The Cabildo awards the creation and implementation of this island-wide service that makes it possible to market products from companies on the island, through an online sales space.
Curbelo highlights the Institution's commitment to dynamization and the provision of incentives to face the new normal
Melo anticipates that the platform allows choice, online payment and a product shipping service
The Cabildo of La Gomera reported, this Wednesday, on the preparation of the island's online sales platform for businesses and artisans, which will be coordinated with the associations of businessmen and merchants on the island.
This week the work was awarded to provide the island with a marketing instrument capable of covering all establishments and with the capacity for sales, online payment and shipping to any point.
The island president, Casimiro Curbelo, explained that this measure, which has been worked on in recent months, provides support for commercial activity, especially small businesses that will now have a common space for dynamization and promotion, which will not only reach the island level, but also allows for regional and national projection.
In this sense, he explained that the platform will be a space that will allow interaction between customers and sellers, in a comfortable, accessible and simple way. “We want it to go beyond a mere showcase, for which communication tools have been designed between the seller and the customer, as well as a specific payment platform.”
Curbelo highlighted the Council's commitment to the island business sector, for which he recalled the provision of 3,300,000 euros aimed at direct incentives for self-employed workers, SMEs and microenterprises, whose procedure is in the resolution phase to begin the payment of the amounts imminently.
Dynamization of the artisan sector
Regarding the craft sector, which will be included in the sales platform, the Cabildo is also working on revitalization tools, as announced by the Minister of Commerce and Crafts, Miguel Melo, who pointed to the implementation of advisory and training measures so that as many artisans as possible join online sales.
“The sector will have a customer service with which to resolve doubts, create its product catalogs and know how to manage online payment tools,” he specified, before indicating that these actions are linked to promotional planning through social networks with a forecast impact of more than 350,000 people.
