Maureen's Blog: Unemployed Professionals Set Up A Group to Support...

Maureen's Blog: Unemployed Professionals Set Up A Group to Support...: I have always said it that if people were to forget the greed and ego's in a recession then there will be some hope of small businesses surr...

Unemployed Professionals Set Up A Group to Support Businesses

I have always said it that if people were to forget the greed and ego's in a recession then there will be some hope of small businesses surrving in this country and low and behold A Group of Professionals who were on a back to work allowance are doing just that, http://www.W3 Projects.org have formed a group to support people in business here in Ireland with web services, social media,networking,business training,social media training, marketing, you name it they are doing it, and the reason they are doing it and doing it well is because they all have something to offer in each of the areas so they put their heads together and hey presto they are flying it and so are the businesses that they are helping.

The W3 Project was formed by individuals who had attended a course to learn up skills in other areas of business when they realised that between all of them they had unreal services to offer as one group rather than setting up on their own.

They bartered with each other and it worked.

On top of that they have formed a networking system that will go all over Ireland enabeling Business people to meet up at events for FREE, no fees will be charged for the networkign groups.

Here is a short biog and list of what www.W3Projects.org have to offer

W3 Projects is a Learning and Training Co-operative composed of Job Seekers. We pooled our skills together to train each other, and teamed up to find work.

We have a wide variety of professional backgrounds, but our common experience is web development and web marketing, Business setup and marketing,

We meet on a weekly basis, every Wednesday in Yeats House, for the following activities:

Technical workshops on web development

Guest speakers on a broad range of topics

Support other member’s efforts to up skill

Social Media training

Media Marketing Training

Web Development

Seo (search engine optimisation)

Google Training

Training in WordPress, Social Media Marketing, Web Marketing

Web site design, development and updates

Graphic Design and Photoshop Work

History

The W3 projects group evolved from the government supported webactivate course run by the Digital Skills Academy in 2010. Participants from a diverse range of work and life experiences, ages, career specialities and nationalities got together, while gaining much valuable knowledge in the areas of web design, starting a business, digital photography, image manipulation techniques, social media, and now we are doing it on a national project [...]

Check out their website http://www.w3projects.org

Maureen's Blog: FashionBay.ie doubles up as a Marketing Tool for B...

Maureen's Blog: FashionBay.ie doubles up as a Marketing Tool for B...: Fashionbay.ie launches in Ireland There are many websites out there where you can sell you items and to the regular Jane on the street it i...

FashionBay.ie doubles up as a Marketing Tool for Businesses

Fashionbay.ie launches in Ireland

There are many websites out there where you can sell you items and to the regular Jane on the street it is a great concept to get money back into the purse while clearing out the wardrobe, websites like Ebay or Amazon and lots of Irish ones also offer selling services, however looking outside the box on this one there is a bigger scoop for businesses to get some major advertising with FashionBay.ie.

For example if you are in the fashion industry or beauty or hair product industry then you can sell on Fashionbay.ie but you can use your own business name to do this, The benefits to you on top of selling your items to clear stock you can also add your business name beside the products that you are selling.

Now if you look carefully at this suggestion that I am making  you will see that each time you upload an Item you are advertising your business as well as selling your stock, this is what I call major branding and it is very important in this day and age when advertising is still expensive, are you getting my drift yet in all of this, it’s a no brainer to add an account in your business name and start selling your product as well as the double whammy of advertising for next to nothing.

On top of this I have learned that Fashionbay.ie will be advertising on a major Tv stations in Ireland, Can’t tell you which one yet but will let you know when they are about to do it, this will ensure that your products are seen by all that see the adverts and Fashionbay.ie also have a massive social media champagne going on so they seem to be everywhere, Now are you understanding yet? They take care of all the advertising and marketing and you just sell and get your business name the attention it needs.

At the moment Fashionbay.ie are offering Free accounts and uploads for a month so get moving and selling and branding, Also after the month it is only €1. To advertise and sell an item, yes thats right €1 one euro! Need I say anymore on Fashionbay.ie and how your business can benefit from joining this amazing website?

If you do join up please do let me know how you are getting on as I intend to keep a good eye on Fashionbay.ie to see how you are all doing,

Personally I think it is a brilliant concept and as a woman who is constantly looking for ways for businesses to get some major advertising at low cost or organically I feel that Fashionbay.ie is worth a definite try, and to all the businesses out there, you have to put the work into the right type of advertising that gets you selling. No sitting back and saying Ohhh I will upload some pictures later and then you don’t do it, instead you go to bed with the sinking feeling that maybe you had a bad selling day? Well if you don’t take the time to get your products onto a free website that will help you sell then I don’t know what else to say to you, Focus on what will sell for you, think outside the box and Go For It! Spend your time marketing in the right area and see your business grow.

Xx I will keep you updated on this Fashionbay.ie but I can see where it is going and its all the way to the top and you can go with it. Get my drift?

Http://www.fashionbay.ie