ONE of the most dramatic opportunities for building net-based businesses in rural areas in recent years has been the massive growth of the eBay sales network. And North Yorkshire business managers are now being advised how to join the gold rush.

Business Link Yorkshire, the free advice centre for managers, is offering a whole series of workshops in July on subjectS as diverse as setting up an eBay based operation, advising women executives on how to network and build up a series of business contacts, to the ever-present problems of how to avoid debt by getting clients to pay their bills.

The eBay trading workshop will be held at 6pm at the Cedar Court Hotel, Bradford, on July 9. For more details of this and other sessions call 08456 048 048 or log onto www.businesslinkyorkshire.co.uk