20A: Growing Social Capital

Growing Social Capital:

1. The Experts

• Mr. Ahbinaav Faruk: Mr. Faruk is customer representative at Uniform Advantage, the worlds largest supplier of nursing supplies. I've identified Mr. Faruk is the supply expert within my field as a result of the backbone of my business being in healthcare. Mr. Faruk and I got into contact with each other when my Mother and I met up with Vanilla Ice at Chili's in late 2013 and Mr. Faruk was with him. I got in contact him for the purpose of this assignment and asked what our business had to offer with each other, and to no surprise Uniform has a partnership program to pair with start up nursing business in exchange for a monthly payment plan after 2 years. Mr. Faruk represents an opportunity to lift this idea off the ground; Uniform has helped shape the nursing industry so there stands to be no reason to not be capable for doing the same for me.
• Ms. Jessica Ness: Ms.Ness is the head nurse at the BrookDale assisted living facilities in Boynton Beach. Ms.Ness is who I would consider a dominant expert in my industry. I know Ms.Ness from the time she temporarily took care of my grandmother at BrookDale assisted living. Ms.Ness's knowledge base is without a doubt an invaluable insight into what can cause success and failure in this industry, and what she offers is the way to properly manager a nursing business for maximum efficiency.
• Mr. Siward Amando: Mr. Amando is a condominium salesman in Boynton Beach who happens to be an expert at targeting my very own same market with properties rather than a service. Mr. Amando is who I would consider a market expert. Mr. Amando is a family friend of ours and sells condo's all along the beach to roughly the same demographics my business tends to target. During our discussions we reached a point at which Mr. Amando was able to provide me with key insight on what allures and frightens his customer base which is roughly similar to mine. Mr. Faruk can allow me to exploit what might make customers more likely to buy onto my service and and share markets between real estate and nursing.
• Reflection: In reality this was my first time really socially networking. This experience will definitely aid me at future meetings among others in my industry and allow me to understand how business can be included in social events, but this experience honestly wasn't too far from how I pictured networking worked originally.