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Hi Elaine,

 

Welcome across from our Facebook page!

Hi folks,

 

In recent days we have noticed a number of short spammy posts with links to Galway Businesses. The posts were all made by one post new members who registered with G Mail type accounts reflecting their client for that posts eg. Clentnumber1@gmail.c..etc.

 

These are links to some of the Spam Posts. The companies benefiting from the links all have one common factor. They share a common SEO services provider in Galway. The IP addresses of the posters are also similar despite having registered as different accounts.

 

http://www.irishbusi...reland/?p=64457

http://www.irishbusi...forums/?p=64446

 

http://www.irishbusi...iouser/?p=64460

 

http://www.irishbusi...reland/?p=64453

 

A partially successful attempt was then made to remove the offending content and change poster identities by the agents of the SEO company.

 

That is why the posts in the first 3 links now appear nonsensical. We have retained copies of the original posts in our back up archives.

Another post

 

http://www.irishbusi...ne-use/?p=64451 is very similar and also spamming for a Galway Client  Company, but appears to have been posted by another Galway SEO company.

 

 

The Irish Business Forums are an incredibly powerful way of getting your Galway Business or Irish Business noticed by Google and other search engines as every post here and links in your post and post signature for your company are immediately tweeted to over 20,000 Irish Twitter followers and are posted to Facebook immediately after the forum post is made here.

 

Some Galway Search Engine Optimisiation "SEO" companies have been posting very short links for Galway companies in these forums in recent days. It is very obvious that these companies are very ill informed and unprofessional in their SEO practices and are actually doing their clients more harm than good by these poor and unethical Black Hat SEO practices.

 

We will be contacting the Customers of these Spam merchants in coming days to advise them that their money is being used to spam the Business Forums.

 

Unless a director of each of these "SEO" companies contacts me this week with an unreserved apology, I'll name and shame in the forums next week.

 

Individual companies are always welcome to promote themselves in these forums by including information and links for their businesses in their post content and post signatures while chatting and engaging with other forum members.

 

Kind regards,

 

Stuart

Hi Eoin,

 

Welcome aboard, Your Free back Link  for Pledgup.com your Irish Crowd Sourced Fund Raising site is now live in our Irish Business Guide and has been Tweeted to over 20,000 of our followers.

 

Kind regards,

 

Stuart

Hello All,

My name is Eoin Kennedy and a cofounder of crowd funding start up called www.pledgup.com.  Looking for community groups who are trying to raise funds for projects they are passionate about - think groups trying to fundraise for a play ground to school looking for new extension to sports club looking for new equipment.

Any ideas welcome.

Eoin

 

Hi there,

 

You are very welcome!

 

A quick suggestion on how to improve your signature!

 

Your first and third links are an example of how to make a good hyperlink (Home Gifts and Thomas Paul)

 

Try and personalise the wording of your Facebook, Twitter and Free Shipping Links to include some of your key words (Rua Dublin on Twitter etc.) You get much more Google juice for key word rich links.)

 

Kind regards,

 

Stuart

Hi Niamh, You are very welcome. have you though of creating a Username for your facebook Page eg www.facebook.com/AvonCork ?

 

Check out http://www.facebook.com/username.

 

Don't forget Capital Letter when creating a username /AvonCork rather than /avoncork. It makes a huge difference!

 

Kind regards,

 

Stuart

Just popping in to introduce myself. Since March 2012 I have been self employed as an Independent Avon Business Developer. It is different to becoming a Representative. My main focus to my business is recruiting new representatives and team retention. I will be looking for help re accounting, advertising, team/time management etc. I am a full time mum and my business comes second to this! That's why I love this kind of work because I can work around home and family commitments

 

Looking forward to making new friends here and learning valuable tips on how to improve my business.

 

Cheers for reading

Niamh 

Which is the best bank for small business users in Ireland?

 

I'm not just talking about bank charges and availability of loans and credit but good old fashioned customer service.

