Week 3 EOC: Donation

Donating organizations have been around for some time now, doing good by giving to the less fortunate and helping them out is the name of their game. One of those companies is McDonalds. I may not find their food at all pleasing in fact I find it all to be disgusting besides a Mcflurry but that’s besides the point. They actually do good things when it comes to helping out people, and families in various ways around the world. While this is a charity and not a company that outright donates for different causes, it still does a lot of good. On the Ronald McDonald House Charities website is say that their mission is to, “is to create, find and support programs that directly improve the health and well being of children.” (http://rmhc.org/who-we-are/mission-and-vision/) What their doing is making sure children all over the world have the care they need to pull through whatever they may be going through. The way they make this work is by accepting donations from the pubic as well as from private sources then they take that money and put it where its needed. All their programs set out to make the children and their families feel the most comfortable through their difficult times. These programs aren’t only in America but are also in 52 countries. So their doing good around the world. Helping out people who need it the most., keeping the families by their children so they can provide the strength to their young ones. It’s really a great practice they have going on here. Their very right to recognize that kids need the most help to pass through the hard times, and this is a charity donation program I hope continues on giving to those who need it.
　

Week 3 EOC: My Demographic

People would say that since I’m 23 I would fit into the category of Millennia’s and they would be right. That’s the correct demographic that I fit into. According to our marketing book, “The Millennial’s were the first generation to grow up in a world filled with computers, cell phones, satellite TV, iPods, and online social networks.”(Marketing: An Introduction for Education Management Corporation, 10^th Edition)  I’m all hip when it comes to fancy new technology. I know the next big thing that is supposed to come out when and when it’s going to do to the market in terms of how it will revolutionize it. I’m also into gaming, which not too many age groups indulge in other sure you still find the older crowd doing it too, but not as much as the 20 sums. Something else that the text goes into is how Obama got many Millennials to go out and vote for him by appealing to the younger crowd and getting their vote because he was “understanding” of them and could market to them well. I’ll tell ya right now that I don’t like the guy, but this isn’t the time or place to talk politics really so I’ll leave that for another post possibly. With my age group comes responsibility you have the younger age group looking up to us, but then you also have the baby boomers looking down on us while we try not to mess up and make ourselves look bad. It can be really difficult at times to represent our group the Millennials well when you hear about people my own age doing so much wrong. It doesn’t matter though, I don’t want to be any younger or any older right now. I’m just fine the way I am.

Week 2 EOC: Video Games

The market for videogames flocculates from time to time, just like other leisure’s, these are put on the back burner for less costly forms of entertainment sometimes. However videogame makers are figuring out ways to lower prices of their systems, to maintain a level of competition with all that’s available including other video game systems. To keep in line with the economy, “The price cuts are responses to weakening consumer demand, but they have come relatively late because the console makers have to adjust their inventories and also reduce the costs of the electronics inside the machines.”(http://venturebeat.com/2009/08/27/console-price-war-finally-arrives-as-microsoft-cuts-xbox-360-price-by-100/) Lets face it, Microsoft, Playstation, and the Wii don’t get along. They all want a piece of the market. Now there’s an even newer contender; Apple and all it’s cheap game apps. This throws a whole nother aspect to it. Now you have stationary vs. portable play anytime games. It means different things for different people. Some would much rather sit down and play on a big screen than squint at an iPhone’s small screen. All of them will cost some initially but they start to differ when it comes to the price of their games. “According to analysis from 148apps.biz, the average price for an iPhone game is currently $1.24”(http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/App+Store/news.asp?c=23163) This is really cheap when you compare them to console games that are at $60 when their brand new. It depends on what you want to buy though. Are you in the market for portable, playable whenever or do you want to sit down in front of a nice big TV and game away? Just remember that someday the replacements will come out for the existing system and the trend will happen all over. Each one lowering their prices to get the edge on the other.

Week 1 EOC About Me

When I was a young boy growing up I wanted to be a paleontologist, and have a blast digging up dinosaur bones. Every young child has dreams of what they’ll grow up doing. The chances of them actually making a career out of those childhood dreams are relatively small I’m willing to bet. There’s nothing wrong with that though. We grow and develop all the while our interest change, that’s just life. For me this so called path I have taken that has gotten me to where I am now. Hasn’t been the most direct path but it has made me who I am. As a child, photography was never on my horizons. Sure I liked to take pictures as a lot of kids do, but I never thought I would be pursuing it like I am now. Simply put I was at a loss at what to do for awhile then I came upon high school and I started thinking since I like cars so much, why not go to school to learn how to work on them? I went on to go to Universal Technical Institute for automotive repair, enjoyed it, learned plenty, and graduated. Started working in the field for a little bit and it just wasn’t the same. It started losing its appeal quickly. I continued on and all the while I was picking up my camera more and more often. I only had a point and shoot camera, but I knew I wanted a DSLR so I could take even better shots. So I stepped it up to bigger camera. Started taking more pictures and before I knew it I was going back to school and taking photography classes. I knew this was something I wanted to continue even more. I had an even better feeling about it than when I was working on cars. Sure they are totally different but something about cameras has become more appealing to me. I can still incorporate cars into it by taking pictures of them. When you’re able to combine two loves into one, it’s a great thing. Another part of photography that I have gotten into is fashion modeling shots. Taking pictures of an attractive woman is a great thing. Don’t think I’m one sided about what gender I would shoot though, I just haven’t worked with any men so far. It all equals more business, which is of course what I want. As for what type of business I actually want I’m not sure. You can either work for yourself or work for someone else. Each has their own pros and cons. Come to think of it it’s possible to do both which would be even better. It would be twice the work, but it would be worth it. You’ve got to push yourself for what you want. No one is going to hand it to you, as nice as that sounds there is no reward in it. No sense of accomplishment. Also no respect, which is very important. I’ve got to gain that, by working at the bottom and climbing up through the ranks. It will be worth it though in the end. When you do something you enjoy it makes it that much less of a job, and that’s what I’m going for here. I couldn’t be the type of person that comes in daily just to sit on their ass and stare at computer screen all day, every day. My job will get me out there doing various type of shoots, and then the editing which I like to do as well. Of course this is talking ideally. I’ve got to put myself out there now, network and meet the right people.

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Week 1 EOC Great Customer Service

My last great customer experience would have be when I took my car into the dealership to have some work done this past December. It started when I first noticed my differential lights were lit on my dash, so I took it in, and there was nothing visually wrong with anything. They topped my diff fluid off and told me to keep an eye on it. No money exchanged hands. Shortly after that I heard the dreaded “death whine” which means my transfer case was starting to go out. I took it back in where they confirmed it for me that I indeed needed a new transfer case. I was pretty unhappy by this point but they assured me that once they heard back from the warranty rep they would begin working on it right away. That eased my mind some. However, there was still the matter of what I was going to do for transportation seeing as my car was down. Again the good folks there came through and got a hold of enterprise for me. The rental car was gonna be on them as well. From there it was on to enterprise that was just a little ways down the street nonetheless they picked me and got me a car fairly quick which was a pleasant experience. Seeing as I thought it would take awhile. Two days go by, and I get phone call saying my car is done; its ready to be picked up. I take the rental car back, get a ride over to the dealership, and there I find my car all fixed up. I then signed some papers and that was it. No money at all for the parts or labor. The dealership knew that, “the key to building lasting customer relationships is to create superior customer value and satisfaction. Satisfied customers are more likely to be loyal customers and to give the company a larger share of their business.(Marketing: An Introduction for Education Management Corportation,10 Edition, pg. 19) That is all very true they have a loyal customer now.