... 01/11/2015 Setting The setting of Love in L.A. is beneath the overpass of the Hollywood freeway on Alvarado Street and that is where the whole story line takes place. The setting of A Good Man Is Hard to Find takes place primarily in Toombsboro, Georgia on the way to Florida, but also takes place on the road, and also at Red Sammy Butts BBQ. The differences between the two stories would be that Love in L.A. take place in one place and A Good Man Is Hard to Find takes place in three different places. The only setting similarity I can find between the two stories is that both story lines take place on the road and near the road throughout the stories. Characters The main character of Love in L.A. is Jake. In this story, it is hard to tell if Jake is a good man or a good con-man. It is stated throughout the story that he has no insurance and illegal license plate, but is definitely charismatic, flirtatious, and not happy with his current lifestyle. In my opinion Jake is both the protagonist and the antagonist, but since I must only choose one he is the considered the protagonist. Mariana seems to be just as flirtatious but in a more mild manner and seems to be intrigued by Jake’s personality. Mariana seems to me to be a shy and genuine person that gives the benefit of a doubt, where Jake is trying to get out of a situation that would harm him and seems amazed by the type of person Mariana is. The characters in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” are very different...
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..."Love Never Felt So Good" is a song performed by American recording artist Michael Jackson, released posthumously on May 2, 2014. Two reworked versions of the 1983 demo track originally composed by Jackson and Canadian singer-songwriter Paul Anka form the first single released from Jackson's second posthumous album, Xscape. The first version is a solo produced by American record producer John McClain and Dutch record producer Giorgio Tuinfort. The second version is a duet featuring American recording artist Justin Timberlake, produced by American record producers Timbaland and Jerome "J-Roc" Harmon. It is the second collaboration between Jackson and Anka to be released since Jackson's 2009 death (the first being "This Is It"). The single charted on number 9 in the US and on number 8 in the UK. First worked on as a demo, Jackson co-produced the song during a 1983 recording session with Anka. The original version only featured Jackson's vocals, handclaps and a piano, played by Anka. In 1984, Anka sent the song to Johnny Mathis, who recorded a new version of the song with revised lyrics by Anka and Kathleen Wakefield.[3] Mathis' version made it on his 1984 album, A Special Part of Me. In 2006, Jackson's demo leaked online. During the 2013-2014 recording sessions for the Xscape album, the song was given a revision as a disco-sounding track. The first version, which only features Jackson, was produced by John McClain and Giorgio Tuinfort and was featured as the first track on the standard...
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...Instructor, Nailia Career Success 11-14-12 I’ve found a job @monster.com entry level for restaurant owner. This particular job listing is good for me because my major is in business management and in the future to own a restaurant and bakery. This entry-level position will help me to better understand the business world and how to deal with customers on a personal level. I think this position is good for me because I love cooking and preparing foods for people. I love the fact that the job requires team players and a people’s person. The entry level position offers training for customer service for employees on a bi-weekly basics so that the other employees are on the same page. Motivation was another good thing for me because that’s like the bundle of the job, you need motivation to work at business it shows that you want to be there and that you take pride in what you do like respecting your co-workers treating everyone with respect. Customer service is very important because you’re dealing with all different types of peoples and learning how to be professional when answering question, engaging in conversation but to listening also. Team work is also important because in order to get things done you need a good team. You need a good team to help you get the job done in a timely manner. Every customer, employer and employees love to see team work it gives you an insight of how the company maintain it business and employees working...
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...Euro MBA Luxury Brand Management Armani Case Introduction In France, luxury brands and consulting agencies are working seriously in the Indian market. Part of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China), everyone is according to say that India will become the 5th country in term of luxury consumers, and this before 2025. The demand of Indians people regarding luxury products and services increased during the last two year from 120 to 150%. According Altagamma, an association of Italian luxury companies, over 500 international brands listed, only 150 would be introduced into India -‐ against 350 in China today. We can observe a strong dominance for products such as watch and jewelry, they represents actually 47%. In comparison with brands of ready-‐to-‐wear, ...
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...Pillsbury Cookie Challenge 1. What did the team learn from the study and what are the implications of this knowledge? There are two studies occurring in this case. The first one is “Usage and attitude study”. The insights is gained from the case: * 56% Canadian prefers to bake from scratch and 33% bake scratch every month. * Convenience and taste is the top two most important elements considered by Canadian when they choose cookies. Then they followed by quality of cookies. The kids’ favor is also put into considered when their parents decide to purchase. * Customers regard cookie dough as convenient. And acting on the impulse, increasing number of customers purchase cookie dough. Implications obtained from the study: First of all, it’s the preference of cooking method. We could regard this point as one of customer behavior features, to be detailed, or as how to use our product. Guillen should base on this behavior preference to improve the product. Second, it’s the purchase drivers considered by customer. Based on the study, when customers choose cookies, the product features should be listed as convenience, taste, quality and kids’ preference. This is critical information for Guillen to redesign or reposition his product. What’s more, it’s the motives of purchase. According to the study, customers always choose product impulsively without too much recognition or preference about certain products. There are two sides of this matter. One is positive....
