The entrepreneur I interviewed is named Cameron Peres. He is a sophomore at the University of Michigan and just launched an advertising business. Due to a legal contract he has to abide by that was all of the information he provided me. He did however tell me about his target customers which you can guess pretty confidently what he does. Here is the Interview:
Michael: What type of business have you stared and what are you future plans?
Cameron: It is an advertising company, but I cannot disclose specifically who we are contracted with.
Michael: Who are your target customers?
Cameron: Students and young adults between the age of 14-25
Michael: Have you spoken to customers about their problems and needs?
Cameron: Yes, we have a high success rate in responses, and what our company is created to do.
Michael: What was one issue a customer brought to your attention?
Cameron: We had one who was not satisfied with the outcome of what we created, and we gave him a full re-reimbursement, and we offer our clients 100% satisfaction guaranteed,
Michael: Thank you for your time.
Cameron: Your welcome
What bothered me was his lack of responses and his secretiveness and information he was withholding from me. It makes me question whether or not he is actually pleasing his customers or if he is just saying so to look good in the interview. Personally he was the worst interview I have conducted and definitely a great learning experience,
Hi Michael! It’s super unfortunate that your injury is hindering the classwork, because it does take some physical work to get some of these assignments done. Sorry to hear that, man. I think your questions to Cameron were good, despite his lack of response. It sucks, but sometimes it’s hard to get people to talk. I think it would’ve been helpful to do someone a little more local, because then you could have interviewed “the twenty percent.” I think you did the best you could, however. Here’s my blog, if you wanted to check it out: http://youreamuggle.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-twenty-percent.html
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ReplyDeleteSo sorry to hear about your injury, get well soon! Your choice of questions were great, and different from what I've seen thus far. It is too bad Cameron wouldn't be a bit more cooperative but it is great that you took it as a learning experience and didn't let it discourage you. Maybe next time find someone who already has their idea up and running so there will be no need for secrecy. Here is my blog if you are interested http://opportunistictimes.blogspot.com
Michael, that sucks about breaking your legs as that does put a huge damper on being able to get quality interviews! Getting recordings is hard enough any way. The person you interviewed definitely did not give out very good information especially considering this is a advertising firm. Better luck next time. Here is a link to my blog:
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