...E-Business (QRT2) Task 3 Proposal for Online Business Expansion Part III Website Design and Cost Estimates David Woodruff MBA-07/01/14 ID# 000401226 Cell: 801-709-4382 Time zone: Mountain dwoodr5@wgu.edu The Canard House is a small 12 room, family owned bed and breakfast planned to operate in conjunction with This is the Place Heritage Park (TITP) in Salt Lake City, UT. The inn is a reconstruction of a historic mansion and embodies the traditional charm and hospitality of a bygone era. The company operates as an independent partner with TITP and benefits from tourism, weddings and other special events held at the park. While there are several bed & breakfasts and boutique inns within Salt Lake City, none can boast a finer location than the Canard House. The inn provides a unique historical setting in a prime location within close proximity to events, dining and transportation. It has unobstructed views of both the Salt Lake Valley and Wasatch mountain range, and is situated in a 450 acre preserve surrounded by picturesque and historic structures. Currently, all advertising has been done by the in-house marketing department. The department is overwhelmed by having to create campaigns for five separate entities within the umbrella of the “This is the Place Heritage Foundation”. Consequently effective online marketing and sales for the Canard House have been sluggish at best. To help bolster growth and sales, consultants...
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...Pesticides to Animal Health The Gaia’s Story Wholesome Products for Healthy Pets Email and phone numbers Customer Service hours Direct links to each major section of the website Checkout process (connects out to Authorize.net) Our commitment to privacy Links to Offsite Resources (page footer) Vegan Dog Biscuits Blog post 2 and comments Article 2 – Blueberry May Reduce Joint Inflammation In Dogs 100% Organic Meat Jerky Facebook Etc. ... Etc. ... Twitter QRT2 Task 3B Proposal for Online Business Expansion Gaia’s Organic Dog Treats New Website Mockup Home Page Store Main Page Blog Main Page Estimated Costs: Project Implementation Component Vendor Cost Explanatory Notes Domain registration, GoDaddy.com 1 yr. Bigcommerce Bigcommerce comprehensive e commerce and website hosting package, "Gold" Authorize.net Authorize.net payment gateway eCC Desktop Webgility $19.98 Domain registration for website, and business class email service (GoDaddy, 2014). $69.95 E commerce and website platform. No setup charge. Billed by the month. Includes hosting of website, online store, shopping cart, and checkout functionality. Includes full support services (Bigcommerce, 2014). $119.00 Payment Gateway, integrates with Bigcommerce checkout and executes online payment transactions. One time setup fee of $99.00. Also charges $0.10 per transaction (Authorize.Net, 2014). $6.95 Application that connects and integrates the...
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...According to The Hack attack at Winter’s Tale Publishing. John Winter is faced with several ramifications after starting up an online publishing business from his house without going through the proper regulatory policies and procedures of setting up a little business. However, in order to fix these issues John Winter should consider hiring a Chief Manager Officer to oversee the business operation and come up with a strategy to evaluate the company background, its alternatives, the proposed solutions, and the recommendation outcomes. Background The Hack attack at Winter’s Tale Publishing is a case study analysis that describes the poor management of an organization and how hackers can easily attack a business information technology infrastructure operations. According to the case, John Winter was born in Chicago, Illinois and as a child he would make up stories based upon shared...
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...Entrepreneurs setting up a new business need to employ people for a number of reasons: - Only in the smallest business does the owner have the capacity to carry out all the tasks necessary to provide the finished product or service. In most business, it is necessary to employ people. As a business grows, it needs to ensure that it can meet demand by increasing the number of staff it employs. - An entrepreneur setting up a new business will not often have all the skills required to run a business. The same applies to a partnership, or even a limited company. Most businesses require specialist expertise in relation to the production of their goods or services, the marketing of them, and the management of their finance and will therefore need to employ appropriate people. - Some businesses are seasonal in nature; the demand for their products will peak at certain times of the year and drop away at other times. Examples are strawberry growers (spring and summer), cafes and restaurants in tourist areas (summer), and gift shops (Christmas). A business needs to ensure that it can meet demand during a peak season by employing additional staff. - A start-up business that wants to expand will need to consider outsourcing, training existing staff or taking on new staff. - Types of employee used in small businesses People can be employed in a number of different ways and a business owner needs to think carefully about this in order to ensure that the business is run as efficiently as possible...
