Entry #6

This week for the $100.00 challenge, I was able to begin advertising my nail painting business. In order to do this, I created a flyer that described my business and how to contact me to set up an appointment to have your nails painted. I printed out fifty copies of this flyer and I then proceeded to hand them at each apartment door in the women’s half of the La Jolla apartment complex. Something from this week’s readings that really taught me a lot about how I would like to run my own successful business one day was the Harvard Manage Mentor on Customer Focus. Focusing on the customers is something that I have always noticed to set the successful companies apart from the unsuccessful ones. When I decide whether or not to continue doing business with a particular company, the first thing I consider is how well I am treated as a customer. I know now after learning the things that I have learned this past week that valuing the customers and ensuring that they are pleased with both the service and the product that your company provides them is the key to success in any given business.