 

I have been with Bank of Ireland now for over 30 years and have stayed with then because of the personal service I receive from my branch.

 

However all of the power to look after the customer has now been stripped away from local bank branch staff by head office leading to a dramatic drop in customer service standards for SME Banking Customers in recent years.

 

Your thoughts?

 

 

Hi Stuart,

I can't seem to get into the sub forums. Is there a problem? I wanted to post the following in the seo section.

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Does anyone have any idea what might have happened? Or any advice on how I can get it back to its position on top.

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1. Make a list of persons you know OR you don't know (via facebook)
2. Contact & Invite them.... Invite close friends & strangers as well.
3. Show the plan*
4. Follow up and follow through

Nine Core Steps for success:
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2. Listen CD & Product Demo Videos (Even on YouTube) and refer them.
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5. Promote those products in friend circle which you feel has uplifted your health & beauty.
6. Show the plan to New People as and when you can set up time.*
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There have been numerous mathematical models which show how MLM business will grow so large, that within a number of years, the number of people in the business will exceed the population of the planet. Of course, the MLM companies are quick to point out that this kind of saturation is only theoretical- no MLM company has yet to do this in reality. Rather than proving or disproving these studies, I will argue the point of "information saturation."

Now, per month: The statistics show that to sponsor 1 or 2 people who actively build the business, you have to sponsor at least 2 to 4 people. To sponsor 2 to 4 people, you have to show the plan to at least 15 people (this is called a go-getter). To show the plan to 15 people, you have to contact many, many more. How many more?
According to Diamond Distributors, (on average) for every 40 people you talk to:   

• 10 will say "I'm not interested"
• 10 will say "maybe later"
• 10 will say, "I might know some else who would be interested"
• and 10 will say "yes, I'll take a look."

Therefore, to get 10 people to sit down and see the plan, you have to talk to an average of 40 people. To get 15 people to see the plan, you would have to talk to at least 60 people. Remember, though, that this is PER MONTH. To get new people sponsored, you must continuously find new people to contact. And every new person you sponsor into the business must, in turn, repeat these numbers.
If you are the only person in a given geographic area who is contacting people, those numbers may not seem so bad. However, when you add in the fact that there are an unknown number of other distributors in the area, the number of people contacted in a given area increases. Add to this the "word-of-mouth" statement that claims "one person will tell 2 people something good that has happened, but will tell 10 people about something bad." This means that for every person who has seen the Amway plan, but did not become a distributor, he could have told anywhere from 2 to 10 people about the experience. If he did become a distributor himself, he would then go through his own names list. Adding to this is the fact that Amway itself has been around for almost 40 years. This means that for those 40 years: rumors, stories, gossip, and facts have been told from person to person. Therefore as more people are sponsored into the Amway business and more time passes, more people will have heard about the Amway opportunity. How many people is that? Calculating the spread of information about one company (or in this case, a business opportunity) over the population of the Earth, for over 40 years is left to social scientists. Suffice to say, there is a very high probability that almost any given person has heard some piece of information about the Amway Corporation- whether it be good, bad, or neutral. And with new sources of information, such as the Internet, becoming more accessible, the chances of people learning about Amway dramatically increase.
How much time does it really take?
When showing the sales & marketing plan, many distributors tell new prospects that in 3-12 months, working 8-10 hours a week, you can make about $2,100 a month (the Direct distributor level). Also working that same 8-10 hours a week, you can build an income of $72,000-$150,000 in the next 2-5 years (most likely, the Diamond level).  This is Truth for all who follow above mentioned basics & steps of business promotion.
First, the numbers shown in the plan (again, found in the SA-4400) are estimates based on Amway's own model of sponsoring. Their model states that to be a Direct, you should sponsor 6 people who sponsor 4 people who sponsor 2 people. Upon closer reading, only 1 in 45 people (or 2.22%) of all Directs have actually built their business according to this model. And as such, only 2.22% will receive bonuses described in the SA-4400. How does this relate to the amount of time it takes to build a business to the Direct level? There is no specific relation, but if the numbers shown in the SA-4400 only apply to 2.22% of all distributors, then does working the 8-10 hours a week (claimed by distributors) apply to the other 97.78% of prospects? Keep in mind, though, that the SA-4400 makes NO mention of the amount of time it will take a distributor to reach any level in the business.
When confronted with this information, most distributors will be quick to say that there are two "starting points" for people- the time they "break a kit" and the time they "get serious." How long between those two points? It depends on the person. Some people get into the business and sponsor people that night, while others take months or years to start sponsoring. Spending 8-10 hours per week working to build the business shows that you are "serious" about it, but even so, when exactly does the 2-5 year estimate start? Also, do you count "false starts," a time when someone is serious for a month or two, then does nothing?
How realistic is working 8-10 hours a week for the next 2-5 years to become a Diamond? Obviously, working the less amount of 8 hours will not get you to that level in 2 years. But how much time will? If we assume 8-10 hours a week equals 32-40 hours a month, here is a breakdown: (The numbers I will use are "averages," some meetings may take longer, some may be shorter.)

