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some companies are to non-costumer based. Like dell is not very costumer centric according to the article. Since dell had many problems with its batteries exploding they needed to change their strategy to become more costumer centric. Companies need to make the costumer the main policy but that is not always the case. Some companies try and make this their main policy and create good costumer centric, but it does not always happen. It comes down to companies will do whatever it takes to make a buck even if it tells you to by more Big Mack knowing that they will hurt you health if you eat to many. Companies need to figure out how to answer those phone calls, costumer service questions, and treat costumer like they are number one.

We had two guest speakers that spoke about internet marketing. The 4 P's: Product, Place, Price and Promotion. The speakers added 3 more P’s: People, Physical Evidence, and Process. Direct marketing and finding your audience: owners, managers, brokers, and the owning versus renting property. Raltytrac.com they used as an example. They talked about the product life cycle, the speakers talked about how the product is introduced to the market, product growth, maturity, and finally decline. Hybrid cars and Ipods were topics of discuion and these were some examples for the product life cycle. The speakers had interesting ideas about marketing, and some good incite.

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   The rebook ventilator
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   I found out that the people that purchased the shoes were very happy. They like the colors and fit of the product.
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   It would make me more likely to buy the shoes because I would feel better about my purchase.
   A prior purchase confirmation that they are buying a good or bad product.
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   It gives good feedback to the costumer and whether or not they have chosen a good product to buy. Is it a popular choice and does it performs like the manufacture suggests?
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   I would not recommend that kencole.com offer reviews because they are not competing with alternative brands on the same site. They have just one brand. Unless kencole.com can post only positive reviews to their product. They can offer recommendations on what styles might fit a popular trend or lifestyle, but not negative reviews.
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   Yes, I look at reviews for electronic devices like cell phones and computers. Reviews are always biased, but they give a good overview of a product of its features. This is very nice when on cannot touch and play with all the functions of the item before one buys it.
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   I think product reviews are good because they incite to what people think of the product. Hey, besides one does not have to look at the reviews.

Possible business uses for blogs

• To create a name for the business or website. They can start a blog on a popular blog site and attract attention to their website with positive blog threds.
• Basic marketing like word of mouth, but via the internet.
• Oraganizations can set up blogs to start feedback infomation on the progress of certain projects that their company is working on.
• Newspapers can start blogs to get feedback on topics that may be popular, they can then proceed to find out if the topic is worth writing in their column or not. Fans can then read the article and read the whole story in the weekly paper or online.
• Good publicity on products and services.

Blogs should continue to look like traditonal marketing if it sells on the net. If the blogs does not get any hits it probably has to change. Catchy titles and good infomation will attract attention. Pictures and reviews of products will also led to better advertising and word of mouth spreading.

Blogs are not a fad they can provide good infomation. more so blogs can be entertaining and start a good thread of communication. Marketers will continue to use blogs and try to reach the people that are blog crazy. Some people read blog more than other source of infomation. Marketers need to get there products out to as many people as they can that are in there target market. If blogs don't fit to their specific market they may fade away for that company and maybe they stay strong for the other company whose target market reads more bloggs. All bloggs are opininated, so what ever one read one must be prepared to analyze the infomation and compare it to other source and see how valuable the infomation is.

It would be nice for the the inderdicineary studies department to set up a blog. I don't know how much it would help me other than being able to view what other students have chosen to study. Nobody else has my major and maybe they can comment on it with their own blogg. Other than that, I don't believe it would be any more helpful than just going to see my advisor.