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...Journal Response I think to an extent everyone feels a little pressure to attain wealth and material goods. For me, I definitely feel some pressure to achieve a level of wealth but, not from anyone other than myself really, because it’s important to me that in the future I’m in a position where I can be financially stable and support myself. I think being able to support yourself financially by working hard and earning respect in a career are important to someone’s happiness because without that respect and hard work I don’t think you would feel very good about yourself as a person. I do believe that having money and material goods can/does make people happy. If you have money then you can buy the things that you want for yourself but not only that, you can also either buy things for others who are important to you or donate money to important charities/causes. I think being able to give to others is something that makes many people feel good and it makes them happy to see their friends and family happy, especially because of them. Another reason having money makes people happy is that if you are in a secure position financially you don’t have to worry about paying the bills or the other daily necessities. However, although money is definitely a luxury that many enjoy I don’t think you need money to be happy. I think that if you are surrounded with people you love and you have everything you truly need then I think you can be equally as happy as you would be if you had lots...
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...Organizational Behavior Principles Phase 3 Discussion Board Colorado Technical University Online MGMT455-1401B-01 Instructor: Darlene Ulmer Greta Miquelena 05 March 2014 Competitive advantage is a very important concept that seems very simple but it can bring lots of profitable benefits to a company. Competitive advantage means to have some sort of advantage over the industry competitors; in other words, when a company is able to create an innovative product that the competitors cannot imitate. For example, iPad tables are a hot item in the market and everyone from any age wants this item; therefore, it has been proven to have competitive advantage over any other table in the market. Now days all the companies are very competitive and only a few are able to succeed. Therefore, companies must use all the sources available to maintain the customers within the company. Brand names and costs switching are sources of competitive advantage; nonetheless, a brand name is not just created overnight. It takes dedication, consistency and interpersonal skills to create customer inertia. At the end of the day, if I get personalized treatment and every time I go to that store I get the same service, my expectations start to increase. Therefore, I would start spreading the world about my fascinating experience with families and friends. It is important to have more than one source of competitive advantage because this provides the company market share stability and profitability...
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...Any new marketing campaign should follow its own targets, whether attraction of new customers, retention of current customers (reinforcement of their loyalty), strengthening the positioning of the company or repositioning. As a marketing idea and slogan “You are the reason we fly”, it is extremely good, as it is full of personal approach, individualization, very close connected with the traveler, and for any traveler it would be great to know that HE is the VERY REASON, that something is going on because of HIM. That is definitely a great approach for current customers, to reinforce their loyalty and feel the part of the airlines. I reckon most part of the loyal customers would love to be on the side of Qantas airplanes, and to be on their web-site and to be totally involved into this campaign, this is called the strength of the brand. Of course, the idea is not new, and it really good, that the management admitted it in the interview: “There are some analogies to what Coke did, which was a great campaign, and also Bonds, but we’ve got our own twists on that”, but it will always touch people, when the campaign is devoted to them, but not made around the brand itself. The target audience of the campaign is really big. But, also a huge segment of the participants will be teenagers and young people under 20, unable to pay for the tickets. Their aim is to get to any social event, to become popular in a class, among their friends, and it is also a big fun to use photo kiosks at Westfield...
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...I would like to write this paper on a true story which we recently faced. We developed an e-commerce website which has a nish market of Halal Costemic Goods. We made so many researches and we launched the website with a lean version. We have only one kind of costemics, few kinds of silver accesories and plenty of dresses. After 3 months passed we faced that nearly % 80 of the sales came from silver & cosmetics. We asked our customers, “did you liked our products ? Why you do not buy any dresses ? “ They said that there were to many options at dresses and they could not decide what to buy. After few months passed nothing changed so we exclude all dresses and categories them only with talor made dresses. We also categories the halal cosmetics because they could not find very easily. And our sales figure increase 2X times. After I watched this video, we changed some algorithms at our website. Firt we categories all the goods, decrease the alternatives and reprice them. We had a category all 55 TL for scarfs but we sold 0. We changed the prices and we started to sell after months. It is always very hard to decide what to buy, what to eat, what to do. We wish someother people lead us at our chooses. Another issue is we can easily manipulate and we love that! As marketers, entreprenuers we should focus on customer behaviour, customer expectations. Maybe it is all about our capabilities, we are humanbeings and we have limited processors about choosing so we decide not to choose...
