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Discussion 2 Presidential Powers
Discussion 2: Presidential Powers
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Discussion 2: Presidential Powers
According to Schaefer (2021), based on Richard Neustadt’s words, the power of the presidency lies more in its ability to convince than in its ability to command. In contrast to other decision-makers, the president’s primary objective is to strike a balance between the power he wields and the support he receives from the public and the rest of civil society. Approval and poll ratings towards the president significantly impact the president’s decision-making since they build the president’s overall perception of his ability to rule and his performance.
Moreover, it is true that Congress serves as a significant check on the executive branch and can either help or hinder the president and his party. Still, numerous studies and real-world examples show that the public also plays a major role in if or not the president is successful in achieving his objectives. According to the research center, due to the president’s poor actions and the public’s growing lack of faith in him, it becomes more difficult to find solutions to the nation’s problems and to win the public’s participation in those efforts. Besides, due to the mistrust, people appear to be rebelling against government efforts, holding assemblies, and engaging in other sociopolitical activities that would hamper the president’s goals and programs to demonstrate the people’s sovereign power in a display of democratic respect for the rule of law. Public opinion polls influence political decisions. Opinion polls aim to reflect the views of the people they study by carrying out several questions and then generalizing in the form of ratios or within confidence intervals (Muller et al., 2020). Therefore, public opinion polls are very suitable for discussing the president’s mandate since many people can express their needs which they would like the president to fulfill.
References
Müller, M., Schneider, M., Salathé, M., & Vayena, E. (2020). Assessing public opinion on CRISPR-Cas9: combining crowdsourcing and deep learning. Journal of medical Internet research, 22(8), e17830.
Schaefer, T. M. (2021). Introduction: Trump’s Presidency; Neustadt’s Model. Presidential Power Meets the Art of the Deal (pp. 1-10). Palgrave Pivot, Cham.
Customer Involvement in Recipe to Riches Case Study
Customer Involvement in Recipe to Riches Case Study
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Introduction
Hello fellow students, today I am going to talk about customer involvement in the Recipe to Riches case study. Involving customers in the decisions of a company could be beneficial to improving the brand name of a product or service.
First, what is customer involvement?
Customer involvement is a method used to influence the behaviour of consumers by allowing consumers to search for information, make decisions and suggestions that help in the development of a product or service (Zaichkowsky, 2010). It is applied in marketing to influence the purchasing behaviours of consumers and convince them to purchase through incorporating their interests, preferences and choices. It also influences communication behaviours through the perception of risks, brand loyalty, opinion leadership, and segmentation (Michaelidou & Dibb, 2008). Consumers get the chance to communicate with the producers of products and services to provide information on improvement and also factors to change to improve customer satisfaction.
Now let us look at the importance of customer involvement based on the case study. The contestants at a point decided to involve consumers through social media. So first, the sales campaign involved the integration of products with social media pages to encourage fans to purchase the items. The Facebook platform provides an avenue for the consumers to communicate their suggestions and preferences to the producer. Therefore, customer involvement is essential in the co-creation of products and services using the ideas received from target consumers (Bharti & Agrawal, 2018).
Secondly, it provides efficient use of the consumers as resources for skills and expertise from the target market. Through these procedures, consumer satisfaction is improved. For example, as Stephen Hollow and Chris used social media platforms to get more ideas, they increased the interactions between fans and the show hence making it better.
Thirdly, it increases the sales made, enabling the adoption of the new products. As the contestants involve fans through social media platforms, they get insights on improving their recipes for products hence convincing the consumers to purchase. It encourages them to adopt the new product as it strengthens the relationship between the consumers and the marketer or producer.
From this importance we learn that consumer involvement empowers customers to respond to failures in products or services in a way that communicates the failures to the producers to enable improvement (Kimita et al., 2016).
Next, I am going to look at effect of customer involvement using social media, on the interest of people purchasing the product.
First, the provision of a social media platform, or allowing consumers to send SMS, communicating their worries and challenges will increase the consumers’ interest in the products (Hashim & Fadhil, 2017).
