EOC Week 8:

I'm thinking of maybe doing editing picture I'm choosing. I'm going to have my fiance to help me on this project and I know how to edit pictures, I've been editing pictures when I was 16. My mind is full of ideas however, I may need my fiance to help me to make this project a good project. First I want to make the Chocolate Cheese Cake, put it into a cup cake baking pan. Bake it, take a picture, edit with another picture I may take on the internet or in the store. My brands name is “YummY Cheese” so I’m going to edit the font and place it on the box, also I’m going to put it in the tin can I have when my grandmother gave me for the fruit cake. I think it would look pretty, but yeah I’m going to have pictures, music, and movie onto this project.

Eoc Week 10: Marketing Plan

I've chosen cheese cake, not the plain one, chocolate cheese cake. I personally do not like plain cheese cake however, I do love chocolate cheese cake, to travel the cheese cake they can be frozen. To carry it easier I think a bite size cheese cake, it's cute and fun to look at. It can come with a ten basket like fruit cake comes with, to help the cheese cake to stay frozen for long period of time. I think it'll be good for the army people who wants to enjoy cheese cake, also it thinks about Thanksgiving. I think chocolate is the best choose because most people loves chocolate, so I think bite size chocolate cheese cake is the best way to freeze them to travel long distance. Also it'll be good for the Philippines of what happened to them of the Typhoon, its small and it can be frozen so it'll be good to travel that long distance. It’ll cost people about 2.50$ I do not want to make it unfordable to anyone who wants to buy it. I want to make people happy.

 My company’s name is “YummY Cheese” it’ll come in small bite size Chocolate Cheese Cake, it’s fun and cute. Once someone one buys the bit size Chocolate Cheese Cake at the “YummY Cheese.” They’ll send food for those who are in need, each Cheese Cake is bought well be sending food and bit size Cheese Cake to the Philippines. I’ll also throw in each item are sold we’ll place your name on the wall saying “I helped, for the people in Philippines.” If they wish not to place their name we can just ring the bell, to save them from the attention they do not want.

Eoc week 6: Me X 3

I personally like android phones over Ipods, I never liked Mac. I used it once and I have to ask the teacher how to find the internet browser. With pcs The icon is right there so with the phones, tablet, computers, and mp3 players I like using androids, pc over Mac items. This phone my have problems but what doesn't. I'm with cricket I can not afford other company. I used to have AT&T, if I have the money I would go back to them because I have no problems with them unlike Verizon and Sprint, those two company I personally stay away from.  

I really like Japanese rock music, but they are Jrock and some of them are Jpop but they sound more like rock. Unlike the US where we have Metal, Alternative, Classic rock, and/or Rock, I think the band sound awesome to me. I know no idea what they are saying but I enjoy their music, I like rock music. I do not have a favorite band as the others however, I do listen to bands I like and some bands I do not like such as Incubus, The Muss, and Jemmy Eats World. Those bands I really do care about, they don't sound good to me at all.   

This is one of the best games I ever played, in my thoughts. Final Fantasy 7 it has the best story line I like, I enjoy the guy how made all the series. I can not remember how to spell his name but I loved his work, when I was 3 or 4 years old I play video games more so then dolls I really do not remember how I got my first system Nintendo however, all the other systems I can tell you how I got them and even the newer versions of them. I love playing video games. I'll play them until I can no more.

This anime (Japanese Cartoon) Is my favorite anime! I do not like how they make it into a kid friendly episodes, when I was young I watch this a lot I get disappointed if I can't recorded or my grandfather changes the channel. I watched more animes over the years but nothing can compare to Dragon Ball Z. I love this anime, I remember when I was in Jr. High when I was wearing the cloths, some kid came up to me and said "That's for boys." I didn't pay attention to him and walked off, I did watch Sailor Moon but my eyes still glued onto this anime.   

EOS Week 6: Bestbuy news

Best Buy Chief Executive Officer Hubert Joly is borrowing that two-letter word and plenty more from rivals to improve the retailer’s e-commerce operations, which even his own colleagues say had fallen a decade behind. While the website won’t seriously vie with Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) any time soon, Best Buy can harness its brand recognition and status as the largest consumer-electronics retailer to grab e-commerce share. The efforts may already be helping, with Best Buy’s online traffic rising 9.9 percent in August from a year earlier, according to data from Compete.com that the company uses.

