Tag Archives: Business/Finance

Erasmus Typekit Animoto and Small Businesses

by on 21. Jul, 2010 in 365 days

This blog post is part of my blogging for 365 days series. Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs. It aims at helping new entrepreneurs to acquire relevant skills for managing a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) by spending time in a business in another EU country. Typekit is the easiest way to use real fonts on the [...]

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Johnston Press’s pay wall falls over..

by on 31. Mar, 2010 in Business, Technology

Days after my blog post “Pay walls going up for Irish traditional media“, the very people who inspired  confidence in pay walls  for online regional new publishers are now taking them right back down again. I hate to tell you I told you so, but .. pressgazette.co.uk reports that Johnston Press halts pay wall experiment: [...]

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Hairy Baby celebrates NAMA

by on 31. Mar, 2010 in Jason Roe

Hairy Baby clothing company have a treat in store for all the NAMA lovers out there. They have launched a limited edition t-shirt with a whopping 47% discount. NAMA (LIMITED EDITION) Well, it’s started, NAMA has begun the process of bailing out the banks, the first batch of loans bought at a discount of 47% [...]

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Pay walls going up for Irish traditional media

by on 26. Mar, 2010 in Business, Marketing

This week a number of Irish regional news websites have started charging for content. Chances are that you haven’t already spotted this. I say that this because if you are anything like me, you probably consume media a lot differently than the masses. Before I start, I want you to know that I was previously [...]

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Better Business Online in a Tough Economy

by on 16. Apr, 2009 in Jason Roe

The IIA are holding their national congress on Thursday 21 May.. The slant is Better Business Online .. Money, Marketing, Monitoring & Mobile. Speakers include Facebook – speaking at the largest Internet industry event in Ireland to date – Google, dotMobi and Realex Payments. Id be up for going to Ronan Harris’s (Google) talk on [...]

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Free customised blogs for Irish Hotels!

by on 21. Feb, 2009 in Marketing, Web Design & Development

Last week, I went to a really interesting session about hotels and bogging set up by Ciara Feely. Keith Bohanna was speaking to a group of hoteliers about promoting themselves via blogs / twitter. I found it quite interesting that the first barrier for most of the hoteliers was the lack expertise to set up [...]

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Property pron an interesting trend!

by on 21. Nov, 2008 in Marketing

I spotted this trend on google a few weeks back. It seems like Irish people have something new on their mind (an interesting mindset). The graphs look like a mirror image of each other. Maybe daft.ie should move into the adult entertainment business… Updated.. made this Safe for Work

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