Somebody please stop them..

Here is a message from me about the elections:

Mr. Obama please, please stop the commercial which starts by saying "My mother died at 53 from cancer and the only thing she was thinking was how to pay her health expenses"

Mrs. Palin please, please stop taking your 6 month son to any public appearance you make. The baby is suffering, he does not need to suffer more by going to wherever you go.

ok, now it is off my chest:)

I really can't think of a title right now

Here I am, having a class on Project Management. The professor is in China, he is teaching online and I am staring at my laptop screen, thinking what can I do right now..so I decided to just share this thought on my blog, hoping that my professor will never read it.
So..let's talk about Best Buy. I went in there two days ago, just to look around..I love looking at the laptops and thinking which one I would buy if I had the money. In my 12 minutes in there, I had 5 or 6 salesmen approach us and and ask if we need any help. I appreciate their interest..but I also do not want to repeat myself.."No thank you, we are just looking around", "No thank you, we are just looking around", No thank you, we are just looking around" , "No thank you", "NOOOO".
What really struck me with Best Buy however was when I was doing some research last night and found out that Best Buy does customer profile segmenting. What do I mean by that? Best Buy identified 6 different customer profiles that visit their stores:

• Affluent professionals
  
• Active younger males
  
• Family men who want technology to improve their lives
• Busy suburban moms
  
• Small-business customers

When Best Buy identifies a location to build a new store, they use their database to find out which of those customer segments is more likely to visit that store and they build the store in such a way to satisfy the needs of that specific segment and hire employees that are more likely to understand the needs of that segment. This technique has raised the returns of Best Buy. Brilliant, just brilliant! If you want more information you can read this article: http://www.cio.com/article/8094/Best_Buy_Counts_Customers

It is Thursday today, just 25 minutes before my last class and then the weekend startssssss..or maybe not..one more meeting for the day, work today, work tomorrow morning, then physiotherapy, then another meeting, then i will take a break for some alcohol and then getting ready for my very big day on Monday!

Mcama vs. Obain

I am not sure who "won" the debate on Friday. Most of the people said that Obama was the winner but the real winner will be the one who becomes the next president. For the time being here is what I think is going on:
Obama has been giving out an image that he is the type of person who is young, can bring change to this nation, a loving family guy with his wife and daughters probably being a sign to all the family voters. And here is how McCain responds. He selects the governor of Alaska to be his VP. Yes, the governor of Alaska. What does Sarah Palin bring into the equation for McCain..? She is the female Obama. Inexperienced, young, beautiful, loving mother with a 17-year old pregnant girl and a baby with the Down syndrome. And all of a sudden everything changes. The young mothers that would vote for Obama, hear Palin's first speech and they suddenly change their mind. McCain for President.
Now here is the reality..Most of the polls give Obama as the winner of the elections. The question is, are the people who participate in those surveys going to vote on that Tuesday of November? And somebody explain to me, why is U.S if not the only, probably one of the few countries of the world when the election is held on a Tuesday?? There must be a reason.
The market sucks, Dow Jones had the biggest drop ever in history two days ago, the job market is almost non-existent. Who will be the next president? We will find out in a few weeks.