...QRT2 Task 1 QRT2 Task 1 A1. Viability of Product or Service N & F Computers of Clarksville Tennessee is proud to start offering its expanded product line online through e-commerce. Customers have to personally enter the business in order to facilitate purchases at this time for home and small office computer solutions. Currently N & F Computers is engaged in the local market with a Website but it does not allow online purchases. Through offering products for purchase via a modified Website within and outside conventional hours, the organization can reach new customers regionally and expand globally. Profits are expected through offering medium to large businesses affordable, mid-level, customized personal computers (PC’s), and enter the booming market of Chromebooks. Windows XP is an operating system in use that will have its last update released in April of this year. According to Bott (2013), “20.5 percent to 31.42 percent” (para. 3) of computers are still running this operating system. Potential customers will seek contemporary computers that have the hardware capability to support newer operating systems. Businesses will purchase computers in bulk allowing N & F Computers to purchase parts, operating systems, and common application suites from suppliers at a lower price. Passing this savings on to the customer will differentiate the organization from the competition by not sacrificing price for performance. Chromebook products are in the growth stage of...
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...using the technology of today, in the classroom today The Instructional Power of and How Teachers Can Leverage Them Eric Klopfer, Scot Osterweil, Jennifer Groff, Jason Haas an Education Arcade paper The Education Arcade Massachusetts Institute of Technology Eric Klopfer, Scot Osterweil, Jennifer Groff, Jason Haas © copyright 2009 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 I nt r od uc ti on What is good learning? That may be a subjective question. But it’s likely that many educators would give answers that fall in the same ballpark… …students collaborating and discussing ideas, possible solutions… …project-based learning, designed around real world contexts… …connecting with other students around the world, on topics of study… …immersing students in a learning experience that allows them to grapple with a problem, gaining higher-order thinking skills from pursuing the solution… To many educators, these notions are music to their ears. Would it seem terribly strange then to hear that students indeed are doing these things regularly outside of their classrooms? While Timmy or Susie may not be running home from school saying, “What fun, deeply-engaging learning experience can we do today?”, they are engaging with new technologies that provide them with the same opportunities. Every day, many students are spending countless hours immersed in popular technologies—such as Facebook or MySpace, World of Warcraft, or Sim City—which at first glance may...
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...Some people experience loneliness in different aspects. Some of these people can be in a crowd full of people and still feel alone. There are other people that can literally be alone, but not feel like they are. This feeling of loneliness affects how people interact with each other and their behavior. I will be researching how the feeling of loneliness drives people to use the internet more often within a group of 10 people. I will focus primarily on social media usage, such as Facebook. I predict that the more social media an individual uses, the lonelier they feel. One way of thinking about loneliness is as a difference between one's desired and achieved levels of social interaction, while solitude is simply the lack of contact with people. There is clearly a difference in the two. Loneliness is more of the way a person feels; if a person thinks they are lonely, and then they are lonely. People can be lonely while in solitude, or in the middle of a crowd. A person is lonely when they want more social interaction than what is currently available. This is why somebody can be alone and not feel lonely. If a person gets too little or too much social interaction, this could lead to feelings of loneliness or over-stimulation. One study found that although time spent alone tended to depress a person's mood and increase feelings of loneliness; it also helped to improve their cognitive state. Solitude can have positive effects on individuals. Once the alone time was over, people's...
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...International Marketing Comparative Study: Web – Based Shopping Experience Marketing involves the processes involved in promoting, selling and distributing a product or service. In this industrialized world we as marketers study these processes in order to predict consumer reaction and therefore gain a greater return on investment for our efforts. In years past, marketing was studied in a more decentralized manner due to the voluntary isolation of the world’s major markets from each other. Many countries set tariffs very high to discourage international trade and investments. More recently, the walls of high tariffs have been removed to reveal a more connected environment ripe for international trade. This phenomenon, termed as globalization, encompasses the ongoing economic integration and growing interdependency of countries worldwide (Cavusgil). In this new environment, the country borders are not deterrents to trade. Instead because of incentives and technology, other countries have become opportunities to expand market share. To exemplify this world environment, this study involves comparing the consumer experience in searching for a product on an US based company website with a global audience as opposed to a US based company website with a US audience. The basis for comparison involves search behavior and results as well as buying behavior intentions. The subjects of this study are Amazon.com and Bookpassage.com. Background: Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon...
