Brenden's Blog

This post has two parts, one being context and the other being the main body of the assignment. The Context portion will be mainly in italics. Valve is a gaming company that really needs no introduction, with games like CS:GO, Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress 2, and Left for Dead 2, the company has truly made some of the biggest games with the biggest buzz for hardcore gamers (a sentence that can be seen as the company's value proposition). The most important of these core games being Counter Strike: Global Offensive. Originally planned to be a console port of their game Counter Strike: Source, it became much more. It's recently peaked at numbers such as 1.5 million concurrent players, and is the number one game on steam, one of the biggest game platforms online. However, the only nessecary purchase in the game is a 15$ "prime" upgrade which gives you a rank and chance to earn ingame drops. Technically you can play the game for completely free. So how does valve mak...

 Recently I saw a marketing scheme I was extremely suprised by. It was remarkable to me because of how absurd it was. Oscar Mayer Weinermobile weddings. Even just saying that something like that exists is absurd, but it's true. Complete with weiner cake and all. The wedding is completely paid for curtosey of Kraft-Heinz, Oscar Mayer's parent company, so it provides a fun experience for those who may not be able to afford a conventional wedding.  April 15th and 16th 2023 are the only days you can experience this odd promotion, so if you were planning on hoofing it to vegas, you probably won't be able to. The ceremony involves the aformentioned sausage cake as well as a weiner whistle quartet. Wow. This takes place at the Little White Chapel in vegas, a famous spot for those looking to be married in a hurry. This location was likely thought of immediately, because it's really one of the biggest expedited wedding businesses in vegas. It's the perfect place to have this...

 Hello! My name is Brenden McLemore, and I'm a business student at LBCC. I was born and raised in Corvallis, and I've always had a passion for my major. I'm always taking note of how companies appeal to me and I find the subject of marketing quite fascinating. It's the main area of business im the most interested in, and my mother also majored in marketing. I've found the strategies companies use to grab ones attention very interesting, because overtime theyve got a lot crazier and over the top. I enjoy collecting vinyl records and playing Counter Strike the most in my free time, although I also like to go golfing with my parents. I also went to hawaii last summer, and it may be one of my favorite places out there!