Being in IST classes has opened my eyes about online identity theft. I never really thought about how easy it would be for a hacker to get my personal information until now. This is a problem most people face in our society since most people are using the internet constantly for business and pleasure. I will have different links on my website that will aid in the life of a college student. One of those links will include how to be safe with your money online. My website will have little warnings on the bottom of the page, such as "Monitor your credit." I do not want to rip anyone off and I do not want to see someone being ripped off. I want everyone to see my website as a safe place to do their shopping.
Even though I am scared when I put my personal information like my credit card number online to purchase something, there are websites that I KNOW I can trust. I always feel safe when I am using big companies like amazon.com or urbanoutfitters.com. For this idea to become successful, I will need to make sure the website is a safe place for college students to freely use their credit cards. It will take a while for the website to get started up because the website is not selling anything, but is providing a service for others to sell, trade and buy. For my business to get started, I will need customers right away. It might take a while for the company to get started. I will have to have many advertisements on college websites, facebook, twitter and more.
In order to make sure there is no foul play when selling and buying items on my website, I will use the services "PayPal." PayPal will provide a safer way to pay. PayPal is used for many online shopping websites such as amazon and ebay. I think everyone trusts PayPal so it will work out well to use that service on my website. If the website does extremely well with many customers, I would want to create the website's own online "money" called T-bucks (textbook bucks). T-bucks would be PayPal but for only my website. T-bucks would only be created if there were enough customers. For the beginning, PayPal is a good idea. 18-29 year olds account for almost 30% of all identity theft complaints. That is mostly college students, graduates and graduate students. I need to make sure my website is secure so none of the people using my website will get anything stolen from their identity to one dollar.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Week 2- Using Excel in the workplace
I figured out a name for my entrepreneurship idea, collegetext. My url can be www.collegetext.com. Since this website is for college students, I would like the staff to start off with all college students. Because this website will be making a profit (hopefully!), I will have to keep track of the fiances, all the highs and lows. Excel will be perfect for keeping track of everything. When I look for students to help with the website, they will need to know how to use excel, as well as knowing how to use the computer and the resources on the internet well.
I do not think there will be much of a profit in the beginning of the website. Every business takes a while to grow and prosper. Because there will be a lot of lows, I will definitely have to track everything so when the website DOES begin to make a profit, I will be about to figure it out. I think the charts on excel are excellent for businesses because they are easy to make and maneuver. They are also easy to read and analyze. I will make charts for every month with all the sales and losses. The great thing about excel is that I can figure out the sums, averages and more with a click of the mouse. I am not amazing at using excel yet but I am getting used to it.
I am definitely good with Microsoft word and powerpoint. Powerpoint will be useful for making presentations to my staff members and even potential clients that will pay to have their advertisements on www.collegetext.com. I can include the charts from excel into the powerpoint presentations to show the increase in profits and how collegetext is growing. Advertisements will bring more profit to the website but first, we will have to bring the companies to us. The website has to be successful if we want the advertisements to come. Because I want advertisements on the website, I will have to put advertisements on other websites to attract buyers and sellers. I will put advertisements on social websites where college students are found such as twitter, facebook and tumblr. I will have to keep thinking of new ideas to make the website grow bigger and bigger. Technology is always improving and the only way to keep up is to improve with it. No company can make profit if they never have new ways to attract customers and keep their original ones.
Since excel will be a big part of www.collegetext.com, I will have to learn excel inside and out. This website is my idea so I will have to understand how everything works. Sure I can get someone to help me out but it is my idea and my plan. I want to know how everything works and not just rely on so many other people.
I do not think there will be much of a profit in the beginning of the website. Every business takes a while to grow and prosper. Because there will be a lot of lows, I will definitely have to track everything so when the website DOES begin to make a profit, I will be about to figure it out. I think the charts on excel are excellent for businesses because they are easy to make and maneuver. They are also easy to read and analyze. I will make charts for every month with all the sales and losses. The great thing about excel is that I can figure out the sums, averages and more with a click of the mouse. I am not amazing at using excel yet but I am getting used to it.
