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BYU Hawaii places in top 40 at SIFE National Exposition

    BYU Hawaii SIFE team recently traveled to the SIFE National Exposition in Chicago IL! While there, our presentation team (Amraa Baatar, Ashlin White, Aushra Moreno, Freebody Mensah, Isabel Sakaja, Nik Beezum, and Kadie Johnstun) did exceptional, getting great marks from the judges. The team made it to the top 40 in the nation. The trip was a huge success, with many of our team securing internships and jobs from the career fair and recruiters there, as well as great team bonding. Expect pictures shortly, but for now, here's the favorite -
 

Youth Business Competition

    The Youth Business Competition is a project designed to offer Hawaii high school students the opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship and business and help them gain an appreciation for the potential they have to make a difference with it.  Through hands on, mentored experience, they will have the chance to learn about conceiving, developing, and starting a business, the role of revenue and cash flow, and here from some great businessmen and entrepreneurs. 
 
Learn more about this project, and access registration materials here.
 

Amg ceo describes peck-ing order for success

Stace Hall - 09 October 2007
    Students who want to be successful in life will not achieve their goals until they decide to take action, Frank Peck told a group of BYU-Hawaii students recently. Peck, CEO of American Money Group, sponsor of the Asia-Pacific Basketball Classic, visited campus and spoke to members of Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE).  Peck's business success didn't follow him throughout his life, however. When he was seven years old, he and his family moved from Spanish Fork, Utah, to New Mexico, where his father worked in the uranium mines. After the mines were shut down, the family relocated to California were they lived in a car. "I remember… (more...)
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BYU hawaii hosts 2nd annual e-business conference

Richie Norton - 11 June 2007
    The conference, hosted by CITO, will feature Andy Beal as the keynote speaker and will focus on what is known as Search Engine Optimization (SEO)—methods used to make a web page appear with top rankings for key word searches on search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.

    Beal, founder of MarketingPilgrim.com, is acclaimed as the “SEO of SEOs”.  Beal is considered one of the world’s most respected experts in search engine marketing, blogging and online reputation management.

    Top companies he has worked with include:  Motorola, Lowes, Quicken Loans, Alaska Airlines and NBC. Beal stays up-to-date with search engine news and online marketing developments, has appeared on CNBC and NPR (National Public Radio) and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Business Week and many other publications.

    “If your company is not on the first page of an internet search it is as if you don’t even exist,” (more...)
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byuh interns, counterparts complete professional surveys in china

Mike Foley - 6 September 2006
    Twelve BYU-Hawaii interns, led by psychology professor Dr. Ronald M. Miller, formed a mentored consulting team with 15 students from the Shenzhen Tourism College from June 28 to August 23 to design, execute and analyze a high-level visitor satisfaction and marketing survey for the largest entertainment-based company in China.

    The BYU-Hawaii interns were Kin Yu Au, Man Lung Chan, Samuel Dauphinee, Pik Ching "Orient" Lai, Mei Fong Leung, Sung Leung, Shuen Ling Sally Ng, Kelsey Olds, Nicole Smith, Nicki Strong, Nathan F. Tilton and Sin Sze Yiu. The Yamagata Foundation provided the travel funding for the interns while Shenzhen Tourism College provided room and board.

    Dr. Miller said Shenzhen OCT Holding Company currently draws 6 million visitors a year to their theme parks — including Splendid China/Chinese Folk Cultural Village, which is based on the Polynesian Cultural Center model — as well as malls, housing and other businesses in Shenzhen, a city of about 12 million population in mainland China just across the border from Hong Kong. "We basically did a Ph.D.-level business project that they estimate would have cost the company about $5 million U.S.," he said. (more...)
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