Whether you are a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer, the opportunity that the Internet provides is equally compelling. Your customer is looking for pre-sales information, visibility to their purchases, and after sales support. Meeting your customers needs over the Internet will make it more convenient for them and create efficiencies in your business.

Objectives

We help people run better business through access to information and optimised use of the Internet.

We facilitate business connections across the supply chain, from manufacturers to wholesales, from wholesales to retailers, and from retailers to consumers.

We focus on delivering a high quality online presence for each business that ensures customers and prospects can engage the business over the Internet when it suits, and that the business has tools to manage these online sales and marketing related engagements. Importantly, our services focus on ensuring that these online presences can be kept up to date economically and that they provide a range of capabilities that are demanded on the astute online retail consumer or trade purchaser.

Future

We see a future that consists of a global trading community underpinned by an Internet enabled common business transaction framework that reduces the cost of doing business and simplifies the process of getting products into the hands of consumers. We have a particular focus on ensuring that small businesses can participate seamlessly in this future by reducing the barriers to adopting new technology, providing products and services that make it realistic to stay up-to-date, and delivering better information to those who run small businesses.

Take a moment to watch this short fictional film, Epic 2015, which is a history of the Internet as told in 2015:

At first glance, it might appear that the "Evolving Personalised Information Construct" might have very little to do with your business, however, it is important to remember that commerce is what drives the revenues of the players in this story. Advertising and product sales revenue is the driver, and those advertising dollars and products come from business. Perhaps even your business. While some of this might be as much as ten years away, there are actions we can take now that help you prepare for and succeed in such a future...

You can be your own Google. Google might appear to be a search engine to most, but underneath the hood is a massive database of economically valuable information. Search statistics and adwords data provide real-time information about what people are looking for and what businesses are promoting to those consumers. Amazon and Ebay have very similar capabilities. You can too. Today. You can have a website that tracks searches, page hits, product sales, and more. With this information, you can tailor your advertising and product mix to suit what people are looking for. While we won't all be billion dollar businesses, we can have systems that give us equally powerful information about what our customers want from us.

Our vision is of a connected marketplace where you have the tools and support you need to actively participate and prosper...