ICT Advisor.com is currently actively engaged in supporting account managed clients of Scottish Enterprise in an exciting web optimisation and internationalisation growth project during the winter of 2008 and into early 2009.
This involves supporting the growth of 12 companies who wish to improve their online competitiveness with their websites.
At the end of October 2008 ICT Advisor turns its attention to new opportunities in both Aberdeen and Inverness. Visits have been planned for company through its new partners GHRL (Grampian Highland Resources Limited).
In FIfe ICT Advisor is actively engaged in the growth plans of Plastech Group Ltd and is working closely with their chosen website development team on an internationalisation marketing project that includes the redevelopment of the Glenrothes based company's website.
ICT Advisor is not currently engaged in any projects in Tayside.
ICT Advisor continues to support businesses in Lanarkshire, helping them solve IT, ebusiness and ecommerce related issues. Over the years we have engaged with over 350 companies in the region. The type of companies we currently support vary from small micro businesses consisting of one or two people through to large commercial companies with 250+ employees.
As our business like others prepare to plan for the winter, we are already filling our pipeline with new projects in Dumfries and the Border regions of Scotland and during November 2008 we are supporting new clients in Glasgow and Renfrewshire.
Since July 2008 ICT Advisor has been working with 3 companies in the Ayrshire region, Barony Universal, Gentech Sensors Ltd and RS Biotech. The support work ICT Advisor is providing each company ranges from improved network systems and internal data management through to website redevelopment, internet marketing and training staff to make best use of Google Analytics.
March 2008 ICT Advisor.com was invited by Scottish Enterprise to support company's in Ayrshire. The contract was to assess the IT and ebusiness needs of high growth companies across the region. The tasks included undertaking website audits, preparing website build specifications, solving back-office data management issues, and providing advanced online marketing solutions.
During the winter of 2008 through to January 2008 ICT Advisor will be delivering workshops for Business Gateway in Coatbridge. The topics of these sessions which are open to business owners from all regions include Planning a Website, Choosing a Content Managed Software Solution including Webshops, tips on Search Engine Marketing and Pay Per Click Advertising, Social Media Marketing and the power of Google Analytics to support marketing strategies.
Currently 3 companies in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire are benefitting from our advanced Internet Marketing Services whereby we are helping those businesses with:
- Planning Website Marketing Strategies
- Training towards making best use of their Content Management Software
- Setting up and managing a Google Adwords Account and Campaigns
- Search Engine Marketing and Optimisation
- Setting up and training staff in understanding Google Analytics data
If your business is based in Scotland and you are interested in becoming an ebusiness or ecommerce company and you wish to either raise your presence within the UK and looking to increase your annual turnover from an online channel or you are considering a program that is planning to target internationalmarkets which are of growing importance to your business, then give us a call, our team are here to help.
Maybe you already have a website but its not giving you the return on investment you had hoped for. Why not engage with us and we will undertake a review of the current websites to identify areas that might need improved in order to increase your sales and marketing potential. We have supported many companies with both our Enterprise Level Audits that are very detailed, or you can opt for our popular 'Traffic Lite' web audit reports. Whichever one you chose the outcomes will undoubtedly identify a variety of issues that might be a barrier to preventing your company from being successful in a global market place.
Our web audit reports provide education, advice and recommendations, with each report then becoming a blueprint towards preparing to do business in either national or international markets.
These reports usually end up with us involved with the company, engaged in planning to improve their websites, especially towards gaining visitor conversion from key 'landing pages'.
Consider the next stage for your ebusiness. Put in place a process for the adaptation fromtargeting local markets to becoming focused on either national or global markets. Let us help you in the cultural transformation of your product range and the cultural adaption of your sales pitch.
Becoming an international business requires strong cross cultural communication skills, which are human skills that take time to acquire. Website owners need to be given an insight towards doing business online globally, we can help with this too. From working out what is appropriate foreign language content to optimising website pages for search engine marketing in different countries and how to market pages via targeted search engines in those countries, ICT Advisor.com has over the years enjoyed its working relationship with businesses in Scotland towards supporting their business development and growth.
If you are an ambitious company in any region of Scotland, then come and let us partner with you so we can help your business become one of Scotland's key industries contributing to build a world-class economy.
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