Negative Reputation?

I urge serious businesses to think of online reputation as a conversation, if your name is being mentioned in a conversation you hope it would be favourable, 9 times out of 10, it’s not.

Bad news travels fast and even faster online, reputation in business is not restricted to word of mouth on the golf course, or how often your advert appears on tv, it’s happening everyday by people on their mobiles updating social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook and local listing sites like Yelp or FourSquare.

Company names and products are mentioned talked about all the time, but many companies don’t think about thier online reputation or the management of it.

Talk to Cada Media to get the balance of online and offline reputation right, call Dave Jordan today on 053 9430748

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Apple Safari
• Maxthon
• Internet Explorer
• Opera

Why upgrade your browser?

Your current browser displays the web as you like it? You don’t trust all the requests to install this, install that. It’s true, we are all pestered with requests to do so, but there is a reason behind it . . . if you stop and think about the bigger picture of why you are being asked to upgrade.

Now before everyone harps on about security issues or bug fixes, look past that and think about the benefits of having the latest version of anything. The new features and accessories that they provide to keep you ahead in an every growing technical age. Some of the requests are to install a Java Script or a new version of Flash. (99% of people have no idea of what these are and reject the request)

As you may or not know there is a cloud over the horizon that has been looming for a while now. It is spoken in the Sunday papers, business networking, tech forums and is a great buzz word of tech talkers. It is “Cloud Computing” and the idea of putting data in a remote location in order to allow it to be accessed via any location. Bit like a website in basic terms if you think about it. It is this accessing remote data that has been talked about in disaster recover situations where we hear about big companies with hundreds of employees and the building burns down. They simply move to a new locaiton with and access their emails and documents from their server and continue working.

Great for large business but is it necessary for small businesses. It is important for us all but in order to even start going down that road you must have the right vehicle and in computing terms that means the device or software we use. The software we use is changing as we see more and more software being used on the net.

But if your Internet Browser is an old version you will not be able to get involved and engage in these changes in technology. Have you every listened to someone brag that their phone is just a phone and it is great. That may be true for them but for those who know the benefits of having a phone that also accesses emails and and the web, we know it can change the way we work. Change our lifestyle and even the way we accept payments.

Now apply that philosophy to your web browser. Imagine what you are missing out on and the features that are available these days. The browser is not just a click forward or backward, ckick Home. The browser is a piece of software that is able to doing online transactions, word processing, drawing and in fact most tasks that a computer can do, but only if that software is the latest version.

This maybe something called Java Script, as it sounds, a programming language that coffee drinking programmers came up with that runs scripts that perform an operation either on your computer or to a online file.

You need it.

Other languages such as HTML version 5 are also being updated to help the processing of data on the Internet. Older browsers are being phased out in order to help the new world order where browsers are the one piece of software that is crucial to the running of all programs as they are run within it. Some functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers.

So if you are still clicking on “ignore” or “reject” think again about what you are rejecting . . you are rejecting change to business and the new business models that are vital in business today.

Upgrade your browsers by clicking on any of the links above.

What he was referring to was a meeting of BNI in Wexford and they way that it is structured and organised to help people meeting but not for romantic reasons, but rather business networking!  . . . . .zzzzzz, lol,  you still reading. . . ok

Well tonight could be your night to meeting that someone special, business wise I mean. Tonight is an open meeting of the Gorey Chapter of BNI. I have spoken about this before in terms of Networking in Wexford and it is on at 7pmin the Ashdown Park Hotel,

Remember bring loads of business cards!

He’s pissed off listening to myself and other professionals in the business yabbering on about how you must only use the correct structure in websites to get them a good page rank and higher in Google. He See’s is competitors using new domains that’s a jammed packed with keywords and search terms that go way over the general rules of keyword density etc.

Will it get anywhere, will it increase his traffic and send more business his way?

Have you done something like this before and if so what would you suggest he does. He has a budget to play with, oh and by the way he’s using about 6 social media websites, rss feeds, press release sites, link building and any other method of promoting his site to increase the traffic. He even mentioned doing flyer drops today !!!!!

I’m looking for feedback and suggest, have you done this and has it helped.

Let me know.

Regards

Dave, Tel: 053 9430748

I’ll miss this old girl and her daily stats about life online in Ireland ! sniff sniff.

This would mean that as a shop they could take payments over the phone using any Internet connected pc or using their own website in the shape of an online shop. Today’s meeting is the 7th meeting of this type since we came back after the holidays. No other year has shown such a push for online sales. Maybe people are finally understanding that business and money is not all about bricks and motar and that just because a business using the Internet does not take away from what people preceive as the real world,

The Internet is the real world and that’s where your potential customers are looking for your services, now let us take you through the next stage and be able to take a payment off them for a product or service you supply.

Call Dave Jordan from Cada Media Ltd on 053 9430748 to start getting your business online.

Business has not stopped it has just moved online.

If your business is not online yet and taking advantage of being able to accept payments via gateways like paypal or realex or worldnet then we would suggest starting restructuring your business soon. For help using the net for online payments call us today.

Well done RTE.

http://www.rte.ie/player/

On a side now, the BBC website that does not allow Irish viewers to view it’s shows online. They explain that it is due to legal issues regarding “rights” etc.

If you are experienced Flasher we are looking for you. Experience is a must, we get many Multi media students applying for jobs and they have created one or two flash elements in college, and that’s great, we need people with examples of their work please.

Call Dave Jordan 053 9430748 for details

Built the website yourself.

Website creations tools are not new, they have been around for many years now, but we hear that weebly.com is an easy to use , fast method of creating a website yourself in a few minutes. Allowing you to update it with images, text and videos.

It’s not what we use and I wouldn’t recommend it for any real business as its just a basic web-page builder. Please don’t mistake this for being the “be all and end all” of website development and think that it’s gonna put us out of business. It’s not. This is for building a basic web-page, its not an online marketing strategy to gain you more sales leads and growing your business over the next 5 years and mentoring your businesses digital strategy. It’s a web-page and only that.

Don’t expect to get support or help in it’s creation or promotion.

It is however a good step for struggling businesses who can’t afford any budget on using the net to help their business.

Once you have the site built you can come to use to help promote it and get it listed in search engines and local directories.