20A – Growing Your Social Capital

1) One person must be a domain expert in your industry.

1) Who they are and what their background is.

Levan Brelidze, co owns a store and is experienced in advertising, buying from suppliers etc. 

2) Which 'slot' you are filling with each person (i.e., domain expert, market expert, supplier), and how the person fills the spot.

Domain Expert; they have some experience in running a business and marketing. 

3) A description of how you found the person and contacted the person.

My mother knows this person; facebook messenger. 

4) The nature of the exchange you have with the person -- what favor did they do for you? What is the return expectation? 

They are a close family member, call it a favor. 

5) How will including this person in your network enhance your ability to exploit an opportunity? 

Not that much in the united states but definitely better in Georgia. 

2) One person must be an expert on your market. This would be someone who is targeting your market with similar products services -- or knows a lot about conducting customer research in your area -- or represents a major piece of your market (this might be most applicable with B2B markets).

1) Who they are and what their background is.

Christina Early, she sells niche products and services that she sells to people in her community, is also a cosmetologist. 

2) Which 'slot' you are filling with each person (i.e., domain expert, market expert, supplier), and how the person fills the spot.

Market expert; they know a lot about conducting customer research in my area. 

3) A description of how you found the person and contacted the person.

Family friend; Facebook.

4) The nature of the exchange you have with the person -- what favor did they do for you? What is the return expectation? 

Since they are a family friend it was a favor.

5) How will including this person in your network enhance your ability to exploit an opportunity?

Having anyone with extensive knowledge of the field is important. 

3) One person must be an important supplier to your industry. This would be someone who is selling products and services to other organizations/firms in your industry. 

I haven't been able to contact anyone of this caliber. 

Finally: Reflect. This experience requires you to do a little 'targeted networking.' How will this experience shape how you participate in any future networking events? Did this experience differ from your networking experiences in the past? How?

I have not networked with such strict parameters before so this definitely set a challenge, thankfully my family has a lot of connections and friends in our mother country.I will not be participate in any future networking events hopefully, reaching out to people is extremely uncomfortable.