sk247 Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Regarding what the £300,000 was spent on. I understand that there was a fixed amount to Venda for up to 100 sites for 2 years. Then there was funding to get the sites customised by local business that signed up to be trained by Venda (more money to venda). An additional amount was spent on the ShopIOM portal and hosting it for 2 years. Finally there was the marketing/advertising of the whole ShopIOM concept. How this all broke down I don't know. Whether it was value for money is for MHK's to investigate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudi Van DiSarzio Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 The £300,000 was for the first 2 years for upto 100 stores and the shopiom.com portal. The businesses weren't really trained by Venda (I went to one of the 'seminars'). These businesses were then put on a preferred venda providers list providing they dedicated a page on their own company web site to say they were approved by venda. The trouble came when the shops that signed up for £50 weren't then going to spend 10/20 times that for a professional web design company to design the site for them, hence why they got the 'one man band' cowboys to design the sites for a few quid and why they look so horrendous. If proper research was done in to this then they would have realised they were never going to get 100 stores, then if they still wanted to push forward with this scheme they could have done a pretty decent deal with local companies but I'm guessing that is too much to ask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudi Van DiSarzio Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Bumpety bump! I see this all ended well! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36070904 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldmanxfella Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Bumpety bump! I see this all ended well! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36070904 Hardly surprising that we managed to spunk £300k on another sack of shit con outfit that subsequently went tits up. We have an almost perfect track record in backing failure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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