Growing Your Social Capital

-Created app to help organize attendance at meetings and events, bringing in over $10,000 of revenue

-Domain Expert

-Friend who personally created the app with a group of 2 others

-He told me a lot of the struggles on the business and legal sides of running an app

-I regularly talk to this person so being able to constantly go to him for advice will help me a lot

-Professional photographer, takes photos for the Miami Dolphins and Florida Gators

-Market Expert

-Hired to take a head shot photo and kept in contact with him

-I contacted him to see if I could ask him some questions and he gave me a lot of information on what kind of market he thinks I’ll be working with and how he would approach his marketing strategy for it

-Taking photos for a college and professional football team has definitely given him some great contacts so I may be able to meet more people who could assist me through him

-Helped create small app to encourage businesses to be more environmentally green

-Supplier Expert

-I met this person through the domain expert, who is a friend of mine. I asked him if he knew of anyone else that could have any experience in the field.

-They basically told me all of the ins and outs of reaching out to a business to see if they would be interested in using your app

-I met this person through someone I had already networked with, so hopefully I can continue the chain and further expand my network

I think after this networking experience, I can more confidently reach out to people in larger companies to ask their advice on things. This kind of got my foot in the door and gave me some practice in how to network. I’m also going to reach out to everyone I talked to and see if they know anyone in a bigger company that could help and how to go about contacting them.