May Blog Post

For the month of May I have been wrapping up my mentorship at the Ontario Mills Mall. My mentor Alex Rehim is more of a friend then a mentor so when I conclude my mentorship when school is over I will still keep in touch and visit his business once in a while. He plans on opening more kiosks for the duration of summer and has invited me to help set up and check them out. Overall this year has been a fun time with my mentor and even though we will not be meeting any longer we will still maintain contact.

February Blog Post

I was talking to my mentor about how businesses like Apple scam their customers by continuously offering "updated" products and discontinuing older products. They brainwash consumers into thinking that the older product they have is useless and that they are subpar compared to the new products. Although this is kind of messed up, this is a good marketing strategy.

January Extra Blog Post

It's been slow at mentorship. There hasn't been much business lately at the kiosk, but hopefully it'll pick up. I haven't been getting as many hours as usual, but hopefully I'll get to work more soon. So far, I'm doing pretty well on my mentorship hours. In one of my previous blog posts, I said that my mentor's sales were dropping, but maybe I will try to offer some input on how to improve sales.

Extra October Post

For my extra blog post I wanted to give some brief background on my mentor since he is only twenty five years old and since his story is quite interesting.
His name is Alex Ahmed and he is from Egypt, he is 25 years old and he is the owner of a kiosk at Ontario Mills mall where I do my mentorship. So when he was around 20 yrs old he started his first business in Egypt as a broker where people would go to him to sell houses, car, electronics, etc. He had a Facebook page dedicated to this where people would meet via the internet. When he turned 24 he came to America with now job or American education. He was very broke at the time, so with help from his family oversees he started a small business of creams that belonged to his sister at Ontario Mills. This business was steady up about 4 months in when sales dropped. He then changed the products he was selling to toys. Sales have been steady since and he has opened another kiosk in Irvine where he sells the same products.

Upcoming Expectations

For the coming months ahead I have several things planned for my mentorship. First I hope to complete half of the hours required for the mentorship before the end of the year. I going to try and go with my mentor two to three times a week and I'll stay approximately 3 hrs each time. My mentor also explained to me that in the coming weeks I was gonna help along in his business hands on with him. Mean while my job when I go to my mentorship is mainly paperwork and filing along with some other things but I must be proficient at those tasks before I can go into the field with the others.

How I Got My Mentorship

Since my topic is on business when I went and talked to the owner about a possible mentorship he told me to come in a week after I talked to him. It was kinda out of place since all I would be doing is talking to him. After the time passed I went in and talked to him and explained what I would be doing with him and he was ok with it but he asked me if I was an adult. I was wondering why he asked me that and apparently it's because he had to contact his insurance to see if I could be covered in case of any accident. I had to wait several weeks to hear from him again and it went into the beginning of school, so in the mean time I had to pick another topic but now thats where I will be doing my mentorship.