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...PROFESSOR ABDULRAZZAK CHARBAJI Date and Place of Birth: Beirut 7-25-1948 Nationality: Lebanese Sex: Male Marital Status: Married Address: P.O.Box: 11- 2065 Riad El Solh Beirut 11072100 Lebanon. Land Line: 961 - 1 - 355046 Mobile 961 - 3 - 714279 E-mail: Prof., charbaji@charbaji.com Computer Skills: Econometrics Eviews, SPSS, Advanced SPSS, Excel and Microsoft Project. EDUCATION: Year 1978 Degree Ph.D. Institution Univ. of Northern Colorado Department of Applied Statistics & Research Methods Univ. of Northern Colorado. U.S.A http://www.unco.edu Univ. of Northern Colorado. U.S.A Beirut Arab University Area of Study Applied Statistics & Research Methods http://www.unco.edu/coe/asr m/programs.htm http://www.unco.edu/coe/asr m/index.htm Business Administration/ Financial Management Commerce/Economics 1975 1971 M.A. B.A. Published Research In International Referred Journals: " The Effect of Globalization on Commitment to Ethical Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility in Lebanon”, Social Responsibility Journal (2009). http://www.emeraldinsight.com.ezproxy.aub.edu.lb/Insight/viewContainer.do;jsessionid=F8 FECFB1ECF1459573B900E5DE0A6B28?containerType=Journal&containerId=6000003 "Assessing the Global Readiness of Arab Countries to Join the WTO: A Multivaraite analysis" Journal of Economic & Administrative Sciences (JEAS) Vol. 24, No. 1, June 2008 (1 - 14). http://jeas.cbe.uaeu.ac.ae/jeas2008_Jun/01_Assess.pdf http//:jeas.cbe.uaeu.ac.ae Developing a model...
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...BSI Improves Accuracy, Boosts Sales with Single Customer View BSI (British Standards Institution) is the United Kingdom’s national standards body and the originator of many of the world’s most commonly used standards. The company works with more than 64,000 clients in 150 countries. BSI used the Oracle Enterprise Data Quality Management suite to create a single, accurate, complete record of each client in just one month. As a result, the accuracy of its customer and corporate data has improved to nearly 100 percent, and BSI can refresh information four times faster. The project began with a simple need: BSI wanted to optimize customer insight by creating master customer records that captured each client’s profile, purchasing history, business relationships, and other attributes in a single view. The goal was to eliminate inaccurate, incomplete, nonstandard, multiformat, and duplicate customer and transactional data from the customer database, which was growing 3 percent to 4 percent each year. Senior officers knew that having complete and accurate data would improve the organization’s ability to segment customers, increase marketing effectiveness, boost sales per customer, and reduce churn. In addition, by standardizing names, dates, and values in corporate and customer records, BSI could improve the performance and productivity of its marketing, sales, and operations teams, improving the match between customer needs and BSI services. The need for standardization also extended...
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...LO1 Understand how health and safety legislation and regulations affect a business working environment Legislation: statutory duties of employers and employees relating to health, safety and welfare; Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999; Health and Safety at Work Act 1974; Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992; Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995; Control of Substances Hazardous to Health 1994; Electricity at Work Regulations 1989; Display Screen Equipment Regulations 1992; Manual Handling Operations Regulations Implementation in workplace: legal requirements; workplace policies for job role; reporting procedures; key personnel responsible for health and safety; harmful work practices; organising own work area LO2 Know the requirements for healthy, safe and productive working conditions Physical environment: impact of working environment eg potential for falling objects, sharp edges and trailing leads; evacuation assembly areas; site building works; off-site work; organic infestation; vermin infestation; dampness and mould; materials eg hazardous, waste disposal; hygiene facilities eg washing and rest facilities, disabled access and toilet facilities; food preparation areas; pest control; noise and atmospheric pollution; temperature and ventilation Equipment: safety guards; warning signs and sound signals; maintenance frequency; protective clothing; accessible emergency exits; fire extinguishers...
