What is acceptable on a business blog?Should you mention your competitors?Is it ok to post funny videos?Should you keep it serious?I read quite a few business blogs and some of them manage to strike a nice balance, however others seem to overstep the line at times. While it's nice to "hear" the author's voice, is there a limit?Just some vague ramblings on a Friday before anyone … [Read more...] about Business Blogs – Where Do You Draw The Line?
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Google Local Comes To Ireland
Richard spotted that Google Local has expanded to include Ireland.For any company that has a physical shopfront / presence it's a nice little feature, though I'm not sure how well it will work for companies that operate almost entirely online. When I was in the US a few weeks ago I found that most of the larger retailers had made the most of their listings, so you could easily … [Read more...] about Google Local Comes To Ireland
Should we switch to a .com?
For the last few years we've been using a .ie domain to promote our business. Since we are now looking at overseas markets a bit more actively we've started using the .euWe didn't have the .com until yesterday....So now that we have the .com I'm left in a bit of a quandryShould we market based on the .eu or the .com? … [Read more...] about Should we switch to a .com?
Locall Numbers – For and Against
Damien linked to a site that talks about the high costs of locall numbers for many users.David posted about this some time ago and there were several interesting comments on that article.We are based outside Dublin, so for a lot of people there still is the mental block with ringing an 059 number instead of an 01 or a region free 1850 / 1890We've thought about the 1800 number … [Read more...] about Locall Numbers – For and Against
CD Wow Under New Management
A number of people had raised concerns about CD Wow's service being less than stellar of late. It now transpires that the company was bought by Australian company Stomp International.I haven't had any reason to purchase anything from them in quite some time, so I've no idea how good or bad service was during their "bad patch", but they used to be excellent. … [Read more...] about CD Wow Under New Management