You will need to use the link above, to sign up for an edu Prezi account, if you need help, check with someone in the class that has already set one up.

For your business plan, you need to create a PREZI presentation highlighting each of the following sections:

Name of your business

Your name, and your business partner if you have one

A summary of what your business is and what you are doing

Room design images – Show your room, and some of the things you are including in your room

The 4Ps of your company: Price, Product, Place, Promotion

Summary of your Personnel: Who is working in your business, how many employees do you have, what will they be doing?

Show some of your ads, and business documents (Flyer, business cards, etc.)

When you finish this, you need to complete the SWOT Analysis section of your business plan, by answering the following questions.

SWOT Analysis
Choose at least three questions from each section to answer.
Strengths
1) What are your assets?
2) Which asset is strongest?
3) What differentiates you from your competitors?
4) Do you have immensely talented people on your staff?
5) Is your business debt free or have a better debt structure than your competitors?
6) Do you have a broad customer base?
7) What unique resources do you have?
8 Do you have a sustainable competitive advantage?
9) Do you have specific sales or marketing expertise?
Weaknesses
1) What areas do you need to improve on?
2) What necessary expertise/manpower do you currently lack?
3) In what areas do your competitors have an edge?
4) Are you relying on one customer too much?
5) Do you have adequate cash flow to sustain you?
6) Do you have adequate profit levels?
7) Do you have a well of new ideas?
8 Are you over leveraged (too much debt)?
Opportunities
1) What external changes present interesting opportunities?
2) What trends might impact your industry?
3) Is there talent located elsewhere that you might be able to acquire?
4) Is a competitor failing to adequately service the market?
5) Is there an unmet need/want that you can fulfill?
6) Are there trends emerging that you can profitably service?
7) If you package your product differently, can you extract a higher premium for it?
8 Can you take advantage of the historically low interest rates to refinance your debt?
Threats
1) Is there a better equipped (funding, talent, mobility, etc) competitor in your market?
2) Is there an entity who may not be a competitor today which could possibly become one tomorrow?
3) Are your key staff satisfied in their work? Could they be poached by a competitor?

1. Who are your potential customers?
2. How large is the market?
3. Who are your competitors? How are their businesses positioned?
4. How will you price your product or service?
5. What advertising and promotional strategies will you use?

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 

1. Why will the business succeed?
2. What do you want to start (or change)?
3. How much money is required?
4. Why is the business a good risk? 
5. What type of business is this?
6. What products or services will you sell?
7. What type of opportunity is it(new, part-time, expansion, seasonal, year-round)?
8. Why does it promise to be successful?
9. What is the growth potential?
10. How is it unique?

Personnel

1. Who will manage the business?
2. What qualifications do you and your staff have?
3. How many employees will you need? What will they do?
4. How will you structure your organization?
5. What are your plans for employee salaries, wages and benefits?
6. What consultants or specialists will you need? How will you use them?

You will need the following files:

Cluff Designs Business Plan

Company Financials

Here’s the deal for today, if you will work in class today, tomorrow after we start something new for your business plans, I will give you some free time.

Your task for today is simple… please go to Keyboarding Online. Click on Created Lessons on the right side (same thing as we did yesterday). You can work on any of the four lessons and lines within these created lessons until you have a score for every line.

Will one of you be nice enough to Jon, our new student and help him get to Keyboarding Online and login. His password is set to 1. Will you help him change it as well if you can remember how? (Click on User Info, in blue once he is logged in, and just change the passwords.)

You can listen to your iPods today, and if you have homework for another class, please work for the first 15 minutes on Keyboarding Online, and then you can work on your homework.

I will see you all tomorrow!

Here’s the deal for today, if you will work in class today, tomorrow after we start something new for your business plans, I will give you some free time.

Your task for today is simple… please go to Keyboarding Online. Click on Created Lessons on the right side (same thing as we did yesterday). You can work on any of the four lessons and lines within these created lessons until you have a score for every line.

You can listen to your iPods today, and if you have homework for another class, please work for the first 15 minutes on Keyboarding Online, and then you can work on your homework.

Here are your directions for today.

1. Please complete your five ads for your website. You are welcome to help each other as long as you act like normal human beings while doing so…

2. When these are finished, be sure they are saved on your student drive.

3.  Now, your next assignment is to create your job application for your company.

4. Send me an email telling me the positions you think you would need to hire for. My email is ancluff@wsd.net

5. I have included some links below for you to look over, some of them are interview questions, some of them are job applications. You MAY NOT copy and paste any of the information, you need to type in on your own. If you get stuck with any formatting, you can leave in for after the break and I can help you.

http://www.impactinterview.com/2009/10/140-google-interview-questions/

http://www.businessinsider.com/15-google-interview-questions-that-will-make-you-feel-stupid-2009-11

http://freepdfhosting.com/72dd31bcb1.pdf

http://lagoonpark.applicantstack.com/x/apply/a2hg6752qacw

http://www.focusservices.com/candidate-summary/

http://www.job-applications.com/interview-questions/

http://jobsearch.about.com/od/jobapplications/a/walmartapp.htm

Illegal Job Interview Questions

http://employment-law.freeadvice.com/employment-law/hiring/job_interview_questions.htm

Filmstrip 300px x 600px

Portrait 300px x 1050 px

Leaderboard 728px x 90px

PopupLarge 550px x 480 px

http://www.iab.net/guidelines/508676/508767/displayguidelines

You need these directions for your assignment today.

Collection_of_Ads Assignment

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDZfZGEta01Qb0pUNzlQQy14cnpMcVE6MA#gid=0

Promotion