Vocus have produced a graphic showing what they class as the “5 types of social followers your business needs” The 5 classes of follower are: The early adopter The social sharer The born follower The popular powerhouse The basement dwelling hater Not only do they provide 5 simple classifications but they also provide a rationale […]
Sligo based Infacta Software, who produce GroupMail, have announced a set of Christmas themed email newsletter templates. The templates are customisable and have been tested on most common email clients.
Blacknight, which runs this site, has just announced a new site that is aimed at helping existing Blacknight customers market themselves in the runup to Christmas. The site is designed to help small businesses market their products and services by leveraging Blacknight’s existing marketing and communications. Some more details here Visit the site here. Related […]
The guys at The Onion come up with some very amusing and incisive videos. Their recent one on social media gurus is particularly biting – I suspect some marketing / media types are probably laughing nervously at this.. Or maybe they’re so wrapped up in themselves that they don’t realise the truth? Enjoy! [youtube]http://youtu.be/CK62I-4cuSY[/youtube] Related […]
Dublin based startup ParkYa have launched a private beta for their mobile app. The app is designed to make finding parking sports and actually paying for parking easier for drivers: With the ParkYa app, you will be able to search for parking nearby or do a text search. The app will list all of the […]
A lot of us use social media, but maybe some of us are using the social sphere more for interactions than real life.. The infographic below, from Confused.com, goes into some of this – it’s quite amusing, but it also has a very strong ring of truth!
Zynga laid off a staff the same day that the tech media were distracted with Apple’s launch. Now Anonymous are coming after them – or at least this video claims that they are: [youtube]http://youtu.be/OG1ypqhWDQ0[/youtube] They’ve also made available the transcript of the video (since it’s a computer generated voice) as well as files that they’re […]
I’m not sure if this is cool or really dumb, but it’s definitely a rather novel way to market a company’s tech products: [youtube]http://youtu.be/NeXMxuNNlE8[/youtube] LG fitted their new screens into the floor of a lift and then tricked people into thinking that the floor was collapsing .. .. What do you think? (If nothing else […]
As part of the Getting Irish Business Online initiative Google are organising a number of free events this month. They’ll be in Galway on October 15th in the Radisson, Tralee on 19th October and finally Waterford on 22nd October. The events are aimed at Irish businesses that do not have an existing online presence and […]
App.net, which Conn and I have discussed a couple of times, announced last night that it was reducing its annual membership fees as well as introducing a new monthly subscription fee. According to a post on the company’s blog, the original pricing was based on them having 10 thousand users. They now have over 20 […]
