free advertizing through facebook

Sunday, October 3, 2010

free advertizing

advertizing is one of the most important things when it comes to opening a business. it is what allows people to see what you are doing, and it is incredible how much companies spent on their business advertizing, so that this is succesful. this year, i start a business with my brother, where i sell tshirts online. the business is called spenglish and we sell through spenglish.net. here for example, i am doing free advertisment through a blog, because whoever reads this might be curious enough to see what my business is. but i am talking about much larger number of people knowing about the business through free advertisment. and when it come to talking about this, i talk about a website which we all visit several times a day known as facebook.

facebook has more than 500 million members, and it is the biggest social network in the planet. you put one word on it, and it is open for those 500 million people to see instantlly. people dont realize sometimes how much power this network has, but one can connect through to the world instantlly. so the advertizing part comes in, when you fill your page and profile with things from your business, you send messages and event so that everyone on your friend list sees it and recieves it. this then expands through word of mouth, and through your friends friends that dont have you in common but see it at there website. advertizing then becomes successful becaus now your website is know by thousands of friends of friends that you showed it to. this is a very powerfull tool that is used by many entretainment events and businesses. if one knows hw to take advantage of it, it is incredible how efective it could really be. we can see this through the new movie the social network, and in our every day lives. so this is why it is incredible how much money companies spend on advertizing every year but also do it through free advertizing in emails and facebook.

stereotypes in boston

stereotypes in boston

stereotypes are what someone uses to describe people without meeting them first. Living in Boston, has made me realize that  basing your knowledge of people on stereotypes is like judging a book by its cover; and this shouldnt be done. i realized this when i came to boston, because here, there are many international students. we all come to college to make friends and expand the network, however sometime stereotyping makes us chose what kind of people we try to become friends with first. so the question that pops up in my headvery often, is why americans dont really get along with the international crowd. are we really that different? or is it stereotyping, what people say about each other, that prevents us from giving this opportunity of friendship a try?

I believe, that sometimes we are lazy when it comes to meeting people who are different from us. we become closed minded people in an enviorment that requires us to accept differences. we sometimes decided to hang out with the people we know and understand, because we enter a comfort zone that makes us feel good about our selves and not threatend by society.

for me for example, i am more open minded and believe that in the end we ae all very similar. we are all here for the same purpose and it is good to be friends with everyone. one learns a lot from people who were raised differently than them selves. as well as learning that stereotypes dont talk about everyone. theres always something one can find in common with everyone, but in boston i notice that people are afraid to give this a try. interaction between international students and americans is not commonly seen here. why could this be.do stereotypes that say we are so different speak the truth?

blackberry making us dependent and anti social? or social

celphones are a huge part of our lives. however, now a day almost everyone has either a blackberry or an iphone. with this media, one can check almost anything instantlly. we could check our mails, facebooks, internet, twitter, and anyting we can imagine. we can chat with friends from anywhere in the world as if they where right next to us. however, is this making us more social through greater communication, or are we becoming so dependant on it that we are being anti social.

I for example have a hard time going through a day without my celphone. i constantlly check if i recieve a call text or email. unconciounslly comunication has become instantanious. time where you get home and turn your computer on to view your mails or check your facebook, no longer exists. now we do it all day where ever we are. so by doing this and staying communicated with the world making us more social, or is having your eyes on your phone all day even when you are with people, making you miss out on life and being more anti social. checking that picture someone just uploaded, or those recent updates on twitter can be time consuming and affect those who accompany you. one because it can be annoying, and two because it is like multitasking all day long. celphones are a culture in our lifes and people depend on them way to much

“The dictionary defines media as all the means of communication, as newspapers, radio, and Television that provide the public with news and entertainment, usually along with advertising.” So basically, when it comes to defining media, I believe that media is everything which wants to convey a certain message to its corresponding audience. In a way, media could be anything that surrounds us, as long as it is being used or seen by other people.

“The dictionary defines media as all the means of communication, as newspapers, radio, and Television that provide the public with news and entertainment, usually along with advertising.” So basically, when it comes to defining media, I believe that media is everything which wants to convey a certain message to its corresponding audience. In a way, media could be anything that surrounds us, as long as it is being used or seen by other people.

            Audience is the most important aspect of media, and probably what defines media all together according to me. If we think about it, now a day almost everything is media. Because now, everything is shown on television; sports, TV series, fashion shows, etc. however, the reason for why I chose audience as one of the most important aspects of media, is because every sorts of media is targeted to a certain audience. As Robert Kolker says in his book of introduction to Media Studies, “audience for mass media is as varied as are the media they listen to, watch, and read.” Meaning that everyone who invents or creates a sort of media, must think in the process of creation, what type of audience it wants to target. So there being thousands of different types of audience, allows there to be thousands of different types of media.

            In conclusion, our lives depend on media as much as media depends on us. We can’t live without, and it wouldn’t exist without us. We all know that things such as TV, newspapers, radio, and electronics are different types of Medias; however, we find it hard to believe that things such as culture or sports could also be media. Let’s look at soccer for example, it is something people watch, but how does this make a media. In professional sports we see how it has all become a business. Every player or team has sponsors, and every stadium has advertising. This being because in order for it to be a well rounded business, companies use a sport seen worldwide to advertise themselves, making it a source of media. When people watch this sport on TV, they receive a message of advertisement targeting a certain crowd, and the same goes for any sport. Advertisement today is one of the strongest types of media, because of how its sells it’s self by people just looking at it everywhere one goes.

            On the other hand, we have culture, what people do and why they do it. Culture goes with audience, because every audience has different cultures. However, culture becomes a media when people read about and follow certain believes that where created. Culture comes from nature, when humans start questioning and experimenting with nature it becomes culture. Then from this culture become stories we tell among us humans. And form this, as Kolker also says, “Culture allows us to comprehend how humans act and why they act such way. Making this wonderful creation an important source of media in out lives.

            Media can be defined in many ways, but one thing that is certain, is that we all depend on it to live our daily lives. It is a major factor of who we are and without we would be ignorant. Today, surviving without certain Medias is somewhat impossible. For example, one can live without a cell phone, but because of how people communicate now a day, this person will always be a step back from all the others. Media defines us for who we are, humans create media to communicate among each other, and thanks to media the world functions as smoothly as it does.