Meet Dominic Graci
Hi, my name is Dominic Graci. I am currently a freshman at Duquesne University in Sports Information & Media. I am taking this class because I have always been interested in marketing and have wanted to figure out a way to get a job with marketing in the sports world. In high school, I took a class called Sports Marketing & Entertainment, and I have never been more engaged in a class in my life. This inspired me to continue to search for marketing classes to further my knowledge on the subject. This class specifically caught my eye because during the class I took previously in high school, we did a lot of work creating our own PR events, promotions, billboards, brands, and logos. The digital side of marketing was something that I found really fun and interesting, and I am curious to find ways to tie that into a career
As far as projects for school, I am normally not the best with managing my time surrounding when I should be doing certain things. With that being said, I find myself doing my best work under the pressure of meeting the deadline. For presentations, I am someone who always has to have the design perfect and I like to make everything look professional. I have taken many business classes in high school, so much I was a part of the business academy at my school and had a certificate on my diploma saying so. I like modern, slick, almost minimalistic designs because I believe looks are everything and I always find a way to add my type of “style” to my work.
I am an absolutely huge sports fan. I am from Buffalo, New York, so my ties to Buffalo sports is something I carry with pride. My favorite team is the Buffalo Bills, and I am also a fan of the Toronto Raptors. These two teams are something I am very passionate about, and I follow them everywhere. This is why I want my career to involve sports, it is something I could literally never get enough of. A dream of mine has always been to live in a sports city like San Francisco or Toronto and work with a professional team
One thing I want to take from this class is some type of guidance or clarity as far as honing down on what I want my career to be. Marketing is a very vague subject and could involve so many different jobs. My hope is that through the work of this class I can find what it is I enjoy most involving marketing. Something else I want from this class is developing a more creative writing style for instances such as this one. In marketing, you need to really catch people's attention, and at the time you need to do that through writing. This is a skill I think is critical, and I want to develop mine further. Lastly, I want to be able to have effective and efficient methods to attract certain audiences. Everybody attaches to different things, and you need to be able to tell what it is someone wants in order to get someone to buy into your product and brand.
Something I learned in 2023 is that no matter how hard I try, I’ll never be able to predict what comes next. With this, I want to learn to take advantage of opportunities I currently have and stop being so concerned of what’s coming. Whether it’s something that is amazing or something that could be terrible, it’s almost impossible to truly predict what happens next.
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