Week 10 EOC: What Are the Benefits vs The Features

I picked my project because not only do I like the outdoors, I like to visit and meet new people, all while traveling.  What better way than to provide a service to the public than to make available a service that might be limited in the area.  It is to provide a service to the public that is convenient when others don’t realize they might be in need of.  In today’s society it seems that convince fits into many peoples lifestyle.  For instant when heading out to watch sporting events, the average person isn’t thinking about, will I need something to drink or eat while I am away from home.  No, it is convenient to grab something on the go or in the moment.  That’s where I came up with the idea of a portable smoothie restaurant, also offering water and trial mix for a healthy snack.  It promotes a healthy choice, great conversation and while enjoying sports in the outdoors.  Trying to help promote healthy choices to others is beneficial for me, I am selling healthy choices while away from home.  As far as marketing goes, my plan is to use social media postings on the event websites.  I would also reach out to venders to let them know about my mobile restaurant and what I have to offer, getting event coordinators to contact me to attend the events.  If I were to get more requests than I could fulfill myself, I would invest in a second mobile restaurant cart and hire someone to bring on board to help.  Before taking on the addition to my business, I would make sure that I could find some one with the same passion of promoting health and the motivation that I put into my business as if it was there own. 

Week 8 EOC: Creative Content

My creative content for my pop up restaurant would be to market my business from different angles.  An approach of marketing would be to research out to sporting event coordinators are in my area.  Also events that is close enough to travel to and not occur a large traveling expense.  I would market my pop up restaurant on face book to friends and family.  A person’s inner circles of close people tend to be of the same interests as an individual.  For instance, people that have a face book page tend to post things that they like or might be interesting to others.  It tends to multiple from there.  

I would research sports website and work on posting a creative link, grabbing peoples attention to want to find out what my pop up restaurant was all about or where I will be located at.  I would create a flyer that I was able to send out via a mass email.  Also to be able to post it at local athletic clubs, sporting good stores and bicycle stores.  It is also good to diversity your company by exposing yourself in different avenues.  Pinterest is also good advertising and opens opportunities to a whole different crowd.  I would also set up a blog for the public to post their experience of my pop up restaurant.  I could also advertise on my page something for the public to come say to me - like a word of the month when they saw me at an event, that way I would see if the blog was working and the public was reading it.  I would just talk about my pop up restaurant to everyone I came in contact with on a daily basis.  Beings I am doing sports photography and also traveling to sporting events I can reach out to the photography industry also.  

Week 9 EOC: Three great mission statements

“Fireybird Fajitas’ goal is to bring joy to the individual through their delicious meats, cheeses and more.

This mission statement is good because it tells a specific’s on what items they have to offer and how you will feel after your experience of eating their food.  I key is to get people to keep coming back.  They want people walking away from the experience and telling others.

Steffan Orozo;  The Orozco’s mobile food truck is sure to give everyone a real Mexican experience.  Orzoc’s goal is to pass onto consumers true- authenticity for Mexican food.  It’s great to have a choice of quality Mexican food by a mobile food truck.

The mission statement states the true passion towards Mexican value.  He is passionate about his hertiage and wants to pass it on through food.  People love to eat. 

Humberto Bautista;  Provides excellent service, customers add employees will feel right at home in hopes to build a community.  Our mission at Ataco is to crete a memorable moment through food and music.

This mission statement is great because it shows that people will come together for great food and music.  What better way than to get to know your community, by enjoying great food and enjoying the company of others.  The people that come together at a community function seem to hang out with the same interests.

Week 7 EOC: Pitch

My restaurant pop up design would be to have a portable smoothie cart.  The cart would attach onto my bicycle so that it would be mobile, I could take it anywhere.  I would have a way to plug the cart into an electrical outlet in the evening to reach a certain temperature so that my products would stay cool up to a certain amount of time.  I would travel locally to bike races or various sport functions while also enjoying photography.   I would design the inside of the cart to be made like the inside of a cooler, with various compartments to hold fruits, ice or misc. smoothie items.  I would also design a way to be able to have a small gas powered generator hooked to the cart so that I was able to have power to operate a small blender to prepare my product.  Making this a mobile cart I could ride my bicycle anywhere.  I would also have cold water bottles and bags of premade trail mix available.  There are times when certain sporting events are in remote areas.  This would be great for athletes after a race to have a recovery drink/ smoothie or just something to snack on after a race.  Some athletes have special medical needs where they need to have something right after completing.  There are even times where spectators don’t bring enough water to last the day and need something to drink, especially children.   I know there has been times when this has been the situation for my family or myself.  I would be able to take payments for my services by having the credit card swipe devise attached to my cellular phone.  It seems that everyone travels with a credit card instead of cash.  Being in a remote area and carrying cash might not be a great idea.   

Week 6 EOC: MEx3

First item that identifies me is a bicycle.  It doesn’t matter if it is a road bicycle, mountain bicycle or electric commuter bicycle, I love everything that has two wheels and I am the motor.   When I am on my bicycle, I feel free.  My body is the motor and my mind gives me the strength to push through anything.  Over the years I have enjoyed racing my bicycle and have become friends with many cyclists over the years.  I am a driver on a tandem bicycle for a blind athlete and I get great satisfaction seeing the smile on his face when he is able to enjoy the sport of cycling, especially when we are competing.  Even on a bad day I enjoy the sport of cycling in the great outdoors.  

Second item which identifies me is my Camera.  It brings out the best of my creativity and lets me express my ideas through photography.  I took up photography because when I travel I like to share the landscape with my family and friends.  Learning photography fits into all aspects of my life style.  I really enjoy it because I can complete a project at my own pace.  Photography keeps me relaxed and my mind off of the everyday routine.  Another great thing for me about Photography is that I can do it independently, having no boss or administration to answer to and I can go anywhere, so I am not stuck in a cubical.   

Third item which identifies me is a Nutribullet machine.  There is not a day that goes by that I do not use this machine.  My health is the most important to me.  Eating right is my biggest concern.  I want to live a long and health life Fitness is also another thing that identifies me.  I believe that fitness leads to a healthy lifestyle.  My family and I are very active and enjoy doing physical fitness activities together.  The level of cycling that I do, I need to be in the best health and shape that I can be in.  I also have to watch what I eat and prepare most of my food at home.  If I didn’t focus on my health, I wouldn’t be able to do the things I love. 

 

Week 5 EOC: Social Networks and Job Hunting

It seems that social media has become the way of communications all around the world.  Companies have figured out how to recruit ambassadors offering them products and misc. items to promote their products and or services.  The ambassadors, then uses the product and or services in their everyday living environment, sharing the information with family and friends.  People in today’s society like to brag or talk about what goes on in their everyday life.  The general public seems to be wrapped up in social media as to what everyone in the world has going on in their lives.  Now they have Instagram, apps where you can follow celebrities, family and friends.  We post pictures of what we are doing or bragging what cool products we are using.  This leads to comments and even conversations posted where people are asking questions or associates that have the same interests in common that you might not even know about.  From there individuals have made contacts with their family and friends.  Knowing some or most of them follow some type of social media. In today’s society we are always turning to the Internet to research information, find jobs or just to stay up to date with the latest news going on in the world with followers of their media.  We tend to blog comments whether good or bad to pass onto others about what is happening in our lives.  Which has turned into a huge networking system for everyone.  Facebook has the brilliance of using their own web base users” to find new employees, threatening traditional job boards and competing with other web base companies. “ (Recruiters Troll Facebook for Candidates They Like).  It appears that 50% of people seeking jobs are more likely to search on Facebook then any other social media groups. 

Week 4 EOC: New Phone App

 I am developing an App for all cellular phones to be able to communicate with other human beings, doing this by translating the sender’s message in a polite and professional manner to the receiver.  There could be times that your word combination comes off to strong and while finding yourself not being able to communicate with others.  Because they either speak another language and you can hardly make out what they are saying, or they were born in a different era and don’t understand you. It might be that you do not have any common sense, or you just have a personality that others just don't understand, then this App is for you.  The App is extremely easy to use.  You would be able to download the App for a 30-day trial or you would have the opportunity sign a yearly contract.  You would speak into the cellar device with the desired language and demeanor that you always have, so it would be natural to the human.  The App will translate this by using common sense, being respectful, and with proper tone and having the ability to communicate with anyone.  I would have a language translator option depend on whatever language you speak.  It would not matter the age or era of the receiver, this App is a communicator for all Human being.  The App would be great for teens, as it seems like there communication skills have been limited with all the technology that they have grown up on.  Teenagers today seem to communicate via texting, or messaging each other instead of having a person-to-person conversation.  This could also help the human race communicate in the every day world. I would make this App simple and inexpensive so that all humans, no matter the age would take advantage using my app.