Starting a Business Online, Part 1

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.

Your assignment must:

ï‚· 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.

ï‚· 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.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

ï‚· Identify the basic elements of the technology infrastructure used to conduct electronic business.

ï‚· Explain the basic communications and network concepts used in electronic commerce and the basic functioning of the Internet and the World Wide Web.

ï‚· Describe the critical legal and ethical issues related to electronic commerce.

ï‚· Use technology and information resources to research issues in fundamentals of e-business.

ï‚· Write clearly and concisely about fundamentals of e-business using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic/organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

Rubric:

BUS 107 Assignments and Rubrics

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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%

Did not submit or incompletely identified the advantages and disadvantages of taking your small business online by performing a SWOT analysis; did not include 2-4 items in each category.

Insufficiently identified the advantages and disadvantages of taking your small business online by performing a SWOT analysis; insufficiently included1- 2 items in each category.

Partially identified the advantages and disadvantages of taking your small business online by performing a SWOT analysis; partially included 1-4 items in each category.

Satisfactorily identified the advantages and disadvantages of taking your small business online by performing a SWOT analysis; satisfactorily included 2-4 items in each category.

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%

Did not submit or incompletely explained how you will address each of the international commerce issues.

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Partially explained how you will address each of the international commerce issues.

Satisfactorily explained how you will address each of the international commerce issues.

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%

Did not submit or incompletely explained how you would overcome these complicating factors that come with e-Commerce in order to comply with the law.

Insufficiently explained how you would overcome these complicating factors that come with e-Commerce in order to comply with the law.

Partially explained how you would overcome these complicating factors that come with e-Commerce in order to comply with the law.

Satisfactorily explained how you would overcome these complicating factors that come with e-Commerce in order to comply with the law.

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%

Did not submit or incompletely described 2 online crimes prevalent in e-Commerce and what you would do to prevent these crimes.

Insufficiently described 2 online crimes prevalent in e-Commerce and what you would do to prevent these crimes.

Partially described 2 online crimes prevalent in e-Commerce and what you would do to prevent these crimes.

Satisfactorily described 2 online crimes prevalent in e-Commerce and what you would do to prevent these crimes.

Thoroughly described 2 online crimes prevalent in e-Commerce and what you would do to prevent these crimes.

5. Clarity and writing mechanics

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