Blog 1

The reason why I chose this class was to further my knowledge of social media and marketing.  In the future, I would like to be in the world of business. My ultimate dream goal is to one day become an NBA General Manager.  That being said, I figured taking a course like this would be a great opportunity to gain some knowledge. Knowing what it takes to have a successful social media for a business is very important.  Especially, with NBA teams. They always are looking to grow their fanbase so having spectacular social media will reach many people. Especially when it’s my time in the future, my generation will be older and the majority so it will be easy to access people with social media around my age, younger, and even some older ages.  Social media seems to be a necessity in today’s era. It seems we humans can’t live without our phones. Although, this may sound bad, however, it’s true. Figuring out how to manipulate and figure out people’s likes, wants, and interests to drive them towards what you are preaching is a great asset and tool to have. Learning more about running social media for a business will help me with my future self in order to drive people towards my business using technology.  I am very interested in what this class will have to offer. I can’t wait to experience working with other businesses to help them and learn more about them. This is all an experience and I am glad to be able to have access to a course like this. It is very interesting and intriguing. I have even got to see an inside look at how sports teams market their social media. This interterm I had an internship with Creighton University. I worked with the sports marketing team and got to see how they run their team through the business side.  I was able to attend a meeting talking about improving attendance at the women’s basketball games. They spoke a lot about reaching out on social media for the student body their and reaching out to other businesses to sponsor posters and other things as such. I was even able to help provide some images for them. It was a very good experience so learning, even more, should be extremely fun.