20A – Growing Your Social Capital

Domain Expert: Todd Frank
Todd Frank is a treasurer for a big-time steel company in New York. He also works a lot with construction. He has dealt with the business of large buildings and areas in which they also have been in touch with parking garages and lots. He knows how crucial these are too many big-time areas and knows they can be a great impact in certain places and make the areas more likely to have visitors.

Market Expert: Joe Fradella
Joe Fradella is a parking lot manager at Yankee Stadium back in New York. He also runs a few other parking lot locations in the city and on Long Island. He is very familiar with how to operate such parking lots and knows how in certain areas parking lots like these can make some big money and make a positive impact on the community which also helps with the business.

Supplier: AJ Rozza
AJ Rozza owns his own construction company and has dealt with all types of projects ranging from street work to parking lots/garages to skyscraper renovation. He would be the guy to call to design these lots and make them look appealing to anyone looking to park, easy to navigate inside them and place them in the proper areas, in which they would attract the most people and create the most opportunity for business.

Reflection: I have always been one to network, not only for my own benefit of meeting people who can possibly help me with a job in my career in the future but to gain knowledge from professionals who have been doing what I want to do for so long. It is always good to expand your network web because you never know when it can help you out later in life and it is also good to gain some insider knowledge on everything. I still follow this to this day, "It's not all about what you know, but is all about who you know", this was told to me by one of the most successful people I know who's been working on Wall Street for 20 years.