Monday, September 26, 2011

Week 4 - Hardware and Identity Theft

Identity theft is something that the chilly sheets brand will be taking very seriously. The brand will be controlling identity theft in every way possible. First all programs like online purchasing and phone ordering will all be extremely secure and verified so there will be no problems with any identity theft. The company will take extra precautions to make sure that peoples information is very secure.


This brings me to hardware, something very important for all companies. Chilly sheets will have a great online database and website that will allow the product to be seen by many people. The product will be unknown to people as it is an entirely new concept and in order to make a great website that promotes the brand will need great technology to back it up.

In order to have a secure website and business, servers with updated technology will be purchased in order to keep all customers information as well as the brands information secure. I will also make sure that all technology and hardware that is used is kept up to date in order to best serve all customers.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Week 3 - Spreadsheets

Microsoft Excel is a very powerful program that not many people truly know how to use well. I believe that MS Excel would be extremely beneficial to the Chilly Sheets brand and by using MS Excel, my company would be able to track finances and all purchases made of the product.

MS Excel provides many great features, for example, users can make formulas to help them find when they are below or above budget. With my Chilly Sheets I am sure that I will be spending a lot of money to manufacture them. MS Excel will allow me to track how much money I am spending during the design phase of the process. If I have spent too much money, I will tell the formula to show me "Overdrawn" and change to the color red so I know that I cannot spend any more money. If I am in good financial standing, the formula will say "Finances OK" and the box will be green. These formulas are very simple to make on Excel and the colors feature is a great indicator for the person who is viewing the spreadsheet.

Finally, I will use MS Excel to track how many purchases have been made and subtract that from the total Chilly Sheets sets that were made. I will be able to easily see whenever I need to have more sheets produced. I can also keep track of how many sets of sheets have been sold. There are many ways to use MS Excel to benefit my invention, especially from the business and financial point of view.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Week 2 - Chilly Sheets

I always have a hard time sleeping in Syracuse in the hot, overly humid and muggy weather that happens in the first and last few weeks of school. The weather makes sleeping often difficult and unbearable because all you do is toss and turn in your bed until finally you are so exhausted you fall asleep. Muggy weather is something that makes a lot of people struggle to sleep because a muggy atmosphere is just as unenjoyable at night as it is during the day. Your body is producing its natural heat which gets trapped in normal flannel or cotton sheets and it is hard for the heat to escape.

Chilly Sheets will make sleeping at night in the late spring, summer and early fall much more enjoyable as they will help all people using them feel nice and cool on those hot and humid summer nights. Unlike flannel and cotton sheets which are supposed to help keep heat in, an attempt to keep you warm during the colder months, Chilly Sheets will be made of a material that does the exact opposite, cool users down with a new technology that absorbed heat and turned transformed it into cool energy that could cool your body down.

Chilly Sheets are a new technology that would be easily promoted and brought to the attention of people who were in need of a cooler nights sleep with social media, especially Twitter. Using a website like Twitter would allow product developers to search for people who are tweeting things like "It is so humid I cannot sleep #summerheat" and the Chilly Sheets team will be able to promote the product with ease. Twitter might also be an easy way to promote Chilly Sheets with Trending Topics or hashtags. Both things allow for great publicity in an extremely affordable way!