Marketing

As we formed project teams, I got a feel for our team and quickly discovered that it was going to be a fun semester. While we were deciding on our project task, the group chose to conduct a research project on Aritzia. I really welcomed the idea of working on a project that involved Aritzia as I love going to shop there.

During the project planning stage, we learnt that it was difficult to find a timeline that would fit the team’s schedule. As each individual on this team is extremely busy, it was crucial that we kept each other well informed with status updates and progress reports. One point that was stressed when we began the project was to communicate.

As we progress through the different stages of the project, we were able to identify and apply many of the theories and tools we learned from our course. The combination of the project with our course made the whole experience very hands-on and engaging. One thing that resonated with me from this course was the 4Ps, product, place, price and promotion.

Further, the blog assignments, along with the final video project, made me feel that I was brought up-to-date with technologies and communication tools in the business world. Before this course and projects, my mindset for the business world was still the old fashioned face to face presentations and interactions. Upon completion of the project, I found that the content in this course was extremely valuable and will further aide me in my future studies.

Surface: the Next Big Thing, or the Last Grasp?

The Big concern of wheather or not PC’s surface will stand out of the market compare to the ipad

I became a certificate Bikram Yoga teacher on March, 2013. I started to teach after graduated. Yoga brings so many benefits to people which is one of the reason why I love to teach Yoga. I feel happy and fulfilled when I am teaching, which is a job but brings joyful. Why practice Yoga? First, through practice yoga poses with breathing exercises, yoga improves blood circulations. By improving circulation, nutrias and oxygen are better transported throughout your bode resulting a healthier organs, skin and brain. Yoga can significantly reduces heart disease.Practicing Yoga is not just learn how to balance with the postures, but also lean how to balance with your own body, mind and soul. If you haven’t practiced a Yoga class, Come this Sunday at 4:15pm at Bikram Metrotown. I will be happy to see you in the hot room.

As reported in public medias and the police reports, the series of assaults against women in UBC has altered many people’s view to the safety of the environment that we are in. As a young female UBC student taking on a full-time course load while working on the side, finding enough time to just catch up with the studies is already an enormous task. Worrying about the safety of my walk back home should not be one of the things that troubles me after I clock my hours in our libraries. I’m sure I am not the only one who is sicken by this. What has our campus come to?

Thesedays, Because of the  heavy mushrooming of online shopping sites, everything we could possibly desire is available online. Since we cannot be physically present to check the goods while buying them, well-meaning e-retailers offer customer-protection policies including stringent quality checks, exchange policies and money-back guarantees. I wish to convince people of the necessity of shopping only through sites with such well steps for customer benefit by narrating my best shopping experience.

In Depth: Global Marketing and Ethics (The Other Side of Apple)

Most companies include Apple, today are taking their operations global. Manufacturing in particular is being taken to China. This can mean much higher profits for a company, but there are other implications to consider here.
In the report, Apple is accused of “ignoring hazardous and unhealthy conditions at the factories in China where its components are assembled.” Employees are working excessive overtime without a single day off during the week, living together in crowded dormitories and standing so long that their legs swell and they can hardly walk after a 24-hour shift. I can’t imagine people in North America would say or complain about working over time without extra payment. Apple gives extensive pressure to its contractors to push the time of producing the products with highly standards. Due to the end, all these pressure has been pushed on its employee. Banners in the Chengdu plant gave a warning to the 120,000 staff: ‘Work hard on the job today or work hard to find a job tomorrow’. Workers who arrived late often had to write confession letters. As the result, a Foxconn employee jumped or fell from a block of flats and 18 other workers apparently tried to commit suicide in two years.

Reference:

http://goodelectronics.org/news-en/dying-young-the-foxconn-suicides-and-china2019s-booming-economy

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092277/Apple-Poor-working-conditions-inside-Chinese-factories-making-iPads.html