Also, supporting the winning product through SMS and social media would increase the interest of other target markets. This is because social media platform is open to a vast target population; hence as fans vote for a winning product, others will be motivated to try the product or participate in the voting process. This method increases the interest of fans in the product hence leading to higher sales.
Secondly, as consumer’s interest increase when viewers vote for the winning product, the product achieves a brand known by a massive target population. Other than the product brand, the attention on the television show increases, hence the consumer base rises. The contestants’ products achieve a high target customer even before the product gets to the market. Therefore, the high involvement of viewers voting increases the customers for the television program. Consequently, the contestants’ target population is easily reached through the TV program. As the products get to the market, the consumers are knowledgeable and develop a high interest in purchasing the product.
Therefore, Customer involvement is essential in increasing satisfaction as well as encouraging consumers to purchase.
Thank you for your attention!
References
Bharti, K., & Agrawal, R. (2018). High customer involvement: an essential element for effective co-creation. International Journal Of Business Innovation And Research, 15(4), 431. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijbir.2018.090460Hashim, K., & Fadhil, N. (2017). Engaging with Customer Using Social Media Platform: A Case Study of Malaysia Hotels. Procedia Computer Science, 124, 4-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.12.123Kimita, K., Sugino, R., Rossi, M., & Shimomura, Y. (2016). Framework for Analyzing Customer Involvement in Product-service Systems. Procedia CIRP, 47, 54-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2016.03.232Michaelidou, N., & Dibb, S. (2008). Consumer involvement: a new perspective. The Marketing Review, 8(1), 83-99. https://doi.org/10.1362/146934708x290403Zaichkowsky, J. (2010). Consumer Involvement. Wiley International Encyclopedia Of Marketing. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444316568.wiem03014
Discussion 1; Thesis
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Mary and Susan is a story of two black ladies dealing with frustrating issues in their life like rape and grief. These two make them close doors to outsiders in their lives and only allow a few people like Mark who later confesses that he is bisexual and he wants to do plastic surgery.
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I chose creative writing. My story is about Mary and Susan who are very close friends. They become friends after Susan’s best friend is murdered. They both meet at a point of pain as Mary wants to commit suicide while Susan is crying and grieving over the death of her best friend in the hands of an unknown murderer. Susan helps Mary to overcome the desire for suicide after she’s raped. After they know each other they become very close friends, attend the same school and their families get closer. This gives them an opportunity to see each other frequently. Mary’s mother is a perfectionist and Mary does not like her because of that. Susan’s family is lovely and not perfectionists like Mary’s mother. Susan likes Mary’s place because she wants to be perfect while Mary likes Susan’s place because she is more comfortable. The two become best friends and share everything even the sex partners like it happens with Mark. He is not comfortable at first with it but gets used to it. Even though Mark is struggling with identity he never opens until it is late when he is contemplating plastic surgery. At this point the two girls also talk of their deepest secrets.
Mary and Susan
Susan was walking along the street where her best friend had been murdered. She could not control her anger for her murderer but unfortunately she did not know who it was. The only thing she could do was cry helplessly as she tried to comfort herself that the worst had not happened even though she knew very well losing her best friend hurt her so much. She felt like an arrow in her heart every time she remembered how they spent time together. As she wiped her tears and decided to accept the truth that it was more than three weeks and she could not continue crying and she had to let go, a stranger came along the victoria street. She looked dull and was angry. She was wearing like a rich kid but all that never reflected in her face expressions. She looked tired of living.
For once Susan forgot her grief and asked Mary in a soft low voice “hey! Are you okay?” she continued walking and Susan couldn’t withstand the thought that she could be going to commit suicide and therefore she followed her and kept trying to talk to her. At one point the Mary stopped and opened her t-shirt and right above her right breast there was a very bad scar, which was still healing. She began sobbing and explaining how her own brother in law tried to rape her for the second time.