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...using the technology of today, in the classroom today The Instructional Power of and How Teachers Can Leverage Them Eric Klopfer, Scot Osterweil, Jennifer Groff, Jason Haas an Education Arcade paper The Education Arcade Massachusetts Institute of Technology Eric Klopfer, Scot Osterweil, Jennifer Groff, Jason Haas © copyright 2009 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 What is good learning? That may be a subjective question. But it’s likely that many educators would give answers that fall in the same ballpark… …students collaborating and discussing ideas, possible solutions… …project-based learning, designed around real world contexts… …connecting with other students around the world, on topics of study… …immersing students in a learning experience that allows them to grapple with a problem, gaining higher-order thinking skills from pursuing the solution… To many educators, these notions are music to their ears. Would it seem terribly strange then to hear that students indeed are doing these things regularly outside of their classrooms? While Timmy or Susie may not be running home from school saying, “What fun, deeply-engaging learning experience can we do today?”, they are engaging with new technologies that provide them with the same opportunities. Every day, many students are spending countless hours immersed in popular technologies—such as Facebook or MySpace, World of Warcraft, or Sim City—which at first glance may seem like a waste of time, and...
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...Development and Investment Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons is the oldest independent publishing company in the United States. With offices in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia, Wiley is globally committed to developing and marketing print and electronic products and services for our customers’ professional and personal knowledge and understanding. The Wiley Finance series contains books written specifically for finance and investment professionals as well as sophisticated individual investors and their financial advisors. Book topics range from portfolio management to e-commerce, risk management, financial engineering, valuation and financial instrument analysis, as well as much more. For a list of available titles, please visit our Web site at www.Wiley Finance.com. Real Estate Development and Investment A Comprehensive Approach STEPHEN P. PECA John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Copyright # 2009 by Stephen P. Peca. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222...
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...Changing Channels: The Impact of the Internet on Distribution Strategy Leyland Pitt, Pierre Berthon, and Jean-Paul Berthon I n simple markets of old, producers of goods or services dealt directly with the consumers of those offerings. In some modern businessto-business markets, suppliers also interact on a face-to-face basis with their customers. In most contemporary markets, however, mass production and consumption have lured intermediaries into the junction between buyer and seller. These intermediaries have either taken title to the goods or services during the flow from producer to customer, or in some way facilitated this by specializing in one or more of the functions that must be performed for such movement to occur. These flows of title and functions, and the intermediaries w h o have facilitated them, have generally come to be known as distribution channels. For most marketing decision makers, dealing with the channel for a product or service ranks as one of the key marketing quandaries. In many cases, despite what the textbooks suggest, there is frequently no real decision as to "who" should constitute the channel; rather, the question is how best to deal with the incumbent channel. Marketing channel decisions are critical also because they intimately affect all other marketing and overall strategic decisions, Distribution channels generally involve relatively long-term commitments, but if managed effectively over time, they create a key external resource. Small...
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...are a very popular method of maintaining an open channel of communication with your site visitors. They have the great benefit of keeping a site’s current user base up-to-date on the latest news and offerings from the organization. Moreover, they have the potential for turning site visitors into site customers or donators. In this article, you’ll learn how to create a complete subscribe/unsubscribe application in PHP/MySQL with a standard Dreamweaver CS3 server and just one additional block of code. To use this application, a user signs up for a subscription on a site and receives a confirmation e-mail. The e-mail contains a link to unsubscribe, personalized for the user. In all, you’ll need to create five pages to achieve this functionality: * Subscribe.php: This page is comprised of a basic form that gathers an e-mail address and inserts a new record into the MySQL database. After the record is inserted the page is redirected to confirm_subscribe.php. * Confirm_subscribe.php: While the visitor sees a bit of text confirming his or her subscription on this page, a PHP function contained within e-mails the user a secondary confirmation, which contains a link to unsubscribe via the confirm_unsubscribe.php page. * Error_subscribe.php: This is an error page that displays if the e-mail attempt was not successful; it also contains a link to the subscribe.php page so another attempt can be made. * Confirm_unsubscribe.php: This page is displayed when the visitor requests...
