In the beginning of this course I was excited to get started and learn about the different more modern side of marketing. I felt that social media marketing is very important, especially going into sales, because you want to reach as many people and businesses as you can. I knew it would be a great tool to have on my belt going into the business world and I would have an extra step on my competition.
I expected to learn the ins-and-outs of most social media sites and how to use them from a business point of view compared to just a consumer side. I wasn't sure exactly what we were going to do in this class, but I knew it would help in the long run to take the information I would get from taking this class. I was expecting this class to give me real world experience to go out and use in the work force.
I actually learned everything I was expecting to learn and so much more. My biggest weaknesses about this course were keeping up on Tweets and Facebook posts, because I'm just not into social media like that. Another thing I had trouble with was using Photoshop, I didn't know how to navigate through that program and I was constantly asking questions. I feel that all of the posting was overwhelming, especially because I practically had no time during the week to get them done, so it made things stressful for me. So I would choose both of those things to strengthen if I could because I also know that both would help me out in my future career.
My favorite experience about this class has to be making and promoting our business we made. I enjoyed writing the blogs every week because it was practically free range on what to write about and made you be creative. You had to think and write from a business point of view and try connecting with your followers. I have enjoyed doing that and I would say that is the most fun thing about this course. I like how it makes you think differently then you usually would about using social media.
Monday, November 28, 2016
Friday, November 11, 2016
A "How to" Post!
Shout out to all my skaters! This post is going to be mainly for our new skaters that are just figuring out the basics and fundamentals of skating. We wanted to give some good knowledge to you guys so that way you can feel some independence while setting up your board. This post is going to be all about how to set up your board and how to figure out your truck comfort level for skating. When it comes to setting up the board, that's the easy part, but believe it or not, depending on what you're skating your truck comfort will change. Most people change it up because it is easier to skate street at a certain level and there is a different one for skating vert as well. So I'm going to give you guys some tips for when you know when to switch things up on your board.
So to start off with the basics of putting your board together here's a list of the things you will need.
Once you have everything you need for your board I personally would recommend using the skate tool to put your board together, because it has all of the tools listed in the right sizes in one convenient tool (which we sell at our store). If you don't have a skate tool then use the tools as listed. The best way to start off is getting your trucks ready. First you want to get your bearings in all of your wheels, it is two bearings per wheel, front and back. Once you have that done you want to slide the wheels onto your trucks and slightly hand tighten the nut on all four stems of your trucks so the wheels don't fall off. Once you got that taken care of, come the tedious part of this process. You have to take your hardware from for the trucks and board and place all 8 screws in their respected holes and make sure they line up perfectly with the holes on your trucks. The easiest way to get this process done is called a cross hold. A cross hold is where you take two of the screws and make sure they are diagonally across from each other, put your trucks on, and hand tighten the nuts to the screws. The reason why this is the best way is so the trucks don't move or slide around while you're trying to get the other set of screws on. You should make sure that when you put your trucks on that the bushings are both facing towards the middle of the board. Bushings are the trucks comfort level modifiers. Once you got all the screw on and the nuts hand tighten comes the tool tightening. After everything is all tightened up, you have yourself a completed board.
Since you have accomplished the board task you then have to move onto your truck comfort level. If you are a vert skater you usually want to have your trucks a bit tighter than usual, tight enough where you can still make comfortable turns, but not too tight where you start to wheel bite on your deck (wheel scrapping the deck). On the other hand if you are a street skater you usually want your trucks to be a bit looser for tighter turns and better maneuverability for skating around town. The way you get to change your truck tightness is by taking your skate tool or 14mm socket wrench and adjust the nut right above your bushings. So that is a step by step tutorial about how to put you board together and how to figure out how you like to ride your trucks. Now that you have this information, go out and try it yourselves!
So to start off with the basics of putting your board together here's a list of the things you will need.