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...Biomedical scientist: Job description More in this section Job description Salary and conditions Entry requirements Training Career development Employers and vacancy … Related jobs Print all pages in this section Case studies Biomedical scientist: Ann Thomas Biomedical scientist: Kathryn Owen Biomedical scientist: Roslyn Cooke Biomedical scientists work in healthcare and carry out a range of laboratory tests and techniques on tissue samples and fluids to help clinicians diagnose diseases. They also evaluate the effectiveness of treatments. Their work is extremely important for many hospital departments and the functions they carry out are wide ranging. For example, they may work on medical conditions, such as cancer, diabetes, AIDS, malaria, food poisoning or anaemia, or carry out tests for emergency blood transfusions or to see if someone has had a heart attack. Biomedical scientists can work in three areas: infection sciences; blood sciences; and cellular sciences. Infection sciences include: •medical microbiology - identification of micro-organisms causing disease and their antibiotic treatment; •virology - identification of viruses, associated diseases and monitoring the effectiveness of vaccines. Blood sciences include: •clinical chemistry - analysis of body fluids and toxicology studies; •transfusion science - determination of donor/recipient blood compatibility, ensuring blood banks are sufficient; •haematology - form...
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...The Zopa business model It is an exchange that offers a platform to borrowers and lenders to meet to get solutions to the monetary needs in the form of personal loan. There is not a single borrower to whom a lender’s money is parcelled out; it is at least distributed among 50 borrowers to reduce the risk to lender’s money. Zopa earns from borrowers 1% as fee against the loan and commission against repayment protection insurance. Zopa wanted to gain a market share of 0.2% to break even the UK loan market, which it seemed would be realised in the next 18 months after its operation. The primary advantage to borrowers by opening their account at Zopa is that they can borrow in small quantities at cheaper rates for brief periods. Banks do just the opposite of it where loans get cheaper if taken in huge for a long period of time. Such borrowers whose credit rating is not good enough in banks can avail personal loans at Zopa easily by borrowing through their online marketplace (Chaffey, 2008). Zopa lenders also remain in better positions than they would have been if they had invested in banks, as Zopa marketplace offers better earning; they earn 20-30% more at Zopa than what they would earn through a deposit account. To remain on the safe side, lenders select the minimum interest rate at which they would lend after taking note of bad debt in various markets within Zopa. Borrowers are out in various risk divisions with varying interest rates based on their credit records to help lenders...
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...kind bicycles in the USA… designed and manufactured by and for the professional road and extreme sport rider.” As a small company with fewer than twenty full-time employees and a host of freelance and part-time help, FreeRiders, Inc. is faced with strong competition in the category from larger bike manufacturers who, in recent years, have increased their advertising and PR budgets by an estimated seventy-five percent, and offset their costs by pushing production overseas. Economic pressures due to inflated production costs and competitors’ increased market share have lead FreeRiders to re-assess its goals for the future. This new strategic plan will unfold in several phases and include a 9-month-to-market new product line extension, a five year plan to increase revenue to between two and five million, and a long term plan to ensure the company’s viability ten years and beyond. II. ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS FreeRiders, Inc is a small, independently owned company founded in 1999. Of the fifteen full-time employees at the company’s headquarters, four key employees will be instrumental in carrying out this marketing plan. The key players include: Bryce Andersen III, a former American Cycling Team member, who retired from the sport in 1992 and worked as a usability and safety consultant in the cycling industry...
