Subject: [nafex] an "online store" offer to the nafex community
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:23:25 -0500
Please forgive a one-time somewhat "off the mailing list focus" email. I
gain nothing personally and am bringing it up as a service to the NAFEX
community.
Taylor University's computer science department has an e-commerce class
that needs projects. While helping the person who currently teaches the
class (I used to, so he was asking for ideas) it dawned on me that there
might be people out there in NAFEX country who would like to take their
small business online, if only it weren't so complicated and expensive.
I have some ideas for you.
I recently took our campus bookstore online through Yahoo!stores. It
works really well and is easy to run. The bottom line is that for $40 a
month plus a small percentage of sales, Yahoo gives you a really great
store application that you can run if you understand the business. You
don't really need to know anything about web programming and all that
stuff. It is helpful if someone who has already played with the Yahoo
store program can help you get started. My idea is to have sets of
supervised computer science and business students help you get started.
You pay them nothing; they are interested because their grade is on the
line :-), because they want to learn about e-commerce, and because they
would rather do a real project than a throw-away fake project that
nobody really cares about.
If you think you would be interested in at least talking about it, send
me some email.
-- sb
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Stefan Brandle, Taylor University IT/CSS, 765-998-5504
sbrandle@css.taylor.edu, www.css.taylor.edu/~sbrandle
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[nafex] an "online store" offer to the nafex community,
Stefan Brandle, 01/17/2005