Giving Back For the Holiday's

In the picture to your left, stands a bunch of Goldman Sachs employees and Great Performances Caterers volunteers in one of The Salvation Army kitchens on Thanksgiving Day.Getting ready and packing the food ready to be passed out.

Connecting through the Web

Nowadays the best way to spread news is over the web, and what are the most used sites as of today? hands down it would be Facebook and twitter.Great Perforamnces has their upcoming events posted on these sites for the fans to know whats going on ahead of them.Threes no better way to spread news all over for free.

A Visual Success

These pictures were taken at El Museo Del Barrio during the celebration for the "Day of the Dead"(Dia DE Los Muertos) a 3000 yr. old Mexican tradition. This holiday was created to celebrate the continuity of life with a tribute to the past aways of friend and family.Its a party so of course they had to show the people crowding the place.Also a picture of the food which is what GP is all about serving food to satisfaction.Then they had a picture of the floral design that took place, and last whats a party to celebrate the dead without face paintings.All these pictures correlate with what the party is really about.

A Visual Mistake

This was a online ad to remind the reader that although this is down times in the economy you can help lighten the weight/stress for everyone around you by throwing a party for the holidays, and we are the company that can work with your needs to make it all happen to keep the holiday spirits alive.

To me this didn't seem like a successful visual message because I believe that when introducing information in a ad, its like introducing one person to another, the most important thing someone wants to know before getting informed is who is speaking. In this ad instead of announcing who they are from the beginning they chose the type or strategy with a attractive header to keep the reader reading first then leading them to more info, to who they are,etc.

Teaming up for Turkey Day

Great Performances is teaming up with Goldman Sac's to help serve over 10,000 meals for The Salvation Army for Thanksgiving. For this non-profitable occasion GP will be serving the food while over 300 Goldman Sac employees have already signed up to volunteer to take out the trash at the end of the night. In the picture is the sampling of the food by GP celebrity Chef and employees for this holiday event.

Example of Slideshow Presentation

The Product, The Audience, The Ad

For Great Performances Catering i chose their level of high end service as the key selling point. The audience will be Corporate Clients,Families of Social Class,and Non-Profit Organizations. The type of ad that would be used would be a Sideshow Presentation.

Letter of Recommendation

Dear Whom it may Concern:
For whom is tired of low bank interest rates and the sharp drop in the dollar value during the past years.You may want to consider investing at a time like this. Yes you can put your money in a mutual fund but its so diversified its return value is probably not that much different from leaving it where you have it now.But since we starting to see the rebounding from recession i suggest stocks.One stock I recommend is Dry Ships "DRYS" its a international commodity shipping company.It's been around for a long time and now we all know China's economy is shooting upward.Demand for raw materials is on the raise so right now is a good time to put your money is this stock for long term investment until the U.S. economy stands back on its foot.

Memo of Congratulations to DryShips

Congratulations on your last quarter earning profits and upgrade ratings by analyst.As a part of this company i wish for the best to this company and for it to continue moving positively forward.
This is just a letter of congratulations to let the company know we the staff at Dry Ships care and appreciate that our good work is being recognize by its upgrades in earnings in profits.

Type of Visual Communication

Dry Ships is a company that is very low-keyed in public advertising.Their business is based on word-of-mouth. Presentations and reports are tailored for each client specifically depending on their needs and budget.They do more of a 1 client per business team per each meeting. So i think the company is more suitable for a PowerPoint presentation that is very detailed and supported with charts.

Visual Evolution and DryShips

Well, visual communication has evolved tremendously over the years from information blown up on poster boards to todays PowerPoint presentation program projected on a screen. This major change in technology over time has made it a lot easier to post up information for a presentation, everything is now just a click away.You can find information and just copy and paste instead of having to double the work by copying everything word for word as back in the day.For example Dry ships has recently released its third quarter earning report. For the people that couldn't make it to the actual conference call, a live web cast will be broadcast over the Internet.All that has to be done is a simple 1,2,3, step register 10 minutes prior to the conference. This advancement in the world of visual technology has made this possible to help cater to the schedules of clients that is very busy but is interested in the company.

Analysis on Dryships Q3 Report

This is a Informative Report, it allow its audience to gain knowledge on the current status of its company and what the company has planned for its following quarter based on the ending of quarter 3 results.As a informative financial report it should be very specific and accurate especially when dealing with numbers in it. The conference call acts as a synopsis that highlights all the key points of the whole report itself.

