Hello my name is Selim
and through this little article I will talk about the first class of doing
business in the USA, I will also give you details about our first pedagogical output.
During this little article I will talk about the most important steps for
starting a business in the USA. I will also talk about how my professor managed
to start her own business and gain some customers; and I will compare her with
Mary Vallender a real estate agent that took us inside a two million dollars condominium.
I will start with what I
have learned from our first class, we mainly talked about doing business in the
us soil, indeed doing business in this country that is the united states of
America isn’t such easy as you think. You must have three important tools, the
first one is perseverance, sometimes you win sometimes you lose it’s how
business work so if you fail it’s natural, everybody does that but never give
up on your dream and keep pushing until you succeed. The other important thing
to have is money (or how my teacher use to call it “blood”) without blood a
human body cannot live. it’s the same for the business if there is no money
there is no business. And finally the most important tool is a network what I
mean by that is that a business can’t be built without contacts that can help
you during the evolution of your business. There are three ways of developing
your network, either by volunteering, which mean you are a member of an
organization and you got the occasion to meet other people that can become your
future contacts. The other tool is mentoring, which means that you are an apprentice
and your mentor will teach you the ropes of the business and at the end of your
learning not only you have discovered things but you have also gained the list
of contacts that your mentor got which could be helpful in future occasions.
The last tool I will talk about is contact with people, which means that you
should not be embarrassed when you want to go talk to somebody,who knows maybe
it will be a good future contact and also a friend so don’t be ashamed if you
got a business card give it to the people that you consider important (such as
clients or people that can help you in your business…), so go say hello to the
person you consider important it might really help you in your future. We can
say that starting a business in the USA requires a couple of assets and tools
that will help you during your daily challenges, we can take as example the
story of my teacher Miss Valerie Beck a self-made business woman with her
business of “chocolate tours company”.
My teacher started
her business in the USA and had an important success, but before that I will
talk about her background. Miss Valerie Beck earned her bachelor of arts from
Harvard College, and her jury’s doctor from Harvard Law School. She also spent
a semester at the Sorbonne in Paris; at the beginning she specialized in
negotiating and drafting agreements as well as corporate finance. She decided
to follow the dream that she had when she was nineteen which was creating her
own company that was about chocolate this is how “chocolate tours company” was
created. Things weren’t easy for Miss Beck when she started her business,
indeed there was a little problem is that she didn’t had any customers, even
when she made efforts to promote her business there was nobody showing up at
her “chocolate tours “so she decided to do something really original; indeed
she send an e-mail to her ex-colleagues that were lawyers and they showed up at
the chocolate tour and they had a blast that day. After that her ex-colleague
started to talk about miss beck and her business and then she started to
receive customers, the story of miss beck is a perfect example of what I was
talking about in the previous part of this blog post which that if you really
want to start a business in the USA you need to built a solid network that will
help you through your challenges and make you win profit and expend your
business. On the next part I am going to compare the situation that faced Miss
Beck and her friend Mary Vallender.
Mary Vallender is
a women that during her professional life had switched many times her career,
she had an MBA and a master in science she learned during her prolific career
many skills such as marketing, sales, analysing data, customers knowledge…
She had switch
jobs three times before deciding to become a real estate agent. Just like Miss
Beck, Mary Vallender didn’t had any customers or contacts, so she started to
develop her network by talking to people during events such as dinners or
meetings. She also aimed for a specific target indeed the targets that she
choose were persons that are having enough money to buy multi-million
condominium she developed a huge network of contacts that in return talked
about her and brought her more and more customers. In the end we can say that
she used nearly the same techniques and tactics that used our teacher miss Beck
to develop her business and get some customers.
In conclusion we
can say trough this article, is that creating a business in the USA requires to
built a huge network that you acquire during your career and also a lot of
effort and investment. The stories of Mary Vallender and Valerie Beck are the
perfect example that shows us the importance of networking and determination for
creating a business and get a good success from it.
http://www.valeriebeckchocolateuplift.com/#!about/c20r9
http://www.atproperties.com/agents/MaryVallender
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