Week 7 Reading Reflection

Howdy! Here is the Week 7 Reading Reflection:

1. What was the biggest surprise for you in the reading? In other words, what did you read that stood out the most as different from your expectations? 
• I didn't find anything particularly surprising, but I thought that the development of segmentation in businesses was interesting (early 60s and forward).  It makes perfect sense as to why it happened, but I never really thought about that change. 
2. Identify at least one part of the reading that was confusing to you.
• There were no parts that were confusing to me.
3. If you were able to ask two questions to the author, what would you ask? Why?
• Which is the most effective type of segmentation (advertising vs new products)?
• I would ask this because both of these can work together (advertising FOR new products), but if one were more effective overall, I would want to use that one predominantly.
• In your opinion, which is more important: the issues of the business or the consumers concerns?
• I would ask this because in the event of conflicting solutions, one would have to choose which to solve first (if both cannot be resolved at the same time).
4. Was there anything you think the author was wrong about? Where do you disagree with what she or he said? How?
• There was nothing that I thought the author was wrong about.  

Free Money

Howdy!  For this assignment, I was supposed to give $5 to busy strangers.  Here is how that went:

1. Where will you go?
• I went to my church since I was home for the weekend.
2. What kind of people will you approach?
• I approached pretty much anyone since I wasn't particularly nervous to talk to anyone
3. What will you say to get the conversation started?
• I just went with the "Excuse me, do you have a moment?" approach.  
4. What is your plan for the conversation?
• I chose to just ask people if they wanted a dollar so their initial reaction would be an immediate yes or no.  I didn't feel the need to make it any more descriptive than that, especially since my business pitches would be generally straightforward.
5. Out of five attempts, how many dollar bills do you think you will be able to give away?
• I thought I could give away at least 3 dollar bills.  I gave away 4.  How cool am I?

Encounter 1

The video cut out the "excuse me" part, but he was a bit busy selling gift cards.  He took my dollar after I stopped recording.  Totally counts.

Encounter 2

My phone is the worst at taking videos (or I'm just really bad at pressing record), but this girl was collecting money for her class' bake sale.  Of course she accepted my dollar.  She thought it was funny that I was recording her. I didn't get any baked goods (so I guess this project was a failure overall).

Encounter 3

I approached a parent also collecting money for the bake sale.  He accepted my dollar too.

Encounter 4

I walked up to my pastor after church while he was shaking everyone's hands (I waited in line because I really didn't want to interrupt a priest outright).  He also accepted my dollar.  He'll probably put it in this weekends collection.

Encounter 5

The last person I tried to give a dollar to was a man with his baby boy.  He didn't accept the dollar.  Probably because money has a lot of germs on it and he was holding a baby. 

Reflection

Giving away a dollar was about as easy as I expected it to be.  The most difficult thing giving the location I was in was that everyone was trying to leave to go to breakfast.When I approached people, I didn't really consider reasons why they would say no other than the fact that they were busy.  But all of their reasons for accepting or not accepting the dollar were completely understandable.