What a successful day! On Thursday, we had the chance to prototype BlendZ during ICC. I spent the first part of the week driving around Lima looking for the cheapest place to buy fruit and Wednesday morning was spent cutting. Thursday was the big day though; around 2 or maybe even 3 hours were spent squeezing oranges and setting up the stand between the gym and the track, with a view of all ICC activities of the day. Today, although excited and determined to win all ICC activities of the day, we were more worried about selling, starting to establish our BlendZ as a brand and having everything go as smoothly as possible; and indeed it did! We sold around 85 smoothies in a span of 40 minutes, something we honestly were not expecting. But that's not the most important part of that day; what mattered most is that we figured some things out, we learned things that we could not have learned without the sale and found out that there were crucial things in order to sell and get prepared that we had not thought of before. Everything we found out are definitely things that will help us become more successful as we start out business and establish the brand at school. We came to the conclusion that our product is very desirable and most people are willing to pay the price even though it was higher than other things sold on campus. We also found out that people are willing to wait in line when the product offered is a great one and they are also willing to give feedback in order to improve our products. On the other hand, we found out some flaws such as the line was not too quick and a more effective cashier system such as 2 cashiers. We had also implemented a ticket system that turned out to be confusing and somewhat unnecessary. These were things we would definitely need to improve in order to give our clients the best experience possible.
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9/7/2014 11:20:58 am
Caro!! great blog, and yes BLENDZ was a true success!!!! For your next bog entry try to keep the anecdote more concise and reflect on your learning a little more! What were the most important takeaways from the experience? :)
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F
9/7/2014 11:36:13 am
Thanks Babi! I'll remember for next week :)
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Corey Topf
9/13/2014 06:10:17 am
Feedback! https://diigo.com/03z081
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