Business Operations: Zazzle

A number of Web services now promote personal Web shops where individuals can sell their customized products to the world. Zazzle is such a service allowing individuals to design and market t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, buttons, and more. Tools like Zazzle would be particularly helpful in supporting small business projects where students prepare a business plan for virtual products they can actually sell. In the Business and Information Technology Curriculum, for example, the Small Business Entrepreneurship course emphasizes "skills needed to plan, organize, manage, and finance a small business... each student prepares his/her own business plan."