Board Items:
Skateboard deck
Trucks
Wheels
Bearings
Hardware (Nuts & Screws)
Tools Needed:
Skateboard Tool (Easiest way)
Socket Wrench (14mm/12mm/9mm)
Phillips Screw Driver
Once you have everything you need for your board I personally would recommend using the skate tool to put your board together, because it has all of the tools listed in the right sizes in one convenient tool (which we sell at our store). If you don't have a skate tool then use the tools as listed. The best way to start off is getting your trucks ready. First you want to get your bearings in all of your wheels, it is two bearings per wheel, front and back. Once you have that done you want to slide the wheels onto your trucks and slightly hand tighten the nut on all four stems of your trucks so the wheels don't fall off. Once you got that taken care of, come the tedious part of this process. You have to take your hardware from for the trucks and board and place all 8 screws in their respected holes and make sure they line up perfectly with the holes on your trucks. The easiest way to get this process done is called a cross hold. A cross hold is where you take two of the screws and make sure they are diagonally across from each other, put your trucks on, and hand tighten the nuts to the screws. The reason why this is the best way is so the trucks don't move or slide around while you're trying to get the other set of screws on. You should make sure that when you put your trucks on that the bushings are both facing towards the middle of the board. Bushings are the trucks comfort level modifiers. Once you got all the screw on and the nuts hand tighten comes the tool tightening. After everything is all tightened up, you have yourself a completed board. Since you have accomplished the board task you then have to move onto your truck comfort level. If you are a vert skater you usually want to have your trucks a bit tighter than usual, tight enough where you can still make comfortable turns, but not too tight where you start to wheel bite on your deck (wheel scrapping the deck). On the other hand if you are a street skater you usually want your trucks to be a bit looser for tighter turns and better maneuverability for skating around town. The way you get to change your truck tightness is by taking your skate tool or 14mm socket wrench and adjust the nut right above your bushings. So that is a step by step tutorial about how to put you board together and how to figure out how you like to ride your trucks. Now that you have this information, go out and try it yourselves!
Friday, November 4, 2016
Fall Harvest Sale
Shout out to all my skaters! I think it's safe to say that October was a crazy month for us. We ran amazing sales, our Breast Cancer Awareness event was an incredible hit with our current customers and people in our community, the sales for our Halloween Sale was scary good, and last but definitely not least the Knots Landing charity event was so heart warming and brought the community together to help out the kind and needing Gallagher family. This month was a blast, and now it's time to let the dust settle a bit from all of the craziness and slowly rolling out our new sale that's going on now. Seeing as we are now in fall, with surprisingly great weather still, it is only fitting that we call our sale the Fall Harvest Sale. We want you to come in and enjoy this sale, harvest as many skate products as you can before the winter months hit, and enjoy some soul warming apple cider in the mean time.
With the Fall Harvest Sale, we're trying something new sale wise. Since we know our customers are loving the store and new products coming out, we want to make sure they want to keep coming back for more. So for the whole month of November we will are having weekly sales, but there is a little twist on it. We are heavily integrating our Sk8 & Save rewards program with this sale. The twist is that each week the sale percentage off goes up by 5%. So this week is 5% off and next week it will be 10% off, so on and so forth. Doesn't sound tricky yet? Well here it is, in order to get to the next percentage off tier you had to of bought something the week before ( no price exclusions) and you also have to have scanned your rewards card at the time of purchase. The rewards card is key because that is what is going to save your purchase information to bump you to the next percentage off tier. We thought this was a great idea to bring more people in our doors, keep our happy skaters coming back for more, and to get everyone stocked up before the winter bore! So We hope everyone is enjoying the sale and if you haven't already come down and lock in your 5% off so you can get 10% off next week!
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Friday, October 28, 2016
Halloween Sale!
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Friday, October 21, 2016
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Shout out to all my skaters! As we all know October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and here at Love ll Sk8 we are showing our appreciation to these strong women and going to support them the way we know best, by skating for charity! For the rest of October we will be selling these special Breast Cancer Awareness edition skateboards and long boards! All of the board sale proceeds will go to the Susan G. Komen Benefit to give our support to all of the fighters and survivors out there to help find a cure for this terrible disease. This is our awesome line up of boards that we will be selling:
So come stop in, show your support by purchasing these uplifting boards and help Save the TaTas! For more information about Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the charities you can support click here ---> Save The (.)(.)
To follow up with our great events coming up, I would like to announce the roll out of our new reward points program! It's called Sk8 and Save; for every dollar you spend at Love ll Sk8, you'll earn 100 points. When you go to the skate park if you bring in your card we'll scan it and you'll earn 25 points just for checking in with us before you go skate the park! The way the rewards of the point system is set up is in 5,000 point increments, every 5,000 points you earn you will acquire five Skate and Save dollars. You can use those points to purchase any merchandise in the store and you can also use them for 1 on 1 skate sessions with our talented staff. We are stoked about this new rewards program, we believe it will bring in new customers and our current customers will get to enjoy and the benefits of being a regular. So please come in, sign up for Sk8 and Save, and start earning those points!
October has been a busy month and we have plenty of things planned and we can't wait to share the experiences with all of our wonderful customers. We couldn't do it without you guys, so I want to give a special thanks to everyone that has helped us get to where we are at today! Our pride of this business is in all of you and your dedication to skating and shopping at Love ll Sk8. We are happy and proud to call all of our customers a part of the family. Costumes or not, we hope to see all of you at our Halloween sale/ Charity event on October 30, 2016 to help out a great family in desperate need of shelter provided by Knotz Landing. Thank you everyone for listening and we can't wait to skate it up with our family!
Sincerely,
Ricky Lovett
So come stop in, show your support by purchasing these uplifting boards and help Save the TaTas! For more information about Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the charities you can support click here ---> Save The (.)(.)
