MAID 101 FINAL POST

As most college students would tell you their number one priority while attending school is to devote hours of time to studying and enhancing their education in their respected classes. It would be very rare to hear someone say they came to college to clean their room and not study. No longer would this be an issue as MAID 101 continues to develop into the cleaning company of the college dream. No longer will a student have to sacrifice vital study time to wash dishes or figure out how to change a vacuum bag. MAID 101 is ready to help the consumer with all cleaning needs. From its launch at the beginning of the semester and development over the past several weeks, MAID 101 is set to put its name on the target.

As introduced as a beginning entrepreneurship idea MAID 101 carried along with it several aspects that needed further work. Dealing with any company that conducts business online one of the biggest spots of concern is with security and how to use personal information so that it does not leak to the public. As many college students across the country and a younger generation transition to online shopping it increases the number of users that provide credit card information, addresses, and more to retailers and services. It is crucial in customer service to assure the customer their information will be secure. MAID 101 has consistently established its beliefs on providing the best software and security to its customers to maintain positive customer relations. One careless mistake and this company can fall victim to improper usage or obtain viruses and identity theft.

There can never be enough attention and emphasis put on the importance of advertising an idea. MAID 101 will consistently use Facebook and Twitter to promote the business as well as inform followers to special promotions and discounts. Setting up promotional venues on campuses and passing out pamphlets about the business will also attract attention and potentially increase sales. Another thing MAID 101 hopes to continue to develop is a customer feedback section where customers can give comments good and constructive in order to keep things the way they are or improve for future use. Customers are what keep a business open and without them MAID 101 would not be in existence.

One major development piece for the future of MAID 101 is the hiring of employees and the pricing involved in both supplies cost as well as how much to charge for cleaning the rooms. In order to make a profit in this industry the cost of cleaning a room must be higher than the cost of the materials needed and other expenses. Buying cleaning supplies is expensive but with proper shopping from distributers of janitorial products should be relatively easy to find for the right price. It is also an added bonus that the same supplies can be used in multiple rooms such as sprays, dusters, vacuums etc. Pricing is something that should be determined based off competition and the demand for the service. Room rates will start at $25 for a basic cleaning once a week and increase in price as custom additions are tacked on. Package deals will also be determined such as $65 for three cleanings a week or $100 for a 7 day package. These prices are current estimates and are not final hence are subject to change as the business continues to grow.

Overall I am pleased with the development and progress MAID 101 has had over the course of this project. There are many components in this industry that must work together to be a success. The first comes with coordinating the time a room is supposed to be clean with the correct address and billing information of the client. The next is making sure that employees communicate with the client to assure it is okay to enter their room and they are not violating any security practices. MAID 101 is meant to be a service to provide relaxation and ease to the client to not lift a finger again to clean their room. From cans on the floor to dust on the shelves MAID 101 is here to provide head to toe in depth cleaning of the college dorm.

MALWARE AND SECURITY

MAID 101 provides vast cleaning services to your dorm room on a weekly basis. This service allows you to focus on school and other activities without having to take time out of your busy schedule to clean. From picking up recyclables to taking out the trash, MAID 101 is ready to clean.

                MAID 101 is dedicated to protecting the information of its clients from unauthorized outside sources. With today’s internet usage and computer hackers on the incline you are always susceptible of being a victim of a malware that will disrupt a computer instantly. Malware can come in the form of bugs, worms, Trojan horses, viruses, spyware etc. It is important when operating a business to be protected from any outside hackers that could affect your computers. Anti-virus software and firewalls have become increasingly more popular in order to assure your computer is secured from the various attacks that can be made especially with personal information of clients.

            With customers having the ability to pay for MAID 101 cleaning services online having a secured computer network throughout the company is crucial to assure no mistreatment of this information is tampered with. Although it is expensive to maintain updated software to protect against malware in the long scheme of the business it is a wise investment. The difficult part will be with the personal computers and mobile devices to assure that if lost or misplaced they are encoded with security so the information cannot be withdrawn. With a company that cleans multiple rooms in a day it is very easy to miscommunicate or get mixed up as to what room needs specific cleaning and which doesn’t. Having reliable technology to organize destinations and details of cleaning cannot fall into the hands of unauthorized people who can alter schedules and displease cliental.

            Malware can cause numerous destructions to one’s computer and is something that strong security can prevent. By taking the necessary precautions and updating when necessary, viruses and bugs may never be an issue. MAID 101 will assure that the best antivirus and firewall protections to all business networks that hold vital personal information will be installed into our servers.  

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Maid 101 provides vast cleaning services to your dorm room on a weekly basis. This service allows you to focus on school and other activities without having to take time out of your busy schedule to clean. From picking up recyclables to taking out the trash, MAID 101 is ready to clean.

