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Palmedia Internet & Business ConsultancyConsultancy

Palmedia offers a complete range of advisory services to small and medium sized businesses and the public sector.

We provide a fully professional consultancy service, with clients ranging from small businesses to the Department for Work and Pensions and West Yorkshire Learning and Skills Council.

We have undertaken a wide variety of work from assisting with internet procurement to producing a feasibility study on e-learning access and broadband and producing web site specifications.

With the experience of serving on the boards of directors of multi-million pound organisations, we are qualified to provide IT direction at a strategic, as well as tactical, level.

Examples of recent projects include:

  1. Identifying the best accounts solution for a small manufacturing company
  2. Investigating solutions for integrated e-commerce, accounts and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems for a services company
  3. Conducting a business needs analysis and recommending a way forward to increase sales online for a retail business
  4. Reviewing current IT and telecoms infrastructure, recommending changes (including VOIP and reotely hosted applications) and overseeing the implementation for a small professional services company
  5. A feasibility study into the use of broadband for e-learning for a public sector partnership
  6. Reviewing the operations of a department and recommending changes to procedures to reduce costs and improve service fora public sector organisation
  7. Conducting an audit of IT systems and security for a public sector organisation

Contact us now to find out how we can help you acheive your internet vision.

Internet Training, Mentoring and Consultancy with PalmediaTraining

We aim to provide an understanding of the benefits and issues for both non-technical and technical users, concentrating on knowledge, skills, and real business benefits. All courses are tailored to the audience, whether that is a one-to-one coaching session on web development or a corporate seminar on ecommerce issues.

Our seminars are not aimed at expert web developers and programming knowledge is not required, although for some seminars a basic understanding of building or maintaining an html web site is helpful.

At Palmedia we try to help companies take advantage of online opportunities, and our seminars are designed to do exactly that.

We can also offer one-to-one or group follow-up support, and link our seminars into other training programmes.

Examples of Training Seminars we can offer include:

  1. Introduction to e-Business and Selling Online
    An introduction to e-business, covering identifying your needs, setting up a web site, finding a supplier, choosing technical solutions, accepting online payments, fulfillment, maintaining your site, compliance, and tips and tricks for maximising your online sales.
  2. IT Security for Small Businesses
    Providing an overview of IT and information security issues, along with a range of simple actions that can help you manage your risks.
  3. Risk Workshop
    Idetifying business objectives and managing the risks that arise. How to make sure you are not exposed to serious risks that can damage your business, and identifying strategies and actions for minimisng them.
  4. Web Site Accessibility, Usability and Compliance
    A detailed look at web site accessibility requirements and the main accessibility standards, how to make your site accessible and keep it that way, and how accessible your site needs to be. We can also look at other compliance issues such as distance selling regulations, terms and conditions of use, email and marketing rules, and other issues.
  5. Building an e-Business Web Site with Comersus
    How to build a transactional e-commerce web site with Comersus Cart e-commerce software, including a look at designing your own shop front, integration with payment providers, managing products, reporting, and how using placement, discounts and offers to maximise sales. We can also look at customising code, upgrading stores, database options, hosting, and other issues of interest.
  6. Marketing your Web Site
    We will provide a detailed overview of how and why to market your web site, covering both free and paid for promotion options, search engine optimisation, online marketing, key word marketing, email and viral marketing, getting your web site listed, affiliate schemes, and integrating your web site with offline promotional activities.

The seminars above have been run succesfully in the past. If you don't see what you're looking for, please ask us. For more information on our training seminars, contact us here.

Contact Palmedia now to find out how we can help you today.