9-10+Business

May 5th: Meeting with Mandarina. Yoann's notes:

The meeting happened the 5th of May 2014 at around 9:20 to 10:25. *The people who attended to the meeting were Leonardo, Josue, Dennis, Zackary, Pierre-Nathan, Amy, Sandra and I. *The contract would be renewed with maybe some minor changes such as the name of the store. The cups and the 10th smoothie thing was accepted by Mandarina. Ordering before lunch and snack is more than recommended. Communicate with Mandarina for special events, such as coffee houses or noche de artes. Start selling on Wednesday. *I am not sure exactly who is to complete these actions so I would say that it would be a good idea for us to talk about it on Thursday during our business class meeting.
 * The topics that were discussed were: the contract that the business class has with Mandarina, the use of the green reusable cups and how if Mandarina was okay to create a deal that after 9 smoothies bought with a cup, the tenth one is free, how we as a business class can help the improvement of the Mandarina experience at La Paz, the renewal of the contract, possible name changes for Mandarina and creating a schedule for the when Mandarina needs to pay. A possible bigger trailer for next year and new tables.

April 28th: Watched good interviews and bad video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gww2vrIhjeU

Hired our team!

Chief Executive Officer CEO - Leo Chief Financial Officer CFO - Zack Chief Operations Officer - Josue Information Technology - Denis Marketing Manager - Pierre and Idan Buyer/Merchandiser - Yoann

April 24th: Interviews and Applications Talked about filling out applications and using blue or black pens, making sure that your application is legible, making sure that you completely fill out the application form, and making sure that you make the best presentation when going to drop off the application.


 * Expectations of business class:**

Bring a positive work ethic to your shifts in the school store. Influence your team in a positive manner. How did you do that today? Take initiative. Works diligently to solve problems. Work cooperatively with others.

Feb. 3rd: Sell your tickets! Swan/Rony Send an email to Julia to let her know what products we would like to carry. Swan Write up a report for the newsletter about Mandarina. Yoann Create excitement about your poetry night and inform people of the dinner that will be served. Write Aaron an email about changes to the store and cc me. Zack Post on Facebook about ticket sales on Monday morning, plan your sales tactic! Pierre Sell your tickets and update spreadsheet with any new funds. Jan. 27

Jan. 20th: Productos Pro Andrea Araya 6043-3133 aaraya@mayca.com

Jan. 16th: Job descriptions and new format for starting the class. Rony will call the meeting to order and we will follow and agenda that she has prepared. Each member of the team will talk about what is happening with their job.

Jan. 14th: Worked on the marketing campaign for the bike raffle. Made posters and started creating process. Need to finalize details and finish campaign on Thursday Jan 16th.

Jan. 9th: Started the trimester with some new faces! We are so excited to have new faces to add to our team. We hired all of the team and assigned them jobs. Rony - Executive Manager, Swan - Marketing Manager, IT Manager - Zack, Financial Officer - Pierre Natham, Buyer/Merchandiser - Leo, Buyer/Merchandiser - Yoann. Monday we will talk about Mandarina, clean the bike, work on our marketing campaign, and plan our meeting with Aaron (Construction).

Nov. 4: Revise and practice our presentation for the Board of Directors meeting on Nov. 5 at 6:30pm. Please bring your Goal, Objective, Timeline and How we are going to proceed to class on Monday and we will form a cohesive presentation.

Oct. 31st: Meeting with parents and then plan for the meeting with the Board of Directors about the school store. We need to present Goal, Objective, Timeline and How we are going to proceed.

Oct. 28th: We will meet with Aaron but also need to plan for the meeting with the parents on Thursday. Please come up with 2 questions each to ask in the meeting about whether or not they would want to participate in the making of smoothies and baked goods for the school store.

Oct. 14 - We will be going to Tamarindo to meet with Manderina from 8:30am to approximately 10:30am. Think of other possible questions that might be important to ask during the meeting. Oct. 7 - Zach needs to contact Jen Herman at jen_herman@yahoo.com about color swatches, colors and design. Yaritza needs to set up a meeting with Manderina, and choose items that are interesting from the distributer in San Jose of school products. Pierre needs to research other school supply items. Rony needs to work on finding the Dos Pinos contact. Each student can bring in packaging from snacks that they enjoy eating so we can get contact information. Thanks!

Oct. 6 - Analyzing the survey. Create a spreadsheet with the answers you received and write about your conclusions.

Oct. 3 - Buying/Sourcing Your subs will be Nadia and Jen. They will walk you through the process of buying materials and writing emails to potential companies.

Sept. 26 - Worked on the Survey. Rony has been promoted to Director of Marketing and will take the lead on getting the survey out to the student body. The survey has been emailed to Kerry by Miss Amy in order to be proofread. The survey has been emailed to the advisory teachers in order to make sure that they allow time in advisory for the students to fill out the survey. This was to be completed by Pierre. Abel has a copy of the survey and can weigh in on any final changes that need to be made.

Have a great week. I will miss you!

Sept. 19 - Market Research

Sept. 12 - Writing mission statements

Mission Statements that we wrote today:

To provide what you need, where you need it, the way that you need it.

To provide convenience and satisfaction for any member of the La Paz Community.

To satisfy our self, family, and community in a healthy way.

Our goal is to build a store which can meet the expectations of the customers in a place accessible for the students and teachers.

Sept. 9th What we talked about today in class:

First steps to writing a solid business plan.

What are our goals and objectives? We will use these throughout our planning process. Open a functional store by the end of this trimester. We would like the store to be profitable by the end of the 2nd trimester. We would like to meet the needs of our customer.

What is our market niche? This is what we do well that no one else does, what part of the market do we fill? Location Non-profit Seasonal products i.e.. Valentine's Day items, Halloween items Supplies/Uniforms Snacks Community made products Providing items that can not be found in Costa Rica

Who is our competition? Identify and analyze. Food Lab Tacos Del Rey Massai Other grocery stores in the area Moms - The Gap, Target Liberias

Who are our customers? Teachers Students Parents (Visitors)

Products: Here are some of our brainstorming ideas. These will need to be researched and talked about to make sure that they are a good fit for our market.

Snacks: cookies, seeds, crepes, fresh fruit, bars, smoothies, chips, popcorn, baked goods, drinks such as water, juice, milk, yogurt, gum, mints, breakfast burritos, bread, candy, coffee, tea, noodles, bread. Supplies: water bottles, school supplies such as pencils, pens, notebooks, etc., uniforms. Community Made Products: wax, art, jewelry Clothes: sandals, socks, t-shirts, souvenirs, gifts, sweatshirts