According to some calculations, a person should expect to spend an average of 11.38 hours a week building the business. Keep in mind that this is a very low-end average, and more hours will probably be required if you want to "build big". Also, keep in mind that this estimate does not include the 4 major functions per year; each taking up one entire weekend (about 72 hours or more).
Can a person realistically become a Direct in 3-12 months? In every group, there is always the "star distributor" who has done it in 1 or 2 months. For every one person who builds that fast, how many don't? In my opinion, I believe that the 3-12 months is a "reverse statistic." Rather than gauge the length of time it takes a distributor to become a Direct and average those times, I believe a survey was taken of all the Directs about how much time it took them. This number was then averaged to be 3-12 months, and then included into the plan- giving the impression that anyone who worked the 8-10 hours a week, would be a Direct in 3-12 months. Are these numbers then illegal? Not according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) since SOMEONE has done it. Are the numbers deceptive or misleading? Possibly. But, when distributors tell you these numbers and then talk about all the Directs they personally know that did it in less than 12 month's time (sometimes less than 3 months), it does change a prospect's impression (which is very difficult to accurately measure).

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Putting on my thinking cap here !

Kind regards,

Stuart

Social media is not the waste of time for businesses. There are various benefits of of it. The key benefits to business from social media are as follows:
The first area of benefit for social networking is awareness. Keeping the customer in mind, social networking provides the perfect opportunity to target the right people.
The more people you reach, the more people will visit. With the ability to cross post on different social networks the message can become viral very quickly. It plays most important role of marketing your product or services.
Social media enables consumer to provide feedback on the marketing message and the brand very quickly. Social networking is essential to your business survival.

Hi Pferris,
Yes link building is vital to getting to number 1 on the search engines. Try exchanging links with other webmasters, submitting articles to directories, reputable links directories, social media such as Facebook, Twitter etc. The more links you get from reputable websites the better you will rank. Tumblr and Squidoo are two of my favourite sites for getting some good links quickly also.

One simple suggestion - but will make a significant difference to results - I would change your signature above and anywhere else you have it referenced to the keyword your are targeting. which looks like "Driving Lessons Swords" - so the text above in your signature should be as follows: Driving Lessons Swords . This is important as it tells Google what keyword you are competing for and is especially important as topclass.ie doesn't identify what your website offers.

Hope this helps.

How the so-called Geo Coding can help in the success rate of a business? If you have the ability to pinpoint different addresses is a way by which you can provide great benefits for your business. The same thing is also true when you have a detailed system for your address management scheme for your prospective and present customers. Business elements will become boosted with accurate deliveries and targeted mailings, thus also helping you save a great amount of money in the long run. The fact is that when people who became satisfied with our products and services will be more than happy to get you marketing words and messages that you are sending to them. For sure, you’ll have this picture as a way to provide you with increased revenue and possible business growth too.

