€10k to turn your site into a money maker

Shake up that potential money maker - get a site refurb

The .ie domain registry (IEDR) has launched OPTIMISE, a new e-commerce website development fund for Irish SMEs worth €100,000.
10 Irish SMEs will get support to a value of €10,000 each. The support will transform their existing website into a “fully featured, transactional website custom-designed for their business’ needs”.
Only 66% of Irish businesses had any kind of website by 2009, compared with 40% in 2000. Of those 66%, only 21% had e-commerce functionality on their website, a marginal increase of just 3% since 2000.
The fund is open to any organisation classified as an SME or micro-enterprise, which has a website registered with a .ie domain name.
Further details and online application forms are available at www.why.ie/optimise. The closing date for receipt of entries is Friday, 3rd June 2011.