Blog 17: Answer 3

• EQ 
• What is essential for becoming a successful retail franchise owner?
• Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*
• In order to keep the success of your company you must always have sales and promotions.
• 3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example)
• it keeps the customers satisfied to save a couple of dollars
• at vans we always have bogo 50% on shoes, socks and sometimes apparel
• if you do bogo free you are guaranteed to get a lot of customers
• The research source (s) to support your details and answer
• http://www.marketingdonut.co.uk/marketing/customer-care/selling-more-to-existing-customers/sales-promotions-faqs
• Concluding Sentence
• I've learned this through my mentorship and helping customers, when asked what makes them keep coming back they tell me it's cause of the sales and promotions that we have.

Blog 11: Holiday Project Update

Content:

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you do over the break with your senior project?
         

                Over this break I was able to do some more mentorship hours, as well as enroll in a computers class at my community college that will teach me how to use Excel, and Microsoft Windows 2013. Which is very essential in today's business society.
2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned?

              The most important thing that I learned from what I did was that time means everything in the business world. It's important because in just a matter of seconds things can change for the better, for instance my mentor found out that the store next door was closing and she made a few calls to her boss and discovered that we will be moving locations to a bigger site by the end of the year. I learned all this directly from my mentor/manager Amy.
3.  If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers for your EQ, who would you talk to and why?

                I would probably talk to either my mentor Amy, or two of my other managers, Jerimiah and Zachary, because of all the people who work at the store those three have been the most helpful to me in answering questions for my senior topic. They have showed me the importance of time and money, and how you can better yourself with different positions within different companies. 

Blog 11: EQ

1.   Review this.  Confirm by stating "I reviewed the rule of three for writing an EQ."

Essential Question 
Once a topic is chosen, the student will develop a working essential question.  The purpose of the working essential question is to help the student build a strong foundation of research which will allow him or her to create an essential question that encourages depth and rigor in the chosen topic.  An essential question must:

• Provide a framework for studies (It calls for breadth and depth of research, Is not a yes/no question)
• Take a stance (It allows you to argue some point, Cannot be a recitation of facts or a list)
•  Format (It is specific, The wording makes sense)

I reviewed the rule of three for writing an EQ.

2.  Review the following EQs and

• Tell us if each meets the rule of three.
• Tell why they do or don't.

 a.  What is the most important factor in healthy weight loss? NO

 b.  What is most important to securing a conviction in a criminal investigation?   YES

 c.  What is most important in creating a hairstyle that best satisfies a customer? YES

 d.  How can an anesthesiologist best treat chronic pain? NO

3.  Based on your review of the rule of 3 and your experience with assessing four EQs, please write another draft EQ for your senior project.  The senior team will be meeting with students shortly for EQ revision and approval; you are expected to bring your research notebook to that meeting with your EQ draft written inside in pencil.

What is essential in becoming a successful retail franchise owner?

Blog 8

1.  What is your working EQ?

       

• What is essential in becoming a successful retail franchise owner?

2.  What is a possible answer to your working EQ? Please write the answer in thesis format. 

     What is essential in becoming a successful retail franchise owner?

• A successful franchise owner should always know what the ideal customer is looking for
• Knowing where a good location is to set up shop

3.  What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ?

• “The Vans Story” http://www.vans.net.au/wawcs0130206/History.html

4.  Who is your mentor, or where are you doing mentorship, and how does what you are doing relate to your working EQ?

• My mentor is Amy Mariani and I am doing my mentorship at Vans. What I am doing relates to my working EQ because Vans is a very successful franchise that has been around since 1966 and is still currently a very popular store.

Blog 5

1.Describe your experience in how you found your mentorship?

     I haven't found a mentor yet, but in my search for one I have actually called and submitted emails to corpate companies such as Vans, O'neil, Quciksilver, Nike, Hurley, Starbucks, Steve Madden, BCBG. I've been able to set up a couple of interviews with Vans, Nike, and O'neil, but those aren't till a couple of weeks. I'm hoping that I can get one of those.




2. What has been the most important article you have read and why?

     The most important article that I have actually read is titled "Peers Influence Decision to Become an Entrepreneur". I found it very helpful because it explains how most Entrepreneur get to where they are. It actually states that most have worked with one before they decided to become one themselves.

Blog 3: Topic Choice and Working EQ

1. Senior Topic:

   Business Management Of A Corporation



2. EQ for the Month:

    How much time and money is put into managing a successful business?


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