To follow up with our great events coming up, I would like to announce the roll out of our new reward points program! It's called Sk8 and Save; for every dollar you spend at Love ll Sk8, you'll earn 100 points. When you go to the skate park if you bring in your card we'll scan it and you'll earn 25 points just for checking in with us before you go skate the park! The way the rewards of the point system is set up is in 5,000 point increments, every 5,000 points you earn you will acquire five Skate and Save dollars. You can use those points to purchase any merchandise in the store and you can also use them for 1 on 1 skate sessions with our talented staff. We are stoked about this new rewards program, we believe it will bring in new customers and our current customers will get to enjoy and the benefits of being a regular. So please come in, sign up for Sk8 and Save, and start earning those points!
October has been a busy month and we have plenty of things planned and we can't wait to share the experiences with all of our wonderful customers. We couldn't do it without you guys, so I want to give a special thanks to everyone that has helped us get to where we are at today! Our pride of this business is in all of you and your dedication to skating and shopping at Love ll Sk8. We are happy and proud to call all of our customers a part of the family. Costumes or not, we hope to see all of you at our Halloween sale/ Charity event on October 30, 2016 to help out a great family in desperate need of shelter provided by Knotz Landing. Thank you everyone for listening and we can't wait to skate it up with our family!
Sincerely,
Ricky Lovett
Friday, October 14, 2016
Charity Sale Featuring Knotz Landing
Shout out to all my skaters! So I have some big news for everyone, we're throwing a bone chilling Halloween Sale/ Charity Event at Love ll Sk8 on Sunday October 30, 2016! We love our community and appreciate all of the business and friendships it has given us, so we wanted to give back to the people. We contacted Knotz Landing, which is a business focused on low income housing opportunities for struggling families in need of a home. We are teaming up with them to make the Gallagher family's dream come true. Fiona Gallagher is a strong, single mother taking care of her three children: Phillip, Sam, and Debbie. The Gallaghers have been in our community for a while and we all know at least one of them, whether it's through school, jobs, or just through the community. They need our help and we are going to do as much as we can to get them into an amazing home thanks to our friends at Knotz Landing.
For our charity sale, everything at Love ll Sk8 will be 10% OFF storewide, and half of the proceeds from that day will go towards the children's education and other family needs. We will also be donating 3 complete boards and safety gear to those deserving kids, so they will pick up a new hobby and learn to love it like I have. Knots Landing will be covering their security deposit and their first months rent. On top of all of this kindness, we still have to keep it scary. I mean, it's still the Halloween weekend! So please feel free to dress up in costume and come support this wonderful family! We can't wait to see the look on the Gallagher's faces when they find out all of the friendly neighborhood ghouls and goblins came together to help their dream become a reality. Thank you all for reading this and a special thank you to Knotz Landing.
If you'd like to know more information about them, possibly set up another charity event with them, or just help another family out, check them out @ Knotz Landing!
For our charity sale, everything at Love ll Sk8 will be 10% OFF storewide, and half of the proceeds from that day will go towards the children's education and other family needs. We will also be donating 3 complete boards and safety gear to those deserving kids, so they will pick up a new hobby and learn to love it like I have. Knots Landing will be covering their security deposit and their first months rent. On top of all of this kindness, we still have to keep it scary. I mean, it's still the Halloween weekend! So please feel free to dress up in costume and come support this wonderful family! We can't wait to see the look on the Gallagher's faces when they find out all of the friendly neighborhood ghouls and goblins came together to help their dream become a reality. Thank you all for reading this and a special thank you to Knotz Landing.
If you'd like to know more information about them, possibly set up another charity event with them, or just help another family out, check them out @ Knotz Landing!
Friday, September 30, 2016
Open S.K.8!
Open S.K.8!
Shout out to all my skaters! This weekend we are throwing a Sk8-tastic Open House at the Love ll Sk8 shop and EVERYONE is invited! So bring your friends, family, neighbors, and most importantly your boards!
When?: Saturday, October 1, 2016 @ 12:00 noon
Where?: Love ll Sk8 shop and Skate park
Why?: To check out our amazing board shop, savor some grilled food and drinks, and score FREE GIVEAWAYS! We'll be giving away: decks, wheels, bearings, etc.
Event!: We are inviting all skaters who show up to an open entry to our S.K.8. Tournament hosted at the skate park, and yes there will be prizes!
1st Place Winner:
Complete Board
5 One on One sessions
& $250!
2nd Place Winner:
Complete Board
& 3 One on One sessions!
3rd Place Winner:
Complete Board!
So call up everyone you know and get over to Love ll Sk8 this weekend to check us out, eat til you explode, and skate til you can't skate no more! You never know, you could leave with some money in your hand and a bunch of free prizes!
Thank you!
For more information click here --> Love ll Sk8
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