E-BUSINESS

Starting up E-Business

Starting up E-Business

Starting Up E-Business

E-Business

The e-business that I have chosen to start online is related to applications development for smartphones. The online business will be responsible for providing clients with services related to their business and personal needs of smartphone applications.

Smartphone applications are more popular in the present digital age, and people are willing to pay good money for ways to manage their business and personal lives from smartphones. The idea to start an online business of application development is hence viable (OBS 2007, p.n.d).

Setting Up E-Business

Setting up online business for application development requires a website. A website for online business is required for providing clients with information related to kind of services our business offers to them and helps business to provide up to date information of business to the clients.

For obtaining the website of our online business of application development, first step is to select a domain name for website. After selecting domain name for our online business, we will check that whether the domain name that we have selected is available or it had been acquired by someone. After knowing that the domain name for our website is available to use, the next step would be to register the domain name with a domain registration company. There are numerous domain registration companies available each offering different packages for domain registration depending on the needs of business. After getting the domain name registered at company, the next step would be to find out hosting company that could provide the service of hosting our website on the internet. The hosting company will store the text and images and make up website to upload it on World Wide Web.

Online Issues

The online issues that we could face in our online business operations include (Schiff 2013, p. n.d):

Integrity- The integrity of the information exchanged online could be altered.

Privacy- The information exchanged online could be accessed by unauthorized parties.

Authentication- The identities of sender and receiver of information could get changed.

The ways through which we would ensure the security of our website includes:

Keeping platforms and installed scripts up to date. The platform and scripts are most important elements on which the entire website is running. By making platform and scripts strong, the attack from hackers could be avoided.

Installation of security plugins on platform would help to indicate weaknesses in platform and could reduce the hacking attempts on our website.

Locking down of directory and file permissions that are stored on our web hosting account would help in assuring security against hacking and other security attacks on our website.

The payments, refunds, exchange, delivery etc. from our online business would be conducted under a secure payment method “PayPal”. I have chosen PayPal as a means of business transactions because it uses the industry leading technology (like SSL) to keep the information safe. PayPal enables the businesses to use the secure payment system because (PayPal 2013, p. n.d):

It uses the industry leading fraud prevention and encryption tools.

It does not share the financial information with the ...