She told her of how the first time it was painful to lose her virginity in rape. This she explained in tears and for Susan it was completely unbearable to listen to let alone thinking of such a thing happening. It was traumatic to think that such a thing could happen. The scar had been caused by the brother in law who tried to seduce her and it did not work, then after sometime when the other family members were not around he raped her after hurting her so badly just above the breast in a fight to access her most treasured part of her body.
At this point even though Susan was having her on grief she gave up her own problems and walk with Mary because she needed it most. This was the beginning of their friendship. From this day they became friends and even found themselves going to the same school after a year.
Even though their families were totally different they remained so close and never parted. Mary was a black lady and Susan was also black. Their friendship was so strong to the point Susan even got jealous that Mary had got a boyfriend and she decided that he will be their boyfriend and not Susan’s only. Even though mark was completely confused he later came to accept it that he could have sex with both and Mary was not offended. Even though this looked weird at first after sometime it became the norm and they lived by it.
The relationship made mark become a part of the group and shared a lot with the two even though his bond could never be the same as that of the both ladies. One day as they were going home from school Mary asked Susan; “why do I always feel like am at home with you?” Susan replied, “because it is true that you are home every time we are together, friends are the real home where we belong, after all our homes can never go with us every place we want to go. We are both black ladies and no one cares about us therefore we have to care about each other, build ourselves and come out strongly defying the norms which govern the society about ladies and about the blacks.” She said this with so much passion and anger that Mary just hugged her to ease the anger. She was angry that the world only saw them as insufficient.
At home even though Susan was close to her mother and her brother no one of them equaled Mary and she always wanted to spent time with her. Even though sometimes they did things they considered evil like they cheated a guy who wanted to date Mary that if he sent them money she would date him and once the money was sent they blocked him and used the money they still remained the same.
On the other hand Mary’s family loved but the mother was a perfectionist and was extremely orderly which Mary hated. She could arrange the house in such a manner that when they came home from school they did not feel comfortable touching anything because their mum would be mad at them for destroying what she had arranged so neatly. They also felt being too perfect is not the norm about life. Therefore their mother was irritating with her perfectionism, which she taught to her daughter. Susan always wanted to come to Mary’s place after they relocated after a year from the time the two girls met and this she always wanted because she always wanted to see the “perfect mum” as she used to call her. It was one of her favorite moments to visit Mary’s place since she always admired her and always wanted to be like her one day.
Mary never wanted that and she wanted to spent time at Susan’s place where the mother was not so perfect and this made her feel comfortable.
After the summer holidays after two years since the girls met mark met the two of them and he decided to open up about an issue he had been dealing with. Even though he was an activist for blacks live matter movement he never felt the belonging since he was half white and half black. His color mixture made him at times he seen as a white which he really hated. He explained to them how he was thinking of plastic surgery to be completely black since that is what he wanted. This came up after he was in a group of black boys and they excluded him because he seemed white. This hurt him so much and he decided that he must look like them.
These girls listened carefully and the only thing that Mary could say was, “you’re so sweet btw, your voice and your everything. You are perfect as you are”. The bell rang for class and they decided to continue sharing later that day. Because Mary hated her mother’s perfection they decided to meet at Susan’s place. They continued sharing and that was the night of the greatest revelations. Even though mark was a quiet person that night he was very loud and lively a thing which amazed the two ladies. Mary told of the way she wanted to commit suicide while Susan told of the loss she suffered of her then best friend before she found Mary.
The revelation about mark was what shook the two girls the most. That he had been struggling to stop being bisexual as he wanted to focus her attention on one gender and he liked ladies more. Even though he told them he had a gay friend he had to confess that he liked the two more and that the frequent sex had helped him adapt very easily into ladies.
After this they wanted to have sex and as they were removing their clothes Susan’s mother opened the door wide open without knocking.
Works cited
Creme, Phyllis, and Celia Hunt. “Creative participation in the essay writing process.” Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 1.2 (2002): 145-166.
Nye, Louisa S., and Rosetta James. CliffsNotes on Morrison’s The Bluest Eye & Sula. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999.