1) In order for myself to keep up with the requirements for this course, I have been keeping a calendar for all assignments including reflections, to stay on top of the work. If I know when the assignments are specifically due I can manage my time and make sure everything for every week is done before the due date.
2) I felt like giving up when I was taking marketing at UF, I was deeply struggling and I studied for hours every day starting a week before each exam and I just could not get the material to a perfect point. I was going to drop the course at one point. Honestly, the only thing that kept me going was knowing that I only have 2 drops every 4 semesters, and I wasn't going to waste it on marketing when I know I have tougher classes in my future. Recently, I have been focused on not only school but my career, and stepping stones to build myself for a good career in the field I am hoping to be in. This for sure describes my tenacious attitude.
3) three tips I would give a student in the future would be;
- Keep the mindset of achieving what you want and you will be able to push yourself further and harder for something you truly love and want.
- Getting a tenacious mindset isn't too hard when you harness the strive for something you love and use that as your fuel to drive you in everything you do whether it is school, a job, socially, just everything and anything.
-I would also say have a plan to get what you want but take into consideration there are infinite roads to achieve your goals and any road is good to take as long as it leads to the endgame.
Friday, February 28, 2020
13A – Reading Reflection No. 1
I chose to read Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.
1) Honestly, nothing really surprised me due to me generally knowing the way Elon Musk portrays himself and his thought process for everything he says his opinion on. The guy is a very abstract and a bit unorthodox person, which is what separates him from us and every other successful entrepreneur/businessman. I was shocked to hear how badly he actually is put down and looked at as a "crazy" man, he may sound insane but look at what the man has achieved in his life so far, he is truly one of the greatest people in our time with his innovative ideas and creations. I truly admire how much Musk doesn't take into consideration how crazy everyone portrays him as because he knows what he wants and he goes and gets it.
2) Some competencies I noticed with Musk was determination, bravery, and perseverance. He also is just brilliant, he was able to teach himself computer programming at the age of 9.
3) One thing I found strange was the author barely touched up on certain areas in Musk's life that are huge and very well known areas, I guess the reason could be because they are so well known but it was quite odd when reading this and not seeing some of his crazy experiences/experiments specifically being mentioned.
4) I would ask Elon Musk what his true ultimate goal is while operating in space? I would ask this because, with someone as smart as him, I would love to know what he believes he can get from exploring the depths of space and what can maybe come from this. I would then ask him, "How does he just take all this media criticism on his methods for everything?" I am genuinely curious how he just takes all of the criticism and continues to just be him with no problem, and make sure he is continuing his unbelievable work for this world.
5) Musk I believe thinks the same way I do as for what "hard-work" is. Hard-work can be done for anything and everything you do. If you push and work diligently, wisely, with nothing breaking your focus or stride toward your work goal, you may be able to achieve whatever it is you are working for.
1) Honestly, nothing really surprised me due to me generally knowing the way Elon Musk portrays himself and his thought process for everything he says his opinion on. The guy is a very abstract and a bit unorthodox person, which is what separates him from us and every other successful entrepreneur/businessman. I was shocked to hear how badly he actually is put down and looked at as a "crazy" man, he may sound insane but look at what the man has achieved in his life so far, he is truly one of the greatest people in our time with his innovative ideas and creations. I truly admire how much Musk doesn't take into consideration how crazy everyone portrays him as because he knows what he wants and he goes and gets it.
2) Some competencies I noticed with Musk was determination, bravery, and perseverance. He also is just brilliant, he was able to teach himself computer programming at the age of 9.
3) One thing I found strange was the author barely touched up on certain areas in Musk's life that are huge and very well known areas, I guess the reason could be because they are so well known but it was quite odd when reading this and not seeing some of his crazy experiences/experiments specifically being mentioned.
4) I would ask Elon Musk what his true ultimate goal is while operating in space? I would ask this because, with someone as smart as him, I would love to know what he believes he can get from exploring the depths of space and what can maybe come from this. I would then ask him, "How does he just take all this media criticism on his methods for everything?" I am genuinely curious how he just takes all of the criticism and continues to just be him with no problem, and make sure he is continuing his unbelievable work for this world.
5) Musk I believe thinks the same way I do as for what "hard-work" is. Hard-work can be done for anything and everything you do. If you push and work diligently, wisely, with nothing breaking your focus or stride toward your work goal, you may be able to achieve whatever it is you are working for.
Friday, February 21, 2020
12A – Figuring Out Buyer Behavior No. 1
Segment: People switch apartment complexes all throughout the year.
