Hello everyone, first of all I want to thank @galenkp as admin on THE WEEKEND community and I also want to participate for telling my story when I invited a friend to Open a Selling Business in the port area with a trishaw in a contest Weekend-engagement post topics 77: Influential

After reading and understanding the meaning of the four topics that I can choose from, my story is included in the first topic choice, namely;

Describe a situation in which you positively influenced someone - Who was it and in what way did you influence them, how did that accept it and what was the outcome.

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Invite A Friend To Open A Business Selling In The Port Area

This happened almost a year ago when the covid 19 outbreak hit the world and worsened the economy of every society at that time, a lot of people seem to have lost their jobs and it's hard to find money to support their respective families. I myself also felt the impact of this at that time but I was not too dizzy because I did not have the responsibility of having a wife and children.
At that time I worked as a driver and also as a tour guide because where I live is the place for most people to vacation and travel here. when the covid 19 outbreak hit, both local and foreign guests and tourists stopped to visit our place because at that time it was already forbidden and people were not allowed to leave their respective cities and even some places did confinement so they wouldn't leave their place.

At that time I began to think that if this continued I would not be able to earn money for my daily needs. I started to think about finding other solutions to start a business so that I could earn money from the business and be able to meet my daily needs.
Because where I live is not far from the ferry port I thought of opening a business, namely a business with a car that can get around or can go back and forth, after I tried it and thank God my efforts paid off.

This is a photo of me selling in a car in the balohan port area of ​​Sabang City.

When I was selling in the Harbor area by car, namely a box car that I bought when a friend came over to me, namely a friend when I worked as a driver at that time and he was a driver too at that time and now he has lost his job because he is no longer there guests who come. He told me about his current situation and he asked for a solution so that he could have a job and be able to provide for his wife and two young children.
After hearing his story, I thought about asking him to sell just like me, namely selling in the Port area because in the Port area there are people who always go back and forth from Banda Aceh to Sabang and from Sabang to Banda Aceh.
And at that time he said that he did not have a large capital to buy a car like me Because to buy a car like me it requires a minimum of Rp25 million.
I also told him that you don't need to sell by car like me you just need to find a motorized trishaw with a small capital of around 3 million you can already have a rickshaw and that's where you bring the things you need to sell in the port area for the needs of the ship's passengers, such as mineral drinks, other drinks or snacks that you can sell.

To convince him so that he feels more confident and more motivated I said that I can collect net money per day IDR 100,000 which I can save, Test and that I also said even though you can't collect IDR 100,000 per day you can collect IDR 50,000 net money a day, it's very good to support your family, you have to be confident and you have to believe and don't lose before competing, I said at that time.

We will never know if we don't try it at all, we have to try and later we will know the result whether we fail or whether we will succeed in what we try. We will never know if we don't try it at all, we have to try and later we will know the result whether we fail or whether we will succeed in what we try.And if there is success after you try it, then don't be proud of your success, make it an additional motivation.

Not long after I gave him the idea, he finally bought a rickshaw for around Rp. 2,500,000 when he bought it and he bought the things he needed to sell at that time such as drinks, snacks and cut fruit.
Not long after I gave him the idea, he finally bought a rickshaw for around Rp. 2,500,000 when he bought it and he bought the things he needed to sell at that time such as drinks, snacks and cut fruit.

Below I have prepared some pictures of his pedicab stall and his selling activities at the port.

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And this is a selfie of the two of us because I feel happy and he is also happy now for me to show all of my friends in this post of my story. Thank you very much to @galenkp for holding this contest, so that I can share my story here. I hope my story can be an inspiration to all of you.

All right, my friends. That's my story, as if to invite a friend to open a small business, namely selling with a rickshaw and getting decent results per day.
I hope we all can be successful and can help friends around us all and most importantly. Let us not feel proud of our success because it will backfire on us.

And the most important thing is that we have to try it first, don't lose before competing, that's the main key that we must apply in business matters, in my opinion.
And the most important thing is that we have to try it first, don't lose before competing, that's the main key that we must apply in business matters, in my opinion.