Marketing; Intermission 2

Bad joke, Bad joke!  Jeff the Nun, blech! OK, so we’re onto the lecture, it’s based off the 4 problems that were posted earlier this week.  It’s all about break-even.  Break-even is one tool that managers use when making decisions about their company or department. The formula is simple:  Sales = Variable Costs + Fixed Costs + Profits, or S = VC + FC + P.  In Break-even,...

Interdisciplinary Studies Class Seventeen

Today we’re working with our groups to create a tetrad on the project that we’re putting together for the end of the semester.  Of course, only one other person from my group decided to show up, so this should be interesting.  Now to review what a tetrad is it looks like this: Oh, wait, another guy in my group just walked in.  Well, better late than never I guess.  Again, back to...

Interdisciplinary Studies Class Sixteen

Marshall McLuhan’s Tetrad: So this refers to the technology that we choose to use on a regular basis.  Take the automobile for instance.  We have enhanced the automobile over the last century, and forced other modes of transportation, like the buggy or the trolley, into obsolescence.  Working forward, we tend to attempt to retrieve historical versions of the automobile, like the...

Marketing Class; Act 2, Scene 3

OK, first things first I really have to call this guy.  If only I can get his name again.  Bah, Mark, Pay Attention at the beginning of class!!!  480-861-0475  OK, got the number, talked to Kevin (yay, got his name) and I guess I’ll call him tomorrow. Marketing Channel Also called a distribution channel, a marketing channel is a network of organizations that create a time, place and the...

Interdisciplinary Studies Class Fifteen

No class today, instead we were to watch the following video and analyze its place in the current political sphere. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube...