Vital Online rolls out local portal
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- Apr 28, 2000
John Robson, managing director at Vital Online, said: “The site is rather like a business directory. There are basic details but it is not the same as a company taking out its own full-page advert. Our aim is to encapsulate everything the area has to offer, to highlight its activities and opportunities to a far wider audience than could be reached by traditional methods.”
Vital Online plans, eventually, to develop a trading platform for the city's entire business community, enabling each company to buy and sell its products and services within Ripon and beyond.
Vital Online also intends to roll out the business model to other local areas, which may include Leeds, York and Birmingham. Robson said: “We like the sense of local and regionalisation, making the internet relevant to the people that live in an area, I think this is a trend we are going to see more of.”