Business Plan :sample question
400-550 words
Details: Your e-business plan won rave reviews not only from your brother but also from members of the business owner's group. Now they are approaching you to design plans for them.
Any business will tailor its marketing, products, and services to its intended audience. For each of the following potential e-business clients, if you were designing a website for only that one client and potential audience, what design or functional elements would you focus on or de-emphasize? Describe one feature that adds value to the business' partners, customers, or employees beyond what could be done in a traditional business.
Howard's Chess Sets: sells custom-designed, hand-carved chess sets
Whalen Clean and Tidy: provides cleaning services to local office buildings
Dea's Downline: Dea has a home-based business selling cosmetics, and she has 30 recruits selling cosmetics and crediting part of their sales to her. She wants to communicate new products, specials, and their commissions to them online.
Post your comments to at least two other postings. Each comment must be at least 250 words in length. Use the 2X2 matrix to comment, i.e. two things you liked about the posting, and two things the student could have included to improve the posting including errors or excluding erroneous information.
In your own words, please post a response to the Discussion Board and comment on other postings. You will be graded on the quality of your postings.
Points Possible: 75
Date Due: Monday, Nov 10, 2008
Objective: Explain how E-Business enhances business to business (B2B), business to consumer (B2C) and business to employee (B2E) transactions.
Design how E-Business can alter or extend an organization's business model.
Use effective communication techniques.
Submitted Files: Discussion Board
Score: N/A
Instructor Comments: The usual DB rules apply--a main post (using citations and references) and two reply posts (each 250 words minimum, 2x2). Do not upload a document into the DB. Make sure your Similarity Score does not exceed 25%. Do not use Wikipedia or any other online encyclopedia-type or dictionary sources for your citations and references. Make sure your main post includes a recommendation for all three companies. Consider including elements from the previous three Phases.