Growing Your Social Capital

1.      Eric Esterline

a.       Sports information professor, originally from IN and his background includes working in sports radio, sports journalism and sports production for various companies.

b.      domain expert

c.       They are my professor and just talked after class one day.

d.      Just a favor by them answering my questions, no return expectation.

e.       Use them too see who I should be directing my product at and how to do it efficiently.

2.      Jamie McCloskey

a.       Senior Associate Athletics Director from Columbus Ohio

b.      Supplier

c.       Was my professor last semester

d.      Just a phone call with him no return expectation.

e.       They are a supplier of sports that I would like to stream.  

3.     TJ Pittinger

a.       Podcast speaker from south Florida

b.      Market expert

c.       Listened to his podcast so I contacted him for an interview

d.      Talked about the market only thing he asked was to keep listening and spread the word

e.       They will help me learn about the market that I want to target as they are part of the group.

Reflection:

I think I will focus more on networking at events as it would have made this job a lot easier to do. I think that in the past most people were introduced to me from a person I knew but this time I had to find the people.