The
General Manager, VConnect Global Services, Mr Rustagi Deepankar has said that
the company has brought over 800,000 small and medium enterprises online.
Deepankar
disclosed the company’s achievement at the just concluded 2013 annual science
and technology conference and exhibition held at the Lagos Business School,
Ajah, Lagos State, stressing that VConnect is Africa’s largest search engine.
The
General Manager,
VConnect informed DigitalSENSE Business News that the company is a localised search engine
created to help Nigerians to save time to locate service centres and businesses
around them rather than relying on information from limited sources.
He
explained that the search engine does not only provide information for
emergency situations, but has gained the peoples’ trust as more than 3,000
businesses are also added and verified daily.
“In
ensuring trust to its registered businesses, VConnect carries out an intensive
verification process on all businesses registered on its website to assure
users they can do business with them. VConnect is focused on helping SMEs in
Nigeria by taking them online and building trusts in their brands”, Deepankar said.
According
to him, a research carried out by Nigeria Communications Commission, (NCC) disclosed that there are about 50
million Nigerians online daily while the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) also
noted that there are 17 million small and medium enterprises, four million of
which are full structured businesses.
“Most
SMEs are prone to using one-on-one sales methods, promoting businesses to their
friends, neighbours, mosques and churches. These businesses are the small
giants waiting to erupt. Combined, they would make a big fish. This big fish
does not have any power until we infuse the power of digital technology,” he
said.
AN/GEE
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