How retailers can get online fast…
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by sherrilynne
Napoleon once said that the UK is just a nation of shopkeepers, and I can’t help but feel that he may have a point.
Even though the pint-sized megalomaniac meant it as an insult, if he had been around today he would have probably harangued the Isle of Man for being nothing more than an island of e-tailers.
But how hard is it to set-up an online shop?
The answer is: not very.
‘But Sherrilynne’ I hear you ask yourself, ‘is it wise in this economic climate?’
Quite simply: yes. Online retailing, or e-tailing, is a growth industry in the UK, even in the depths of this icy recession.
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You know I wasn’t going not leave this alone.
Hmm, you say “wiaved till 2015″. We’d understood the £300,000 of DTI money to have paid for the scheme for two years. Has this been extended quietly? Also, has it been “waived”? We, as Manx tax payers are paying for this in two ways:
a) loss of local business as the scheme was sent to the UK on the premise there was no suitable solutions over here (not true, I wrote one such solution which is currently running a number of advanced Manx-hosted shops)
b) As tax payers, we have PAID for the £300,000 for the business to go elsewhere.
Apart from the geographic and bizarre decision for the DTI to send perfectly good work to the UK because they have no faith or knowledge of the island’s own offerings, it’s completely missing the point. Manx shops fail because of poor customer service and poor numbers of people through the door. An on-line presence will do nothing to solve that.