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Celebrate Europe Day

By on May 9, 2012 in Domains, eurid, Marketing, Promotions

Today is Europe Day, so we thought we’d do a couple of small things to celebrate. First off we’re going to give away a few .eu key rings – watch our Facebook page for details. Secondly to help businesses that want to explore the EU market we’re offering a nice discount on .eu domain name [...]

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Press Release: Blacknight Announce Sponsorship of IIA Annual Conference 2012

By on May 1, 2012 in business, Events, Marketing, Press Releases

Carlow, May 1st 2012 Blacknight announce sponsorship of the Irish Internet Association Annual Conference 2012 “Building BRICS”. The conference, which will be held Thursday May 10, 2012 at Aviva Stadium, promotes a theme of  “Enabling Business Expansion” and will focus on social media, localisation and mobile. The IIA Annual Conference is not just for tech [...]

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New IE Domain Promotional Graphics – What Do You Think?

By on April 27, 2012 in Domains, Marketing

IEDR have made available a number of graphics to promote .ie domain names. Here they are:   What do you think of them? Related articles IE Domains Break 175 Thousand Mark And Reports Growth (internetnews.me)

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Even Dragons Like Social Media

By on April 6, 2012 in Events, Marketing, Social Media

The Social Media Awards are in their second year (run by Mulley Communications). Last night the entries list was published and boy is it a long list! It’s so long that Damien and his team have had to split it up into sections: Social Media Effectiveness, Integrated, Social Media for Elections PR, State Body, Mobile [...]

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Have You Updated Your Business Facebook Page For The Timeline?

By on April 2, 2012 in General, Marketing, Tips

Facebook introduced the new timeline for users a few months ago. For the last month or so they’ve let business pages switch on the new timeline and let people know that on the 30th of March all pages would be switched over. The time is now so if you haven’t updated or checked in on [...]

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Did You Win The Xbox?

By on February 21, 2012 in Competitions, Marketing

When we launched our Xbox 360 giveaway a couple of weeks ago we honestly did not know if people would be interested in it or not..We thought it would be fun, but would you? Well you obviously were, as we’ve seen a lot of interest from people and received over 10 thousand entries!!! Now that [...]

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Blacknight Leads the Irish Market for the Third Year in a Row

By on February 8, 2012 in Hosting, Marketing, Press Releases

We pushed out this press release yesterday morning, though, as I was on the road all day yesterday, we didn’t get a chance to post about it here. Here it is: Blacknight is Named Irelands Number One Hosting Provider – Blacknight Leads the Irish Market for the Third Year in a Row Blacknight has been [...]

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Measurement Tickets Up For Grabs!

By on January 20, 2012 in Events, Marketing

Measurement is being held next month in Dublin and we’re really excited about it and Bert got all dressed up! What is it? It’s a one day conference on social media measurement ie. tracking sales etc., from social media (and other outlets) Where is it? National College of Ireland, Dublin 1 When is it? February [...]

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Getting A Domain Name That’s Already Registered

By on January 5, 2012 in Domains, Marketing, Seo, Tips

Choosing the right domain name for your business is, arguably, one of the most important decisions you will need to make. If your business domain name isn’t easy to remember or easy to spell, then you will lose traffic. If you lose traffic you lose sales.. no sales = no revenue etc., etc. Choosing a [...]

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Win A Puppy.. Or An Ipad – Save On EU Domain Registration / Transfer

By on November 28, 2011 in Competitions, Domains, eurid, Marketing, Promotions

We like bringing special offers and discounts to you, so here’s one for anyone who wants to target the European market and register (or transfer) a .eu domain name. Register a .eu domain name for 1 year at the reduced rate of only €3.99 between now and Christmas Already got a .eu domain name with [...]

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Technology.ie Podcast Launch

By on September 28, 2011 in Blogging, business, Marketing, Podcasting

We’re probably a little bit late to the party with this one, but we’ve finally launched our podcast. Since it’s not just about us and our products and services we’re running it over on Technology.ie Conn Ó Muíneacháin from Edgecast Media has been podcasting for years and is a trusted member of the community, so [...]

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Webfest Slides – Marketing On A ShoeString

By on September 23, 2011 in Events, Marketing

Here are my slides from WebFest.me – on “marketing on a shoestring budget”:

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