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College Entrepreneurs: 5 Business Ideas that Students Can Launch
Now is a good time for college bound students, or those already in college, to start a business. In fact, I almost consider it a must. There is no better way to promote your business other than having a good website. Use one of these ideas, some of these may work better than others, or may not work at all, but you have to choose wisely, which of these have more potential for a good website. So choose wisely.
In addition to reviewing the 05 ideas, take note quick tips for creating a business website success:
1. Innovation is good but it can also be overrated. Don’t feel like you have to come up with the next Dell, Facebook, Microsoft or Google to launch.
2. Take advantage of every possible resource and opportunity you can access that will improve your business.
5 start-up ideas:
1. Professional Matchmaker – if you are looking for a job, you thought to have an online career and recruitment resource with its cutting edge technology provides relevant profiles to employers and relevant jobs to jobseekers across industry verticals, experience levels and geographies.
2. Tutoring service – If you’re attending college on scholarship and know a required subject very well start a tutoring service for local elementary or high school students who want to get into a good school like you. You can also record your tutorials and sell them as downloads online.
3. Career counseling service – If you’re a good communicator think about going to the on campus career center and meeting some of the employers and recruiters who are there. Learn what they are looking for and then become a career coach and counselor to other students (but market to their parents).
4. Graphic arts and design services for presentations and papers – If you enjoy graphic arts and presentation design and you’re good at it. Think about offering these services to students (and perhaps, professors) who want to spiff up their research and reports.
5. Delivery service – Are there established businesses in the area that could boost their business by being able to deliver? Become their delivery service.
ASSESSMENT TASKS SUMMARY
Selecting any organization/ business related to the business ideas given, analyze any one (that suits the best to the business) of the four e-commerce models, evaluate any B2C, C2C, B2B or C2B (choose ONE out of the four models) e-commerce organization on the following points:
o Web site’s design (appearance)
o Revenue model
o Payment methods
o Personalization
o Customization
o Global reach and propose relevant improvement solutions.
Provide the following information in the report:
1. Description of the selected e-commerce organization.
2. Advantages of e-commerce models towards the selected organization
3. Analysis of the selected e-commerce based organization in terms of its web site design
(Appearance), revenue model, personalization, customization and the global reach.
4. Recommend solutions (3- 4 suggestions) to improve the selected e-commerce model for the
selected organization
5. Conclusion
