Google, Enterprise UK, BT, the Department for Business Innovation & Skills and e-skills UK have joined together to launch the Getting British Business Online campaign (GBBO).
The campaign aims to help 100,000 small businesses and entrepreneurs create their first website and attract new customers online by the end of 2010.
With 17p in every pound now spent online, there has never been a better time for businesses to get online. The new service allows companies to create their first website without any technical knowledge and then update it from any computer, for free.
Simon Kimber, director of Brighton-based web company create.net, believes the scheme is ‘a great thing for the sector’.
He told the British Chambers of Commerce: ‘GBBO is a good thing. It will allow businesses to get directly involved in building a basic website. Once they are ready to take off the training wheels, services like Create will be there to help them take their online presence to the next level.’
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