Wednesday, May 13, 2015

The business wheels are close to meeting the road...


This is it,

The next post after this will be for all of the marbles. As a recipient hopeful in Entertainment Business Sports Elective, the training wheels fall off and the runway lights are on. In the immortal words of Blake Griffin in his Kia Optima, “Let’s Bake This Cake!” So what have we learned about this once in a lifetime mission to become a new legend in the world of sportswear?

What we have learned has opened eager eyes. The ability to write and shape an idea to the point of having it viewed over words alone. Working with legends in each class has also helped shape the road straighter than before. Trying to understand numbers and figures will always be an Achilles heel until I hammer it down through more training and experience of life. Until then, it is always great to have hired help in that area one of the instructors told me.

As for getting help in the funding of your dream after you have the plan made, Kickstarter.com will be my weapon of choice for specific products. The site is amazing and it has an outstanding outline for what you want and need to tell your potential supports what your idea actually needs. Of course, there will be a huge social media push using our website that will debut on the new Grid website provider.

As of today, I have joined MicroMentor.com to get that missing link, a legend to help with the ideas and avenues to get started on the best foot possible. As a leader, you can’t be scared to get lessons on skills that can make and break your business survive the new years and thrive after that. This site is amazing and easy to setup. Items like what kind of mentor are you looking for and what kind of student do you think you can be are key elements to the sign-up.

The outcome will be a good skillset to use as the leader you are, the right people to talk to about helping get things like funding, networking that bats 100%, making every second count and ultimately meet company expectations in 5 seasons. Stay tuned for go live dates.


Count down in 2...

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Last of the 4 by 100...

Hello Hero’s and Heroin’s,

We are on the last leg of this extraordinary marathon. What I have really submerged myself into the great world of numbers more then ever before. The ability to try to the future bottom line is a very hard one to cover. What I hope to get out of this class and the last, the balance of what will be the makings of a great organization that will mirror the excellence of a great product with a great opportunity to take care of its supporters.

I have an extensive but lucrative plan that will take an extraordinary push for success and the ability to sell the product as a whole to not only the consumers’ desires, but also the desires of the supporters that will be creating the very items. I have a vision of making a streamline operation that spans from the drawing desk all the way to the rack at the championship show floors of the arenas and stadiums all over the world.

Having a plan worked over by a professional is a must. Even if you are worried about things like stolen ideas or a run in with competition, you have to be ready to fight for your belief. I have a deeper understanding of how to make the design of the plan feel more real with the options of figures with the products to be sold. The timeline must match to the best of your abilities and you have to be able to show that your creations will cover your bills at the end of the day. Creativity all over is key.

These last 4 weeks will be crucial as to how Jammin’ Products Inc. goes forward with the diabolical plans to break into the sportswear party. This will be our chance to give back and create our own version of Tomorrow Land. Good luck class.


Count down in 4...

Sunday, April 5, 2015

Hello Everyone,

Trying to get money for your business is always the most daunting task to accomplish weather it is from your own family to crowd funding to bank loan applications. It is always a bet that people will look at you sideways when it comes to people and establishments have to part with funds to help make your dream a reality. What I suggest to check out are two people that ate professionals when it comes to getting money for your business.

Alexis Carter-Black who helped to raise funding for not only medial facilities, but also with raising grant money for existing operations for themes like homelessness in Oklahoma. Her site that she spearheads is http://www.getting-grants.com.



Another person is someone you have seen on late nights once or twice. Mathew Lesko has been in suits with question marks for years selling his books for how you can get free money from the government with a collection of government agencies such as the department of education to get free money to go to school. https://lesko.com.




What will be the challenge is the possibility to get a grant or government funding for being a fashion designer without being a non-profit. As I go along this month, I hope to get more information how to go about making this a part of my reality for funding in design. The ability to get a government contract will be something I will be looking forward to getting back into since it will be for my own accord this time around. People to learn from outside of this class will be crucial in my development of how to get ideas for not only the fundraising of the company for not just cloths, but also for the aid of giving back support to my key locations that need a creative outlet. Lets see where this goes ladies and gents.

References:

Alexis Carter-Black
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/alexis-carter-black/55/631/4b7
http://www.businessgrants.org/top_small_business_grants_experts.html#.VSG-c1zsG_2

Mathew Lesko                            
https://lesko.com
http://www.businessgrants.org/top_small_business_grants_experts.html#.VSG-c1zsG_2

Friday, March 13, 2015

Marketing Reflections Mastery Journal Part Duce

Hello Everyone,

Some of us, if not all, are at the final classes of this course. There are some that are still navigating their way to punching their own clocks at their own job, and there are some that are already living the 'American Dream' for better or for worse. We all have come here for the main facet of running our own business as the ultimate goal. In return, we learn ourselves in being creative and with that, become better workers for ourselves and for the people we are surrounded by.

What I have learned in the final months has been nothing short of invaluable. From executive leadership skills involving leadership presentation, BLOG creations and personal branding of your business interests, to negotiation and deal-making getting deep with research case studying, I have learned a lot as to getting knowledge of the behind the scenes of how a great operation functions.

What I am looking forward to in this class is to get a more refined and concrete understanding as to how I need to make the proper tools for use of social media and home websites. Engineering the best ways to use Twitter and YouTube in ways that are the most conducive for my business. Just as my former Algebra teacher use to say, You want to separate the wheat from the chaff. (Mr. Harold circa. 1992) Just as Samsung used analytics to take a bit out of Apple’smarket share using social media numbers, Jammin Products Inc. wants to use the good and the bad to create better if not the best. Kim Garst said, “Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. One of the top 50 women of power in influence for social media in 2014, she embodies the will and grit to help shape the ecommerce connection to the consumer.


What has been the driving force for ideas especially in the security department creation would go to Apple with its ability to hold the world captive until they release the official information to the public. The rejuvenation and birth of the NCAA college football competition with the NCAA College Football Playoffs, the layout of how companies like Givenchy, Marvelous Designer, Versace, Relativity Media, the New Yorker, New York Times, Bing, Nike, Reebok, NBAStore, Jared jewelry, Cadillac, Nissan USA, The Divergent, Fast and Furious, Transformers and Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit websites and all of their social media sites. The creativity of how all of the world-class companies are what I wish to have my company web presence shown. I am in the process of crafting my website & BLOGQastand become a very much different sports fashion/graphics company in which the likes the world has never seen.  Stay tuned.

References:

Full Sail University
Courses: Executive Leadership
03/13/2015

Full Sail University
Courses: Negotiation & Deal-Making
03/13/2015

Twitter Small Biz

YouTube Advertise

50 Favorite Online-Marketing Influencers of 2014
Jayson Demers
August 25, 2014

Ex-Apple Employees Reveal How The Company Is So Good At Keeping Secrets
Jim Edwards
May 27, 2013

College Football Playoffs

Givenchy Fashion

Marvelous Designer

Versace

Relativity Media

The New Yorker

The New York Times

Nike

Reebok

NBA Store

Jared Jewelry

Cadillac

Nissan

Divergent Movies

Furious 7

Transformers Movies

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

The Hobbit Trilogy