1) 20-year-old student
- The apartment complex of choice is standard
- Standard is surrounded by street parking
- Lived there for 3 years
2) 21-year-old student
- Lived at the nine sophomore year, Hated it due to poor management
- Moved into an off-campus house
- pays little amounts monthly including utilities
3) 23-year-old student
- Lived at standard didn't have an issue
- Lived at Social 28 had issues with management
- Lived in a fraternity house (cheaper than past two options)
- Has owned both car and scooter
- Has run into problems going to visit other complexes, even when going for a tour to live there.
Conclusion: I feel the segment of my customers would very much enjoy and appreciate my product and what I am striving to do here in Gainesville. Make the Gainesville apartment lifestyle great again. I also believe that many people who are attracted to the Nine locations would like my location even better it would be placed in a spot close to Museum and another location close to midtown, creating an attractive location is a key starting factor for attraction.
1) 20-year-old student
- The apartment complex of choice is standard
- Standard is surrounded by street parking
- Lived there for 3 years
2) 21-year-old student
- Lived at the nine sophomore year, Hated it due to poor management
- Moved into an off-campus house
- pays little amounts monthly including utilities
3) 23-year-old student
- Lived at standard didn't have an issue
- Lived at Social 28 had issues with management
- Lived in a fraternity house (cheaper than past two options)
- Has owned both car and scooter
- Has run into problems going to visit other complexes, even when going for a tour to live there.
Conclusion: I feel the segment of my customers would very much enjoy and appreciate my product and what I am striving to do here in Gainesville. Make the Gainesville apartment lifestyle great again. I also believe that many people who are attracted to the Nine locations would like my location even better it would be placed in a spot close to Museum and another location close to midtown, creating an attractive location is a key starting factor for attraction.
11A-Idea Napkin No. 1
1) I am a sports management student at UF and I am very good at analytically crunching numbers for specifically baseball and football; although I do touch on hockey as well. I have a decent amount of experience taking rigorous scouting courses and taking the baseball scouting exam, making me a registered certified scout for baseball. I also have experience in facility operations, generally know how to plan, execute and prepare a facility, as well as keeping it functioning during operation. I would easily be able to accommodate the student's needs in not only parking for apartment-style complexes, me being a student of myself in a modern time, but I am also able to see everything from the customer's perspective and understand what they need and want.
2) I would make sure there is guest parking at my complexes and more than enough to accommodate scooters and cars, because they are paying to live there and should be able to have guests at their homes, without the anxiety of having their friends vehicle towed or ticketed.
3) The group I am offering this to is college students looking for off-campus housing and no worries of any hassles in their future at the home we provide to them.
4) Customers would pay me money to do this because I would have something that is always needed for college students (housing), as well as several key parts that will draw the crowd toward me rather than my competition.
5) I would be just like every other apartment complex in town, except I would actually manage work at a pace faster than anyone here, have guest parking, a variety of elevator locations throughout the buildings, and more than enough staff help for maintenance unlike everywhere else here.
I believe all these aspects generally fit together, I have experience in facility management/operations and can surely apply the skills I've obtained from that to managing an apartment complex. I also believe the many little things that are wrong in apartment complexes here now, are so frustrating and frequent it is causing serious issues with the students and where they want to live, and I would be fixing that by managing the place properly as well as accommodating the students with plenty of guest benefits.
2) I would make sure there is guest parking at my complexes and more than enough to accommodate scooters and cars, because they are paying to live there and should be able to have guests at their homes, without the anxiety of having their friends vehicle towed or ticketed.
3) The group I am offering this to is college students looking for off-campus housing and no worries of any hassles in their future at the home we provide to them.
4) Customers would pay me money to do this because I would have something that is always needed for college students (housing), as well as several key parts that will draw the crowd toward me rather than my competition.
5) I would be just like every other apartment complex in town, except I would actually manage work at a pace faster than anyone here, have guest parking, a variety of elevator locations throughout the buildings, and more than enough staff help for maintenance unlike everywhere else here.
I believe all these aspects generally fit together, I have experience in facility management/operations and can surely apply the skills I've obtained from that to managing an apartment complex. I also believe the many little things that are wrong in apartment complexes here now, are so frustrating and frequent it is causing serious issues with the students and where they want to live, and I would be fixing that by managing the place properly as well as accommodating the students with plenty of guest benefits.