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...Judgment of Information Quality and Cognitive Authority in the Web Soo Young Rieh Excite@Home* 450 Broadway Street, Redwood City, CA 94063. Email: srieh@excitehome.net In the Web, making judgments of information quality and authority is a difficult task for most users because overall, there is no quality control mechanism. This study examines the problem of the judgment of information quality and cognitive authority by observing people’s searching behavior in the Web. Its purpose is to understand the various factors that influence people’s judgment of quality and authority in the Web, and the effects of those judgments on selection behaviors. Fifteen scholars from diverse disciplines participated, and data were collected combining verbal protocols during the searches, search logs, and post-search interviews. It was found that the subjects made two distinct kinds of judgment: predictive judgment and evaluative judgment. The factors influencing each judgment of quality and authority were identified in terms of characteristics of information objects, characteristics of sources, knowledge, situation, ranking in search output, and general assumption. Implications for Web design which will effectively support people’s judgments of quality and authority are also discussed. Introduction One of the advantages of searching in the Web is its grant of access to a great amount and a wide variety of information. As a result, however, people need some ways to reduce the...
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...In, Out, and Far, Far Away For this Case Study, I chose two companies with which I am very familiar: In-N-Out Burger, and Saberforge.com. The industry of the two companies is quite different if not polar opposites, and through my own personal experiences and research, I found the aspect of customer relations between them to be just as different. To put it into perspective from the point of view of a Star Wars fan; if the customer service from Saber Forge was like the planet Alderaan, then In-N-Out would be like the Death Star: completely blowing them away. I very recently had a long-term issue finally resolved with this company, so I will start with the bad. Saberforge.com is a website that a Star Wars fan, like me, can order custom lightsaber hilts for use with costumes and role-play, aka cos-play. The website has many selections to choose from, all made from aircraft grade aluminum, and constructed by the proprietor of the site. The site user has various options for adding sound, removable polycarbonate blade tubes for dueling, color for the light emitter, and other accessory options. Here is a brief summary of my experience with their terrible customer service: After placing an order, I waited for nearly a year just to have my money refunded because it never shipped; all while receiving almost no feedback at all from several attempts to contact them about my order. In my research of Saberforge.com’s customer service, I found several, similar cases where the customers received...
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...DIT In Information Technology | ECOMMERCE 511 0 DIT In Information Technology | ECOMMERCE 511 Registered with the Department of Higher Education as a Private Higher Education Institution under the Higher Education Act, 1997. Registration Certificate No. 2000/HE07/008 FACULTY OF MEDIA INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY QUALIFICATION TITLE DIPLOMA IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEARNER GUIDE MODULE: ECOMMERCE 511 PREPARED ON BEHALF OF PC TRAINING & BUSINESS COLLEGE (PTY) LTD AUTHOR: AJITH RAMPURSAD EDITOR: THEMBA CHINOGWENYA FACULTY HEAD: ISAKA REDDY Copyright © 2015 PC Training & Business College (Pty) Ltd Registration Number: 2000/000757/07 All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, including photocopying machines, without the written permission of the Institution. 1 DIT In Information Technology | ECOMMERCE 511 LESSON PLAN ALIGNED TO MOBILE CONTENT [MOODLE] DIPLOMA SECTION SUBJECT MATTER 1 THE INTERNET-PLATFORM FOR BUSINESS 1.1 Defining Internet and its brief History 1.2 IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Internet Service Provider Lesson 1 Lesson 2 & 3 Review Questions 2 THE NEW ECONOMY AND E-COMMERCE 2.1 Define E-Commerce 2.2 E-Commerce vs. business Lesson 4 Lesson 5 & 6 Review Questions 3 E-COMMERCE AND A NEW WAY OF THINKING 3.1 Changing paradigms Lesson 7 3.2 Portals and Vortals Lesson 8 3.3 E-Relationships ...
