Trail that made traffic a nightmare, because everyone knows that there are 309090897843692 cars on the road at two p.m. right? So she tried a shortcut that ultimately took less time than waiting on deerfoot but still wasn't fast enough to get us to class on time. I will give her props though because if it had been Mr. Stolee driving we still would be at school. I was directed to write about this by Ms. Munroe just incase you forgot :)

Opening activity 2

The can change their tone and their volume as well as their speed at which they speak to get various points across to various audiences.

1. Instant Breakfast (3 boxes)

2. Family tent (10 lbs)

3. Matches

4. Road map of Alberta & BC 

5. Fishing Gear

6. First aid kit 

7. Sheath knife

8. 4 dracon sleeping bags

9. Wool sweaters for everyone

10. Steak 3 pounds

11. Transistor radio

12. Walkie-Talking

13. 10 lb cheese wheel

14. 6ft tent pole

Scribe - Vivian

Facilitator - Marcus

Action Planning/Vibes Watcher - Lauren

Time Keeper - Noor

Space Maker - Everyone

Opening activity

Well i suppose that the only attainable competitive edge from business to business would be innovation and the "golden circle" that was brought out in that video. Maybe the push for new things to keep an edge would further advance the world technologies.

Business quiz

Slide 1: It is ironic that the guy who is telling the others to row or they will sink is the one that is weighing them down in the first place and then on top of that he isn't even trying to help the situation.
Slide 2: Profit- Nike. Non-profit- World vision. Not for profit-
non profit-any money made goes into the cause. not for profit- any money made is put back into the company.
Slide 3:
Slide 4: Profit is what you actually get to take home after the costs and expenses are taken care of. Costs are things such as paying for labour. Expenses are the costs to make and distribute your product.
Slide 5: Well for positives first off it is a lot better for the environment is we use alternative methods of energy. A negative is that our already fragile economy would take a huge hit because oil is such a big part of our economy.
Slide 6:
Slide 7: This is going to sound terrible but runescape has an in-game economy.