After the auction please respond to the following questions and reflect on your successes on the assignment.
How did you do in the auction?
What strategies did you use to market your product? Summarize your planning process and executions
How did it feel when you were selling your product?
How did it feel to bid on items? Did you [...]

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This week to help us learn how to sell we will be running a blind product auction. The auction will be blind in the sense that you won’t know if the product you are bidding on is real or just a piece of paper until after the action is over.
See the assignment file attached here.
blind-auction
Mr. [...]

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Today in class we discussed what it takes to sell a product, service, or idea.
So we can continue this discussion on friday, I am asking you to come up with a strategy for you to sell a simple thing like a child’s teddy bear. Determine who you are going target to sell the product to. [...]

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We have already learned that many companies are using Twitter to keep track of their customers and keep them up to date on new products and promotions. As individuals looking to connect with these companies for things like business opportunities or jobs Twitter can provide you with an insight into their activities.
Yesterday I came across [...]

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Previously for other classes I posted a number of articles on Promoting your blog, I may turn it into a page soon enough but for now you will have to check back on all the previous posts.
Part 1: http://mrvaughan.com/mu/blog/2009/01/06/advertising-your-blog/
Part 2: http://mrvaughan.com/mu/blog/2009/01/08/twitter-and-blog-promotions/
Part 3: http://mrvaughan.com/mu/blog/2009/01/09/forums-and-link-building/
Part 4: http://mrvaughan.com/mu/blog/2009/01/12/more-ways-to-promote-your-blog/
Mr. Vaughan

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Today as we begin to look at market trends, given our current economic situation we need to determine what areas of business are suffering and which are actually thriving.
For this takes I would like students to respond to a few simple questions. As there is no text book for this course nor would one be [...]

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For your next careers assignment you will be required to speak with and interview someone who is actively involved in a business. This could be a family member, friend, acquaintance, or even your hair stylist. The assignment may be completed in pairs but you are each to submit your own responses to the questions. You [...]

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Last semesters students completed a similar blogging assignment to the one this semesters students will be doing. To see the post from the previous assignment bellow:
 http://mrvaughan.com/mu/blog/2009/01/05/…
As of right now there are no major changes to the assignment for this semesters class I will notify you if any changes come up.
Mr. Vaughan

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I would argue that one skill that every employer is looking for is the ability for their employee to solve problems. Employees who can come up with solutions to problems end up doing great things like finding ways to save their company time or money, making more money for the company, generally get along better [...]

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If you would like me to add a specific wordpress theme to the network, post the link to the theme as a comment here and I will upload it.
Today you need to make sure to finish your about section first then we will move on to finding themes and learning about twitter.
Do not create a [...]

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