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..._________________________________________________________________________________________________ B EY O N D TH E RA C K : A NA LY ZE TH E O F F ER BT R - CP -C TR -A NA LY ZE O F F ER .M OV Hey guys! In this video, what I’m going to do is I’m going to go over a copy-and-paste campaign that has made me tens of thousands of dollars this year 2012. It’s in a niche that I was not very familiar with – fashion. I’m sure everyone watching this video right now, you’ve seen all sorts of these daily deal sites like Groupon and LivingSocial, etc. coming out. One big thing is daily deal fashion sites. This site, BeyondTheRack.com, is a daily deal fashion site. When I send people to this website right here through my own ads on any social network – PlentyofFish, Facebook, Pinterest or whatever – and they fill out a couple of fields and hit SEE TODAY’S DEALS, boom! I get paid around $3.60 every time that happens. Our goal in this copy paste tutorial is to show you how to target this site to bulls’ eye targeted customers on Facebook and other social networks so you can start generating customers and getting paid however much the CPA, the payout for the offer is. Keep in mind that you can also take everything we do in this video and you can use this same formula to market other fashion websites. I know absolutely nothing about fashion but I do know how to find people that are interested in it. As a marketer, what’s important for us is just knowing who wants what. We _________________________________________________________________________________________________...
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...PART ONE • UNDERSTANDING SERVICES SERVICES IN THE MODERN ECONOMY As consumers, we use services every day. Turning on a light, watching TV, talking on the telephone, riding a bus, visiting the dentist, mailing a letter, getting a haircut, refueling a car, writing a check, or sending clothes to the cleaners are all examples of service consumption at the individual level. T h e institution at which you are studying is itself a c o m p l e x service organization. In addition to educational services, today's college facilities usually include libraries and cafeterias, counseling, a bookstore, placement offices, copy services, telecommunications, and even a bank. If you are enrolled at a residential university, campus services are also likely to include dormitories, health care, indoor and o u t d o o r athletic facilities, a theater, and perhaps a post office. Customers are not always happy with the quality and value of the services they receive. People complain a b o u t late deliveries, r u d e or i n c o m p e t e n t personnel, i n c o n v e n i e n t service h o u r s , p o o r p e r f o r m a n c e , and needlessly complicated p r o cedures. T h e y grumble about the difficulty of finding sales clerks to help t h e m in retail stores, express frustration about mistakes on their credit card bills or bank statements, shake their heads over the complexity of new self-service equipment, m u t ter about p o o r value, and sigh as they are forced to wait in line almost everywhere...
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...Microsoft Dynamics™ GP Workflow Installation Guide Release 10.0 Copyright Copyright © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Complying with all applicable copyright laws is the responsibility of the user. Without limiting the rights under copyright, no part of this document may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), or for any purpose, without the express written permission of Microsoft Corporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the licensee of the software with which this document was provided may make a reasonable number of copies of this document solely for internal use. Trademarks Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Internet Explorer, Outlook, SharePoint, Windows, and Windows Server are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be trademarks or registered marks - in the United States and/or other countries - of their respective owners. Unless otherwise noted, the example companies, organizations, products, domain names, e-mail addresses, logos, people, places, and events depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, domain name, e-mail address, logo, person, place, or event is intended or should be inferred. Intellectual...
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...the world has taken, everybody faced a drastic change in everything and the most evident thing is this so- called “alternative literacy” that has taken place. Generations are now typing, texting and tweeting their own unique language. This word abbreviated Morse Code like grammar sweeps from computer to phone on social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. “Written communication in instant messaging, text messaging, chat and other forms of electronic communication have generated a “new language” of abbreviations, acronyms, word combinations, and punctuation.” (Varnhagen et al., 2009, p. 1) According to media sources participating on social networking sites and instant messaging is having a negative impact on the use of the English language. Most at risk according to these sources are our younger generations. It threatens youth literacy because it creates and compounds undesirable reading and writing habits and because it’s particular lowbrow vernacular damages students’ abilities to employ regular formal literary skills.” (Craig, 2003, p. 118) This study aimed at determining whether networking sites has a positive or negative impact on young people’s English Language Literacy. I. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM With even more technological advances and the growth of Social Networking sites, people are communicating more by Internet using different sites, and also via their mobile phones, which also have Internet access. With people now being able to do banking...
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