Emmanuel Ford - Nike Fuel Band

Professor Sistrunk today in class told us to create a blog on something that exemplifies “you” as an individual. I took heed in what he said and thought about what my blog could be about. I’ve been involved a company called Nike and thought it would be good to expose people to new things that Nike has to offer. All we do in class is talk about how technology is about to take over so I wanted to introduce a piece of technology that Nike has created ,what might be helpful in the near future. There has been talk about how people today do not get out enough and become physically active. So Nike created something called a Fuel Band. This Fuel Band is just a measurement of how active you are and the intensity of a daily activity.

How this works is a person wears the band. According to how hard a person works out, the individual will collect something Nike likes to call “fuel Points”. A person will set a goal on the Fuel Band and then work out or exercise. For example, a person will set a goal of 2,000 fuel points. He or she will hit the gym, began working out, and after exercising the person will have met a goal of 2,000 fuel points. Setting goals will help motivate a person to work out more until they accomplish the goal that is set. Every day you will wear the band, and set the goal higher than yesterday’s goal. Every day you should increase with fuel points. The more fuel points you get the more active and fit you become. To learn more about this new technology go to:

http://www.nike.com/ and type in Nike Fuelband

Here is a link straight to the Fuelband page:

http://store.nike.com/us/en_us/?l=shop,fuelband

Tutoring Session This Thursday & Friday

I will be available tomorrow and Friday for tutoring on Pivot Tables.
To reach me have a PC with internet and Excel 2007:

Call: 619-326-2700
Code: 474-4558
join.me: I will provide 9 digit number on call or text me for it (4045090533)

Thursday 7pm - 9pm
Friday Noon - 2 pm

If you need personal tutoring, text me to set a time. 4045090533

Monday's Class

This class discussed using the internet to find customers and stay in contact with them.

The internet provides an easy way to find global customers and market to them. Of course there is social network marketing options, but what about email, phone and USPS.

Leadnetpro is an on-line application (software) product that allows you to extract email address, phone numbers and mailing addresses from yellowbook, merchantcircle, google, yahoo. craigslist and backpages. We used this program in class to find business leads. Once these leads are found, they are saved as an .csv file for downloading into excel. Once downloaded, they can be cleanup for duplications and errors.

The leads need to be validated before use. There is software that can check email address (http://www.mailvalidator.com/). Also a web site with a service that validates email addresses (http://www.email-checker.com/).

There are web sites that check phone numbers http://www.phonevalidator.com/.

and different sites that check mailing addresses http://www.smartystreets.com/.

If you do not want to do it yourself, you can buy lists (just do a google seach for "mailing lists").

Or you can take it a step further and buy and list and/or have a company send out your information.

Buying the list and/or having them send it out is more expensive but saves you time.

If you do it yourself, you will need a website like:

1. http://www.mailchimp.com/ to send out and manage your emails,
2. http://www.directmail.com/ to send out USPS mailers and/or
3. http://www.call-center-tech.com/ to send out voice messages to a telephone.

Barry M. Benson - Increasing Your Speed in excel

We all know that Microsoft Excel will play an integral role in majority of the careers that we as business majors go into. Even non-corporate jobs require some sort of degree of computer knowledge. As professor Sistrunk always says, we need to develop skills that add value to the companies that we work for. Well having an above average proficiency in Microsoft would add value to any company. Increasing your speed in Excel would make you an above average excel user. The tutorials on the website do help to a certain extent, but it is what is provided. I challenge you guys to go a step further to learn the hot keys and short cuts so that you can navigate through excel much quicker. 

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Barry M. Benson, Founder
J.Benson & Company, LLC
301.706.0007

Julian Dudley's Blog

Today, In class we were briefly introduced to four new Excel videos on Pivot Tables which will allow you to take, show, and analyze data in a meaningful way. We also learned of two new websites (lead generation tools) which allow you to use advertising companies to help manage the processes of advertising to customers and reach people through e-mail, social networks, mobile, and search. Professor Sistrunk also showed us his website he uses for his appraisal business. For those new to his site, he allows them to receive a sample appraisal through their e-mail address which allows him to have their contact information and know who they are if they continue to do business.

Websites:

www.leadnetpro.com

www.adknowledge.com

Introduction to Pivot Tables :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-QUvhPIiUI&feature=player_embedded

Welcome Back From Spring Break

Below are four Excel Videos about Pivot tables. Pivot tables are an important way of taking data and showing summary tables that will allow you to present the data in a meaningful way and allow you to analyze the data.

Remember value is creating knowledge.

Data - raw facts - in HW#6 the excel spreadsheet
Information - Summary of data - in HW#6 your data table
Knowledge - Analyze - in HW#6 - you a analyze of the table results

Excel Videos for the week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-QUvhPIiUI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zHLnUCtfUk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OUyUPWGpgA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0_nkyfDrHk

Halftime

Well its spring break time. The students take a break with many of them running out of town for some memorable time with new life long friends.

Meanwhile Professors grade and prepare for the final seven weeks of the semester.

I hope the students learned something meaningful that they can use over the next 30 to 50 years. I always wonder, when students look back at this course, will they find it helpful, did it have an impact on their live, their children's lives and their community. Did they pass any of this information on to others?

Only time will tell.

In the meanwhile there are seven tough weeks ahead.