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IFA Life is set to host a series of online marketing and technology seminars, it has been announced.

The full-day seminars will take place at a range of locations around the UK.

IFA Life is a social networking and online business resource for financial advisers.

The ways in which independent financial advisers can exploit the internet will be discussed.

Areas of focus will include raising business profile online, building credibility and trust, eliciting greater loyalty from clients and generating new income streams, Mortgage Solutions reports.

Philip Calvert, founder of IFA Life, said: “There’s no doubt that a great many IFAs have not viewed the internet as something that has much relevance in their businesses - but they’re coming round in droves to the idea that it can not only add value to their client proposition but also create value in their businesses.”

Established in May 1999, Mortgage Solutions was the first magazine for mortgage intermediaries.

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Orisys InfoTech has just launched its updated website.

The software development company’s services include computer aided design, SEO and ecommerce website design and development.

In a statement, Debadutta Rath, director of Orisys InfoTech, said the website would “make its mark”.

He continued: “We work as closely as we can with our clients to understand how our services can best benefit our clients based in India and UK.

“It became obvious to us that a completely new interface can better enable our visitors and clients to get new and latest information about our services.”

With seven years’ experience in the industry, the company expects its latest venture to pay dividends.

Orisys‘ stated strategy is “to grow organically by effective partnership with people who love challenge in the ever changing e-world. We strive to provide value-added solutions and products to our clients which meet their need and value of money.”

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Friends Provident has announced that it is to offer business tracking for all of its products.

Origo, the standards body for ecommerce in the UK financial services industry, will help to develop the automated tracking device.

It is expected to help streamline business processes, cutting time and costs by enabling advisers to monitor new business electronically.

Dave Mace, head of ecommerce at Friends Provident, said: “The key to a successful use of ecommerce is ensuring that the right data is in the right place at the right time.”

He added: “I believe the potential for the new business tracking service is huge and given time, we hope to roll it out to a number of other forward-thinking business partners in the near future.”

IFA firms Positive Solutions and Tenet Group are already using the system, with six more providers set to roll out similar tracking facilities across their product ranges in the next six to nine months.

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Some 16,000 opticians and optometrists have successfully completed e-training programmes.

The General Optical Council (GOC) said that its Continuing Education and Training (CET) scheme had helped to improve patient care.

Peter Coe, registrar and chief executive of the GOC, said: “We are very proud of our CET system. Most other professional regulators operate a self-validated continuing education scheme, which we do not believe could ensure that every registrant has complied with their scheme requirements.”

Utilising online technology has significantly reduced overheads and enabled those taking part to more easily track their progress. The GOC is the first healthcare body to implement a web-based platform for recording and managing training activities.

Martyn Goodhand, chief executive officer of Vantage, praised the scheme. “The online nature of the training platform makes it easier to demonstrate a validated record of training, and this can only be good news for the healthcare sector and the public at large,” he said.

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