E-commerce
E-commerce
Paper instructions:
Assignment 1: Starting a Business Online, Part 1
Due Week 4 and worth 200 points
Imagine that you own a small, local clothing store along the Jersey Shore boardwalk and decide that you want to engage in e-Commerce.
Write a 4-5 page paper on the following:
1. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of taking your small business online by performing a SWOT analysis. Include 2-4 items in each category.
2. Because the Internet connects computers all over the world, any business that engages in e-Commerce instantly becomes an international business. The key issues that any company faces when it conducts international commerce include trust, culture, language, government, and infrastructure. Explain how you would address each of these issues.
3. Businesses that operate on the Web must comply with the same laws and regulations that govern the operations of all businesses, but they face 2 additional complicating factors as they try to comply with the law. First, the Web extends a company’s reach beyond traditional boundaries. Second, the Web increases the speed and efficiency of business communications. Explain how you would overcome these complicating factors that come with e-Commerce in order to comply with the law.
4. Law enforcement agencies have difficulty combating many types of online crime. Describe 2 online crimes prevalent in e-Commerce and what you would do to prevent these crimes
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length
This is the Rubric
1. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of taking your small business online by performing a SWOT analysis. Include 2-4 items in each category.
Weight: 25% Thoroughly identified the advantages and disadvantages of taking your small business online by performing a SWOT analysis; thoroughly included 2-4 items in each category.
2. Explain how you would address each of the international commerce issues. Weight: 25% Thoroughly explained how you will address each of the international commerce issues.
3. Explain how you would overcome these complicating factors that come with e-Commerce in order to comply with the law.
Weight: 20% Thoroughly explained how you would overcome these complicating factors that come with e-Commerce in order to comply with the law.
4. Describe 2 online crimes prevalent in e-Commerce and what you would do to prevent these crimes.
Weight: 20% Thoroughly described 2 online crimes prevalent in e-Commerce and what you would do to prevent these crimes.
5. Clarity and writing mechanics
Weight: 10% 0-2
