What appeals to me...

Things that appeal to me as a entrepreur is that everyday in your business is a new challenge, wheither it be smalll or large. Each day is a learning experience for your business. Taking one step at a time and dealing with any issues good or bad will accually help you and make your business a sucess. Another factor that I never really would have thought about is using your business plan as a guide for when you are stuck, after hearing about your plan being your guide it made so much sense, I probably would have just put it on the shelf and not looked at it. When the day arrives that i do have my own business, I will keep a spot open next to my everday things for my business plan and not put it on the shelf or box it away.

Teaching business plans

I sat down with my co-worker Melissa who is accually in the process of doing her business plan. She is currently working with a person who does business plans for people wanting to open a new business. I explained a few things that I have learned from this course and the two things I stressed to Melissa about her business plan is to have her executive summary and her exit strategy. Even though she has hired someone to do her business plan, she is looking forward to seeing that she has those two things included in her plan, especially after paying someone to do her plan. She has told me that she will take the information that I have provided about a business plan and put forth into her business plan and to use it as she goes further into her business. So I am glad that I can help someone with anything that I have learned.

Business Plans

Well I had to leave early from our class when there was a guest speaker due to parent teacher meetings I had scheduled. I had asked some of my classmates about how the guest speaker was and they had explained a few things that she had talked about. We had already been working on our business plan presentation so I was curious to what else there could be. From my point of view, it takes alot to do up a business plan, you have to be dedicated to your idea because just doing the plan can get discouraging. It takes alot of editing your plan, going over things constently and also I thing I had learned from my classmates when asked about the guest speaker is the Executive summary. That is one thing I had not known before that was very important to have included with your plan.Also what should be included in your plan is the exit strategy,it would accually benefit in the decision making with the investor's or lender's involved. In all a bussiness plan is something that requires alot of work and editing, going over things and sometimes frustrating, but if your plan is a good one then it would all be worth it at the end!

Online shopping complements the retail shopping experience.

After reading the stiory about that shopping complements the retail shopping experience, I saw that I myself have purchased in the past online and will eventually purchase in the future. I do alot of my shopping online but at the same time I also do shopping in retail stores. I think personally the reason that some people shop online is the fact that you can get things cheaper, like fore instence if I need to travel somewhere, I personally perfer to go online and book what i need instead of going to a travel agency, the result is I am saving a few hundred by doing this. Who wouldn't want to save? I know I do. Then you have the people who don't like going out into the stores or there being not much variety where they are located, so they then can go online to just about any store, because most chains of stores are online today, and purchase items that they might not be able to find in their areas, which is convienient for them. I still love the rush of shopping, expecially at christmas time, but at the same time when I need to save or just don't have the time I enjoy the conviences of online shopping.

Barriers that A First Nations Women Faces...

After thinking about someone to write for the barriers A First Nations women faces, I decided to write about the aboriginal women in general. The ideas are almost the same for each native women who is in a bussiness. Some of these barriers are facing critism, juggling family's and wife roles, being misunderstood because they are women, having their voices heard. When you talk to different women who are in the bussiness field you tend to hear the same pattern of barriers that they face, weither they are getting critisized for being a native women who is trying to run a bussiness, or is it just the fact that they are a woman and not a man? Do they face more difficulities for this? I personally believe in some cases that they do. Is this the same for having their voices heard, often making them misunderstood, either by the fact that people don't take them seriously or that they remain silent. Some people are busy just trying to manage the family life with the work load, which trust me takes alot for woman to maintain a balance in their lifes. Crises can arise any anytime, any place or anywhere, kind of unpredictable. It takes alot of juggling things in their lifes as woman are already use to.

Learning Journal...What does it mean?

To be professional in any field of work takes knowledge. You need to basically have common sense, and then, actually be using it. The person has to really know what they are doing to become successful. They would also have to be extremely competent in their job. The person has to make themselves approachable and reasonable, and give respect to other people is also important. If you present yourself in a bussinesslike manner, whether it be in person, by phone, or in writting is essential. Make sure you always project a bussinesslike apperarence. You need to really know what your doing, do your homework and know exactly what your talking about. If you are a bullshitter, this can put your creditability down and jeopardize your professional relationships. I think personally with the schools today is that they are giving the students the tools that are needed, then it is up to each student to take those tools and make it work.

Why is this Subject Taboo?

After After reading the story "Why is this Subject Taboo", I had some mixed feelings on it. While trying to keep the business aspect in mind, it was hard thinking of what to write in that sense. I could write alot about the article, not in a business aspect, but what does business have to do with it, so I had to reread it a few times to try and get the racism and predjudice I felt that came with it. It talks about other cultures that should be aknowledges and celebrated, and yes I agree they should be but why our Aboriginal people always fighting the answer is because of everything that had been taken from us, these other cultures might not have that, when do you here of other heritages having things taken? I never heard of any sort. Yes we all live in Canada and should get along but at the same time they should not be taking and still trying to take things from us like land and so forth. We need to work together expecially in a business sense, but why does it sometimes take longer for a native to get say...permits or some kind of document needed when starting a business, and you can talk to a non-native and they can recieve it weeks before, hassle free? Is the government afraid of natives making money? Getting ahead? Getting away from what they think of reserves being nothing but drunks and drug addicts? Well this is only my view on things, had alot of mixed views on this article.