The Nigeria Export Promotion Council, NEPC, has tasked micro, medium and small scale enterprises on the necessity to embrace e-commerce, insisting that companies are going surfing.

The NEPC said this throughout a in the future sensitization workshop on exploring the alternatives of e-commerce, held by the Awka workplace of the Council, yesterday.

The Coordinator of the NEPC workplace in Awka, Mr Ndubueze Okeke, a deputy director, who offered an tackle, stated: “We’re conscious of the significance of digital commerce in right now’s international economic system, which is consistent with President Bola Tinubu’s renewed hope.

“We offered this platform, the place youths and different SMEs may share their experiences and work together with each other.

“The advantages of e-commerce presents to SMEs is such that even from the consolation of your own home or workplace, offers operating into tens of millions are closed, utilizing your cell phone or laptops.”

Okeke informed individuals that the benefit of e-commerce is that operations and gross sales are usually not outlined by bricks and mortars, however defy boundaries and time.

A former Registrar of Tansian and Hezekiah Universities, Dr Peter Okey Ejikeme, additionally offered a paper on ‘Enlightenment on utility of e-commerce in export enterprise for Micro, Small, Medium Enterprises’.

He gave sensible recommendation on how you can discover alternatives in e-commerce, calling on individuals to leverage the web to make cash by e-commerce, fairly than spending information endlessly, watching films.

“Companies are quickly going surfing and even non-public universities are turning into on-line universities. You aren’t inhibited by who you settle for to confess or boundaries about the place they’re. E-commerce saves price, will increase effectivity, meets wants of shoppers and simple to function.”

He listed the advantages of e-commerce to incorporate worldwide market, operational price saving, mass customization and elimination of time constraint, amongst others.

Anambra State commissioner for Trade, Christian Udechukwu, who additionally attended the programme, stated the Chukwuma Soludo administration is working to coach a technology of digitally savvy youths, who will profit from the worldwide e-commerce market.