20A – Growing Your Social Capital
1) One person must be a domain expert in your industry.
Dylan Glicksman
21 year old UF student that promotes for an app/company called Twenty with similar ideas to my app
Domain because he knows all the information about how the app runs and how they are marketing it for use since he works for them.
His relation to me is that he is my big brother in my fraternity and have worked together with him in other social media promotion jobs.
We help each out as friends whether that be with help with homework or opportunities to get involved in previous jobs.
Including him in my network could be useful in gaining experience in marketing and promoting my app.
2) One person must be an expert on your market.
Ryan Mueller
UF alumni and one of the managers and former bartender of jjs, rowdys and fats.
Market Export because he is a manager of jjs/rowdy/fats and has the same customers that would be using my app.
He is now one of my current managers being a bouncer at midtown and have talked to him about the app.
He is the one to put in the good word and got me hired and is a friend of my also an app like mine would help his bar gain more business.
Including Ryan in my network would help me get direct help with attaining approval for video feed and accurate data to feed my app.
3) One person must be an important supplier to your industry
Christian Estrada
UF alumni and top manager of Top Tier entertainment in the Gainesville region.
Supplier export because top tier could supply promotion events at bars and have bar tabs for down loaders of my app.
My relation to him is that he was the my boss when he hired me to do social media promotion for Top Tier entertainment.
promoting the use of my app at his events would create more clients for my app and in turn bring more people to his events.
This assignment made me recognize that people i know could help me with making an app like mine super successful and that its always a good thing to network and keep close ties because you never know who might be able to bring your idea to the next step or make it a reality.
It seems like you got some really great feedback as well as connections for your business idea. Seems like you have some good connections which really do help in the long run. I think what you recognized through the assignment really does change your outlook in the long run.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you really networked well for this. All of the connections you have made will definitely help you in this class and more importantly in the long run. The people you met up with fit perfectly with your idea and will definitely help it in the future from the insight you gained.
ReplyDeleteA lot of people that you spoke to will really help your business idea. These people seem competent and could actually help you while you are trying to create this app.
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