Sunday, November 8, 2009

Final Update!

What we have accomplished so far is, first we invented a snow shovel-salt dispenser. Then for variety of models, we assigned two different types of salt dispenser, by motion and by a motor. Furthermore, we assembled two diverse shovel kinds which are regular one and dozer one. Purpose of the regular one was for a quick shoveling for your doorsteps or somewhere small. On the other hand dozer one is bigger places such as your drive way or garage. After we had figured out the types of our discovery we comprehended our market. Using our class knowledge through weeks we spent in class, we built an effective web page by web page strategy and we also used shov-salt as the URL address to be stayed in mind easily. We used excel to find out required shovel dimensions, mozy to back up our data and Authorize.net for secure payments.
Lastly, what we need to do is to use database to handle with huge amount of information. As we learned during week 9, how convenient to have a database to deal with adding deleting and editing information of the customers and combining clients orders, we are going to use My SQL. We are going to have different databases for billing, marketing, sales and support so that both we and our clients will be pleased not to have any confusion.
GO "THE SHOVELIZER"!!!!

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Uptade!

As we talked about our market in the previous blogs, it is now time to mention the URL address and related services that clients can get.
First off, since we discussed the importance of having an "easily recalled" web site name in the lecture during week 8, we need to be specific about the name of our internet site. Not only should it remind people of the word shovel, but also it should give the purchaser an idea of salt. Hence why we came up with the URL address www.shov-salt.org. Reading it loud turns the name into a "show salt" which can easily stay in mind.
We picked .org because it is an unsponsored domain name so that anyone can preserve the rights to use it.
We decided to make ordering available by phone purchases, which provides shoppers the ability to not waste time, as we are aware of people's busy schedules. Again, to be recalled simply, we prefer to get a line which has 1-800-Shovels. Through this phone number, people would not have to search it up from internet or yellow pages. This will enable us to gain more profit by being popular.