Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

1.  What is your essential question?

• What is the best way to sustain a profitable skateshop?

2.  What is your third answer to your essential question (write your third answer in a complete sentence)?

• My third answer to my essential question is marketing/marketing plan your skate shop, this well help your business gain profit.

3.  What are three details to support or justify your third answer (details are examples or facts)?

• By marketing you get the word  out of your shop attracting customers to your shop that may be potential buyers.
• With marketing you get reputation with your buesiness because it builds brand name reconigiton and is involved with the community.
• Also your shop will get higer sales due to the fact that you are attracting more customers which is always a good benefit. 

4.  What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?

• The source that helped me prove this was an article called "The Importance of Marketing for the Success of a Business", on Houston Chronicle, Kristie Lorette and Demand Media.

5.  What do you plan to study next and why? 

• What I plan to study next is more marketing strategies and the marketing plan itself. Just ways to attract and gain profit by marketing.

Fourth Interview Questions

1) What is the best way to sustain a profitable skate shop?

2) How did you get in the position you are in?

3) Did you have a role model or something that inspired you to manage/own a skate shop and how did so said person do so?

4) What makes you different from other skate shops?

5) How important is location?

6) How do you choose your employees?

7) Are making connections important? If yes why?

8) Is understanding the skateboarding culture important to run a skate shop and why?

9) Do you attend or host any events?

10) Can you describe how your business plan works?

11) How do you attract customers?

12) Customers may say the price is overpriced what is your input on this?

13) What is the biggest demand in your shop?

14) Do your suppliers have a lot of control/power?

15) How much supply do you usually buy from your suppliers?

16) Is social media a good resource in make your shop better?

17) How does sponsoring skateboarders improve your shop?

18) What are the best marketing strategies for a skate shops?

19) How do you manage the money the shop is making?

20) How do you display your merchandise? 

21) From your experience what would you tell someone wanting to open a skate shop?

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1. My essential question is, what is the best way to sustain a profitable skate shop?

2. My second answer to my essential question, knowing and understanding how business works. It is baiscally the foundation of your shop and is a key factor.

3. One of details would be how to start your business. How can you gain profit with your own brand? What kind of business are you running?

4. Surces that helped me justify my answer would be entrepreneur.com, my mentor, and an interview with Utility Board Supply I did.

5. I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by doing more reserch and focusing on business related topics, also by checking out more books on business.

Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

1) For my independent study component I will probably try to find more connections with skate shops and get more into the business side of the shop. Finding another skate shop might be hard but I'll still try. Going more into depth the business side of it is also important, so I'll try to get more involved in that.

2) My plan will reach the 30 hours by reading a book about business or maybe finding a class with business. Also if I find another skate shop I can get hours there.

3) My independent component will relate with my working EQ because without knowing business you will not be able to run a succesful skate shop. Also by finding another skate shop it will give me a different perspective because skate shops are not all the same. They all have a different atmosphere.

Blog 15: Independent Component 1

• Literal
• (a) I, Eric Santizo, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
• (b) Kurtis Beckstorm (626) 551-8222. And the berrics.com to get a better feel for skateboarding.
• (c) Log
• (d) What I have completed has been something that as a manager at a skate shop has done is currently does; which is surrounding yourself with the skateboarding industry and culture. At Covert Board Shop I went to two Sticker Exchange events, I learned and experienced a lot. There was a DJ, lots of stickers, people taking pictures, and people interacting with one another. I also learned how to clean and assemble a skateboard which is important. Another thing I did was skate a lot which I have been improvingover the time and still want to improve.
• Interpretive

                                                        Stickers from Covert




At the Sticker Exchange

                                                Injury from skating at the skate park in Montclair

• Applied
• This component has really helped me understand the foundation of my project beacue what I did was surround my self with skateboarding things. I went and helped at events, I went to talk to employees at a different shops to see how they do and folded clothes, I even got hurt trying to skate a bunch of times. It just really has improved my knowledge about skateboarding and I feel like I would know what to put in a shop or how events work. Like I really never heard or thought about a sticker exchange until went to the two at Covert.