Friday, April 22, 2016

Blog 22: Independent Component 2




LITERAL
(a) Include this statement: “I, Jose Aceves, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 32 hours of work.”
(d) Explain what you completed.  
  • In this online class I took I'm exploring the financial field of the business and also is gives me a look of how the accounting affect the business routine as to what come in that what come out.
(e) Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.   



(f)How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.

  • As for my EQ ,how can a company maximize profits while maintaining the quality control, I took this online class so that I can learn the aspect of the financial business.


Thursday, March 10, 2016

Blog 20: Interview 4 Preparation





1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?
  • I am planning to interview a sale representation his name is Oskar Ruiz. He is responsible of obtaining new customers into the company currently they obtain the store from "food4less" distributors to expand the company. The reason that i wasn't able to interview him was because of the schedule. 
2.  Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your EQ.


  1. Can you tell me what you do as a sales representative of Don Pedro’s Meat?
  2. As a sales rep you are in charge of selling retail products, goods and services to customers. What are the different strategies you have for the product to be sold? 
  3. From your experience in this industry, what would make a retail product be accepted in the community? And what would not?
  4. What are different ways that a retail product is rejected by the audience?
  5. In this company, what products have been unsuccessful currently or in the past? Why?
  6. How can a food product be successful in the food industry? 
  7. How do you deal with your competition?
  8. What are you doing differently compared to the other sales reps?
  9. How do you convince the buyer to buy the product? Is there a different way to attract the audience?
  10. How can a company maximize profits, while maintaining quality control?

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Blog 19: Third Answer

EQ: 
  • When implementing a food product, how can a company maximize the profit while maintaining quality control?
Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*
  • When implementing a food product, how can a company maximize the profit while maintaining quality control, the company need to have an "smarter access"
3 details to support the answer:
  • this answer falls into different observation one is the access of the customer
  • Second, faster access of the product
  • Third,communication with the customer 
The research source(s) to support your details and answer:
  • 52
  • 52
  • 54
Concluding Sentence:
  • A product can be maximized in having a "smarter access"

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

  • When implementing a food product, how can company maximize profits while maintaining quality control?


2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

  • When implementing a food product, how can company maximize profits while maintaining quality control, the company can maximize the profit by selecting a type of food product that can give you the best profit and the location where it will being sold.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

  • When implementing a food product, how can company maximize profits while maintaining quality control, the company can maximize the profit by having a loyalty for your consumer vies-versa.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
  • Most of the companies have customers that have been with them since the beginning.
  • As for the quality, in my interview two the production manager stated that the quality is the main source where the customers can be contributing in the company.
  • For both of the options loyalty and quality have to go together because if the customer enjoys the product.
5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

  • The New Rules of Retail: Competing in the World's Toughest Marketplace

6.  What other source supports your answer?
  • Source # 45: Way, Jay. "What Steps Do Companies Take to Maximize Profit or Minimize Loss?" Small Business. Smallbusiness.chron.com, 30 Dec. 2015. Web. 05 Feb. 2016. <http://smallbusiness.chron.com/steps-companies-maximize-profit-minimize-loss-41526.html>.
  • Source # 47: Watson, Elaine. "The State of the US Food Retail Market: Slower and Negative Growth... and Rediscovering Walmart." FoodNavigator-USA.com. Foodnavigator-usa, 4 Oct. 2012. Web. 18 Feb. 2016. <http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Markets/The-state-of-the-US-food-retail-market-Slower-and-negative-growth-and-rediscovering-Walmart>.
7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.
  • A food retail product can be maximize while maintaining the quality by having a connection with the customers.

Friday, February 19, 2016

Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection



1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  

  • The most important thing i learned from this interview is that the quality of the product is the main object of the product, also the competition you can deal with it by just making it better in quality and the flavor of it.
2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?

  • This interview has been different from the rest of the others because the question are more in the the direction that i want to go to compare to the interview before their were more into the subject of the food industry. 

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval


1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

  • I planning to talk to the different sale representative in the company to obtain the different views that the consumers have with the products. Plus I'm planning also to have a survey printed out ask the customers questions about the product and what they prefer a product needs to have.
  • My other option is to take a online class in the la county library for 32 hours.  
2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

  • To show evidence, I will have the surveys signed by the customers and for the talks i will take down note on what we talk about. 
3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

  • This component will help me explore more in depth because it will help me understand what the consumer wants and their prioritizes on the product.   
4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Independent Component 1

  • LITERAL
    (a) Write: “I, Jose Aceves, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
    (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
    • Consuelo Aceves, who is the production manager in "Don Pedro's Meat", Also my mentor Andres Jaramillo Helped me complete my independent component.
  • (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.
  • (d) Explain what you completed. 
    • I've competed on how a product can be best made on its faster time. Also I worked with different products in which other once take more time in being produce,   
  • INTERPRETIVE 
    Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

    • Throughout my 30 hours of the first component I was placed in different areas of the plantation, which that helped me understand the process of how a food product is process. 
  • APPLIED
    How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this.
    • The component helped me understand that you have to take time so that the result of the numbers come to live. In other words , some products need time to react in the numbers or that the consumers have to react to it.