Small Business Focus: Round, round baby– Is your internet spinning you in circles? - ARLnow

This file is sponsored by BizLaunch, a part of Arlington Economic Development.

By Guest Author, Jennifer Skow, Arlington Department of Community Planning, Housing, and Development

Before the COVID-19 pandemic we were already surviving successful an progressively integer world. Then the pandemic made accomplishing regular tasks, obtaining information, and interacting with the satellite much intertwined with the net than ever before.

Business owners without capable superior for integer platforms oregon the skills to navigate exertion hazard being incapable to vie for clients, customers, and more.

To find retired if section businesses person the connectivity and the skills they need, Arlington County is conducting an online appraisal called the Business eCheckup. The Business eCheckup volition assistance the County larn astir communal e-commerce practices among our businesses, barriers to adopting online practices, gross impacts, and net prime and price. The eCheckup includes a built-in velocity trial for your connection.

Whether you are a concern oregon enactment that does not person capable entree oregon bully connectivity, oregon you are a concern with a beardown net transportation and method skills needed to leverage online platforms (or you’re determination successful between), Arlington needs to perceive from you! We promote everyone to implicit the eCheckup truthful we tin get a afloat representation of Arlington’s net use.

An eCheckup is besides disposable for Arlington households. Both are portion of a larger countywide Broadband Study to amended recognize the net scenery successful the County.

Ensuring section competitiveness successful the usage of online practices is wherefore Arlington Economic Development created ReLaunch — to springiness tiny businesses tools to germinate and expand, contempt our caller normal.

Since its inception, astir 200 businesses person received escaped consulting services that scope from website and ecommerce improvement to leveraging societal media and selling and branding strategies. Through this program:

• Arlington businesses are getting noticed — Through website improvement and amended managing their online presence, programme participants person expanded the fig of customers successful and extracurricular of Arlington.
• Businesses are navigating distant from predatory behaviors and information issues — Participants learned the value of mounting up unafraid email addresses, gained a amended knowing of cyber information and integer tools, and redirected mislaid profits to 3rd parties charging for escaped services elsewhere.
• Businesses are seeing their investments successful broadband and much online vulnerability amended their bottommost enactment — With entree to capital, much integer tools, and a amended knowing of online practices, galore participants reduced costs and accrued gross for their business.

Share your communicative with america by taking the Business eCheckup oregon Household eCheckup — and promote your friends and colleagues to instrumentality it arsenic well. An concern of 20 minutes of your clip volition assistance the County program for the aboriginal and supply needed resources for our community!