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...delivering a consistent message to our customers in a way that is unique to the individual associate, we take what would be a typical transaction and turn it into an interaction. In doing so, we deliver a consistently GREAT experience to every customer, every time, in every store.” (Kohl’s Associate handbook, 2013). Kohl’s uses the word great in almost everything they do, whether it’s in advertising, customer service or their employees. By using the word great in all their advertising, when you hear the word great you think Kohl’s, and that is where they came up with “Great things that make you go Kohl’s.” As a shopper and an employee of Kohl’s, I love the idea of GREAT. When I want to go shopping I go shopping where I am going to be getting great customer service at great prices and Kohl’s offers just that. I also think that Kohl’s does a good job in advertising “expect great things”. Whenever I or someone I know thinks of Kohl’s we always think “expect great things” and or “…that make you go Kohl’s”, just by them using the word great repeatedly and having their employees use it...
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...staffs and the manager. The salaries expense is not that big as well because the salon has few staffs. Weaknesses: For the information that the market of the salon to where it is located consists of 8,000 residences living in that subdivision. Therefore, the salon doesn’t have enough staffs to handle with the market people they have. They will have hard time handling the customers especially when customers are coming in and out continuously. The customers won’t be patient enough to wait for their turn since the salon is new. * Physical Resources- Location Strengths: La Belleza Nail and Spa salon is new, so basically their equipments are also new. The furnitures and the interior of the salon are fresh so people would love to visit and try their services. Renovation is not needed. The salon is located inside a mall in village, we can tell that the rent expense would not cost much compared if they have their own establishment. Weaknesses: The salon is located inside the mall of the subdivision, so basically homeowners and residents are the one who will visit and be able to see the salon. The market people are 8,000 and it is not sure that, the 8,000 people are fond of going to the salon. It is hassle for outsiders to go inside the village just to try this new salon that they can experience the same service to the salons near their place. * Activities and Processes- Programs you run Strengths: La Belleza Nail and Spa salon has a lot of services...
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...techniques that will be used. First we will be going over our objectives and philosophy of the organization. A customer relation is your top priority as a sales clerk is pleasing customers. Sales clerks make every effort to satisfy the customer within the bounds of company policy. Handling money is where the sale’s clerk usually takes’s payment for goods and services, so they know how to run a cash register. Depending on the method of payments accepted by the store, you may need to know how to count change and how to process checks and credit cards. Merchandising is where sale’s clerks are responsible for stocking merchandise and to keep the store neat and inviting. Our philosophy is we would love for all the sales clerks to do every objective, and they would have good work skills. Our attendance policy is very easy we would like for you not to miss no more than three days. Having good communication skills will help you a lot with the customers the nicer you are to them the nicer they will be to you. Clocking in on time is a great thing to do so you know you get paid for all the work time in the day. Being at work on time is also a good thing so you have your workstation organized and ready to work. We have this saying that customers are always right don’t sit there and argue with the customer if you think they are wrong get the supervisor and they will try to fix the customers problem the best they can without breaking the companies policy. That always helps when the supervisor...
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...Will Starbucks ever return to the revenue and profit growth that it once enjoyed? Why or why not? - Starbucks had made a goal and their initially segment was a Demographic segmentation -Starbuck or Schultz intentions to open 10,000 new stores in just four years and then push Starbucks to 40,000 stores. -In 20 years time, Schultz grew the company to almost 17,000 stores in dozens of countries. Starbucks targeted the customer who fell in love with the Starbucks Experience who was: -Wealthier, better educated, and more professional than the average American. - More likely to be female than male. - Between the ages of 24 and 44. Starbucks customer changed first. There simply were not enough traditional customers around to fuel the kind of growth that Schultz sought. Starbucks became a less attractive place to hang out. The new breed of customer was less affluent, less educated, and less professional. As the customer profile evolved, the Starbucks Experience grew to mean something different. To the new breed of customer, it meant good coffee on the run. It was a place to meet and then move on. This new customer came in much less frequently than the traditional customer, as seldom as once a...
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...Explain how monitoring and evaluating can improve customer service for the customer, the organisation and the employee. Airport (Employer) In the Manchester airport they have unknown shoppers who helps the airport to deliver excellent working levels of customer service which helps the customer service to identify the weaknesses. In Manchester airport they do customer questionnaire which it can help the airport employees and it can improve the business a lot, the questionnaire is all about the comments of what the customers have to say about the airport which negative or positive, the questionnaire can help the business to change lots of things. Terminal operations meeting can help the airport improve because in the airport they have meetings everyday in the morning at 9am and during the meeting it can help the airport improve because while in the meetings everyone are giving their own ideas, opinions and all agree on what they can or should do and they also talk about the next 24hours what they should do. In the Terminal operations meetings everyone that works in the airport attend to this meeting just so that everyone knows what is happening and so they can have a lot opinions from others. Customers Outsider’s shoppers can help the business for example improving customer service, and also the customers act like a normal customer they don’t want the customer service to know, and also the airport will be getting lots of feedback that can improve the customer service...
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