Hoops, Shirts, and MoreBy: Julie

PielmeierGus Grimes

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of our organization is to reach consumers interested in our handmade

products. We will do this through social media advertising and word of mouth. The types of handmade products we plan to supply will

consist of many different tye dye items and hula hoops. The business will consist of 4 departments; Hula hoops, tye dye items,

shipping/ordering, and web design. Our shop is located in the South Side of Pittsburgh, PA at

168 E Carson St.

EMPLOYEES

5 total employees

Webmaster

Tye dye designer

Hula Hoop artisan

Shop worker 1

Shop Worker 2

HULA HOOP ARTIST

Julie will design and create hula hoops by hand for sale on our

website and in shop. She will also offer a hula hooping class in our

shop. Julie will split any remaining earnings with Gus as they will be

joint partners in the business. Julie will be responsible for taking pictures of the hoop and making

sure the webmaster posts the pictures to the webpage so that the customer can view and buy

new items. She will also be responsible to get her

merchandise to the Pittsburgh store to be put on display and

sale.

TYE DYE DESIGNER

Gus will be in charge of designing and creating tye

dye products such as T shirts, tapestries, shoes, curtains, blankets, and

more. Gus will be responsible to take

pictures of each of his item and make sure the

webmaster posts the pictures to the webpage so customers can shop

new items. He will also be in charge of delivering the physical items to the shop.

WEBMASTER

The webmaster will receive a

salary based pay. His duties will be

to maintain and/or fix our webpage and any of our

technology related to the function of

the business.

SHOPWORKERS 1 & 2

Each of the shop workers will assist

the product designers and carry

out in store sales and shop upkeep. They will be paid at an

hourly rate of $8. The processing task of clocking in and out will be controlled by

our AME Payroll Small Business Software.

We will train our employees through our POS system The

Essential Retail System. It comes with one year free

telephone support. Therefore, we can call the company for

issues regarding our POS system.

TRAINING OF EMPLOYEES

SECURITYBack up plan & storage

Daily processing tasks backed up on the server consistently every day. Trend Micro Advanced Software will keep our business information private by locking down USB

drives and other storage devices. Also stops data loss through electronic data exchange. Blocks spam, identifies and blocks emerging threats before they can impact our business.IX web hosting allows large amount storage

transfer

DAILY PROCESSING TASKS

Our Point of Sale System (POS) will run our daily sales. This will include barcode scanner and inventory update after each sale.

Input and output from document

Our payroll software AME Payroll will allow employees to clock in and out on register and monitor sales. Therefore aid in payroll management.

DATABASE INFORMATIONBusiness Plan Pro will run our database. It creates automatic

charts/spreadsheets, financial forecasting, and full proof error checking. Along with sample plans

and market research from over 9,000 industries.

Customer information will need stored in our database. Inventory updates

from sales in store and online. Financial accounting updates and

supplier contact information/inventory.

All of this information will be stored on our HP ProLiant ML 150 Server.

NETWORK CONFIGURATION LAN network connection Three company desktop computers with

backbone connection to server POS Retail system connected to LAN

network as well to enable inventory update

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER Verizon phone and internet bundle High speed Online back up and sharing Unlimited nation wide calling IX web hosting for up to 8 IP addresses

and domain name registration

HARDWARESOFTWARE ISP/HOSTANALYSIS

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