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Chapter 11. Create Technological Advantages. Details. It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. ~John Wooden Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details. ~William Feather
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Chapter 11 Create Technological Advantages
Details • It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. ~John Wooden • Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details. ~William Feather • Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come. ~Perry Paxton • Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. ~Colin Powell
Doing Business Online • Research minor and major league team websites of your choosing. • Identify WebPages that illustrate either positive or negative examples for one of the checkpoints for each of the stages in the decision-making process for online shoppers (Table 11.1). • Take screenshots of pages (hit <alt> and <print screen> and then copy/paste to document) to demonstrate digitally (ppt’s) • For each checkpoint illustrated, note what is good or bad about the way the team has designed the website. • The following slides offer examples of what you might find.
Good Example! Stage 1: Need Recognition: Provide product-related appetizers such as sales items, hot products, or product recommendation. www.MLB.com prominently features product specials on the league homepage.
Good Example! Stage 2: Information Search: provide its own product search function. --The product search function is easy to find at top of the www.nflshop.com page.
Bad Example Stage 3: Information Evaluation: --Provide help or info to assist customers in evaluating alternatives. --Provide links to locations that have endorsements from other customers. Limited product info & no endorsements on the ECHL website. --Have pictures that demonstrate true colors of the merchandise. The pictures online do not look like actual pictures of the product. Enlarged pictures do not provide enough detail.
Stage 4: Purchase Decision --Have a mechanism for customers to track their orders. The www.shopnhl.com website for each team provides clear directions on how to track customer orders. Good Example!
Stage 5: Post-purchase Behavior --Provide online support or other means of communication The www.fwcatsstore.com shop only provides an email submission (with no direct email & no phone number). No information is provided about other retail outlets. If they don’t exist, then online store should promote “only available online.” --Provide money back guarantee (stage 4, but also influences stage 5) The return policy is restricted, placing a significant burden on the customer (tags attached, correct packaging, customer pays shipping; receipt copy). Confirmed customer purchase info should be part of database info. Bad Example
Group Assignments Using Table 11.1 as a guide, find sports-related online stores that do a good job and bad at this stage. Report back in 10- 15 minutes. Need Recognition: Team 1 Information Search: Team 2 Alternative Evaluation: Team 3 Purchase Decision: Team 4 Post-Purchase: Team 5
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