Exit Interview

1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers? What is your best answer and why?
-My essential question is, what is the best way to maintain profits year round with minimal manipulation to prices. My best answer is, keep up with trends and have good salesmanship because toys are seasonal and new toys come out often. Also because most of the time as a sale person you will be pitching to parents of kids so good salesmanship is necessary to convince the parents.
(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
-No real process was undergone, the answer was found mostly by accident by the help of my mentor. New toys were coming out and he didn't have them and he saw a decrease in sales.
(3) What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?
-One problem I faced was that even though toys are for kids, kids themselves didn't have money to pay for them so the parents were the ones deciding whether or not to buy the toys. I solved by generating,  with the help of my mentor, a different sales approach to parents that was shorter and related more to the child.
(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
-The two most significant sources I used to answer my EQ was my mentor and articles I found online. In the hours I did at my mentorship he helped me develop three different answers to my EQ and when I formulated those answers I did further research to further support my answers. The articles were mostly random but still related to my answers.