Shawn Davis

19A – Idea Napkin No. 2

            The feedback that I received on my napkin 1 is feedback that has allowed me to know that I would keep my same information on my second napkin. I would still consider it to be important to know the location of the services that are needed and feel that it is still important to keep this information.

Shawn Davis

20A – Growing Your Social Capital

1.      Domain expert in my industry.

The person I chose to network with for the section was Susan from The Ridge. I was able to contact her by email provided by the ridge for the person to contact for the market and selling for the property of selling. The ridge is something that is provided for off campus students in search for housing. By reaching out to Susan and having had make contact with her she now knows that I’m also interested into the same business and market and that I have the unique age and other things as the other students that are trying to find public housing.

2.      Expert in my market.

I networked with the contact in athletics who does researches and documents like housing opportunities for housing that is available for college students in the area. We are similar in areas because she makes sure that things are organized for move in dates and she also go over leases with the students that are trying to move in to off campus housing by connecting with her we both know that people are not wanting live alone they want to live with two to three roommates that are there friends from the same or another sport.

3.      Important supplier to my industry.

Sam Morre who works for Parrish McCall. I reached out to him through email listed on their website. They are a contractor company that supplies majority of construction for college housing in the area. There was a need for me to talk to them to predict the admission the insights of how many college students are going to be coming to UF and other students that are going to need college housing.

Reflection

            The people I talked to are people who worked with getting students situated with college housing or either build the housing that college students are moving to. Susan is a property manager, Shawnee is someone that works with athletics that research documents for off campus housing she also helps with on campus housing, and Sam is a constructor. I found and interacted with them because they are people that I’m aware of but not familiar with. By getting all these people included into my network it will allow me to better understand what the need is in this business.

Shawn Davis

Create a Customer Avatar

            

             Creating an avatar for my product of college housing would look like somebody between the ages of 18 – 25. This avatar can be both male and female it’s no specific gender. These cliental typically will be single unmarried students that do not have children either. Their hobbies will be things such as hanging out with friends, partying and shopping. Shows that this type of customer watch would be shows like power, love & hip-hop, and things such as series on Netflix and Hulu. Typically they are not spending time reading book as often or really getting involved with local politics. People that are in this age group typically are impatient, want everything that’s in interest, and want things bigger and better than what we have.

Shawn Davis

What’s Your Secret Sauce?

             

             Committed – I’m committed to my teammates to win on Saturdays. I play my hardest every time I step onto the football field.

           

             Humble – I’m not a cocky person through success. Being successful in football when doing well I still play as if I’m not having success.

          

             Loyal – when it comes to my real friends I am always there. If my friends ask me for things I always give to them without wanting in return.

           

             Dependable – when I’m ask to remind someone or ask for advice always there. If someone I’m close to needs to be somewhere at a certain time and I tell them I would be able to do so I would keep my word.

         

             Focus – I let nothing distract me. On Friday one day before my games I turn my phone on airplane mode.

Interview 1: Shawn is goal oriented, doesn’t settle for anything but the best, loves honesty, someone that respects fairness, also shows gratitude for things around him.

Interview 2: Shawn is loyal, dependable, really athletic, smart, and educated.

Interview 3: Shawn is impatient, takes compliments very well, a reserved person, a very skilled individual, also like a lot of peace in life.

Interview 4: Shawn is very flexible with sports, committed, capable of overcoming anything, clear minded, and dependable.

Interview 5: Shawn is dependable, dominant at sports, humble, consistent, and eager.

Reflection:

Most people thought of me mostly the same way I thought of myself.

Shawn Davis

15A – Figuring Out Buyer Behavior No. 2

I interviewed three people who are all walk on athletes from all different sports, one softball, one football, and one soccer. They all said similar things to where they start looking for close and affordable college housing. They all either started looking for college dorms primarily their sophomore year after a year spent on campus. They start looking for things that they typically can afford if holding a job or something that their parents can afford. Typically that another part that they mentioned is that it’s hard for roommates and to figure out what their approach is looking for house off campus as well.

They typically say that how they go about buying housing off campus includes driving around, looking onto online websites. Their biggest sources of finding college housing is through friends and roommates that are already off campus. The problem that they run into is that they are just being referred to be places that they only know about and not new places. This is sometimes why people run into problems like places already being filled or not being able to accommodate them.

People find that after they have found their off campus housing is that they continue to move because they are not happy with the place they found first. Overall the interviewers feel like they didn’t have the rightness that they are looking for. Overall people are unhappy with the stage of the purchasing of the product which in this case is affordable college housing.

Shawn Davis

13A – Reading Reflection No. 1

1.      The thing that surprised me the most was Ray Kroc who was the founder of McDonald’s did not have instance success because the fact it’s so successful now. The thing that I most admired about Ray Kroc as an entrepreneur is that he had futuristic mindset that allowed his to see what would basically succeed in the future. Reading the book I think it’s fair to say that there is nothing I didn’t admire about Ray. Ray defiantly encountered adversity throughout his journey of creating McDonalds what it is today. One of the examples of this is when he got screwed on his paper cup company and was struggling to live off of the income he was making afterwards, which showed the level of resiliency he had.

2.      One of the competencies that he had in his entrepreneurship was finding out the need in the people of the market so he saw that the global world was looking for products that would decomposed easily in the future. This is how he had such great success in the paper cup business.

3.      One part of the reading that you would have looked at that you would like to know more about so it wouldn’t be so confusing is how he became business partners with the McDonalds brothers so easily.

4.       When did you know that McDonalds would become as big of a company as big as it is? What made you so intrigued by meeting people’s needs with products? I would ask these questions because one day I would like to have a business of my own.

5.      Ray believed in hard work because that’s the main thing that go him through and also to be successful in his business. Yes I do share this opinion.

Shawn Davis

14A- Halfway Reflection

   

   1.      The things that I have used to keep up with the requirements for this course is the way manage time the way I complete assignments, keeping up with some of the current trends with what people’s needs are, to become comfortable with the whole blogging process, also making sure I leave time to interview people between assignments.

   

   2.      I’m someone who doesn’t give up on things easily. I have an understanding that the work I do in this class can contribute to things down the time line in my life.

  

   3.      The first tip I would give someone for the next semester is be aware of problems around the world. Don’t be afraid to solve the problem no matter how difficult it may seem. Have support into finding the thing that is causing the problem by interviewing people and getting their thoughts on the problem.

Shawn Davis

Figuring Out Buyer Behavior No. 1

The three people that I interviewed were college students between the age of 18 and 21, two girls and one guy. They become aware of their need for college housing when they are forced to find a place on their own specifically sophomore year of college. The need arises when they are struggling to find a place that’s close to campus that is at the time they are trying to make the transition out of college housing. Typically they are trying to solve their problem through word of mouth from people who have been through the problem but it seems to not fix the problem itself. If they choose to not continue to search for college housing due to frustration then that is a problem itself. All three of these people I interview you can make the conclusion that their problems are all very similar for college housing.

Shawn Davis

 Idea Napkin No. 1

1.      My name is Shawn Davis I attend and also play football for the University of Florida my skills is that in a very fast learner, I’m also a great listener when it comes to learner things or being taught something new. I hope be a relator in the future after my football career. And to find the need of customers.  

2.      The product that I’m selling is easy accessible housing to college students. The common thing that all my customers have in common is that they are having trouble finding housing on or close to college campuses when it is mandatory to be in local to attend in person classes.

3.      I’m offering housing to college students. Typically college students that are going to be under four year graduates.

4.      I care because it’s something myself have experienced and know the hardship that it can cause.

5.      Going to have to work alongside other people to obtain this goal.