3A - Your Entrepreneurship Story

3 years ago, I worked for Gamestop. During my 2 and a half years there, my duties often including cleaning, shelving, cashiering, as well as on-the-floor selling and planning and coordinating special events. My time selling consoles, games and more at Gamestop taught me a lot about how to sell and more importantly how to adjust your selling/entrepreneurial skills to each individual customer. This taught me that the customer or consumer, and their thoughts, are much more important than the actual product or its features. The entrepreneur needs to have an understanding of his or her customers' needs, and then be able to target those needs with products.

Hosting midnight releases also served to teach me a lot. Coordinating hundreds of people can be difficult and needs to go according to plan, or can become hectic. I also found that developing relationships improved our success as a business. Included in my post is a picture from our Star Wars midnight release. Through some customer contacts, we were able to start a relationship with a cosplay group in Gainesville. This worked to our benefit, as for free, they attended our event and took photos with customers. This relationship helped our event to be even more successful.

I hope to get a lot out of ENT this year. I want to be able to call myself an entrepreneur and understand what goes into being a successful entrepreneur. I'm looking forward to getting more in-depth as to what the core values are to an entrepreneur.