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1. My talents that related to my business are my way to connect people socially. I feel that I am extremely extroverted and do well in social settings. Furthermore, I have always been able to connect others. If I know two interests or desires between people, I feel that I have always been able to link them together. This relates strongly to my business that would connect a customer with a cleaner. I feel that I could do this and create a comfortable environment using my past knowledge of how to please people while helping them find others they have things in common with.
2. I’m offering my customers a company or way of communication between someone with a need and someone who can fill this need. More specifically, I can offer a person willing to clean someone else’s dorm room with someone who has limited time or desire to clean their own room. Since dorm rooms are relatively small, this service is in ideology supposed to be quick and allow accessibility for people who don’t have the time to search for someone to clean their room or provide them this service.
3. I am offering this service to freshman students living in dorms at the University of Florida that have the disposable income and the lack of free time to clean their own room.
4. People care because it allows them to get their room cleaned and offers a service and eliminates the waste of time and effort spent on searching for someone to clean their room. It also makes another student cleaning your room socially acceptable as opposed to doing it on a singular basis that might make some students uncomfortable.
5. I have an advantage that no one else has. I am a student at the University of Florida and could personally benefit from this service. For that reason, I have an amazing customer insight. Additionally, a lot of my friends and the people that I interact with have the same desires. This makes my accessibility to the customer very easy for me. It allows for me to have a customer connect that other businesses don’t. Additionally, since I have this problem, I look at this service as a way to solve a solution rather than make money. To me this is fixing a problem that others have and why I am so invested and steadfast on the idea of the good and help that this service can provide.


            I think the only problem and out of touch part my business faces is getting the cleaners. There definitely is a demand for the service, however, I question how big the demand is for people to make money cleaning other’s rooms. I feel that this is the one major obstacle and limiting factor. Similar to Uber, my service requires someone willing to do a service for someone else that they could very easily do. This might limit the amount of people willing to get involved in my service as cleaners and could make it harder for me to find a large enough number of cleaners to meet the customer demand of those wanting their dorm room cleaned.

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  1. Esther GoldsteinOctober 8, 2018 at 9:26 AM

    I like that you said that your talent in business is being able to connect with people socially. Business is about selling yourself. If you don't have the communication skills you won't be able to run a business as easily. I also like your idea that students can make extra money by cleaning but it is very important to background check.

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  2. UnknownOctober 8, 2018 at 2:26 PM

    I think that your individual talents suit you well, and will definitely help you to succeed if you tried to make this business a reality. I agree that you may find some difficulty finding cleaners, but I think that once people hear about your business and see that it is possible to make some easy money doing it, they will begin applying to be cleaners. I like that you framed this as a service to help others solve problems, as it is not necessarily a problem you face yourself. My idea is similar to yours, in that we both are providing a service that links two people, and we are not directly selling them anything.

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