Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Famous Entrepreuners

Donald Trump- was bankrupt during the 90's
                      - born in queens, new york
                      - billionaire businessman

Richard Branson- always has a partner
                          - founder of virgin mobile
                          - owns his own island

Howard Schultz- was poor growing up
                        - network worth 1.1 billion
                        - did sports to keep mind off

Friday, December 3, 2010

college Inc

- used to do cocaine and smoke weed
- wanted to buy a university
- never went to college
- came out with a book
- changed his life around
- owns a university
- online education profitable
- always in search of next big deal
- university is in phoenix

Monday, November 29, 2010

Merchants of Cool Marketing to youth

- teenagers exposed to marketing
- 3000 ads a day
- 75% have tv in their own room
- 1/3 got own laptop
- always new trends coming up
- hip hop became cool
- selling a lifestyle
- 5 companies own the teen market
- mtv earned billion dollars
- ufc is the new big thing
- always pushing the envelope

SARDIS BENEFITS

kids would want to go to sardis because...

1. welding program
2. drumline                                                            
3. baseball/hockey academy
4. apprenticeships and tickets for trades
5. cooking
6. sports programs
7. china trip
8. europe trip
9. golf team
10. rugby team

TOP 5

1.HEART OF SARDIS
2.WE CARE
3.RAISE THE BAR
4.TOP NOTCH ED.
5. GET ED.

Friday, November 26, 2010

Ray Crock

- sold concept of fast food to the world
- made himself a millionaire
- born in chicago
- oldest kid
- started a lemonade stand and worked at grocery store
- thought about schemes to make money
- started dating girl ethol for 3 years he met at a camp
- father denied idea of marriage cuz they were minors
- sold drinks to go
- star salesman in his company
- sold paper cups for 16 years
- spent countless hours with his customers
- 1939 saw value of multimixers milkshakes
- met up with mac and dick mcdonald
- brothers opened up mcdonalds immediate success
- sales shot up 40% in 3 years
- limited menu but great products
- goal to open 1000 mcdonalds in america
- over 30.000 now

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Negotiation

- shipping 1000 bars per week
- Jonathan Miller owner
- make your customized bars
- select and match whatever you want
- nutritoin labels all over
- doubled sales last 2 months
- negotiate well with sharks
- investing himself and the company
-negotiated from 70 to 30%

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Branding your Business

Volvo has been bought by China
Origianlly grown chinese brands will inevidently become high popular
Chinese mindset is swinging from mechanical to emotional
Your merchandise says a lot about your approach
Less seems to be more

This week i set up a website and talked to my neighbours
on my street to try and make some sales

I want to be famous for being a NBA basketball player. Make all-star team and win championships.