{"id":12,"date":"2013-10-07T22:52:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T05:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/danielleyallouz\/?p=12"},"modified":"2013-11-14T21:43:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T04:43:12","slug":"swot-analysis-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/danielleyallouz\/2013\/10\/07\/swot-analysis-response\/","title":{"rendered":"SWOT Analysis Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/danielleyallouz\/files\/2013\/10\/monster1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/danielleyallouz\/files\/2013\/10\/monster1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>This week in Commerce 101, our assignment was to create a SWOT analysis for one of the biggest energy drink companies in the world, Monster Energy Drink. It was a very interesting and challenging assignment. Learning how to research a company\u2019s attributes in great detail was a very eye opening experience. I discovered the challenges it takes to market a product with many outside factors affecting your company directly and indirectly. For example, Monster suffers a significant amount of scrutiny when it comes to health accusations. This can have a major effect on it\u2019s sales and it\u2019s amount of consumers. I know personally after reading a vast amount of articles on the subject, I will not be purchasing a Monster Energy Drink again. Furthermore, I learned the challenges a company can have internally. It is crucial to have a strong marketing team and financial group in order to keep a business successful; as well as having them working cohesively. With continuous competing companies pressuring the ongoing success of a company, innovation and organization is key when running a business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in Commerce 101, our assignment was to create a SWOT analysis for one of the biggest energy drink companies in the world, Monster Energy Drink. It was a very interesting and challenging assignment. Learning how to research a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/danielleyallouz\/2013\/10\/07\/swot-analysis-response\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/danielleyallouz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/danielleyallouz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/danielleyallouz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/danielleyallouz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/danielleyallouz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/danielleyallouz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/danielleyallouz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/danielleyallouz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/danielleyallouz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/danielleyallouz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}