Semester Reflection

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.