Summary: Called Britain's most consistently original, outrageous, eccentric, and controversial designer, Vivienne Westwood is also an esteemed professor of fashion at Berlin's Academy of Arts. This program profiles Westwood while capturing the student experience under her rigorous tutelage. Footage of her apprentices-in the classroom, learning the ropes at her London workshop, and putting on a fashion...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program explores the process of setting up a business enterprise by following the story of Olive-a dynamic young woman with a passion for social media. As Olive begins her own e-business in the competitive field of media monitoring, viewers learn just what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, including careful research and planning, finding a niche market, promoting the new company,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: There will always be a place in America's consumer-centric culture for energetic go-getters in the areas of marketing, sales, and service. This program, set in a marketing agency environment, introduces students to an account director/senior associate, an account director/partner, an associate creative director, and a managing partner. Background information on the field in general-and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: People who love dealing with other people-and connecting them with stuff they want, in the process-are a natural for a rewarding career in retail, marketing, or sales. This program spends some quality face time with a retail sales manager, a merchandise manager, and a distribution manager.a marketing manager, a promotions manager, and a public relations specialist.and an advertising sales...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Introduce viewers to three women who have found success and satisfaction by helming their own businesses: Lisa Nadeau, a maple syrup producer whose company started as a side business to her dairy farm; Christine Zacharko, an optician who runs Glasses to Go, a mobile optical dispensary; and Jessica Dawe, a pest control producer who breeds and sells crop-friendly insects. Commentary from...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Since its founding, Paul Orfalea's Kinko's empire has grown to more than 1,500 stores and 23,000 employees worldwide. And Pleasant Rowland's American Girl dolls, second only to Barbie in U.S. sales, made her
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007