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Website Construction (CMS-Based)

Help Regent Center for Entrepreneurship communicate their work with a content management system (CMS)-based website, so that they can easily manage and update site content on a regular basis.
Regent Center for Entrepreneurship
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
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Posted March 28th

Website Construction (CMS-Based)

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What we need
  • We need a WordPress-hosted website to attract, engage, and educate students interested in starting their own businesses by franchising.
  • We need an expert who can help us to offer a unique Introduction to Franchising course via this website and market a new and exciting educational program.
  • We will also need training to ensure we can update content and manage the site post-launch.
    • What we have in place
    • We already have a spec sheet and site map detailing the purpose, organization, and content for the site. We also have a syllabus and course map for the online course we'd like to offer. We have partners ready to help us share this website with tens of thousands of prospective users. We have a short list of WordPress themes and a desire to work with an expert who can guide us to an exceptional product!
    How this will help
    This project will save us $16,822 , allowing us to educate 15 entrepreneurs in the developing world.

    The key to our success is getting potential entrepreneurs to know that this resource is available and that even more training is at their disposal. Without your help, we wouldn't be able to reach our potential audience. Your assistance will help to transform communities by empowering entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses through franchising.

    Project plan

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    Prep: Share Information
    • Volunteer Manager provides Professional with an outline of the Organization’s needs and goals for the new website, which should include any specific features that are required (e.g., contact forms, mobile responsive design, member sign in, etc.)
    • Volunteer Manager provides approved content and images to be used for the new website (e.g., About Us copy, Mission Statement, staff bios and images, etc.)
    • Volunteer Manager provides Professional with links to any existing online presence that the Organization has (e.g., social media, blog, existing website, etc.)
    • Volunteer Manager registers Organization's domain name with a web host, if necessary
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    Milestone 1: Kick-off Discussion
    • Volunteer Manager and Professional connect to discuss the timeline and scope of the website project, including: the number of pages or sections for the new website, specific features and plugins requires, look and feel for the website (themes), target date for initial review, target date for website launch
    • Professional reviews information provided and makes recommendations for which CMS application to use
    • Volunteer Manager signs up for the selected CMS application, and provides Professional with credentials to create the website
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    Milestone 2: Build & Review
    • Professional uses the materials provided and agreed upon timeline to build the website
    • Volunteer Manager reviews the in-progress website and provides feedback
    • Professional completes any required functional QA
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    Milestone 3: Website Launch
    • Professional provides final website for approval to launch
    • Volunteer Manager approves the website for launch, or requests approval from any stakeholders
    • Professional launches the site on Organization's domain name
    • Professional troubleshoots any issues that may arise immediately after launch
    • Professional instructs the Volunteer Manager on how to update content and maintain the website going forward
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    About the org

    Regent Center for Entrepreneurship
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    Brittany H.

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    Our mission

    The Regent Center for Entrepreneurship exists to transform people and nations through business. We train entrepreneurs in the US and in developing nations to start and grow businesses, offering sustainable solutions for poverty.

    What we do

    RCE does exciting work all over the world. Here are two of our most exciting recent projects:

    1) Business Development Centers (BDC)
    RCE started its first BDC in 2010 in Kigali, Rwanda. The program emphasizes hands-on learning to prepare aspiring entrepreneurs with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the challenging world of business start ups. Much of the program consists of field assignments where students observe, research, analyze, and test their ideas in the marketplace. Students are able to draw not only on their instructors, but also on visiting business experts from around the world who will meet with students to advise them on their business ideas and plans. Local experts on Rwandan business practices will visit the class periodically to provide inspiration as well as technical information needed for successful business in Rwanda.

    We now have licensed BDCs in Bangalore, India and Kampala, Uganda, and a lengthy waiting list as we prove our systems in these test locations.

    2) Franchise MBA
    Not a single university has an MBA program with a specialization in Franchising, despite the fact that 13% of the US economy can be attributed to franchising. We are creating a world class program which can be taken as part of the Regent School of Business MBA program or as a standalone certificate program. We have been training entrepreneurs for years and have learned that not everyone has the desire or the personality to create a business and business systems from scratch. A franchise offers the opportunity to lead an organization, build equity, and relieve poverty, while providing a scaffolding of business systems to help obtain success.

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