EOC Week 3: Making Money For Good

Three companies that are making money for good are; To Write Love on Her Arms, (RED), Keep-a-Breast.org.

To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide.  TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.

I feel very strongly about this cause because i have a very close friend who has struggled with depression and self injury. She felt hopeless and i felt horrible as a friend because i didn't know how to help, the money generated from this company puts on concerts as well as seminars to help educate people and spread different techniques on how to help a victim cope.

(RED) is a brand licensed to partner companies such as Nike, American Express (UK), Apple Inc., Starbucks, Converse, Bugaboo, Penguin Classics (UK & International), Gap, Emporio Armani, Hallmark (US) and Dell. It was founded in 2006 by U2 frontman and activist Bono and Bobby Shriver of ONE/DATA to engage the private sector in raising awareness and funds to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is the recipient of (RED) monies. Bono is an active public spokesperson for the brand

I feel this was an en-genius idea from its conception in 2002. It takes very popular brands and uses there names to generate the profits and then donates half!

The Keep A Breast Foundation™ is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. Our mission is to help eradicate breast cancer by exposing young people to methods of prevention, early detection and support. Through art events, educational programs and fundraising efforts, we seek to increase breast cancer awareness among young people so they are better equipped to make choices and develop habits that will benefit their long-term health and well-being.

My mother is a Breast cancer survivor and i really like how they played on what was looked at as a childish and inappropriate word (BOOBIES) and made it represent something very impactful.

 

EOC Week: 1 Great Customer Service

My extremely great customer service involved the online store sweetwater.com. When you make a purchase from sweetwater.com you are assigned a sales engineer. The uniqueness of this sales engineer is that they are in charge of your account for as long as they work for the company. I had the pleasure of being assigned Matt Masek, who I actually went to school with at Cuyahoga Community College. While at school we were just acquaintances. We developed a friendship through Sweetwater, he sent me emails when he knew the store was having sales on equipment that I use, he even set up payment plans that at the time were not yet available through the company, and he even sent me a Christmas card as well as a going away card when I moved to Las Vegas. I understand that he works for commission but I genuinely feel as if he and I have connected in a far more personal matter. One of Sweetwater’s policies is lifetime tech support. Matt extended this policy in the form whenever I made a purchase he not only sent me a detailed description of what I was buying but he gave helpful links and even called me to make sure I wasn’t having any download or installation issues. I find it to be amazing how far he was willing to go to ensure that had absolutely no issues with any part of my purchase at any phase, from order confirmation, shipping details, shipping date, installation, and overall troubleshooting. For those reasons I will always be a Sweetwater customer before I shop anywhere else for pro audio equipment.

Week 1 EOC: My Voice

                Greetings and salutations great people! My name is Grover Cleveland. I attend the Art Institute of Las Vegas, where I am improving my skills in the amazing art form that is Audio Production. I have been recording audio for 7 years in various situations and on various formats (Splicing tape is e-z!). I have experience recording live sound (in churches, theatres, gyms), on location (boom operator for films, recording peddlers), sound design (for film and sound effects libraries), scoring (for films), live to 2 mixes for TV, as well as music in professional and project studio alike. I have worked on various D.A.W. software (Pro Tools, Soundbooth, Audacity, Reason, Logic, Cubase, Ableton) and various mixing consoles (Mackie 1604, Sony DMXR 100, Trident 80B, SSL Duality). Needless to say audio is my passion. My dream is to be a part of an extraordinary team of creative professionals where all I have to do is audio and occasionally entertain my colleagues. Feel free to contact me: via tweet: @gclevelandaudio ; via email: gclevelandaudio@gmail.com