Blog 14: Independent Component 1

Content: 

LITERAL

(a) I, Brian Arteaga, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

(b) My main sources that I used to complete my independent component were articles mostly from a website called Bloomberg Business Week most published by author Karen E. Klein. 

(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) As part of my 30hrs when I attended my mentorship I was a salesman for my mentor helping him talk to my customers. While I was selling I used two different sales techniques my mentor showed me the first being "up selling" and the second one "cross selling".   

INTERPRETIVE:
I have a spreadsheet of my hours signed by my mentor. It shows the sessions we've met and how long each session was for.

APPLIED

How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this.

This component helped me understand the foundation of my topic by giving me insight in little aspects of a business. Little things like advertising more effectively and trying to give the customers a nice experience go a long way in a business even if its something as little as putting up a sign on your display to advertise. If someone sees a sign labeled 50% off they will at least go to your display and look rather then ignoring it completely. If you give someone a pleasant experience and they return to buy again you have an ongoing customer thus increasing your sales. Also if you have a regular customer its easier to up sell and cross sell to them also increasing your profits.