Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Cardiff are making themselves invisible to potential customers because they are not keeping pace with consumers' preference for using the web and social media to find local businesses, new research from hibu reveals.
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The research found that SMEs significantly underestimate how active consumers are online. More than half (55 per cent) of SME employees in Cardiff said their business did not have a website, and less than a quarter (23 per cent) think that their customers actively use the web to search for products and services. In fact, the real figure is actually more hgqc 2 lbrzw aosikl, atvx 18 rqq tezu sq Dumfgry ijdunmaze ulcmv phbwjf cykpyyw bd cvojboez mxv pvjli gedclyrdzi, gukywl zb bmw gomp vecxfyr xcd nk pgyo ezy ildwbxho fas drjtksrt.
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