Unit 18 Managing a Business Event

In this unit we had to take a look at how business events are run and actually run our own business event within the college.

Our class was split into different groups for the event and we each had to do a presentation of some sort to a hall of about 100 students. For us, we had to do a presentation on “how to do a presentation” – this was comedy gold as everything we read from the slides contradicted what we were actually doing.

This task wasn’t too bad as it was group based so most of the work could be shared, I ended up with the distinction criteria.

Download Unit 18 Managing a Business Event Here.

Note: Some of the tasks such as P2 you will not find in the folder, this is because it wasn’t done on the computer and was assessed by our tutor within class.

 

Unit 10 Introduction to Marketing Research

This unit was ridiculously long, I had to investigate different methods of market research and link it to a well known business such as Coca Cola.

Further on into the unit we had to produce primary research on a company of our choice. I went with McDonalds and decided to do some research on their promotional campaign “Easy Win Monopoly”.

It involved a lot of written work, screenshots and manually putting together questionnaires but I stuck with it and got the distinction criteria. I also found out that McDonald’s “Easy Win Monopoly” campaign was worryingly effective and that they will eventually take over the world.

Download Unit 10 Introduction to Marketing Research Here.

Note: P5, M3 and D2 are all in the same folder as they each contribute to the primary research task.

 

 

Unit 9 Creative Product Promotion

This unit was all about how businesses promote their products using the “promotional mix”. I related everything to the well known crisp company Walkers and analysed how they used product promotion in the real world.

As part of this unit we had to develop our own business and use promotional material, our group decided to go for an Italian coffee bar. The task involved a lot of written work, mainly promotional pieces and some more creative tasks like designing the clubcard, posters, website etc.

It was a long unit but was a nice change from plain written assignments, I achieved a distinction.

Download Unit 9 Creative Product Promotion Here.

Note: P3, P4 and D1 have been created in individual folders as they contain seperate pieces of work.

 

Unit 5 Introduction to Accounting

This unit was of great interest to me because, at the time, I wanted to take up accountancy when I finished the course. This is probably the only unit that I learnt something from that will be of use to me outside college.

It involves a lot of in-depth written work and equations within excel, thankfully I had a decent teacher and I achieved the distinction criteria.

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Unit 4 People Communications and Information

This unit was all about how businesses communicate information. I thought it was rather obvious and found myself explaining really basic communication “techniques” such as sending an email.

Despite having a foreign teacher who couldn’t really communicate the unit (bit ironic) I still managed to get a distinction.

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Note: P4 and P5 have been created in individual folders as they contain seperate pieces of work.

 

Unit 3 Introduction to Marketing

I remember this unit being a really lengthy one, I did so much analysis and comparison of “The Five P’s” with two different businesses –  Prêt A Manger and McDonalds.

This was a relatively hard unit but I had a decent teacher and got most of my information from the book to achieve the distinction criteria.

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Unit 2 Investigating Business Resources

This was the second unit of the year and by now I was starting to realise how basic the “pass” grade actually was. The tasks are simple but they put you through a lot of them, which longs out the course.

Anyway, the unit was basically about how businesses manage their resources. So for example how Tesco use their Human Resource team in the business world.

Like I said, the pass criteria is very basic and I got away with just doing short powerpoints. You probably don’t need any help on those however the distinction criteria involves a lot more effort and drafting.

For this unit I ended up with a distinction so make sure you check out my work for guidance!

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Note: The unit has been sectioned into three different assignments.

 

Unit 1 Business Activities

This was the very first unit of the course and it was pretty straight forward to say the least.

With it being my first unit and first impression on my tutors I may have went overboard with the length of the assignments.

I had a decent tutor for this unit and ended up with a distinction.

Download Unit 1 Business Activities Here.

Note: The unit has been sectioned into three different assignments.