I live in a small town, and there's a Ford car dealership about 10 minutes away. I just turned 18 and I need a job.
For all my life, as far back as I can remember, I have always been excellent at economics, especially marketing, and the born-ability to change the perception of the customer to (make) them believe that "… Our product is of the highest quality than any other you may find, and our company has a specialty in this criteria."
Anyway, back to the car retailer. I know that for every great market strategy, in my experiences and foremost opinion, gathering information is the best way to base and plan a good strategy. By that, I mean, I'm trying to create a plan of "This is why you need me!". I have driven by the past half year (I was in school) and I had noticed that the same cars were always in the parking lot every time I drove past. And once, I was interested in one of the cars they owned. And I had to wait seriously 5 minutes until a salesman came out to talk to me. And what a god awful sales pitch he gave to. Also, I have been looking, and I have never seen a single advertisement anywhere.
From what I hear, the owners are older people, own a dozen businesses, extremely rich, and has so much money & are so old, that they could care less what happens to there business. But that's only rumor.
I failed at school, mostly because I was extremely busy increasing my knowledge on learning the "physics" of Wall Street… Instead of learning how atoms worked.