Nov 1
Jeff is my roommate’s dad and he owns a gas station and he is my domain expertise because he knows who is buying and what products they are choosing. I got his number from my roommate and was able to call him and ask question about the market. He told me that he sees a lot “younger kids” buying juuls and vapes especially in his gas station because they are only 14.85 and it’s the cheapest place in town. He also explains why he gets a lot of a younger crowd because his gas station is right across the street from a high school. This interview proved my point that vaping age needs to be raised to 21 because Jeff seeing that many teenagers buy it they are already getting addicted.
Next I did a market domain was Stacy she is a manager at Modern Age Smoke Shop, and she is the one who is involved in what products to sell. I got in contact with her because I went to a couple smoke shops to see if I could talk to anyone and she gladly accepted. She told me puts out products that sell. She told me that she listens and marks what customers come in and ask for along with her regular customers. I thought this was interesting because she realizes a lot on customer feedback and by making her customers happy, she has been successful.
The third and last interview was also someone who works at the gas station I go to her name is Tamera I did this because it was hard to get into contact with suppliers so I asked her some question on how often she gets shipments and she said every Tuesday she will restock and she said that they products they always is low by Tuesday is the Juuls. She went on to say that’s how it used to be since they raised the age to 21 in Alachua country she said her stock on Juuls stays a lot more and that they are going to decrease how many they get the following week. After interviewing Tamera, she proved my point by stating that most vaping consumption is done by teenagers and once the age was raised people stopped buying.
Hello Carly! I commend you for physically getting out there and talking to people in person. I think it is interesting that all of the people you met with and added to your social network confirmed what you have already proposed, legitimizing your business concept even further. I think if you continue to talk to people, introducing and spreading your idea along the way, you could make some real progress.
ReplyDeleteHey Carly,
ReplyDeleteYou did a good job of talking to people who see exactly who is buying nicotine products by going to gas stations and a smoke shop to collect some data. For your idea, I think collecting data is one of the more important aspects of your networking. I liked that one of your contacts owns a gas station by a high school. It provides a link between nicotine products selling and teenagers buying them.