• Landscaping Service
• Babysitting Service
• Vehicle Detailing Service
• House Cleaning Service
• House Painting
• Seasonal Decorating Service
• Pet Care Service (dog walking etc.)
• Shopping and Delivery Service for Homebound people
• Home Tutoring

You have, hypothetically, $1,000.00 start up or seed money to use. ....Due Date:   See TimeLine handout for all due dates concerning this project.

2) Stage 1:  Consolidate all team member ideas into your top FIVE choices and ask me to help you narrow the list down to the top workable idea. Then, as a group, select your business and verify it with me.  .....Due Date:   See TimeLine handout for all due dates concerning this project.

3)  Stage 1:  As a group, come up with 5 ideas for a company name.  Also verify these names with me and choose one.  You cannot change your business or business name without my approval.  .....Due:  See TimeLine handout for all due dates concerning this project.

4)  Stage 1:  As a group, write down the steps your team needs to go through to organize this business. Essentially, you are now starting to develop your business plan.

Stage 1:  Once the type of business is decided and the name of the business chosen, each member must decide, on their own, what their job area(s) is going to be and tell me on:   See TimeLine handout for all due dates concerning this project.

Once you have chosen your area(s), as listed in the three areas below

• Graphic and Visual Aids
• Presenters of Business Plan and Economic Model
• Commercial Advertising

 and based on their rubrics, I will review your progress for completion according to the following schedule:

• Stage 1:  Type of business, company name, job choice(s): (see Benchmork Below)
•  Due on                       100 points.
• 20% completion: (See Benchmark Below)
•  Due on                       50 points.
• 60% completion: (See Benchmark Below)
• Due on                       100 points.
• 90% completion:   (See Benchmark Below)
•  Due on                      150 points.
• Completion of project:
•  Due on day of final.          300 points.
• You must be in class during the final to qualify and possibly earn these points!

Benchmarks:

Stage 1 means you have turned in a list of any different business ideas you may have, helped choose a business and your business's name and have selected your job(s) based on the rubrics listed on my web site.

20% means you've started.  You must present a general outline or script if you are a presenter or doing PowerPoint, Video, Audio, live performance.  If you are doing the Economic Model, you should have a spreadsheet started in Excel.  If you are in the Visual & Graphic Art area you present a layout of your 5 intended projects or at least show one completed.

60% means your have completed more than half the material outlined in the appropriate rubric.

90% means you have completed nearly all the material outlined in the appropriate rubric.

Bring all completed work to class each meeting.

Every member of the group is responsible for their own portion (or portions) based on the job area(s) they choose.   Grading is based on individual not group accomplishment.  I highly encourage multi-tasking (multiple job areas) to achieve the best grade;  i.e. being a presenter and also directing a commercial or fulfilling the visual and graphics rubric and creating a web site or PowerPoint presentation.  In addition to my evaluations, you will be evaluating each other.  A form will be provided for this process along with an area for you to write down your team member's names, phone numbers and job area(s) responsibility.  This form must be turned in the day of the final or risk losing 50 points.  Don't lose it!

• Graphic and Visual aids.
• Presenters of Business Plan and Economic Model 
• Commercial Advertising

6)  Design and create multiple visual aids including yet not limited to:  company logos, posters, business cards, hand out flyers, order forms, brochures, ad slicks for a magazine or newspaper, banners, buttons, hats, tee shirts, audio and/or video commercials, live performances or skits.

Select the Visual and Graphics Rubric link below for responsibilities in this area.

• Dress appropriately
• Make your presentation to the class as if it were a group of business people interested in your service.
• Explain how your business plan and economic model works.
• Provide a word processed business plan including an Excel version of your economic model.
• Your presentation can be live, i.e. an infomercial;  via a Power Point;  or another vehicle mutually agreed upon (web site).  To learn more, see the Presenters and Word Processing Rubric link below .

• It can be audio, and/or; visual, and/or;  live.
• Hence, you can do all three if you wish (none of which are more than 30 seconds long).
• Actually, you can have multiple audio, video, web site and PowerPoint presentations shown during your presentation if you choose.  Just make sure they are presented within the 25 minut time frame each group has. 
• Furthermore, you can develop any of the above and present it via digital projector during finals.
• Connect with the Commercial Advertising Rubric link below for more information.

Lastly and most important, you must verify that your presentation will work on the technology available in class.  In other words, your PowerPoint, web site, commercial or any other media presentation must work effectively on the Dell computer available in class.  If it does not work, during the presentation, you will be severely penalized.  It is your responsibility to see that it works.  You are also welcome to bring in your own computer for presentation of your own material.  Check with me if you have any questions about this.