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“Do It Digital” launches with small business helpline

A new campaign that will promote the benefits to small businesses of becoming more digitally engaged and signposting them towards available assistance is to kick off the New Year with “100 Days of Digital”.

“Do It Digital”, which is an independent, not-for-profit campaign, will focus on promoting opportunities for assistance available to small business owners. Its “100 Days of Digital” will run from December 23rd until March 31st.

The first of initiative it will promote is a new helpline for any small businesses owners looking for digital help and support. The free helpline - the number is 03300 103300 – will be manned between 8.30am and 5pm Monday to Friday by staff from Happus, a Caerphilly-based IT business which supplies affordable hardware and Internet access to the 5 million people in the UK unable to afford new products and services. Alternatively, email enquiries can be sent to DoItDigital@happus.eu.

The Do It Digital campaign aims to help the digitally un-engaged take their first steps online whilst promoting opportunities for those already online to engage further and expand their digital horizons. The focus of the first “100 Days of Digital” will be to highlight opportunities both in the “real world” and online for small business owners to access help, advice, inspiration and support.

The initiative, which will be led by Michelle Ovens, also director of the highly successful Small Business Saturday campaign, will positively promote the benefits of digital engagement for small businesses, from having a simple web presence to taking the first steps towards selling online. The campaign says that digital engagement is crucial for all aspects of business, from marketing and recruitment to banking and accounting, and is only likely to become more so. Digital engagement will become increasingly central to the development of competitive, profitable and growing businesses.

“The launch of Do It Digital isn’t an attempt to reinvent the wheel,” explains Michelle Ovens. “Rather it aims to amplify all the “get online”

initiatives out there by bringing them together to create a moment of real excitement, pointing small business owners towards available, practical support and thereby enhancing the success of all digital initiatives from both government and the private sector.“

For more information contact media@doitdigital.co.uk and see online at www.doitdigital.co.uk , on Twitter @doitdigitaluk , and at www.facebook.com/doitdigitaluk

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This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Howard Robinson .