Sunday, October 25, 2009

Dress Me Up










Dress Me Up is a business where people can get clothes for a better low price from third parties (donation). There are a lot of people who goes to a consignment store to look for a low price and good quality in clothes. The demand has increase lately due to the current economic hardship.

  1. Business name: Dress Me Up
  2. Product: Clothes
  3. Potential consumers – Men and Women of any age.

Concerns:
Quality - Clothes in bad condition.
Solution
: Each wardrobe will have to be checked individually by a high-quality control specialist.

Stocking - Running Low.
Solution: Dress Me Up will provide its own inventory of clothes at a low price to keep it from running out.



Returns – Not Liking Third Party Clothes
Solution: Items will have a policy return of 7 days only. Enough time to get to the costumer and enough time to try it on. People might not have the total concept of the e-business.

Credit Card Fraud
Solution: PayPal – The best third party mediator when it comes to handling money. Secure Transaction.

Shipping to Us - Expense
Solution: Dress Me Up will incur the cost for other people’s shipping to us as a donation. People can donate from all over the country.



Sunday, March 22, 2009

Shell's Organic Baby Food

Many new mothers would love to be able to puree fresh or organic fruit and vegetables to make baby food for their precious little ones. But as any mother knows the demands are many and being able to find the time to do this is hard.Michelle who grows her own organic vegetables and fruit decided she would start making baby food. She figured she would start with the basic in fruit Apples and do corn and carrots in vegetables. She would sell it online at her own online store. She already sells some of her vegetables and fruits to some of the local stands, so they might be willing to buy some of the baby food.

  1. Business Name: Shell’s Organic Baby Food
  2. Product: Home grown organic Baby Food
  3. Potential Customers: Men and Women are both potential customers. But will target women of child bearing years and grandmother’s.

Concerns & Solutions:

Payment Methods:
Open a merchant account so consumers can use Debit/Credit cards, and will also utilize PayPal.

Credit Card Fraud:
All merchant accounts and PayPal have built in fraud solutions.

Age Verification:
Purchase a member with one of the many company’s online that will verify someone’s age.

Business growing too fast:
Locate other local organic farmers that I can purchase product from. Hire more people to handle customer service and to cook and jar baby food.

Customer Service:
Customers will be able to call or they can e-mail us with any problems they have.

Shipping:
Will use USPS, UPS and FedEx. Will always use the cheapest method of shipping for the customer. But the customer will always have the choice on how their order is shipped.

Advertising:
Online advertising will be done by using Affiliate programs, Search Engines, Banners, Link Trading, and Web Rings. Locally will use signs at the local farm stands that we already sell product to.

Refunds:
Will have posted online and locally a 30 day money back guarantee.