Being a business person, you need not to focus your attention with only one procedure or method. The fact is that getting yourself in another proven method will most likely bring you and your business to greater heights. For one, the Geo coding method is a necessary way in a business to go even deeper and profounder than just acquiring the address. Geo Coding is in fact a way by which you are capable of narrowing down geographic data in a more precise and accurate manner. Geo Coding method is achieved through longitudinal and latitudinal procedures.

So how Geo Coding works?

When you make use of a Geo coding method in your business, you are required to start with a map for postal codes or a street address. These things will then be extracted and brings out the geographic coordinates as an output. This is easily performed with the use of a system or geo coding software known as Geo Coder. The moment you have extracted the coordinates, all of the important details and information will then be recovered and stored into your overall Geographic Information System or GIS. Now if you want to make use of the latitude and longitude way of finding the physical address then you should be using the reverse Geo Coding method for this purpose.

The Benefits

A great deal of companies and big businesses today find Geo Coding as a great way to come up with a person’s precise location info. Say for example, shipping and logistics companies are capable of cutting down their errors with the use of a Geo Coding system. With the system, drivers are properly directed up to the end of their delivery. This simply makes you think that the Geo coding system itself provides a business with a great deal of savings along the way. Drivers no longer have to keep on driving around trying to spot the exact destination of the deliveries. A huge amount of dollars are saved especially when the company comes with fleets of vehicles for the business.

On the other hand, other companies that can benefit from Geo Coding include insurance companies, credit card companies, banks, and even retailers that simply abound in the market today.

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Registration and membership of the Irish BusinessForums is completely free for Irish Business People.

 

Non Irish Business related self promotion posts will generally be considered as Spam (unless pre approved) and the Users will be banned. If you feel that this is unfair (maybe you sell into Ireland etc) then contact us to establish your bona fides before you post.

To register in the Irish Business Forums, just click on the Green "Create Account" button on the top right of the screen and fill out your details. Once you submit your details, you will receive a validation email with a link that you must click on to validate your registration.

Once your registration is complete, you can log in and post in the forums and create Free Listings and Back Linksfor your own business or a business that you like at our Irish Business Guide.

Don't forget to add and set up a profile photo and "signature" for your profile including a link for your own website(s) using your User Control Panel.

If you do this, then every post you make will automatically become a free backlink and advertsisement for your own website. The more you post, the more you promote yourself and your own Business and Business Website.

Any registered member is also free to provide feedback on any listing and award that listing between one and five stars. The highest rated listings appear at the top of a search on this site for hotels, restaurants etc.

You may also add, manage and publicise your upcoming Irish Business Events, Press Launches and Product Launches in our Members Events You can even add an attendence list using the RSVP feature when you create your listing. Once ypu have created an event listing be sure and promote it firther in our members Events Forum.

All new postings in our forums are automatically added to our Facebook page at http://www.facebook....hBusinessForums and are Tweeted to over 18,000 of our Twitter Followers including followers of @BusinessIreland.

All links for your listings are "Do Follow" which mean that Google gives your own site credit for listing here.

Affilliate members are our special friends who have either

• a proven record of actively supporting and particpating in the forums or
• placed a link for the Irish Business Forums on their own site or
• purchased affilliate membership though the Become and Affilliate link in the main site menu bar or
• are active in the forums as a voluntary "area" or "activity" expert and forum moderator where they assist in promoting their own business sector or assist in promoting and advising on their specialist business area (HR, Legal, Accountancy, Marketing SEO etc.). To apply to be considered as a Forum Moderator, just contact me (Stuart) via the private messaging system here or else email me with a contact number for a quick chat at stuart (at)) irish business forums com.

If you have any questions on how to use the site or if you have suggestions on how to improve the site, just post here!

Kind regards,

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