Friday, February 14, 2020
Testing the Hypothesis, Part 2
1. 20-year old female undergraduate student
- Rarely, complains about regulations and rules
- always figures out how to get around issues
- has a scooter
- Lives at the 9
2. 20-year old female Undergraduate student
- Lives at 2nd ave
- her complex doesn't have this issue
- she has issues with this at the nine visiting her friends for anything
- has both car and scooter issues
3. 21-year old male Undergraduate student
- Lives on campus
- has parking available all around him
- rarely runs into this issue
- has friends that live with these "issues"
4. 21-year old male undergraduate student
- Lives at the standard
- Has a car and scooter
- Has tons of street parking accessible to him and guest.
- Most people he lives with disagree with this.
5. 20-year old female undergraduate student.
- Runs into this issue often when the boyfriend is coming to her house
- lives at the 9
- Used to live at Social 28
- Had issues at multiple places besides her current location
- Rarely, complains about regulations and rules
- always figures out how to get around issues
- has a scooter
- Lives at the 9
2. 20-year old female Undergraduate student
- Lives at 2nd ave
- her complex doesn't have this issue
- she has issues with this at the nine visiting her friends for anything
- has both car and scooter issues
3. 21-year old male Undergraduate student
- Lives on campus
- has parking available all around him
- rarely runs into this issue
- has friends that live with these "issues"
4. 21-year old male undergraduate student
- Lives at the standard
- Has a car and scooter
- Has tons of street parking accessible to him and guest.
- Most people he lives with disagree with this.
5. 20-year old female undergraduate student.
- Runs into this issue often when the boyfriend is coming to her house
- lives at the 9
- Used to live at Social 28
- Had issues at multiple places besides her current location
People who live at complex's that have these parking issues.
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People who live on campus, or don't run into this problem at the few complex's that take care of this issue properly.
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They have a need for a parking alternative or change.
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This exists because of constant stress over possible tickets or towing to their guests scooters when having people over at THEIR PLACE.
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Friday, February 7, 2020
Solving The Problem
The problem I have identified is that there is not enough guest parking for all vehicles at apartment complexes for students in Gainesville. I believe there is an opportunity in increasing parking nearby major complexes in Gainesville to make the students life here better in ways that help them socially and even academically. This is a problem that most have dealt with before and it is just a huge hassle, and no one wants that. My idea is to create scooter lots in the areas of these complexes and have toll booths, that ask for quarters; $5 for 10 hours, and this will be the opportunity for myself to gain not only an opportunity to make revenue but to create a more convenient lifestyle for all off-campus students.
Testing the Hypothesis
Opportunity- Students at the University of Florida are inconvenienced by the lack of guest parking at their off-campus apartment complexes, which affects their time with friends, family and any other visitors.
1. The who- UF students with transportation vehicles
2. The what- Lack of guest parking
3. The why- Affects how people get together in their "homes"
Testing this Hypothesis
Interviews:
Breanna- This student agreed with my idea. The amount of frustration she has gone through in order to have her friend over to study with her in her home she is paying for has been stressful. She has to go out of her way to pick her friend up in order for her to stay without the worry of her friend's scooter to be towed and is ready to make a change about this horribly handled situation.
Courtney- This student agreed with my idea to an extent. This student believed that parking lots added near areas of apartment complexes could work, but the problem isn't everywhere it is at a select amount of apartment complexes, therefore the idea could possibly fail in certain areas. Clearly, though she has been through several of her own issues with this, during her time at this school living off-campus. She said the main place that has this issue and is very not on top of the issue is The Nine at Gainesville apartments. This has been noted by several people I have talked to, and I know this because I live there and it is indeed an issue that everyone is aware of.
Seth- This student agreed with my idea fully. He has been through more than anyone I have interviewed. He has actually had his scooter towed when he was at his friends apartment complex studying for their exam that week, and in his mind, this is ridiculous because home-owners or renters are in their rights to have guest and because this complex has 1 lot with no guest parking he has no other choice but to use that lot and does not deserve the punishment and hassle he had to go through.
Nick- This student disagreed with my statement and said there are plenty of other areas on campus and off with parking that people can hang out, study, or eat at. But I did not take this information too valuable, due to the heavy disagreement from others when I mentioned his response.
Alexis- This student agreed with my idea. She has been through the issue of having to actually run to the parking lot of scooters to make sure the towing guys did not take her scooter away and said that it just causes such inconvenience for everyone that lives off-campus housing, and as I have said before people in our society now are all about the convenience of everything, and anything else is not acceptable to them.
