TGIF

Back to my blog...
First things first, it's already March 8th here.
Happy International Women's Day to all empowering and wonderful women all over the world!
Today's Friday, I suppose to have a morning class today,
But last night my friend told me that there'll be no class due to our Data Management lecture is still out of town, and she's not sure that she could make it here on time.
So here I am, trying to type something on my blog, like I've promised myself before.
I woke up this morning feeling a little bit gloomy,
My back lower left gum hurts, and it's somewhat swollen now.
The pain doesn't appear frequently (Thank God, or else I'd feel like it's killing me slowly),
but it sure is annoying especially when I move my jaw, talk, and it hurts mostly whenever I ear, chew, or swallow food.
So I've to tilt my head a little bit, using only my right jaw to chew food, so it won't hurt that bad.
My dorm mates think I might have wisdom teeth growing so that's why my gum hurts.
That's why I'm about to leave my dorm to visit a dentist this morning.
I'm hoping it is only my wisdom teeth, not the other dental problem worse than it. (Please, don't let it be impacted teeth.)
Catch y'all later!

Sinceramente,
M-

SoTD:  Kate Nash - Mouthwash

Decision Roles on Consumer Market

Pasar konsumen dibagi kedalam empat segmentasi, yakni segmentasi geografis, segmentasi demografis, segmentasi psikografis, dan segmentasi kebiasaan (behavioural). 
Kali ini saya hanya akan membahas salah satu bagian dari segmentasi kebiasaan (behavioural) yakni decision roles.

Decision Roles: 

Beberapa individu dapat melakukan interaksi yang mempengaruhi keputusan membeli produk, pada umumnya peran tersebut biasa dibagi sebagai berikut:

Initiator

Orang yang pertama kali menunjukkan minat atau berpikir untuk membeli produk atau jasa tertentu.

Setelah antri berjam-jam dalam peluncuran produk Apple terbaru, Alexei Shumilov berhasil menjadi pembeli pertama produk Apple iPad 2 di Apple Store 5th Avenue, New York

Influencer

Orang yang pendapat, saran, dan hal yang dilakukannya dapat mempengaruhi keputusan orang lain untuk membeli suatu produk. 

Adidas memfasilitasi sponsor produk bagi banyak atlet terkenal dunia, seperti Ricardo Kaka, Iker Casillas, Novak Djokovic untuk menggunakan produknya dalam berbagai event. Dengan demikian, konsumen akan tertarik untuk membeli dan menggunakan produk yang juga digunakan oleh atlet idola mereka sehingga memberikan tambahan emotional satisfaction bagi konsumen.

Andy Pargh "The Gadget Guru", adalah penulis buku best seller tentang berbagai gadget dan peralatan elektronik lainnya, sering memberi review tentang gadget terbaru di websitenya, sehingga mempengaruhi konsumen untuk memilih gadget yang ingin dibeli.

Paula Begoun dikenal secara global sebagai seorang cosmetic reviewser. Dalam website yang dimilikinya, yakni Paula's Choice, Paula selalu memberikan review yang sangat terbuka akan suatu produk. Meskipun Paula telah memiliki brand kosmetik tersendiri, ini tidak membuat Paula menjadi subjektif dalam memberikan review terhadap produk dari perusahaan lain. Ini menjadikan Paula sebagai trusted reviewer sekaligus influencer dalam bidang kosmetika.

Decider

Individu dengan kekuatan atau otoritas keuangan untuk menentukan produk mana yang akan dibeli. 

Dalam keluarga, suami biasanya akan memberitahu istrinya untuk membelikan produk yang ingin mereka beli. Misalnya suami meminta istri untuk membelikan alat tulis dan buku pelajaran untuk keperluan sekolah anak mereka.

Buyer

Orang yang melakukan transaksi pembelian produk, buyer belum tentu orang yang menentukan produk yang akan dibeli.

Mengambil contoh decider sebelumnya, istri akan membelikan alat tulis dan buku pelajaran untuk anak mereka, seperti yang telah diminta oleh suaminya.

User

Orang yang menggunakan produk yang telah dibeli.

Masih meneruskan kedua contoh dari decider dan buyer diatas, setelah ibu selesai melakukan transaksi, selanjutnya alat tulis dan buku pelajaran tersebut akan diberikan pada sang anak, untuk digunakan.

Demikianlah penjelasan singkat tentang decision roles dalam segmentasi kebiasaan (behavioural) pada pasar konsumen. Semoga postingan ini dapat bermanfaat bagi pembacanya. Thank you for reading this entry!

Type A Lot Monday

So, it has been a long time ago since I posted some entries here, truth be told I'm close to the part where I'm starting to forget the fact that I DO own a blog (2 blogs actually), which is quite a shame because according to this entry, I realized that I'm such a passive blogger, so I made a written promise to myself that I have to be more active on blogging stuff, and as always, I broke that promise. One of my lecturer has asked us to have an individual blog so we could post every tasks on it, the other lecturers have also asked us to email them our tasks instead of collecting it in printed form. Love the "going-paperless" idea, for me it's much better and easier to be applied, since most of us still don't know how to recycle used paper.

On another note, I can't believe it's March already! Time really goes fast when we don't even realize about it all. Flashing back some memories from last year, I notice that 2012 wasn't really a best year for me. I wasn't that productive last year, I didn't join a lot of competitions or any other activities as much as I did back when I was a 10-11 grader. National examination indeed was one of the reason why I wasn't able to join more competitions and engaged to a bunch of activities like I used to. Months of hectic pre-University preparation could also be counted as another reason. Yes, I am a university student now. I got into Telkom Institute of Management (IM Telkom), not to be confused with Telkom Institute of Technology (IT Telkom, previously called STT Telkom) which I'm taking ICT Business Management (Manajemen Bisnis Telekomunikasi dan Informatika) as my major. Having to pursue a higher academic level is forcing me to step out of my comfortable zone, I've to move to another city and started to live alone faraway from my family, which is way tougher than I thought It was. It wasn't easy at first, truth be told it is still not easy for me though I've been living here for about 6 months, but I'm trying my best not to let this become such a burden and barrier for me to pursue my bachelor degree here.

