Between April 2001 and September 2007 Opportunity Wales has helped over 11,900 businesses to increase their use of the Internet and ecCommerce through our innovate support programme. We are not presently able to help businesses directly but we are working to secure funding from the Welsh Assembly to allow us to launch a comprehensive new eBusiness support service for Welsh businesses in April 2008. However, during this interim period we are running a small number of Search Marketing Workshops for existing Opportunity Wales clients. To ensure you still have access to news and information regarding a wide range of eBusiness topics we will be adding content on a regular basis to the Opportunity Wales blog.
Adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and eBusiness is expected to be a key driver of economic growth and increased productivity within the SME community in Wales. This is the fourth study conducted within the Opportunity Wales programme by the eCommerce Innovation Centre (eCIC) at Cardiff University within its role as Centre of Excellence for the programme. It presents the results from a telephone survey of 2,553 SMEs across Wales examining their progress in implementing and exploiting eBusiness.
Since its inception Opportunity Wales has helped over ten thousand businesses across Wales with their eCommerce issues. You can find out how we've helped a selection of these businesses on our new Helping Business Grow Web site.
In our latest podcast we look at the steps that you need to take to successfully manage your Web site, from regularly monitoring traffic to it to building a network of relevant inbound links to ensure that it ranks well in the search engines.
The ability to work flexibly is something that many of us aspire to. The trouble is that many businesses don’t understand it, nor can they see the potential benefits that it can offer both for the employer and the employee. This article explains the background and provides an insight into some of the benefits that can be realized.
January is traditionally a quiet time for tourism businesses in Wales and is the perfect time to look at how Information Technology can help your business to grow ready for the season ahead.