1. The who- UF students with transportation vehicles
2. The what- Lack of guest parking
3. The why- Affects how people get together in their "homes"
Testing this Hypothesis
Interviews:
Breanna- This student agreed with my idea. The amount of frustration she has gone through in order to have her friend over to study with her in her home she is paying for has been stressful. She has to go out of her way to pick her friend up in order for her to stay without the worry of her friend's scooter to be towed and is ready to make a change about this horribly handled situation.
Courtney- This student agreed with my idea to an extent. This student believed that parking lots added near areas of apartment complexes could work, but the problem isn't everywhere it is at a select amount of apartment complexes, therefore the idea could possibly fail in certain areas. Clearly, though she has been through several of her own issues with this, during her time at this school living off-campus. She said the main place that has this issue and is very not on top of the issue is The Nine at Gainesville apartments. This has been noted by several people I have talked to, and I know this because I live there and it is indeed an issue that everyone is aware of.
Seth- This student agreed with my idea fully. He has been through more than anyone I have interviewed. He has actually had his scooter towed when he was at his friends apartment complex studying for their exam that week, and in his mind, this is ridiculous because home-owners or renters are in their rights to have guest and because this complex has 1 lot with no guest parking he has no other choice but to use that lot and does not deserve the punishment and hassle he had to go through.
Nick- This student disagreed with my statement and said there are plenty of other areas on campus and off with parking that people can hang out, study, or eat at. But I did not take this information too valuable, due to the heavy disagreement from others when I mentioned his response.
Alexis- This student agreed with my idea. She has been through the issue of having to actually run to the parking lot of scooters to make sure the towing guys did not take her scooter away and said that it just causes such inconvenience for everyone that lives off-campus housing, and as I have said before people in our society now are all about the convenience of everything, and anything else is not acceptable to them.
Identifying Opportunities in Economic & Regulatory Trends
Regulatory Opportunity #1- Trump, the developer-in-chief, has a new way to fight poverty
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/trumps-new-way-to-fight-poverty-opportunity-zones
1. I found this information in the Washington Examiner website, once I saw this I immediately was interested in finding out the "new" plan that the Trump administration had to help poverty in our country.
2. There will always be poverty in the world, the key is to make those numbers as low as they can possibly be in a way to help the overall populations feel that they have a better chance of being financially stable. I believe the opportunity exists here by taking a new and different approach than others have in the past, as the Trump administration is attempting to do right now.
3. Technically, the customer in this situation is going to be the overall support of the people of America to approve of these actions to make the result become a reachable possibility.
4. The opportunity seems to be relatively difficult to exploit, only because there have been many of the same attempts to help the poverty in our country. Now there has been a proposition to take a new approach in which we can hope that there will be a different outcome and only time will tell us that.
Regulatory Opportunity #2- Expand Economic Opportunity by Supporting Community Colleges
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/01/13/why-government-should-invest-more-community-colleges-opinion
1. I found this article via the Inside Higher Education website, which caught my attention because I am a full supporter of focusing on the issues and benefits of higher education, clearly because I am getting my higher education as of right now.
2. I believe that there is a lot of opportunities here because there is always room to fix the higher education system. Not too many people can afford a full four-year institution, and unfortunately college is a business and those prices won't ever change for the benefit of the students. So I believe focusing on community colleges in the country would be an ideal and great start for fixing the higher education system.
3. The customer of this opportunity would be students graduating high school seeking the most ideal and affordable institution to be able to receive higher education.
4. I believe making community colleges more abundant and making them more of a hybrid, that can give you a bachelor's degree will be a relatively easy opportunity to exploit. The cost may go up a bit, but it will still be in the range of an "affordable" institution for most people in America. Santa Fe has recently been apart of this movement.
Economic Opportunity #1- Macy's is closing 125 stores and laying off 2,000 employees
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/04/macys-is-closing-125-stores-laying-off-2000-employees/
1. I found this article scrolling through The Washington Post, and as I read through this article I realized the opportunities that will come from this.
2. I believe that opportunities may exist for Macy's, as well as other companies in this situation. Online shopping has taken over the traditional shopping days as we knew it. I believe that Macy's is making an effort to make their shopping more exclusively online, which will be good for them competing against such companies, such as Amazon. I also believe that this will help other huge clothing stores such as Bloomingdale's take complete control over the traditional shopping area of their targets.
3. I believe the customer in this situation would be the consistent shopper, both online and traditional, in which this will give them a broader range of action when shopping for their needs and wants.
