Weekly Report Our Week 8 Activities: 1.Research about real estate companies web sites; get ideas from these web sites. Understand what are their advantages and disadvantages. 2.Good web sides for reference: http://www.torontothe good.com http://www.arayeremian.com http://www.patclarksold.com http://www.davemaika.com http://www.garyjobe.com 3. Start to create our own web pages: 1) Homepage address: file:///A\Real estate homepage.html 2) English and Chinese version 3) The homepage's color is bright and attractive, blue and red are the main color 4) The name of our company should be on the top of the homepage 5) A CN tower post card is put in the middle right of the homepage 6) On the left of the homage, we have the following links: Romina and Lucy's pictures Phone number, email addresses About Lucy and Romina: 1) Experiences and background, 2) Membership, 3) Personal information, 4) Professional information Home for sales: 10 houses in listing for sale Mortgage rate update Community information: 1) City of Toronto, http://www.city.toronto.on.ca 2) city of Mississauga-- http://www.city.mississauga.on.ca 3) city of Scarborough--http://www2.retailcanada.com/cities/on-scarborough-frame.html 4) city of North York--http://www2.retail/canada.com/cities/on-north York-frame.htm Mortgage calculator: links to the homepage of Bank of Montreal, TD Bank, Scotia Bank, Royal Bank School information: link to a popular web which provide education and childcare's information Community information: links to 1) province of Ontario, Canada-- http://www.orea.com 2) city of Toronto-- Find your dream homes: use Meta to create input function for customer to input data about their dream homes. 6) Plan to register the domain name: the bestlife.ca Get reference from books and the Internet, to find out free domain name Read ?Selling Online?, a book about doing business online from Senec College library 7) Consider budget 8) Consider the five environments when create our web sites Economic: Consider the part of general slow down global economy Technological: We have to familiar with how to input texts, images, graphics, tables etc. in to a blank page, furthermore, we have to know how to link pages to pages, and know how to using the META Tag to Snag a Search Engine. Legal Political: We have to be aware of what we apply to our web sites are legal. Sociocultural: We have to consider customers? multicultur backgrounds. Whether the concepts applied in our web pages are being accepted or are they an insult to customers. Be careful of the slang and jargon we are using. 9) Thinking about why do some electronic businesses fail? Pure plays 1) Produc---digital, price are too high. ---Tangible 2) Price---Screaming ---Meet ---Presentation Price is too high; customer?s income is not meeting that expensive 3) Promotion 4) Place/distribution: tangible, people are not being convicted, discount too much, company will go bankrupt Click & motor 1) Product 2) Price 3) Promotion 4) Place ---Cross selling --- Up selling |