Rachel's Entrepreneurship Blog

1. Women's pants pockets being larger 2. As a women that. has gone clothing shopping with other women countless times, we always seem to run into the small front pocket problem. Or better yet, the fake pocket. I believe this exists because some women carry purses or large wallets ceasing the need for real or big front pockets. The Who: Women looking for pockets when shopping The What: Need for larger pockets The Why: For any that buy women's pants can carry items in all four pockets if need be. 3. Testing The Who: First I would test a middle aged women, to see how often she has had this problem during her shopping days. I say middle aged first because she will definitely have more shopping experience and clothing trends changes than my generation has. Testing The What: The boundaries would have to be, the type of pants and the brand.  I will be looking for those who wear jean shorts in juniors to regular women's. With this I will ask how much of their hand they c...

Regulatory Trends 1. Contact Free Handling This has just started not only on food delivery apps but also for clothing stores. I went to the Villages and there was a a clothing store that added no contact pick-up for online ordering. I believe this may continue even after the pandemic settles. People have already become accustomed to all the contact free lifestyle, and this will probably continue for years. This allows customers to get their products without entering the store, which I know many anti-social or people that just don't like to shop, will continue to use. It just makes shopping easier and stress free. As someone that works in retail, many people love to online shop, and since these shops will already have their products in store, they will just order from that store and have it sooner than online ordering. 2.  Golf Carts Being Allowed to Drive in the Downtown Area The has just became a new regulation in Ocala, however many in the Historic area of Ocala may find ...

Here are my local opportunities I came across in my local newspapers, they mainly came from Ocala.com. Starting right off the bat we have: 1. "Restaurant Owners of Marion County Seek to Unite" https://www.ocala.com/business/20200523/restaurant-owners-of-marion-county-seek-to-unite Due to COVID-19 many local restaurants have been either been swamped because of the deal they made for take out orders, or they aren't creating enough at all. Now they can have dine in but people still are wary about it, however they are doing all they can. Such as wearing masks, giving paper menus and disinfecting all the time. It just isn't enough. Along with this, every restaurant here and throughout the world is dealing with higher prices, enforcing social distancing and implementing take out orders as a norm. The Ocala restaurants problems aren't that people don't want to come in, they just aren't satisfied with take out and causing a major drop in orders. The own...

Driving Bugs (OMG) When Ocala drivers deliberately cut me off just to slow down to 20 miles an hour in a 45. It happens every time I hit the light on 200 to turn right, someone always, ALWAYS, waits until the light is green. ITS A YIELD! When I’m stopped at a light and someone stops like 2 centimetres from my bumper! Jeez buddy back off. And it’s always some teenager. The worst one, when I’m driving on I-75, riding in the fast lane and some mini van (most of the time) gets right in front of me. Like they didn't even see me, and bam! I go from a nice 85-90 to 65. What are they thinking, it bewilders me every time. The everlasting blinker. We all know that person, the one who forgets its on and every turn coming up we think that's the one. That's the turn, where they leave my presence, but it never is, leaving you guessing.  I feel like these all exist because people aren’t tested on their drivers test as if they were really out in the open. Everyone per...

HOV lanes on I-75 after Orlando Turnpike Everyone knows what it feels like when you get trapped behind two semis or two people having a slow race on the highway. I believe adding a HOV lane ( high-occupancy vehicle) would help traffic back ups as well as keep slower traffic win their lane. All Florida drivers, Disney World lovers, and shipping company’s would benefit from this lane, it allows semis to ride safely without being pushed around by other vehicles trying to pass, as well as allowing family’s riding together have a safe, faster ride to the Orlando area. I know this need has always been around, constantly people want bigger roads but I believe this should be one of the first to be set in place. This opportunity exists at 100 percent, I recently went to Orlando and on the way back an over-sized load was in the left lane and a semi was right beside it on the right. Everyone was driving under the speed limit for 15 mins, no over-sized  load should be in the left lane...

I use to work as a Group Leader for an elementary school. I was in charge of the third graders that stayed after school. I was always in charge of creating new activities and finding ways to keep them learning while also having fun. Most of the group leaders had just looked online or used a book of ideas that then can use for activities. However I knew that the kids wouldn't be interested at all, they all wanted to talk about Snapchat or TikTok. They loved social media (which probably isn't the best for them, but I'm not their parent). So I created an activity where they "posed" or "danced" and created a story to go with it. It was adorable and also gave them the ability to express themselves and it wast something they had already done, like making slime. I enrolled in Ent3003 not only for the credit and for my degree, but to become more well-rounded. My dad and mom use to run a company together, they are superb entrepreneurs. Yes I have learned a lot ...

Hi, I'm Rachel and this blog is for my Entrepreneurship class. I'm interested to see how this class works and I can't wait to see what others have to blog about!