Friday, August 24, 2007

Current Event:Make the clothes,outsource the retailing

http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/entresales/2007/07/17/apple-cisco-infosys-ent-manage-cx_cs_0717vineyard.html

My article is about these brothers names Shep and Ian Murray who created the cothing line,Vineyard Vines. There problem was, that the stores where just selling diffrent items of there clothes, but there was no place for you to go to get, the whole line of there clothes. So at first they wanted a store owner to open up like a small little shop of just there clothes, but the owner laughed at the idea. So they opened up stores in diffrent locations,and instead of running it themselves, they hired other people to do it. They still picked what goods were put in the store, and what they used to decorate the store. So when that first store did very well, they opened up another one, and another one. Now they have about 5 stores. This has tripled there revenue since 2004 to 37million.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Conversations w/ a teen entrepenuer

The article was about this boy named Ben Cathers who is a young entrepenuer. He started this Web marketing, and advertising business when he was 12. He is now 19. They basically interviewed him askin him his opinion, how he did it, what they need to do, and stuff like that. He gave alot of good tips that somebody who is young just starting a business should know. Like when he was talking about how you should know your customers and, what they want. He also said that is was easy goin after customers that was his own age because he knows what they want and all that,and that was an advantage. He also started a radio show too. They was also talking about a way to do market research. Like he said you should use the internet, like google for example because its free. It was a good article.

Friday, August 10, 2007

Spectacular Catch By Harris Denies Mets Win

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-spmets105326986aug10,0,5982326.story?track=rss

Every time the Mets play the braves,most of the times they lose,and it sorta expected every time they play the braves. So they played the Braves in a four game series,and thanks to Willie Harris, the left-fielder for the Braves from Cairo,Ga, we the last of the four games.
Delgado for the Mets hit a long drive to the left center, and it looked like it was going to be a home run in the bottom of the ninth,and that would of put the Mets ahead of the Braves by one, and it would of probably won them the game. But Willie Harris luckily leaped into the air and made the catch,which caused them the third out, letting the Braves win!!!!

Results of my Entrepreneurial Aptitude Test

My score was 60 and its says that I may not want to start a business by myself. It says that I should look for a business partner the makes up in the areas that I lack. It says that a partner might bring difficulties that I might not want, but I think i can deal with that. It also says that I need to make certain decisions for the right reasons.
-But I still want to start my own business one day,because i don't want to work a 9-5.

Monday, August 6, 2007


An Ace in Volleyball is when you serve the ball over and they aren't able to touch it, and you get a point. So your goal when you hit the volleyball is to get an ace.
* With the logo im saying if you come to my store then you can buy whatever you need and train too.
* I picked the military symbol because, to me it symbolizes like strenght and all that.
*The lighting strike in the A symbolizes that its hard,like an ace and a hit should be. Any player would want to come in this store once they've seen the sign.

5-Years-My Goals

Well hopefully in 5 years I will be a junior in college. The reason is because I want to get a dual scholarship off of volleyball, and track and field. I want to play D1, and one of the D1 schools I want to go to is Cal in California outside of Oakland. They have a really good volleyball team,and their track team is good too. I want my career to involve sports. Like sports medicine, or a trainer,or manager,or even playing the sport myself. If I go to California I have an option of all of those. If i get older and I'm still playing volleyball, I can get into beach volleyball,and its real big out there. Even with track,its great places to train in California. I also want to have a good boyfriend, so hopefully when i graduate we can get married. If not in California, I'll do it over here.

Sunday, August 5, 2007

About How to Wow

The article was basically giving us a bunch of pointers on how to act and dress for an interview. It was telling us to be on time. It was also telling us how we need to dress for the part and not to overdo things like perfume and cologne and stuff like that. It was also talking about how you need to act professional before you even step in the building, like how you should keep a cool professional demeanor even when you get out the car. It was also talking about how you need to get some information about the place your trying to get a job at so it will at least show that your interested,and that youv'e done your homework. The article can help you with alot of things if youv'e never been interviewed before. But most of the stuff they were talking about was common sense, the only thing that they said that people need to watch out for is over doing things and not being late, and getting some information about the place you are trying to work for,other than that it was straight.

Thursday, August 2, 2007

I would like to start a business like Courtnie's because volleyball players need a store like that near by. We either have to order it offline or drive somewhere in downtown Atlanta,or near Lenox or something.
The only thing I different from her business, is that I want it to be a store for all sports during their season with emphasis on volleyball all year,but I want a training center in the store. Like you can buy all your stuff from there, but you can also pay for training. I want to hire coaches and they can use the gym. If a player wants to try out equipment and get extra help , you can request a coach and set up an appointment. You can pay by week or get a membership, and if your not sure about joining,you can pay a coach by the hour.
Name:Ace-Hits Sports Gym
Slogan-Buy the best and train to be the best.