4. I believe this opportunity will be relatively easy since Macy's is such a well-known big company that has been striving for decades.
Economic Opportunity #2- 7-Eleven is the next retailer to test cashier-less stores
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/06/7-eleven-is-the-next-retailer-to-test-cashierless-stores/
1. I found this article via TechCrunch.
2. I believe opportunity exists here because as we all know, recently Amazon has created an extremely convenient, convenience/grocery store. I believe that 7-Eleven has a ton of opportunity to compete with Amazon and hold its high-standard in the convenience store business.
3. The customer in this situation would be just anybody who is looking to pick-up any item they are in need of in the quickest way possible, and it would be an amazing thing to make a norm in our modern society. Convenience is the key thing in modern-day society, so this idea is brilliant.
4. I believe this opportunity will be fairly easy to execute because we already have seen a test-run of it in major cities and so far it is striving for what it is exactly meant to do, and that is to make everyone in the world have less to do when doing these simple everyday tasks.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/trumps-new-way-to-fight-poverty-opportunity-zones
1. I found this information in the Washington Examiner website, once I saw this I immediately was interested in finding out the "new" plan that the Trump administration had to help poverty in our country.
2. There will always be poverty in the world, the key is to make those numbers as low as they can possibly be in a way to help the overall populations feel that they have a better chance of being financially stable. I believe the opportunity exists here by taking a new and different approach than others have in the past, as the Trump administration is attempting to do right now.
3. Technically, the customer in this situation is going to be the overall support of the people of America to approve of these actions to make the result become a reachable possibility.
4. The opportunity seems to be relatively difficult to exploit, only because there have been many of the same attempts to help the poverty in our country. Now there has been a proposition to take a new approach in which we can hope that there will be a different outcome and only time will tell us that.
Regulatory Opportunity #2- Expand Economic Opportunity by Supporting Community Colleges
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/01/13/why-government-should-invest-more-community-colleges-opinion
1. I found this article via the Inside Higher Education website, which caught my attention because I am a full supporter of focusing on the issues and benefits of higher education, clearly because I am getting my higher education as of right now.
2. I believe that there is a lot of opportunities here because there is always room to fix the higher education system. Not too many people can afford a full four-year institution, and unfortunately college is a business and those prices won't ever change for the benefit of the students. So I believe focusing on community colleges in the country would be an ideal and great start for fixing the higher education system.
3. The customer of this opportunity would be students graduating high school seeking the most ideal and affordable institution to be able to receive higher education.
4. I believe making community colleges more abundant and making them more of a hybrid, that can give you a bachelor's degree will be a relatively easy opportunity to exploit. The cost may go up a bit, but it will still be in the range of an "affordable" institution for most people in America. Santa Fe has recently been apart of this movement.
Economic Opportunity #1- Macy's is closing 125 stores and laying off 2,000 employees
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/04/macys-is-closing-125-stores-laying-off-2000-employees/
1. I found this article scrolling through The Washington Post, and as I read through this article I realized the opportunities that will come from this.
2. I believe that opportunities may exist for Macy's, as well as other companies in this situation. Online shopping has taken over the traditional shopping days as we knew it. I believe that Macy's is making an effort to make their shopping more exclusively online, which will be good for them competing against such companies, such as Amazon. I also believe that this will help other huge clothing stores such as Bloomingdale's take complete control over the traditional shopping area of their targets.
3. I believe the customer in this situation would be the consistent shopper, both online and traditional, in which this will give them a broader range of action when shopping for their needs and wants.
4. I believe this opportunity will be relatively easy since Macy's is such a well-known big company that has been striving for decades.
Economic Opportunity #2- 7-Eleven is the next retailer to test cashier-less stores
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/06/7-eleven-is-the-next-retailer-to-test-cashierless-stores/
1. I found this article via TechCrunch.
2. I believe opportunity exists here because as we all know, recently Amazon has created an extremely convenient, convenience/grocery store. I believe that 7-Eleven has a ton of opportunity to compete with Amazon and hold its high-standard in the convenience store business.
3. The customer in this situation would be just anybody who is looking to pick-up any item they are in need of in the quickest way possible, and it would be an amazing thing to make a norm in our modern society. Convenience is the key thing in modern-day society, so this idea is brilliant.
4. I believe this opportunity will be fairly easy to execute because we already have seen a test-run of it in major cities and so far it is striving for what it is exactly meant to do, and that is to make everyone in the world have less to do when doing these simple everyday tasks.
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