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‘Click’ to Win. Introduction. Agenda:. 5.15pm Sinclair Stockman, Digital NI 2020 Making e-Commerce Work For You 5.25pm Daniel Loughlin, Export Technologies Trading online the Export Technologies Story 5.35pm Robert Patton, The Saddlery
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‘Click’ to Win Introduction
Agenda: • 5.15pm Sinclair Stockman, Digital NI 2020 • Making e-Commerce Work For You • 5.25pm Daniel Loughlin, Export Technologies • Trading online the Export Technologies Story • 5.35pm Robert Patton, The Saddlery • Harnessing e-commerce, e-marketing & social media to increase sales • 5.45pm Gillian Keys, Zing Design & Print • Transforming a traditional print business to an on-line managed services business • 5.55pm Michael Clarke, Goldblatt McGuigan • What the future holds? The cloud computing era. • 6.05pm Question & Answer Panel • 6.50pm Annette Deighan, Causeway Chamber of Commerce • 7.00pm - 7.30 pm Networking
The UK on- line Market • UK is a leader in ecommerce worth £121 billion in 2010 • 8.3% of the UK economy • Source - Boston Consulting Group • 13.5% of all UK purchases were made on-line in 2010 • Projected to rise to 23% by 2016 reaching a total value of £211 billions • Source - BBC / Travelmole March 2012 • 32 million people (66% adults) purchase goods/services on-line in 2011 • Source -Office National Statistics • USA Retail Market • $ 202 billion in 2011 • $ 226 billion in 2012 (projected ) • $ 327 billion in 2016 – (projected) CAGR / 5 years 10.1% • Source Forrester Research / US Census Department
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The Local Story Summary of the 2010 business survey: Sample of 510 businesses across the 4 Council area (Ballymoney, Coleraine, Limavady and Moyle) • Usage of email and web; • 72% had email, • only 47.5% had a website. • 287 Coleraine Only Businesses • 70% had email, • 50.5% had websites. 2011 Joint Economic Development Strategy for the 4 Councils findings: ‘Being computer and internet capable’ • Is becoming an increasingly critical skill set for businesses and consumers. As new ICT hardware, software and trends emerge we need to be able to take advantage of them.
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