Digital Support Programme for businesses

Speaking about the programme, the Chair of the Council, Councillor Siobhán Currie, said: “the Digital Support Programme is one of the Council’s extensive suite of free Business Support programmes which deliver mentoring and support to small businesses across the district. During this unprecedented and challenging time, I believe that this support for our small businesses which are so important to the employment and economic life of the district is more important than ever.”

The Digital Support Programme which targets both traditional businesses and businesses within the digital sector, offers one to one mentoring support to help businesses to develop and enhance their digital skills in areas such as social media, email marketing and e-commerce to improve performance.

The free programme provides one to one support across the following areas:

Improving your website and user journey

Creating valuable content for the year

Updating marketing collateral

Developing a Google Ad / Facebook Ad strategy

Building your profile and audience on social media (Youtube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok)

Devising a marketing strategy for post COVID-19

To be eligible to take part in the programme, businesses must be based in the Fermanagh and Omagh District Council area, be operating for at least 12 months and demonstrate real potential for job creation through new digital channels.

The closing date for receipt of applications is Friday, April 17 at 5pm. For information, visit https://digitalsupportprogramme.com. To learn more about this programme and the range of additional free support available to local businesses contact a member of the Council’s Economic Development Team on 0300 303 1777 or [email protected].

This project is part funded by Invest NI and the European Regional Development Fund under the Investment for Growth & Jobs NI Programme.

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