22A – Elevator Pitch No. 3

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21A – Reading Reflection No. 2

1)    The book that I’ve chosen was the Art of Social Media. The argument of the book concerns the important role that social media is playing in our society nowadays. Social media is a platform that can help your business very successful.

2)    This book has a lot of connection with what I’m learning in my class. First, I can say that social media can help me even promote my future business, which is basically a free add that I will be using to make my business well known. Also, the way we are doing our assignment requires us to use a little bit of social media such as YouTube, and some video websites.

3)    An exercise I would design would be about what the students think about social.  Also, I would ask them to identify one positive effect that social can have on their future business. Also, I will ask them to do few interviews with 3 managers and report their opinions about the relationship between social media and their businesses,

4)    I was not surprised at all. The interesting thing I found is when the book was sharing about how to gain more followers and how to reply to negative reviews. I liked the fact that it was mentioned that it is better to respond to negative comments on our websites only one time. Also, it is shared in the book that in order to gain more followers, the website has to be updated by using new platforms whenever something new comes out. Thus, you will have more viewers than your competitors, which is great for your business.

20A – Growing Your Social Capital

Mike is a dealer here in Gainesville and Owns a dealership called HD truck center. He is only 28 years old and is running his business for 5 years ago. He is going to be my supplier since as a dealer, he is the one that can purchase the salvage vehicle for me and help me with the shipping because of his license. I met him when I was buying my first car and since then, we became best friends. He is going to make sure that I get any vehicle that is ordered by a client from West Africa.

Mubarak is a friend that is already doing car business in New York. He exports vehicle from USA to West Africa, but most of his vehicles are older than the ones I will be sending, and his are not savaged. He is 30 years old and been looking for a business partner with who he can work. I believe that in future, I will be working with him, and he is already one of my investors. So, financially, he is going to help me.

Lamine is car dealer located in West Africa and been in the business for more than 20 years. He has a lot of loyal customers and know almost the price of every single car. Thus, he will keep me updated of any price change, and make sure that he sells the exported vehicles as fast as possible.

I believe that all these people are going to make my business less challenging. Also, as partners, they will all give their ideas which will make my business plan even more successful and interesting. Also, I believe that this is a great experience as it makes me realized that a lot of ideas together can make things easier. In my language, there is saying that says, “two hands wash each other, not only one”.

19A – Idea Napkin No. 2 Submit Assignment

My name is Hassane Boubacar, a student in Economics. I can say that I’m a very honest and caring person which makes people to trust me very quick. I believe also in Hard work and not giving up, which makes me achieve most of the goals that I’ve set for myself.

Because I believe that people in West Africa are spending a lot of money nowadays on newer cars by spending more than 15k than the price in USA, I decided to give them the chance to get the newer cars they want for a cheaper price by exporting Salvage vehicles from USA, which are not expensive here in USA. Those exported cars from USA will be bought by rich people in West Africa that spend hundreds of thousand dollars in car purchase. I believe that they will care a lot because they will save a lot of money, and they will get the vehicle of their dreams by spending less. Moreover, they can do something else with the money they save by investing in a more important asset that doesn’t depreciate.

Moreover, I believe that my customer service, my price and car knowledge will help achieve my goal and compete with other businesses that are already established before mine.

 I believe that all these things are connected because it looks like a process. So, all of them go together.