The National B2B Centre's SME clients have enthusiastically adopted a range of internet technologies to help grow their businesses. In most cases simply having a website has not been enough though. Success has been derived by making the technology work within existing business processes or to take advantage of key business strengths. Sometimes the technology has been used to create completely new businesses. Gareth Edwards, B2B Centre Associate, examines some SME success stories to see how real businesses are doing it.
You can teach an old dog new tricks
Internet technologies provide many different options to support business growth for small and medium sized business whatever sector they are in, new or old.
SMP Plastics represents traditional manufacturing industry. For SMP Plastics (whose MD Mark Gibbs has been seen providing a compelling story of success at a number of B2B regional events recently) the internet has enabled a doubling of turnover in just 12 months.
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