Visual Success

    Picture of Visual Success
    Our business will mainly focus on decorative/personalised objects(such as bracelets/charms and key rings)which will most likely appeal to younger people since we will be selling mostly to students in our school.


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    16.03.08

    Final Blog

    Deadline is here, and we have made a profit of 30.00 not including the starting money.
    It's not bad, could've been nothing...
    But then again, it could've been more... 
    I never thought we would raise this much after all that time we wasted XD
    But I guess even little hard work pays off ^^
     
    We have already completed our report (thank goodness).
    At least that's sorted...
     
    Sadly everything will come to an end, whether if it's good or bad.
    So... 
    We would like to thank the BiG Challenge organisers for this unique opportunity.
    We have learnt so much, had a lot of laughs and really enjoyed it.
    Thank you once again for reading this page!
    We are the Visual Success.
    I would to wish you all good luck ^^
    May the best team win!
     
    HAPPY EASTER! 
     
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    10.03.08

    ^^ I'm very Happy!

    Well, ok... If you know me well, I'm always smiling anyway :D
    However, we have done better than I had hoped for a few days ago!
    Before we all thought to just give up on this competition...
    But now we have made a resonable total of £25 
    Sure it's not much but it's definitely better than nothing!
     
    "If you thought that you should just ignore the given apportunity to help because you can't do anything to make a big change, you'll end up doing less than nothing." - Someone told me that a few months ago ^^
    Sure he said it on a base of a completely different subject, but it still relates to this ^^
     
    We are not doing this for the prize any longer ( as far as I know anyway ^^)... I knew from the start that we had no chance of winning - I lack confidence in competitions X_X, which makes me very suprised when I win something big XD
     
    We are doing this purely for the charity we have chosen: MacMillian
    Sure £25 isn't that much... But we haven't touched the starting money which totals up £50 in the end... We hope that will help a little XD
     
     Welll, the deadlines coming up and we still making last minute sales around the school... Need to get on with the report too X_X
    Oh well... It could've been worst ^^
     
    Again, good luck to all!
    Sam and Megan are always saying to me, "Why are you wishing them luck all the time?? They're our rivals for goodness sake!"
    Sorry guys!! Can't help being nice X_X
    I'm too weak XP
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    27.02.08

    Orders are coming in ^^

    Hello again! Mastura here ^^
    Anyway, we have finally started making our product wch is given the name Threadies.
    I have to admit, at first no one was interested in it at all, but after a little more persuasion, many people agreed to help us out.
     
    So far we have made seven pounds and twenty pence.
    It's not a bad start considering we haven't even begin putting up posters or anything.
    However, we found out that it wasn't really the product that attracted the costumers to buy it. It was the "IT'S FOR CHARITY!" line ^^
    I guess pupils and teachers are much more enthusiastic about this because it is a fund-raising thing.
     
     Hopefully we will make a lot more sells in the future. Well, time to finish off the poster - I ended up doing it anyway X_X
     
    Good Luck to all!! 
     
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    20.02.08

    Change of duties

    Thanks to Samera and also the nearing deadline (always at the last minute -_^) we are finally nearing to our business opening. Yes, we know it's very late to start the project, but we figure that something is better than nothing. So let's go for it!!

    Samera has agreed to make the posters so hopefully our advertisement problem will be sorted soon ^^

    And how great this news is for me?! I mean, I don't need to do more work :D

    Anyhow, THANK GOODNESS, Samera has alot of embroidery thread at her house! We are saving money and time! Just goes to show how one member can make all the difference. Where will we be without her?? <3

    So, tomorrow, I will me teaching Visual Success how to actually make it. Hopefully we can also decide how much we will be selling our product for...

    WATCH THIS PAGE! XD 

    We are finally getting somewhere! WOO-HOO! XD 

    Keep up the work Joseph! XDD 

    P.S: I know the photo is very bad... I mean you can't even see Megan's face clearly X_X

    Oh well, I guess it'll have to do... 

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    19.02.08

    19 Feb 2008

    We've now planned are idea and are ready to but it into place.

     

     We have given questionaires out about the product to find out what people think about it.

     

    Unforrtuanally we have sold anything yet 

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    15.02.08

    Newest Member ^^

    Hello everyone!

    I am very happy to announce our newest member in our group: Samera Aslam!

    Woo-hoo, more help for our group ^^ 

    Similar to Megan, she has no profile either; however this is not forgetful Faizan's fault so I can't blame him for this which is no fun >.< Anyway, I have e-mailed Big Challenge about the profile problem, and guess what? 

    It has been about 4 weeks since I sent it and still no solution what so ever. I did get a reply saying that my message is forwarded but still, it's going no where X_X

    Anyway, Samera is known to be THE most artistic pupil in Year 9 even though she complains about her work every lesson and denies it constantly... But then again she is a very hard-working and creative person so we agreed to make her a member ^^ So, welcome to Visual Success, Samera!

    On the other hand of this good news, our business is going... well... No where basically. I have looked into a couple of local shops in the holiday and so far, no sign of the materials needed... I have however been able to get my hands on beads for the bracelets, so a tiny little improvement ^^

     And sadly because I have no materials, I can't even make a few examples of the  product so I can't even make a poster! @_@ Our only hope now is asking our textile teacher for leads on the project (which we planned to about 10 times before but kept on forgetting to ask her X_X)

    Anyway, hopefullly when school starts we will finally be able to make the bracelets.

    Thanks for reading and happy holidays everyone! ^^

    P.S: Sorry Joseph! Just because I can't do my job, I'm doing your job :P I wont take over, I promise!! 

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    01.02.08

    The Team - Introduction

    Hello everyone and welcome to Visual Success.

    Today, I will introduce to you the whole group:

    • Faizan Kabir (Leader of VS)

    He is like the "brains" of the group really. In the future we will probably be relaying on him for the financial and organisation of the team...  Might as well use that brain of his right? ;)

    • Joseph Almond (Blog Keeper)

    Well exactly what it says... Since his email/account is the only one accessible right now, he is given the job of keeping the blogs. Hopefully he will do a good job of it :D  which I'm sure he will...

    • Mastura Ahmad (Advertising & Designing)

    I (like I said before, only Joseph's account is working >.<) am in charge of the advertising since I volunteered to do so XD  Also, since I have great IT programes on my laptop. Might as well use them right?  

    • Megan Crookes (Manufacturing)

    To be honest, she isn't the only one who will be making the products, but since she hasn't actually got any other duties, I'll just put her as that. Apparently she is also the laziest of all of us. I'm not being mean, she admitted it herself! Also, because of Faizan's weak, short, unreliable memory, Megan also doesn't seem to have her member profile or registered as a member (I'm trying to solve this problem right know :D) But technically, she's still in the group.

    • Henna Khan (Manufacturing)

    Err.. Same as Megan, Henna also hasn't actually got a job outside of the meetings. But she is still as important as all of us. :) It's because if one of us wants to take over and do all the fun stuff, she would normally be the one to tell us off. So she is actually REALLY important.

    Well, that's everyone... Oh, and the teacher who is helping us at the moment is Mr Schofield from the Humanities section. We may also have a new member added to our group, however it isn't confirmed yet... Hopefully, we can also solve this problem too.

    That's it for now. Good luck to all contestants and thanks for reading ^_^ 

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