                Running a business that uses any type of computer can be a very complicated procedure. It is necessary to have a computer with the proper technology so that functions can run simply and smoothly. In order to assure the previous mentioned things a computer must be properly equipped with an operating system to carry out the tasks. With hundreds of operating systems to choose from ranging from Bill Gates’ Microsoft Windows to Steve Jobs’ Apple is essential to select what is necessary for the business. Operating systems serve as vital parts to a computer involving the power system to turn on and off the computer and manage the memory devices so files don’t get lost. With MAID 101 continuously getting new clients an operating system is important in managing multiple users at one time logging onto the same information.

            MAID 101 will have multiple employees at several locations accessing the same information at once in order to quickly serve our cliental in an efficient and orderly manner. With continuous action on our servers it is a wise decision to use an operating system such as Windows server 2008 or Mac OS10. These two types of operating systems allow for virtualization between multiple computers at one time. Our technology team can manage all the usage as too who has access to what and the whereabouts of the employees through their usage.  Using a stand-alone system such as Windows 7 or Vista would not be sufficient enough to host all the users on one server. It would be very poor customer service for a computer to fail due to the inability to host all the multiple users at once.

            Employees will also carry embedded operating systems on them at all times in the forms of smartphones. These embedded servers such as Google Android or Apple iOS are smaller servers but still provide internet access where available in public uses. These smartphones will be used as devices to communicate back and forth for business purposes to the company and employees. They will also be the means of contacting the clients when the cleaning services are scheduled to arrive at the room. As mentioned numerous times MAID 101 prides itself on friendly, efficient service to provide a meaningful customer relationship and clean the room spotless from floor to ceiling.

PROFESSIONAL REVIEW

http://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/09/21/the-kindle-headed-japan-next-month/

             Alex Wilhelm is a professional blogger based out of San Francisco. His primary work includes topics dealing with politics and business across the globe. His twitter account lists his as a writer for thenextweb.com which is a professional blogging website. This current blog talks about how the Kindle is set to launch in Japan in the coming weeks. The Next Web blog connects with many topics around the world and Alex Wilhelm describes how the Amazon Kindle will market itself in a new country overseas.

            The Amazon Kindle is one of the fastest selling technology products on the market for e-readers. Amazon was set to launch the product in September but delays in manufacturing have pushed the launch date to later this month in October. The successes of the Kindle and other e-readers in America have set a tone to continue to sell in overseas markets. With the holiday season rapidly approaching Amazon hopes to not have any mistakes in the technology and a smooth launch is expected. The only issue deals with converting the English language of the Kindle to support Japanese. The price of this Kindle has not yet been released but will soon hit the news when determined in the market.

            Overall I thought this blog was effective at delivering the message about the new launch of the Amazon Kindle into the Japanese market. Alex Wilhelm created a topic that is very popular in the technology market and detailed a lot of unknown information of updates of the expected launch. His blog style is very to the point and not very opinionated and loaded with facts. In a way I like to be informed about a topic rather than read speculations about what can and may not be true or false. However, I do not think Wilhelm did a good job on raising questions about the topic or raising a discussion or questions about the Kindle launch. As the blog shows there were not many comments leading off of this blog. That may be due to the amount of facts that were pumped into the blog rather than opinions. I feel the more opinions that are in the blog the more of a discussion can be derived from that. Readers like to have something to say about a topic rather than just reading facts like in a newspaper.

CLOUD COMPUTING

Maid 101 provides vast cleaning services to your dorm room on a weekly basis. This service allows you to focus on school and other activities without having to take time out of your busy schedule to clean. From picking up recyclables to taking out the trash, MAID 101 is ready to clean.

Cloud computing is becoming a very useful tool with businesses in this modern internet era. It allows for a company to store all its files through internet databases and not vital room on hardware and memory. MAID 101 uses a lot of storage space of client’s names and addresses as well as information such as scheduled cleanings and specific cleaning instructions. Storing this information on the cloud is a safe and reliable system that is efficient and convenient. Cloud computing is also relatively inexpensive to use due to the decrease in overhead charges of having large databases and hardware to store information on.

Due to the information being stored on the internet it can be accessed from any computer at any time. This increases efficiency for MAID 101 by allowing an employee to quickly look up information about an address or phone number without physically being connected to a sole computer with all the data stored on it. Employees can access the information from any device that is connected to the internet such as a smartphone, tablet or laptop. This allows for employees to sit in the cleaning truck and access a file to see when their next house or dorm is.  If a cleaner is at one location looking at information another employee at second location can look up information as well with no lost time or waiting. MAID 101 employees will benefit from cloud computing by having easy access to files to provide great customer service in a fast manner.

MAID 101 can also use cloud computing as a way to set up how their business wants to manage its files. Cloud computing allows for organization and customization of virtually every place available to use for storage. With the ability to run more than one computer at once off one server, MAID 101 can allocate what information is accessible to which people. At little cost a business can continue to upgrade the size of storage space available. As MAID 101 continues to grow so will the amount of customer information that needs to grow. Cloud Computing can also exist in areas such as online shopping. Due to MAID 101 existing on the internet, customers do have the option of booking and paying for services through the website. This gives MAID 101 an advantage over others in the market by being directly connected to the internet at all times and can post and launch files easily and quickly.