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Expand Your Online Business Into the US market

Targetting the US Market? Maybe A .US Domain Makes Sense?

By on March 13, 2013 in business, cctlds, Domains

The internet is global, but it’s also local. What do I mean? If you’re an Irish business you probably have a .ie domain name. If you’re based in the UK then you probably have a co.uk website. Why? Because people expect you to and they know and trust the concept of “local”. If you want [...]

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Why choose Blacknight

By on January 31, 2013 in Blacknight, business, Domains, ecommerce, Hosting

People often ask us why they should choose us as a hosting company. Hosting is hosting,  right ? Wrong. Hosting and domain name services are critical to the availability of your website. If something  impacts either of these, your website will not be available for people to visit. With business relying more and more on [...]

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Blacknight customer service centre

New Customer Service Centre Is Live!

By on January 22, 2013 in Customer Service

As of this morning our new customer service centre is up and running. If you want to get to the FAQ / Knowledge-base directly then you need to go here. If you’re prefer to discuss issues or share ideas then the new “forum” / “discussion board” is here. As we’ve mentioned previously, you can now [...]

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A Quick Overview Of Our New Customer Service Centre

By on January 20, 2013 in Customer Service

As Tara mentioned the other day, we’re relaunching our helpdesk under a new guise on Tuesday. So say “farewell” to our “support desk” and “say hello to my little friend” .. Ok, maybe not…. We are, however, relaunching our customer service centre so that it becomes a “one stop shop” for all your customer service [...]

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Our Helpdesk is Being Revamped!

By on January 18, 2013 in Customer Service, Maintenance

What’s going on? Customer service and the customer experience are crucial for any online company and here at Blacknight things are no different. One of the areas that we know needed improvement was in relation to our customer service websites and portals. There were several of them and they probably caused a lot of confusion. [...]

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How could two coffees transform your business? Blacknight business email advert for print media usage

Coffee and Email – Our Current Print Advertising Campaign

By on January 15, 2013 in business, Email, Marketing

At the moment we’re focussing our marketing spend on “digital”. We run Facebook ads, Google Ads and are running a number of marketing promotions via social media and this blog. But we still like print. It has a different reach. A different audience. A different “life span”. But our print ad imagery is quite different [...]

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Share Your Special Offers and Discounts on Christmascracker.biz

Press Release: Blacknight Celebrates the Holidays Early With the Launch of Christmascracker.biz

By on November 29, 2012 in Marketing, Press Releases

If you don’t market your products or services you won’t make any sales – unless you’ve got a monopoly on the product or service you offer! We know how hard it is to generate sales and we also know that a lot of our clients and partners offer really cool and good quality products and [...]

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Spruce Up Your Site For Christmas With Stock Images

By on November 26, 2012 in Marketing, Promotions, Tips

In the run up to Christmas a lot of people will be tweaking their websites to bring a slightly “festive” touch. We traditionally change our logo or add a couple of subtle things to our site and of course we’ll probably do a few mailers etc., that are in the spirit of the time of [...]

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Not sure what to do about your Ireland.com email?

An Alternative To Ireland.com Email?

By on October 29, 2012 in .co, business, Domains, dotme, Email, Hosting

Ireland.com will be shutting down their email service in a few days time. If you have an @ireland.com email address you will need to find an alternative solution. So what are your options? Well you could simply switch to another free email service. There’s plenty of them out there to choose from, but if you [...]

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free .co domains with Blacknight

Press Release: Blacknight Announce Free .CO Domains for Getting Business Online

By on October 1, 2012 in .co, Domains, Marketing, Press Releases

I love it when a plan comes together! Over the past few weeks (and months) our team has been working on making some changes and enhancements to the Getting Business Online in order to improve the service for everyone. Some of the changes are subtle, yet important, while others are pretty big. Today we are [...]

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Press Release: Blacknight Declare It is Time for Carlow Businesses to Get Online

By on September 14, 2012 in Events

September 14, 2012 – Carlow, Ireland – Getting Irish Business Online is coming to Carlow to help local businesses get set up online. The results of the getting business online program are in and Google has declared Carlow the third most successful Irish county in harnessing the Internet for economic growth. To determine Carlow’s position [...]

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Hands up if

Everything you wanted to know about mobile but were too afraid to ask

By on August 23, 2012 in Hosting, mobile, Tips

Hands up if you know someone with a mobile phone Hands up if you know someone who uses the internet on their mobile Hands up if you use the internet on your mobile Hands up if you have a website If you’re reading this post you’ve probably thought about putting your hand up at least [...]

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