REFLECTIVE WRITING: Update on GOMC and Lab Assignment (5/3/2015)

GOOGLE ONLINE MARKETING CHALLENGE (GOMC) UPDATE #1

Assalamualaikum wbt.

(Starting today, I'll be updating about my team journey and progress in the Google Online Marketing Challenge (GOMC) 2015 for the course FSM4503 Information System in Food Service.)

Today, me and my teammates for GOMC (Fikri Yahaya, Yazid Anuar, Zaim Jasmi and Alif Rosli) were tasked to search some food service related companies like restaurants and catering services for the GOMC and we need to cooperate with them on how to promote the companies and increase their marketing values using Google AdWords in three weeks.

Using Google search engine, we found some good companies that we can say have the potential to increase their market value and in one week, we need to contact ONLY ONE of them to establish a cooperation for the GOMC. Here were some companies that we have chosen:

1) Miyagi Japanese Restaurant (www.miyagijapaneserestaurant.com.my)

2) Nathalie Gourmet Studio (www.nathaliegourmetstudio.com)

3) Perdana Catering (www.perdanacatering.com.my)

4) Big Onion Food Caterer (www.bigonioncaterer.com.my)

5) Nurul Izzah Catering (www.nurulizzahcatering.com.my)

The next step for us in this challenge is to contact one of the selected companies and ask them whether they wanted to join this challenge, then promote the business using Google AdWords and increase their marketing values within three weeks.

That is all for now of our progress in Google Online Marketing Challenge.

LAB ASSIGNMENT FSM4503 #1

For this week lab, we were introduced about Microsoft Excel and how to use Microsoft Excel.

Microsoft Excel

  

Microsoft Excel is a program that allow us to create a spreadsheet or ledger of our records like finance. The idea of creating this program is to ease us in creating records, as previously we wrote our records in spreadsheets or ledger books. The benefits of Excel is it can save many records by books in one computer file, rather than we kept many books in piles in real life.

Example of a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel

Today, we were taught by Dr. Fareed Ismail on how to create a table with values, sum the values in certain methods and also how to create pie chart and bar chart using the added values.

Basically in my own opinion, using Microsoft Excel is better than writing our records in spreadsheets or ledger book as we can reduce mistakes and corrections done on writing. Using computer, we can easily adjust and make changes to our records and we can save them easily. Furthermore, we can create multiple copies of the file and create a secured file (if we wanted) to prevent any counterfeit or plagiarized files of our records by other people.

My final product using Microsoft Excel