Dec 18 2008
The Swag Life
So, lets get down to it today, when I first came up with this idea it was way back in October. I think I was at one of my school’s homecoming activities and I was just thinking how cool it would be if Lakewood Ranch had their own dance competition and I put the idea to work. Once I come up with an idea, I just don’t let it rest or sleep, I get down to work on it and don’t stop until I fulfill it or I get bored, either way.
Anyways, I got down to work, grabbed a few people and let them in on the idea and they liked it. Once I got some support I started putting a myspace together, once the myspace was completed I was left with advertising.
Advertising for me is like putting a show on at Carnegie Hall. You gotta show something hot and something that is catchy with all viewers not just your target audience or segmented marketing areas. You have to reach all people and not just on race or color or background too. In other words, I expand my range of targets and just make sure it hits home for them.
Thats what I did, I made a hot video of my friend who dances and put in a few slides of the name of the dance off, where it will be held and such and such. It was a good video, none the less I made a newer one a few weeks later and it just killed. Everyone watched it, everyone loved it, even people in their 30’s and 50’s loved it.
I uploaded it on youtube and still to this day and future people will watch it. I sometimes can’t help but watch it just because I can’t believe I did it.
Ok, enough credit to myself now. So far in the month of November I was able to produce and edit 2 Swagger It Out videos and upload them for the general public.
I believe it wasn’t till the end of November, I think the week before Thanksgiving break I started talking to Mr. Wooten at the school about getting Swagger started, shown him the video of my boy D-Marco a.k.a. D and said he liked it a lot and it was awesome.
So eventually he had me make a powerpoint to list out all the things of Swagger and to just make sure “all my T’s were crossed and my I’s dotted” so that everything was perfect and not amatuer, don’t think I am but whatever I did it anyways.
Turns out it was a big success, Wooten is still looking it over as I’m writing this and I’m going to talk to him about it tomorrow.
Things are coming along with Swagger as you can see but its just time, and well all you guys and girls who are waiting to dance are just going to have to wait a little bit longer. I’m sorry but I have no other way of getting around this.
I’m going as fast as I can and I appreciate everyone’s help.
Next blog will discuss mine and Wooten’s plans so whatever we talk about I’ll write down here for you all.
