Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Final Project Week 8: The story


A silent bar where  I, Phineas Fogg sits and drinks my  fresh brew. Peruvian liquor seems to be the best with a hint of lime.  I look around to see the atmosphere of everything. I see a woman frustrated and looks in a need of help. Two thuggish men are pushing her around trying to force themselves to take her with them. I grabs a bite of MY Incan fire chips and walks toward them. I then punch one of the guys until he's cold knocked out. The other guy throws a bar stool at me and misses.  i began to catch fear. i grab  the damsel and runs out the bar with my bag of fiery chips in hand. The Peruvian beauty is caught and confused by what's going on. The thuggish man runs to them and I hop onto a llama and we are off. The man is behind us running fast as speed.  I then throws rocks at him hoping to stop him in his tracks. I keeps trying with the rocks.  It's not enough to stop this thug until they run into the rainforest and towards the edge of a cliff.  The girl panics and yells to me something in Spanish. Thinking quickly I, can either die off a cliff or die from this huge man. He then grabs a vine where he swings him and the beauty to safety and watches the thug fall into a waterfall.  The Peruvian beauty asked me ,my name and he tells her “Phineas Fogg.” After clutching it for so long I pull out a chip from the bag. Offering the beauty a piece of lime chili pepper jerky and she doesn’t accept and kisses me passionately.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

week 4 EOC: business to business marketing

"Consumers make many buying decisions every day, and the buying decision is the focal point of the marketer’s effort. Most large companies research consumer buying decisions in great detail to answer questions about what consumers buy, where they buy, how and how much they buy, when they buy, and why they buy. Marketers can study actual consumer purchases to find out what they buy, where, and how much"
Consumer buying can be seen as what demographics fit where when you buy this product, what is the age range I'm going for, would woman or males buy my product, is this going to be reasonably priced. These things I would say are what makes a buyer different from a great buyer.
The different stages would be sub culture, culture and income. Also social can be one of these factors as well. Once way of getting culture involved would be the cover girl commercials and how they use Queen Latifah as a spokes model so they can outreach their African American demographic. This could trigger someone's mind and say hey, they have colors for my skin tone. This can be all making the whole demographics and what buyers do when carefully choosing a product. Is it going to offend someone. These are some of the factors that can affect a buyer.

EOC: WEEK 3 making money for good

One company I knows makes money for the good would be the burger chain of  In & Out. Their foundation would be known as the child abuse foundation.

The Child Abuse Foundation is supported primarily through donor contributions and internal fundraising activities sponsored by In-N-Out Burger. In addition, In-N-Out Burger pays all costs associated with the Foundation, so that every penny raised goes directly to help abused and neglected children.
Since 1984, In-N-Out Burger has been helping abused and neglected children. It is our way of giving something back to the communities where we live and do business. More importantly, it is a way of giving victims of abuse something they might not have...hope!
The In-N-Out Burger Foundation (the “Foundation”) was established in March 1995 as a nonprofit organization. The Child Abuse Foundation’s purpose is to assist children who have been victims of child abuse, and to prevent others from suffering a similar fate. The Child Abuse Foundation supports organizations that provide residential treatment, emergency shelter, foster care, and early intervention for children in need.
The Child Abuse Foundation is supported primarily through donor contributions and internal fundraising activities sponsored by In-N-Out Burger. In addition, In-N-Out Burger pays all costs associated with the Child Abuse Foundation, so that every penny raised goes directly to help abused and neglected children!
"Since 1984, In-N-Out Burger has been giving back to the communities where we live and do business..."

EOC week 2: Video game consoles

I have different views on where the game console thing are  be going, but in this blog post it will categorized.

Stars are the highest there is for the product and where it could be going. Cash Cows would be where they are heading for a slow decline in them. Question mark means we don't know where this stands it the marketing industry. Then the dogs mean they have come to their end in the industry. The article we read for reference was discussing how we would place each consul and new gaming device in their category.

The first consul would be  a Wii device. I believe this has reached its dog peak because the demand for active games has slowly declined and the games produced for this consul all seem to involve a Wii sport, Wii fit, o just anything to get your body active.

The PlayStation company may have reached their cash cow because they seem to be loosing their whole target or reach since the X Box company has been more involved in creating different games and they seem to have lost their demographic reach.

The X Box seems to be a cash cow as well. They have came out with their line of active games and we can see that going as nowhere. I think the true star in the this video game category would be the app games and everything involving cellular  games.



"While the videogame industry had hopes of posting double-digit revenue growth this year, analysts now

predict flat to 5% growth from $11 billion in 2008. Jesse Divnich, an analyst for Carlsbad, Calif.,

research firm Electronic Entertainment Design and Research, said he will "be happy if the industry

grows."