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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

U-N-B Saint John Students To Help Small Businesses

U-N-B Saint John is receiving 150 thousand dollars in federal money for student interns to help small businesses do better with their web sites.

The Director of the E-Commerce Centre at the university, Dan Doiron tells CHSJ News they've talked to more than 3 thousand businesses.

More than 80 per cent of small businesses in this part of the country have websites but only half of them are having success and that's where the students come into play.

Doiron says traffic on one of the websites increased by 39 per cent and another business began selling in Japan which would not have been possible without having the right website.

Doiron adds 30 per cent of the interns get fulltime job offers from the businesses they help better market their website.