ICT Advisor.com is currently actively engaged in supporting account managed clients of Scottish Enterprise in an exciting web optimisation and internationalisation growth project.
The first pilot ecommerce excellence scheme was done during 2008 in one region of Scotland, Dumfries & Galloway and involved supporting the growth of 12 companies who wanted to improve their online competitiveness with their websites. This project was so successful a second programme has now commenced to this time grow 24 companies of various sizes and turnover that are located all across Southern Scotland and who also wish to be successful online.
ICT Advisor continues to support businesses in the North and East of Scotland where it is finding new opportunities in both Aberdeen and Inverness through giving support to its network partners in the region, GHRL (Grampian Highland Resources Limited).
In FIfe ICT Advisor is actively engaged in delivering its website audit service to clients of Business Gateway. And, it is soon to see the launch of the website belonging to the Plastech Group Ltd of Glenrothes. This new website comes after working closely with the company and website development team carefully selected by Plastech and ICTAdvisor.
ICT Advisor during November 2009 is currently engaged in talks with a new partner to deliver some of its services 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 remain proactive in Dumfries and the Border regions of Scotland and during November 2009 we have been at the heart of launching new client websites that are supporting our clients in Glasgow, Renfrew,and London:
Another region where ICT Advisor has been proactive in helping clients buidl new websites is in the Ayrshire region. By the end of November 2009 the Seamill Hydro Hotel will be launching its new website and already the gift shop that operates within the hotel's complex has launched its own ecommerce website at www.blackshimmer.co.uk which ICTAdvisor planned and executed with its owner, and is now engaged in marketing the site.
The support work ICT Advisor is providing each company it engages with ranges from reviewing back office systems and working out how best to integrate important data into a companies website via a content management software solution. During any website project we review whether improvements might be needed to the companies IT network or any other internal data management software that might be in use. And of course we are delivering advanced internet marketing techniques and training staff to make best use of Google Analytics.
ICT Advisor.com support all sizes of company's and is competent in being able to assess the IT and ebusiness needs of high growth companies. The tasks we become engaged in include undertaking website audits, preparing website build specifications, solving back-office data management issues, and providing advanced online marketing solutions.
Across Scotland all during the year ICT Advisor continues to deliver workshops mainly for Business Gateway. However from the end of 2009 we are partnering with Central College of Commerce in Glasgow to begin delivering our Ecommerce Excellence program. The topics of these sessions which are open to business owners from all regions include Planning a Website, Choosing a Content Managed Software Solution, What it takes to build an ecommerce Webshop, How to do Search Engine Marketing and Pay Per Click Advertising, or make best use Social Media Marketing tactics and learning the power of Google Analytics to support marketing strategies.
We are busily providing a number of businesses across Scotland that we carefully vet and select to benefit from our advanced Internet Marketing Services that will help 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 successful at ebusiness or ecommerce and you wish to raise your presence within the UK and want 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 UK businesses, then CALL 01592 745992.
Do you have a website that's not giving you the return on investment?
Why not engage our services and we will undertake a review of the current website 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 or Entry Level Website Audit Report Service which are very detailed. Whether you opt for our popular entry level 'Traffic Lite' web audit report or 60 page plus Enterprise version, the outcome of either 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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