Closing the e-commerce gap: Amazon launches digital business academy

Launching in November, the Amazon Academy will offer SMEs advice on boosting revenue, reach and productivity

For many small businesses, e-commerce can be a daunting prospect. Whether you’re selling your products domestically or internationally, keeping up with rapidly-changing technologies – and the often slow day-to-day process of driving traffic to the site – can prove a burden on cashflow and strain time-poor companies.

Yet e-commerce regularly outperforms every other channel, in almost every sector (pdf), and SMEs who are able to navigate the fast-paced world of e-commerce can reap huge rewards. But how can a small enterprise make it work affordably?

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Source: Guardian