EOC Week 2: Video Gaming: Old Dogs and Cash Cows

Video Gaming: Old Dogs and Cash Cows

I believe the Cash Cows still in the video gaming are PlayStation and EA, with the visual effects and the high definition of the still newest PlayStation 4 still boost the sales to video games. Marketing the young 20's and early 30's males still captivates the male sports athlete.

The Video Game stars would be Mobile gaming, especially mobile pay games. It's fast and more accessible gaming consult then any other gaming consult out there. If you really think about it, that market is really about to bloom for Mobile gaming.

The Question Mark games would probably be the new Nintendo games, Pokemon and the Mario Brothers because they are exclusively theirs. They can market and sell those games because they are the only game consult that can do that. Another possible question mark would be Apple TV, good market to target with family game night.

The Dogs in the gaming world would will probably PC games only because they will need big computer modems and the population or the "marketing audience" is so vastly and relativity small.

EOC Week 1: Customer Service

Customer Service

Week 1: Great Customer Service

I have recently went to a clothing store here in Nevada and from the first moment I walked in I was greeted with a warm welcome. I continued to look around and within the first minute I was asked if I needed an assistance. I said no, thank you and proceeded to walk further into the store. As I was looking through a good amount of racks, I again was asked if I needed help or if I was looking for something specific that they could help me with. I asked them if they had a business attire coming up for the fall and winter months, the store assistant guided me to the right location. As I was picking through clothes and had a few at hand to try on another associate came and asked me if I wanted her to start a fitting room. I said yes and she took all my clothes and proceeded to my fitting room. Although somewhat uncomfortable the associates asked as I was in the fitting room if everything was okay and fitting, if not they would be more than happy to get me different sizes. When I was ready to make my purchase they asked me if wanted to open an account and get a 15 percent discount, I told them I already had an account but that I had recently moved and didn’t have my coupons at hand. The cashier was more than happy to give me their discount of the month, which I was happy to say was an additional 25 percent off all sales.

Understanding for the text, “Today, marketing must be understood not in the old sense of making a sale- “telling and selling” – but in the new sense of satisfying customer needs.” Page 6 of Chapter one, since the cashier was so understanding and give me the 25 percent, I felt like they truly cared for their “returning” customers. I will definitely be going back to Lane Bryant and spending my hard errand cash with them.  

EOC Week 3: My Demographics

I'm a Millennial

Millennials are babies born between 1977 and 2000 and I am one of them. “One thing that all of the Millennials have in common is their utter fluency and comfort with digital technology. They don’t just embrace technology, it’s a way of life.” Honestly and said to say, but this statement is true. I am one of the many if not all Millennials that rely so heavily on technology. There is not a day in which I use my smart phone to check the weather, social networks, FaceTime, so on and so forth. I wish we didn’t rely on it so much because we got so accustom on using it I feel as if we cannot think on our own without it. We have been the generation that flourished with the concepts of growing up with digital technology that we have given the new generation new standards on doing things. For example, our generation still new about newspaper, or should I say we still held them. We answered landlines as to our next generation do not even know yet seen a “house” telephone. “A recent study found that 91 percent of Millennials are on the Web, making up 32 percent of all U.S. Internet users.” I hate to say again but this statement is true. Whether it be at school, at work or sitting in traffic on your smartphone. Millennials are constantly online surfing the web or on social networks.

                I hate to agree with some of the comments from the textbook but they are pretty accurate. We Millennials are technology hungry and savvy humans. We stand in lines waiting for the next big thing, and complain when nothing new is created. 

EOC Week 1: My Voice

Like any other social network, I guess we have to share and let the viewer or reader know a little insight to the person that you are.

     For starts, my name is Mayra Martinez, I was born and raised in Southern California and now I am currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada. Funny story as to how I got here, being unemployed for a little over a year, I took a shot and applied to a CraigsList job listing, which let me add I have never done anything like that, but within an hour I got the call that would change my current life a little bit. Being the first of my family to leave the state let alone a 10 mile radius from what I love to call home, I gathered my stuff and marched my rear end over to no other place then "Sin City" itself. It's have been the most awesome and challenging 17 months of my life and within those 17 months I decided to enroll into college and start my career in Photography. 

      My passion for photography started back in California where I took 3 years of High School photography. In my high school classes we did black and white 35 millimeter film photography, so we were really hands on. We learned how to reel, cut, calculate the concentration solutions for our photograph film/paper to develop and process our film. It was classic black and white photography that now I wish still existed and taught. I feel head first into photography and there was no looking back, but of course being that it was in High School it was never taught in the degree in which I am getting to learn now. Now it's a whole new world with the same concept but now it's in color and new technology then the Nikon FM10 that I was shooting with in high school. A new world as I mentioned with new technology and with an art that is easily dimensioning with people who think camera phones are the new "camera." 

       Starting and coming into college and having professors asking, "Well in what category of Photography would you like to say you are leaning into?"I cannot really say I want to be in this category in that, I believe a true photographer has a passion for all photography and excel in one category once they find their niche. I love capturing the true and candid moments in my shoots, the moments in which aren't planned or directed, to me the true essence of "living in the moment" or capturing those "moments". Moments in which are truly rare to see. 

       As a photographer I want to take that photograph that people say, "Wow, how did you capture the beautiful moment?"