New Castle County to help train small businesses in e-commerce

The New Fortress County Workplace of Financial Improvement helps small companies with a brand new e-commerce coaching program.

The brand new program will assist small enterprise house owners by offering details about the e-commerce business and on-line advertising methods.

The county is utilizing a few of its funds from the American Rescue Plan Act to assist small companies within the county with lower than 25 full-time staff.

There will likely be two workshops for the companies to study extra about e-commerce.

Director of Financial Improvement for New Fortress County, Charuni Patibanda explains how the workshops will work.

“On the one hand we’re serving to to teach the enterprise house owners on what they could want and what they’d really need and we’re all so alternatively vetting the distributors in order that the interplay between the companies and the distributors is extra streamlined, extra environment friendly and more cost effective,” stated Patibanda

The county workplace of Financial Improvement is partnering with the county chamber of commerce’s Rising Enterprise Middle to host two upcoming workshops, on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to midday.

The second is on June 28, from 5 p.m. to eight p.m., and each will likely be on the New Fortress County Chamber of Commerce.

Patibanda says this can assist companies which are new to e-commerce.

“So these are firms, possibly it is a bookstore, possibly it is a small retail retailer,” stated Patibanda. “They weren’t initially considering having an e-commerce platform they usually might not even understand how e-commerce can profit their enterprise however they’re eager to study extra. So that is what these instructional workshops are for.”

Workshop contributors will likely be thought of for a small enterprise e-commerce improvement grant, additionally from the county’s ARPA funds.