Back to the topic, I'm glad I was able to finally compete on my very first 2012 competition last November. It was an English competition for newbies in our campus, which was held by our university's English club (SEF IM Telkom). I was joining debate competition with one of my classmate, Another classmate of mine was also joining the competition, but she was competing in story telling. We came up as 2nd runner-up on both competitions. I personally think that it was not bad, considering that was the first time I compete in British parliamentary system debate, which I, myself believe that BP is way more stressful because there are only two speakers, and 15 minutes of case building time, completely different compared to 3-speakers-in-one-team debating system like Asian or Australs. For this year, I was really lucky to be chosen as one of IMT's debating team for 2013 ALSA E-Challenge Unpad which I promise to tell you more about this event later on my upcoming entries... (yes, this is how I'm tricking myself to post more entry on this blog, hopefully it works this time.)

Con cariño,
M


SoTD: Sara Bareilles - Love Song

Earth Hour 2012

 

Earth Hour is coming so soon. Only one week to go! I proudly say that I'm switching off the lights for Earth Hour 2012. And this will be the 4th Earth Hour for me since 2008. I'm so excited! We can, We will, Will you?

hullo!

this is my very first posting on 2012. it has been ages since my last post here.
which is kinda shameful buat saya sekarang ngebacanya (baca: alay)
setelah bertahun-tahun saya jadi blogger (baca: passive blogger)finally saya nyadar kalo apa yang saya tulis selama ini terlalu "light."
bukan sesuatu yang IMO penting banget ada di sebuah blog.
so If I could, I'd promise myself that I'm gonna write something "that might be worth it" next time.

yep, my last post was published on 27 November 2010. *passive banget kan ya?*
setahun lalu, saya masih ingat ada kejadian yang truly unbelievable, yet shaking.
not that I lost any of my family, but let's just say: I lost a dream, my biggest dream that year in a very uncomfortable way. and I don't wanna talk about it anymore...

setahun yang lalu, saya masih kelas 11, dan sekarang saya udah di kelas 12. yang artinya:
1. practical exams (dunno what it's actually called in English, but it's ujian praktik in Indonesian) are coming in less than a month (sekitar 2 minggu lagi!)
and
2. national examination is coming in less than 3 months.
and
3. SNMPTN and other university entrance test are coming all the way. All those big stuffs are coming one by one, and I haven't decided the next steps, like what Uni I'm gonna pursue my study at, even worst I haven't make sure what major I'm gonna take in Uni. I wish I could decide EVERYTHING as soon as possible, but it looks like I'm a kind of person who take too long when deciding what should I do. *Really, it's proven, My Aptitude and Fingerprint tests said the same thing.* oh, anyway, I'm changing my blog url, it's no longer thatgreenadolescent.blogspot.com, it's magnaliafelly.blogspot.com now. because my teacher asked us to change our blog name to our real name, so that he can give us some score for blogging lesson. that's all, it's 12:14 am now, gotta go to bed so I won't be late for school this morning. catch y'all later. xoxo

SoTD: Foster the People - Call it What You Want

w/ lof, M-

Have you....?

Have you ever been in the hardest part of your life?

The time when everything’s nothing but ruin, chaos, and trouble?

The time when a thing you need is dream?

The time when you don’t wanna wake up,

Because you believe that nightmare is just a nightmare and that shouldn’t be true at all.

But then you realized something, you realized that It’s true. It’s not a nightmare, it’s a truth.

Truth that you’ve to face It with wide arms open.

A hurtful truth and you’ve to accept It.

Time ticking still….

And your life goes on…

With a hurt scar in your life…

A scar that left by the truth…

Have you ever been in the sickest point of your life?

The time when all you wanna do is forgetting thing

The time when you’ve to throw away a dreadful memory

The time when you’re ready to face a new “life”, with your past left away

But then you realize something,

You realize that people around you keep talking about that truth.

People around you keep on talking, and talking about one thing.

Thing that you really need to left,

Thing that you really need to throw away,

Thing that you really need to forget about,

And then you’re getting sick enough to hear that thing.

And then you’re getting sick to hear everything.

And then you’re wondering if you could die for a moment.

At least until people stop talking about thing that might be joyful for them.

But hurtful, dreadful, pitiful, and sorrowful for me.

I am ..........

I'm definitely disappointed that I couldn't be one of the representatives of my province to NSDC 2011.
For God Sake, I'm TERRIBLY DISAPPOINTED to know that I've been beaten by "1-2 minute only arguments" debaters. *Really, not to skeptic at them, but yes, they're talking for only 1-2 minutes, or at least 6 minutes only, not 8 minutes*
I never blame the chief adjudicator - Not At All, there's nothing wrong with him.
I blame the newest system that used this year.
I blame the tourney system that doesn't really appropriate to be used in that provincial selection.
I blame the silly match-up.
I blame the local adjudicators who DON'T KNOW HOW TO ADJUDICATE A DEBATE.
I'm disappointed that our city team could only win the first champion, but there's only one speaker from our team that could represent my province to NSDC next year.

I'm lost.
I'm failed.
I'm trauma.
I'm ashamed.
I'm speechless.
I'm disappointed.

But I won't let myself to stop debate at all.
I've been debating for about a year.
I won't stop my debating career for those reasons only.
But at least for now, I really need a time to recover from my disappointment.