Task 1- Research and planning
1a) Research a range (minimum of 3) on-line companies from different sectors (Public, Private and NGO/Charity) in order to build ideas and knowledge for your online business.
your research should cover the following areas:
- The Aims and Objectives of the websites:
To inform, to sell etc
- Website design features: Analyze different types of website. Brochure, intermediate and Advanced. These will help you make decisions about what your website might have. You need to consider; Colour schemes, navigation issues, use of images and video etc. Think what do you want your site to look like? Click here for the Prezi.
- Funding:How do people and organisations raise capital. How much will it cost to set up your business? Where will you get your funding from? Prezi here.
- Financial issues and Risks: What do organisations do about collecting payment.
How do different organisations manage these? How do customers pay and get refunds etc? What can be done to prevent fraud etc? -Click link to a prezi on this topic.
- Rules and Regulations: You need to know which rules and regulations affect their businesses and will affect yours.
These may include The Employment Act, Distance Selling Act, Trades Description Act and others see the relevant prezi to help you.
- Job roles and functions in an online business: Find out about the job roles especially IT ones needed to make an online business work
- Organisational structures: There are three Hierarchical, Flat and Matrix: What are the organisations organisational structures?
These need to be completed by 04/01/13 as we will be moving onto task 2 then.
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