Summer

It's so nice to be done with classes for my junior year.  People always enjoy the weeks leading up to summer, but how much better is it to know when youre done with finals, that you passed all your classes and have a job set to help you be prepared for the expenses of classes for the following year.  Summer brings so many thoughts into mind, who you can visit, where to go on vacation, and how much you will need to save and be able to spend so you are prepared for the next years expenses.  Hope everyone has a great summer!

What are you doing this summer?

Social Sites

It's crazy to look at our society, everything seems to come from social networking sites like myspace and facebook.  While I was coaching in Scotland, my team and I were introduced to "Bebo" a site much like our facebook or myspace.  After being introduced to this we showed everyone facebook.  It was crazy to see that facebook caught on so quickly with our friends in Scotland.  I go on my bebo now and no one has any activity for months, but then switch to facebook and I can talk to my friends from Australia, England, Scotland, Ireland and Italy.  Its just amazing to see how much these sites have grown and how our society relies on them.

What will be the new way to interact with friends and make connections?

Response to Kayle/Abby

In looking at the new facebook page, I agree that I feel its a great new way for facebook to present itself and help people advertise and show their ideas with little problems.  Facebook has grown so much just as a normal site that this new site can definitely bring about new facets for the website to grow.

In response to Erik/Dan's Post

I have seen the sun drop commercial many times and find it very annoying.  No offense to the girl in the commercial, but how they perceive "dropping" it, just makes me not want the soda.  I don't drink soda much but this commercial just pushed me even more in the healthy way of drinking (water).  I feel the commercial is not literal and is just ridiculous that a soda would make someone act that much like an idiot.

How fast is too fast?

We are living in the age of fast technology.  Our computers have gone from full room operating systems to hand held smart phones.  Even though we are spoiled to the fullest by our technology, we still complain about the slightest mishap.  My phone just froze (a total of a minute to fix), and we freak out and want to get a new phone.  If general lee saw this, he'd probably have a stroke.  Yes, camera's and telegraph's were happening back then but now we can be connected to Japan within a few seconds by phone, internet, skype, etc.  In revolutionary times, it was horse and boat travel.  I feel people had more patience back then but now because we are used to having "the world at our fingertips," we expect no problems.  I realized how patience is a virtue, my laptop takes about 10minutes to load up and be ready to use..  I now have to find 10 minutes of filler time just so I don't go crazy waiting.  How will people make things faster, do you feel we are reaching the climax of our technology speed??

In response to kayle's blog

I feel that they are making a big step in trying to define their target market.. but I feel that anyone can relate to the "inner child" idea.. My dad is 62, and he still acts like me, and that's saying something cause I still act 12.  In relating a car to an inner child we can say that cars are fun to drive but blacks, whites, asians, etc can all think that driving is fun.  If they want to better target the black women market they should relate to something that they have as one not that all of us have as a human race..

what do you think would be a better way to target this group?

Reponse to Prof. K ($5 Footlong)

Over the few years of knowing about the $5 footlong, I have had different feelings of this promotion.  I understand money needs to be made, but when you only offer certain sandwiches for $5, you are only targeting certain market groups.  At one point you could only get a BLT for $5, however, I like turkey BLT's, just by adding turkey, I have to pay and extra $2/3.  I like the idea of the $5 footlong, but I felt at the time, that we needed to have some survey done to see what people actually wanted.  Since then, subway has allowed for different sandwiches to be purchased for $5.  I know now that there is a meatball marinara, which always helps me when I'm short on cash and feigning for something.

Do think all subs should be offered as $5 footlongs, just a select few, or seasonal sandwiches allowed for $5??