“They’re the 800-pound gorilla,” David Strasser, an analyst at Janney Montgomery Scott LLC in New York who recommends buying the shares, said in an interview. “After struggling with no real Internet expertise, they’ve brought on a pretty strong team.”

Joly first set about shoring up the physical stores after taking over as CEO about a year ago, cutting $390 million in annual costs and matching rivals’ online prices to slow the decline in same-store sales.

The stabilization has helped restore investors’ confidence in Richfield, Minnesota-based Best Buy. The stock, which traded at an 86 percent discount to the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index on a price-to-earnings basis in January, has tripled this year and closed at a 6.8 percent premium to the index today. The shares slipped 0.8 percent to $37.66 at the close in New York.

Breathing Room

That rebound gives Joly, 54, some breathing room as he works to convert more of Best Buy’s 1 billion annual online visitors into buyers. Slightly more than one of every 100 visitors makes a purchase, about half the average rate among retailers, according to UBS AG.

Joly has set a target of more than doubling Best Buy’s share of U.S. online consumer-electronics sales to 18 percent -- matching its share of brick-and-mortar sales -- from the current 7 percent.

“There is no reason it should be lower,” Joly said in a telephone interview in August. Bringing BestBuy.com up to speed with competitors “is going to be a two- or three-year journey.”

About a month after becoming CEO, he hired Scott Durchslag from online travel company Expedia Inc. as president of Best Buy’s global e-commerce operations.

Joly’s Hires

A month later, Joly brought Sharon McCollam out of retirement to become Best Buy’s chief financial officer and chief administrative officer. In similar roles at Williams-Sonoma Inc. she helped push online sales to 40 percent of total revenue. Now Joly is hiring more than 100 Web architects, engineers and other technology workers.

The team is starting with the basics, such as adding more product reviews and buying guides to the website and enabling it to recommend additional purchases for shoppers as they check out. The site got a new search platform in May, fixing a system that sometimes called up the wrong results for customers’ queries.

Best Buy began testing shipping online orders from stores to customers’ homes four months ago, catching up to Nordstrom Inc., which has filled online orders from stores since 2009.

Single Site

“My Best Buy,” which has 41 million active members, now lets shoppers redeem reward points and shop on a single site, bringing it up to speed with programs found everywhere from Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. (DKS) to Panera Bread Co. (PNRA) Best Buy’s previous loyalty program, “Reward Zone,” wasn’t linked to BestBuy.com, forcing users to log onto both sites to turn points into purchases.

“It’s about catching up to where the site should have been,” Durchslag told analysts and investors on a conference call in June. “Because if you really go through the site, in some ways, it’s a time warp. It’s a 10-year time warp in some ways.”

“My Best Buy” has some advanced features. Mobile-phone users earn points by clicking on an application while they’re in stores. The program has three membership tiers, and shoppers who make the top level by spending $3,500 or more a year get free expedited shipping on purchases and 45 days to make returns and exchanges.

Loyalty Rewards

Best Buy is now “actually rewarding loyalty, similar to hotels and airlines,” Gary Balter, an analyst at Credit Suisse Group AG in New York, wrote in a note Sept. 17. He rates the shares outperform, the equivalent of a buy.

The changes so far helped Best Buy’s online sales rise 11 percent in its second quarter, the seventh straight quarter of gains of 10 percent or greater. That growth still trails Seattle-based Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, which boosted North American electronics and other general merchandise sales 31 percent in the comparable period. Best Buy generated U.S. online sales of $477 million, or 6.1 percent of domestic revenue, in the second quarter. That’s down from 6.2 percent in the first quarter.

Amazon declined to make executives available for interviews through Mary Osako, a spokeswoman.

By the holidays, Best Buy plans to expand its store-to-home delivery service to more than 200 stores from 50, Joly told analysts last month.

The expansion may help the chain move more inventory that otherwise may have gone unsold or required deep discounts to clear, said Tom Kamp, who helps manage $15 billion, including 785,700 Best Buy shares, as president and chief investment officer at Cornerstone Capital Management in Edina, Minnesota.

“There is not any one magic bullet,” Kamp said in a telephone interview, “just a lot of basic blocking and tackling that’s beginning to get things turned in the right direction.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Chris Burritt in Greensboro at cburritt@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Robin Ajello at rajello@bloomberg.net