DRYSHIPS QUARTER 3 CONFERENCE CALL / REPORT

Highlights From DRYS's Q3 Conference Call: 77% Covered for 2011 at Average Rate of $37,000 Per Day


October 27, 2009 2:22 PM EDT

Dry Ships, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS) reports Q3 EPS of $0.27 adjusted, 7 cents better than the analyst estimate of $0.20. Revenue for the quarter was $120.60 million, which compares to the estimate of $210.65 million. Shares have continued to sink throughout the session...now down 7.84%.

Highlights From DRYS's Q3 Conference Call:

(COO) We incurred a non-cash flow associated with the evaluation of interest rates swaps. Adjusting our P&L for this would change our reported figure to a profit of 74.9 million or $0.27 per share.

During Q3, we took delivery of our new building Panamax, the Oliva that commenced a two year time chart.

More on Report ,please go to following link : http://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/Highlights+From+DRYSs+Q3+Conference+Call:+77%25+Covered+for+2011+at+Average+Rate+of+$37,000+Per+Day/5048530.html

"Scrubbing Bubbles" of Sc Johnson "A Family Company"

Hey it's been 2 days since I've emailed Sc Johnson"A Family Company" but yet still no response.It's unbelievable how a huge household company brand leaves its customers unanswered, I'm not a CEO or a politician or anyone major in society but I'm pretty sure we all use the same amount of the SC Johnson products.And look at this 20% more ! Wow! 20% more or something that doesn't work means that your carrying home 20% more garbage that you just don't need.

The Pursuaders

From watching The Persuaders, the approach I believe Dry ships used most often in their corporate announcements and messages is " Giving Us What We Want".Basically since i did a lot of background relationship on Dry ships i know that they owe a tremendous amount of money to bank creditors out there. But a lot of people out there may not no much about their background/desperate financial situations.Most the time when i read the news/messages of the company they tend to always show more of the up side(positives)than down sides of the companies.Like they would have a announcement every 2 weeks or so about how the company is doing better than the previous year the same quarter but the are comparing it to a quarter where the recession just took place, so of course they are doing better now.For example it's like comparing a student with a @1.8 GPA telling his parents hes doing better than his friend that has a 1.3 GPA.Although he may be doing better than his friend but the GPA as a whole 1.9 out of 4.0 is still relatively non-passing. It's just ways companies verbalized their messages in to not lying about the truth just sort of more hidden of twisting the message to be more comfortable to the reader or listener.

Planning Reports And Proposals

It's almost 2 weeks since Dry Ships announced the released of its 3rd quarter and nine months earnings.Well, it's finally here, today they comfortably announced that they beat Wall street expectations, due to increasing business and raising of charters and shipping rates.After the prolong recession took placed they announced that dry bulk rates have become more stabilized.They announced most of their fleet(about 77%) will be done being fixed by the beginning of 2011.With all this information given out, tomorrow on the Oct 27,2009 they are holding a conference meeting to discuss all this information, and also what steps the company is taking to better the company and to help maximize their returns in profit.

SC Johson "A Family Company"

Hi, my name is Hugh Chan and I'm part of the group developing a case study on one of your current product lines"Scrubbing Bubbles".I'm applying your responses to prof. Evans to what I'm learning in class.As a semester project I have created a business blog, and now SC Johnson will take a major role in it.I'm pleased to hear your responses to prof.Evans because I'm looking forward to see what steps of service will a major company like SC Johnson take to create a satisfying resolution for it's consumers.

Current Status of Slide Presentation

So far I decided the purpose of the presentation and 4 slides that follows it.The purpose of the presentation is to seek current bank creditors of our company to work out a contract waiver for our company's loans. At the same time we are also seeking new investors to loan us money to move our company toward its future goals. I'm going to start off slide 1 with what the company is.Then followed by the overview of the company(slide 2),the board and management team of our company(slide 3) to our current fleet(slide 4).

Writing Business Messages

Today Dry ships Inc.(DRYS) announced that the old CFO George Economou will be replaced by new CFO(Chief Financial Officer) Ziad Nakhled joining them from international marine fuel logistics company Aegan Marine Petroleum Network Inc.(ANW.N).Dryships is now seeking ways to get tremendous debt issue waivers on old credit terms

Writing Business Messages

Today Dry ships Inc. (DRYS) announced its third quarter and nine months ended at September 30,2009 and the quarterly report will be posted on October 26,2009 after the market closes in New York.The following day on October27,2009 8:30am Easter Time Dry ships will hold a media and public conference to discuss the company's upcoming plans and new views for where to company is headed in the coming years also discussed in this meeting would be the company's financial results and company vessels shipping rates and expense changes.