Business Operations: Zlio

Zlio is another tool that allows users to create their own personal Web shop and make choices to sell existing products from vendors in specified categories (e.g., sporting goods, magazines, books, music). Students could use the tool in association with a written business or marketing plan to identify product groupings likely to sell, create an image for their business with available shop names, tag lines, and reviews, and market their business with a built-in blog tool and invited contacts (e.g., parents, family members). This tool seems particularly well-suited for E-Commerce courses in the Business and Information Technology Education curriculum.