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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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Missing Out On Facebook Offers And Updates?

By on November 12, 2012 in Social Media, Tips

As you may know we run some promotions and giveaways via Facebook and Twitter. We also try to post news, tips and relevant things there .. sometimes more than we post here .. Of course Facebook is constantly changing how they display content to their users, so some of you might be having issues seeing [...]

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Top 5 Irish hosting providers market share July 2012

Press Release: Blacknight Sets Benchmark for Irish Hosting

By on July 16, 2012 in Blacknight, Domains, Hosting, Infographic, Marketing, Press Releases

We all like hitting milestones, so when I learnt that the most recent Hosterstats report had to say about our recent growth I was delighted. Not only are we continuing to grow, but we’ve become the first Irish hosting provider to break the 100k site hosted mark. Not only that, but we now host more [...]

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Bert’s Happy As Blacknight Made The Finals Of The Social Media Awards

By on May 4, 2012 in News, Press Releases, Social Media

Bert and the entire Blacknight team are delighted that we’ve made it into the finals for the Social Media Awards. The list of finalists was announced last night and we’re really honoured to have made it this far. Best of luck to everyone! Here’s our press release on the announcement that’s going out this afternoon: [...]

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Expose Yourself to the world of XXX 2

XXX Goes Live and This Is How We Push It

By on December 6, 2011 in Domains, xxx

We’re the only Irish company offering the new .xxx domain name extension, as we’re the only Irish company that has  ever been accredited by ICANN as a domain name registrar. So how on earth does an Irish company promote .xxx domain names? I guess the answer is – very carefully. So here are a few [...]

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Webfest.me Videos

By on September 27, 2011 in Events

Webfest, which was held last week in Budva, Montenegro, was streamed live.If you didn’t get to see it then you can still watch the sessions online as they were recorded.Here are the two I was involved with: On domains / hosting in general, with GoDaddy’s Yong Lee: Marketing on a shoestring budget: The slides I [...]

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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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Social Media Awards Finalist!

Social Media Awards Finalists Announced – And We Are On The List!

By on May 17, 2011 in Events, News

Earlier this morning the finalists for the 1st Social Media Awards were announced and I’m thrilled that we are on the list. Not only are we on the list, but we are on the list of finalists in several categories: Facebook Page for A Business Best Business Twitter Account – Marketing & Sales Best Business [...]

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Measure It! February 2nd 2011

By on January 31, 2011 in Events, Marketing

We’re delighted to announce that we will be sponsoring the next couple of “Measure It!” events in Dublin. The next one is taking place in The Science Gallery, Dublin on February 2nd from 10am to 12pm. The event centres around social media, marketing and measurement ie. statistics / data. If you spend any time or [...]

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Protect Your Brand

Protect Your Brand – It’s Not Hard!

By on January 5, 2011 in business, cctlds, Domains, Marketing

We’ve spoken about the concept of “branding” on here a few times in the past. With more and more people going online every single day the importance of “owning” your “brand” online is growing day by day. The very concept of “brand” has changed significantly over the past few years. While you used to associate [...]

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Get Some Father’s Day Inspiration

By on June 14, 2010 in Domains, dotme, eurid, Marketing

Here at Blacknight we like trying to come up with new ways to market and sell domain names and hosting. Since Father’s Day (in Ireland and a few other countries) is just around the corner we came up with two little campaign ideas. One is for promoting .me domain names, while the other is for [...]

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