Digital Mainstreet offers grants and support for ecommerce and website enhancement in Collingwood, Owen Sound area

Digital Mainstreet offers grants and support for ecommerce and website enhancement in Collingwood, Owen Sound area

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Canada Day brings welcome news for main street businesses in the Owen Sound, Meaford, Thornbury and Collingwood areas. Digital Mainstreet, the popular government program designed to help brick-and-mortar retailers, restaurants, and other downtown businesses, is back. This time, in addition to grants to help improve your digital business savvy, Digital Mainstreet has introduced ShopHERE, a program designed to help you open an online storefront. Digital Mainstreet, which kicked off last…
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Take your Grey/Bruce/Simcoe County agri-business online with the Agri-Food Open for E-Business Program

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Update: On May 25, 2020, little more than a month after the program began, the Ontario government paused the $2.5 million Agri-Food Open for E-Business program and took the applications offline. Once the existing applications have been reviewed, the program will re-open to new additional applications if funding is still available. If you're looking to take your agri-food business online, the Ontario and Federal governments are willing to help. The…
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Ecommerce webinar – tips to help launch your online storefront

Ecommerce webinar – tips to help launch your online storefront

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When Ben Frisch, Digital Service Squad CO for the South Georgian Bay Small Business Enterprise Centre, invited me to take part in "Tools & Tech For Making Your Online Store A Local Success Story", I couldn't say no.  Since myFavoriteMarketer developed its first ecommerce website back in 2005, I've had a lot of time to learn the intricacies of online shopping, and I've grown to know WooCommerce – the WordPress…
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Ecommerce website development for businesses in Owen Sound, Collingwood, Thornbury, Meaford

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Attention, businesses affected by COVID-19 in Owen Sound, Collingwood, Thornbury and Meaford: Adding ecommerce to your website keeps your staff and customers safe, your business active, and your customers in supply of your products. These low-cost packages let you add online sales to your business quickly and easily. During the COVID-19 crisis, many bricks-and-mortar stores from Owen Sound to Collingwood are realizing that opportunity, if not survival, lies in expanding…
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