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...issue at hand was in the launching of "the URL Cliptomania.com" e-business website (Brown et al., 2012, p. 309). Jim was determined to seek a way to get their business up and running. Jim found many of the resources that could potentially work, some of the resources the Santos pondered utilizing included: 1) contracting for hire a "internet service provider", 2) software purchase and installment fees (if applicable), and 3) hiring an employee with IT development knowledge and applicability (Brown et al., 2012, p. 309). Consequently the options are not favorable due to the high costs to utilize such measures. The second strategic issue at hand was the rising cost of running their e-business. The Santos' found that Yahoo! began to charge more and more over the span of four years (1999-2003); Yahoo! began to charge insignificant fees that the Santos would be giving away approximately "2.5 to 3.5 percent" for the processing of payments, not to include the "3.5 revenue" taxation to sell on the yahoo website (originating from "Yahoo! store search"), individual processing fees for items sold of "0.5", adding up the minimal fees and the variable percentage paid to sell merchandise and the ability to continue to make a profit (Brown et al., 2012, p. 310).The spike in the cost of utilizing Yahoo's! services was too much. This prompted the Santos to revisit the alternatives to reproduce a site dedicated to their business. The Santos eventually, hired...
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...Home Business Ideas If you are trading products or services currently and would like to work from dwelling enterprise among the fortunate to kind of have a clear concept of who a few businesses. Otherwise, set the route for you to make a dwelling from dwelling to search for the right concept to question that. 6 consider the most popular dwelling business ideas is here. 1. If you deal a merchandiser, you can start with affiliate trading. Affiliate charges for other people's products on the market. 75% or in some situations, up to about 25% from sales of digital products for the cost of 100% of the dividends can be highly profitable. This means that your initial effort to conceive the first sale after doing again the old alignment on your part, without endeavoring to pursue some of the recurring sales opportunities better. There are a allotmentment of persons and companies proposing affiliate affirmation. Online is more well known, such as charge Junction Clickbank or seek for some. All house names such as Amazon and large-scale shops like Wal-Mart, this affiliate program. Most sellers offer informative and promotional components for yourself, you can start with little or no cost. 2. If you are sensibly well writing, can be a freelance author. Since the blast of the Internet and the need for a high-quality website content that has increased considerably. Numerous webmasters are too engaged conceiving the content that they need to be able to spend enough time to run their...
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...INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS What is an Intellectual Property? With compared to real property, Intellectual Property is NOT tangible because it is not a product of human skill but of human intellect. Therefore it is said that “it is a fruit of human intellect”. Why Intellectual Property Rights are important? Although it is a fact that the power of thinking or the Power of mind cannot be stolen by a powerful third party, it is equally true that “ Intellectual Property Rights “ are being violated all over the globe. Intellectual Property Law is the branch of Law that provides protection for this valuable result of human endeavor. In the process of the development of the world as it stands today, the human mind: the intellect played the major role which nobody can deny. Therefore every country has given a prominent place to this special branch of Law for the sake of economic development. What are the governing bodies and Acts of Intellectual Property Rights? Intellectual Property Act No.36 of 2003 is the frame work within which the Intellectual Property Rights are currently protected within SRI LANKA which is a member state of World Intellectual Property organization (WIPO) and a party for the International Treaties/Agreements such as (PCT) Patent Co-operation Treaty, TRIPS Agreement and Berne convention. The National Intellectual Property Office of Sri Lanka is the ONLY Government body established for the full control of IP related matters...
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...PATRICIA HEPWORTH 1 Any Road, Anytown AN1 1CV Telephone: 01632 960 739 (Home); 07700 900 709 (Mobile) Email: patriciahepworth@example.com Professional Profile A dedicated and results-driven senior manager with a highly successful background in the achievement of profitable business growth through the creation and execution of successful sales and marketing strategies. Experienced in working with leading brands in the competitive retail and automotive industries with the primary focus on exceeding expectations for customer service delivery while ensuring optimum brand impact. Possesses excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills and the ability to develop and maintain mutually beneficial internal and external relationships. Enjoys being part of, as well as managing, motivating and training, a successful and productive team, and thrives in highly pressurised and challenging working environments. Career Summary 2005–2009 TYRES UK LTD Freelance Consultant/Interim Network Development Manager • Project managing the redevelopment of the retail sales strategy across the UK market with the ultimate aim of facilitating business performance improvements • Successfully developing multi-channel solutions including instigating a new HiQ Fast Fit Franchise proposition • Playing a pivotal role in the design and development of a class-leading B2C eBusiness website • Working in close conjunction with external professionals to create and implement...
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