ALRIGHT so, my interview with Mr. Apple Bottom Jeans went
extremely well. As previously guessed, a few of my questions made him pause for
a few seconds and a couple of times mutter ‘wow that’s really good.’ This interview
went really good, lasting almost an hour and a half.
Mr. Apple Bottom Jeans wanted to open up even before my
first question started. He started asking me about my interests, and we had a
pretty long conversation about starting a business, which is ironic since my
first question was about starting his company from scratch. Mr. Jeans went on
for a long time about that, which was great. He started off as a child actor.
At three. By pure coincidence. And ever since then he had just stayed in the media
game. Just switched during high school from in front of the camera to behind.
Mr. Apple Bottom Jeans has had a really great career, and is
extremely successful. He attributes his success to being nice and dressing well.
Which means that everyone else can earn a lot more money if they just gave a
shit….. huh….
My question about communication with clients over the course
of his career was very informative to me. He went from starting out waiting in
line with other businessmen to go into a telephone booth to call his answering machine
to write down the numbers that called him to then go back and call each and
every number to try and schedule something….. that was a complicated way to
start out. Nowadays, he gets emails/texts and just quickly responds to them. He
booked three more appointments during our interview. That is about 2000 dollars
he just made in the hour and a half we were talking. The other side, businesses,
have gotten a lot more corporate. He has never had anyone drop his services,
but he has turned down multiple appointments due to something going on in the
same time frame.
I enjoyed my equipment question, because it puts a lot of
things into perspective. When he started out, he rented constantly, and had
about $2,000 worth of actual equipment. Nowadays, he has about $100,000 worth
of equipment in his truck while we talked, more in his house, and very rarely
rented anymore.
The relationships between himself, his competitors, and his
clients are…. Weird. They are extremely happy. He has all of the people I
previously mentioned on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media sites. (We
then spent about 10 minutes looking through photos of him and his clients.
Including the extremely high profile ones.)
One note I did write down was that he does not interact with
any of the larger people outside of pharmaceuticals because they are unionized.
Apparently Mr. Apple Bottom Jeans is discouraged to work with Union people.
To conclude our interview, he actually… um…. Offered me an
internship. Since Mr. Apple Bottom Jeans works on a day to day basis, this
would be ideal for me over the summer. I can work 5 days of the week, and be alongside
Mr. Apple Bottom Jeans the remaining two days. I will most likely try and do
that.
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