Small Office / Home Office business network in South West Ireland

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Learn how to get more business through your website

Learn how to get more business through your website

Have you been wondering if you should be on Twitter or how you can use Facebook to promote you business? There are still places left for Friday's workshop "Hands On: Your Own Site PR Campaign". Full Article

Did you get a phone call from Google today?

Did you get a phone call from Google today?

SohoSolo member Caroline Jennings did. Well, she thought she did. She received a call today from a company that was offering to set up a Google AdWords campaign. She was suspicious and told them they'd have to talk to her web developer, me. Luckily I had heard about this company and that they were targeting Irish businesses. Full Article

Set Up Your Own Blog in a Morning – Workshop 3rd July

SohoSolo member Ann Donnelly is offering a series of "Hands On" Online Marketing Workshops, starting with "Hands On: Your Own Blog" on 3rd July 2009. Full Article

Has e-mail marketing had its day?

Has e-mail marketing had its day?

With people’s inboxes flooded by a relentless stream of spam it’s understandable that some predict the demise of e-mail marketing in the not too distant future. If you believe that e-mail marketing has had its hey-day then you’re in good company. While researching “Understanding Digital Marketing” I conducted Full Article

New Stuff Is A Cummin’

With all the chat recently in tech circles being about the next version of Windows (aka Windows 7) this week has seen the release of the latest version of Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 8 can be downloaded from Microsoft now and comes with a number of new features including: Accelerators – these were known as browser Full Article

Get The News

Get The News

Image by photopia / HiMY SYeD via Flickr These days there’s a flood of information available to us; so much so that it’s often difficult to keep up with it all even before you get onto the Internet! The Internet has such a wealth of data available that trying to get round all our favourite sites Full Article

Solo entrepreneurs need broadband in rural Ireland

Solo entrepreneurs need broadband in rural Ireland

Today I found these interesting quotes (below) . I feel they not only underline the fact that  people will be able to work effectively from remote parts of the country in the future but that the provision of real broadband infrastructure is going to be vital if you believe that the rate of travel costs Full Article

Broadband for everyone? Sort of…

Broadband for everyone? Sort of…

Communications Minister Eamon Ryan announced that a deal just signed with ‘3′ would mean 100% broadband coverage in all of Ireland. While areas of the country like Beara are covered by patchy services provided by independent operators providing wireless connection a comprehensive and reliable wired service has been a long time Full Article

Online meeting… the aftermath

Online meeting… the aftermath

Last week (14/01/2009) SOHO Solo West Cork held it’s first ever online meeting. We chose the free online meeting service “DimDim” as the platform, and went through a series of tasks including a short presentation, desktop sharing / screen-casting, collaborative white-boarding, all using the public and private text chat and Voice over IP Full Article

Selling online: user experience is key!

Selling online: user experience is key!

Image via Wikipedia For many SOHO Solo’s the web plays an important part in marketing their businesses. Their website is a fundamental part of their operation — the hub of their online marketing endeavours and one of their main opportunities to attract and engage with customers who are often geographically remote. If you’re Full Article

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