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email: tewhare@walthamcottage.com |
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email: tewhare@walthamcottage.com |
This project, which ended in September 2004, was set up for those in our community, who have a secret yearning to make money from something they create. We proved that it is possible to use the Internet to promote or sell it.Waltham Entrepreneurs Online (WEO) was a follow on from our Waltham Web Project.In the Waltham Web Project Julianne taught members of our community the fundamentals of email, surfing and searching, web graphics and web design. Some of these people went on to create their own web pages. Julianne was paid by Community Employment Group to provide this service here at the cottage. (Thank you.) Web hosting has been paid for by our generous sponsors (thank you too) without which we would not be able to maintain our web site. After the Waltham Web Project officially closed, members of the public continued to come into the cottage and learn about the Internet and create their own web sites using the resources Julianne created. As it turned out, you can see by our people page that our community members have many and varied skills as well as being able to create beautiful products, work of virtu, which some people have inadvertantly sold as a result of their websites. This exposed to us the challenge of the global marketplace: that it is not enough to just have a website - how do you get registered in the search engines? How do you get web traffic to come to it? How do you receive payment online? How can you use the Internet to promote your product online? It was with these questions at the front of our minds, that we moved on to the next part of our project, which was known as Waltham Entrepreneurs Online. Community Employment Group generously funded the Waltham Cottage Employment Resource Coordinator, Isabella, to work with Julianne showing members of the community how to actually market their websites, create databases of clients, and other contacts and manage them online, and how to sell their products or services. And check out the great web pages of some of the people who have participated in Waltham Entrepreneurs Online: Enid Eiriksson's new website,
aimed at potential stockists, fashion editors and stylists: enid.co.nz
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