To describe Riverdance as a global entertainment phenomenon is to undersell it. Over the past sixteen years, millions of people have seen the show in places ranging from Sligo to Shanghai. The Riverdance team decided to go with a totally new site towards the end of 2010 and the result is an absolute triumph. When [...]
It's that time of the year again! LouderVoice has been at Le Web every year since 2006. Back then, it was just some ideas and a very basic Alpha, this time we are part of the Irish Pavilion. Enterprise Ireland has put together a unique Demozone at Le Web. 11 hot Irish start-ups including LouderVoice [...]
Lots of very interesting headline stats about e-commerce over on the Econsultancy site. It appears that the prediction of the first online Christmas (50p in the £) by 2015 is well on its way to coming true. IMRG predicts that £6.4bn will be spent online in December 2010, up from £5.5bn last year. Total online [...]
The Europas, the TechCrunch Europe Awards for European tech companies, will be held on November 19 in London. Entrants will be voted on by the industry and these results will guide a subsequent voting round from The Europas Advisory Board of experts. LouderVoice is listed in the "Best Business or Enterprise Startup 2010" Category. If [...]
Who doesn't love being nominated for an award, particularly when it's in the innovation category? We're in the final 5 of the Irish Web Awards Most Innovative Website and we're smugger than the smuggest company in Smugtown. The awards are on this Saturday in the Mansion House. Go now to the list of finalists in [...]
Last year's Hotel Website Marketing Conference was a superb event. I spoke on the value of customer reviews but I learned 10x that from the other speakers on all of the online marketing (and other) challenges/opportunities being faced by hotels. Ciarán and the team have outdone themselves this year with the speaker line-up. As we [...]
We have just added a new Facebook capability for all of our customers. They can now show all their latest reviews in a dedicated "Our Reviews" tab on their Facebook Page. Whilst our Facebook Connect implementation has always given reviewers the ability to post their reviews to their personal wall, this new feature enables our [...]
There is a fantastic block of stats about consumer reviews over on Search Engine People. If you are wondering why this is such a strong growth area, wonder no longer! A few of their gems: 90% of online consumers trust recommendations from people they know; 70% trust unknown users, 27% trust experts, 14% trust advertising, 8% trust [...]
Business books will be written about the amazing story of the new Fastnet Line Ferry to Ireland. This much needed service operating from Swansea to Cork is proving to be a major success for the region. So you can imagine our excitement at LouderVoice becoming part of this story by powering the customer reviews on their site. [...]
Head on over to Krishna De's site to learn how you can get the LouderVoice Standard Package (normally €49+VAT per month) for free for a whole year! Having customer reviews on your site has moved from nice-to-have or cutting-edge to something you simply must have to compete online.
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