20A- Growing Your Social Capital

Part 1: 

1.)   They are a manager at Subway and have been with Subway for over 20 years. 

2.)   This guy is important to the industry of sandwich shops.

3.)   I found this guy by walking into a Subway in Tennessee near where I live and asking if I can speak to him and ask a few questions for an assignment at school.

4.)   They have given me an insight into how to run a sandwich shop and how my customers will interact with the shop.

5.)   I think I could exploit him as a form of information on how to run a sandwich shop.

Part 2:

1.)   I spoke to one of my Fraternity brothers who is developing an app for college students.

2.)   They are filling my market expert as in knowing my segment really well and how to cater to them.

3.)   They are a good friend from the Fraternity that I’m part of.

4.)   They are giving me great insight into my market segment.

5.)   Yes, I’ll be able to learn a lot about my market segment through him.

Part 3:

1.)   They are my uncle and he makes fresh jams on his farm to sell at farmer's markets.

2.)   He would be the supplier since he would provide the jams.

3.)   He is my uncle and has regular contact to have a jam from him.

4.)   I would be able to get fresh jams and jellies from fresh farms that are organic like I promised to customers.

5.)   I will be able to exploit Jellies and Jams for my company.

Reflection:

In this assignment, I was able to realize that I can make connections easily and be able to learn how to advance my idea even further with knowing I have help to help boost my idea.