Thursday, March 12, 2015

Blog 18: Fourth Interview Preperation


  1. Which do you find to be the most important your employees, marketing, or business plan and why?
  2. What other things do you think leads to a business' success?
  3. What qualities do you think are necessary for a manager to have?
  4. Are there any tips you have on training to become a better manager?
  5. What do you find to be the best way to work with your employees?
  6. Which management style do you find to be the most effective?
  7. What form of marketing do you find works best?
  8. What do you find is a good way to form a business plan?
  9. What do you believe the advantages of having a business plan are?
  10. How important do you find the advances in technology for business?
  11. How do you think employee treatment affects their work?
  12. What do you find to be the most important part of a business plan?
  13. How important do you find having good marketing is?
  14. How do you decide what each employee works on?
  15. Do you find it better to hire a marketer or do it yourself and why?
  16. When deciding on an important decision what do you reference for help?
  17. Do you find social media or old fashioned ads are more effective in getting your brand out there?
  18. What do you think you always need to plan ahead for?
  19. What do you find helps keep your customers coming back?
  20. Which do you believe is more helpful a few great employees or many average  employees and why? 

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Blog 17: Answer 3

1. My EQ is "What is the best strategy a manager can use to make his small business more successful?"

2. My answer 3 is " The best strategy a manager can use is to create a good marketing plan"

3. Good marketing can make your business stand out from your competitors. Without a marketing plan a business would have a tough time trying to get customers. Using the internet for marketing will help a business learn more from their customers.

4. A few sources that support my answer are "10 Tips to Help You Build and Grow a Stand-Out Small Business Brand" and "The Ultimate Marketing Plan: Find Your Hook, Communicate Your Message, Mark Your Mark".

5. After reading through my various research and after the few interviews I've done having good marketing seems to be a great of way for a business to be more successful. It leads to more customers which in turn leads to more profit.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Extra Blog: February

This month went by too fast, but besides that it was a good month. Got the third interview out of the way and started my second independent component. Besides that I did a little at mentorship and actually have some pictures from there.
My mentor's office
One of the offices I sometimes work at
One of the many machines that actually make the textiles



Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Blog 16: Answer 2

1. My EQ is "What is the best strategy a manager can use to make his small business more successful?"

2. My first answer is, "The best strategy a manager can use to make his business more successful is to treat his employees well."

3. My seconds answer is, "The best strategy a manager can use to make his business more successful is to create a good business plan."

4. If you are just starting up your business creating a business plan will help layout what exactly you want your business to do. Business plans also include all marketing plans that you may use, and marketing is an important part of having a successful business. By using a business plan a manager will know exactly what works and doesn't work in a business as time goes on.

5. I think the article that best supports my answer is "Ten Things Every Good Business Plan Must Have." It was the first article I read that explained why a business plan was good to have, and gave good information on how to make a good one.

6. A few other sources that helped support my answer are the article "Writing a Business Plan? 4 Common Mistakes to Avoid" and the book "The Ultimate Marketing Plan: Find Your Hook, Communicate Your Message, Mark Your Mark." I only recently decided on my answer 2, so I still need to find more sources regard it.

7. I chose creating a good business plan as my answer 2 because if you're just starting up a business or already have one making sure the business plan is good. The plan provides a good layout of everything your company stands for and can lead to great success.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1. Considering the fact that I don't have many options of things I can do for an independent component, I think I'm going to just complete my online Business course on sailors.com. I only completed two of the five units and would like to finish it.

2. The class offer more than enough work for 30 hours of work, I got over 30 just with the first two units I completed. To show proof I'll either print out a transcript that shows I completed the course or I'll just have a Google docs that has all the work I do.

3. Like before taking this online course will help me get more of a technical and educational look at business. So, if I were to pursue a career in business the class provides a good starting foundation. With the work I started in my first independent component I  already  learned a lot more than I had known before so completing the course will teach me even more.

4. Check Link

Friday, February 6, 2015

Blog 14: Independent Component 1



Literal
A) I, Humberto Tavira , affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 34 hours of work.
B) I completed my independent component on saylor.org. I used the different sources from links provided on this page. http://www.saylor.org/courses/bus101/#
C) Check link on the side
D) For my independent component i took an Introduction to Business class online. It required me to read through various books, take some notes, and complete some activities as well. The course taught all the basics regarding business such as explaining inflation or looking at a country's GDP.


Interpretive
     The course itself was significant in that it taught me more of the things someone would need to know if the were to pursue a career in business while in college. It was good taking this course because my mentor himself didn't go to college to get a degree in business, so this fills in the information he maybe unable to provide. The work I completed took hours to complete and I estimated it took around 30 hours to complete. Of the course I didn't get to complete all of it I only managed to finish 2 units of the 5 available. 

Applied
     The independent component helped me better understand my topic by showing me information that I may not have been able to get from another source. It's taught me all sorts of things regarding business such as what the parts of a business cycle are, which are the peak when the economy is at its highest, contraction where the economy begins to go down, the trough where the economy is at its lowest point, and finally expansion where the economy begins to grow. I wouldn't have learned that or other interesting things if it hadn't been for this course. 

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Extra Blog: January





I really hate how I keep forgetting about these extra blogs, but anyway, let's see over the last month I've worked more on my independent component. The component has had me reading a lot of different things regarding business, but I feel like it's been worth the effort. Besides that there was the second lesson plan which is thankfully now over. During research currently I've found a good book called The Ultimate Marketing Plan by Dan Kennedy. The books has helped teach me a lot about ow to best get your business noticed and get  more business.