I am definitely good with Microsoft word and powerpoint. Powerpoint will be useful for making presentations to my staff members and even potential clients that will pay to have their advertisements on www.collegetext.com. I can include the charts from excel into the powerpoint presentations to show the increase in profits and how collegetext is growing. Advertisements will bring more profit to the website but first, we will have to bring the companies to us. The website has to be successful if we want the advertisements to come. Because I want advertisements on the website, I will have to put advertisements on other websites to attract buyers and sellers. I will put advertisements on social websites where college students are found such as twitter, facebook and tumblr. I will have to keep thinking of new ideas to make the website grow bigger and bigger. Technology is always improving and the only way to keep up is to improve with it. No company can make profit if they never have new ways to attract customers and keep their original ones.
Since excel will be a big part of www.collegetext.com, I will have to learn excel inside and out. This website is my idea so I will have to understand how everything works. Sure I can get someone to help me out but it is my idea and my plan. I want to know how everything works and not just rely on so many other people.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Week 1 - My Entrepreneurship Idea
My entrepreneurship idea is a website that focuses on selling, buying and trading college textbooks and books for college students. It will be similar to the way e-bay works except this is focused on college textbooks. College students already have to worry about the high prices of tuition. They do not need to worry about the high unfair prices of textbooks from the school bookstore. This website will have fair prices so students will always be saving money. The website will have different sections for different universities, and then different sections within for the different classes. This website will also have a chatroom where students can discuss classes and more. This website is for the benefit of the students, not the college textbook manufacturers or their distributors. I wished there was a website like my idea during the beginning of school years to make my life easier.
I think this website relates to all the IST 195 lectures because this idea has technology connecting people together. Technology is always improving and it is about time we had a website to help college students with their textbooks. Textbook prices are not fair and students are forced to buy them. On facebook, there is a Syracuse group for the students of the 2014 and people are constantly trying to sell and buy textbooks. Why do it on a website not meant for that? My website will provide a place where college students can help themselves. During one of the lectures, we discussed green computing. I think this website will help with the green initiative that is sweeping the nation because if we keep recycling each others books instead of buying new copies each year, we are using less paper.
This website will be a stepping stone to helping students with the issue of college textbooks. We talk about in class how much technology has changed over the years. Technology keeps improving and making our lives easier. I know that getting textbooks can be stressful at times because of how expensive they are. I think to myself how I am only using these books for half a year but yet, I'm spending more than a hundred dollars for each book. Shouldn't it be time where technology improves getting books for college? My website will be the place for college students to shop online for their books, which will result in them saving time AND money. Maybe after my website, college bookstores and such will stop overpricing us students that are spending enough money on their tuition.
I think this website relates to all the IST 195 lectures because this idea has technology connecting people together. Technology is always improving and it is about time we had a website to help college students with their textbooks. Textbook prices are not fair and students are forced to buy them. On facebook, there is a Syracuse group for the students of the 2014 and people are constantly trying to sell and buy textbooks. Why do it on a website not meant for that? My website will provide a place where college students can help themselves. During one of the lectures, we discussed green computing. I think this website will help with the green initiative that is sweeping the nation because if we keep recycling each others books instead of buying new copies each year, we are using less paper.
This website will be a stepping stone to helping students with the issue of college textbooks. We talk about in class how much technology has changed over the years. Technology keeps improving and making our lives easier. I know that getting textbooks can be stressful at times because of how expensive they are. I think to myself how I am only using these books for half a year but yet, I'm spending more than a hundred dollars for each book. Shouldn't it be time where technology improves getting books for college? My website will be the place for college students to shop online for their books, which will result in them saving time AND money. Maybe after my website, college bookstores and such will stop overpricing us students that are spending enough money on their tuition.
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