Ever since Senator Dan Boyle forced Willie O’Dee’s resignation with Twitter, the Irish business community have suddenly started to take note. Nearly every day I get asked “What is this Twitter thing? And who’s using it?“

Well the 10 billionth entry (commonly referred to as a Tweet) recently went up on Twitter. Below is a graph showing the dramatic rise in the use of Twitter. Note how high Ireland is on the list of regions.

So now we know that Twitter is popular, who uses Twitter? Well you would be suprised to know that most Twitter users are over 30. That’s the age profile of most of the business owners in Ireland.

While Facebook and Bebo are favoured by the younger age group, the business community has adopted Twitter.

So now that you know that you should be using Twitter, where do you start. Here is a simple guide from Adrian Wreckler on how to start using Twitter.

Twitter for Beginners

Now that you are up and running with Twitter, check out some Businesses in Gorey and North Wexford who are on Twitter.

Came across this article at DIGITAL21, Irish businesses need to realise the digital economy is the ‘real’ economy.

It’s time for businesses to get technological

Attended the free seminar run by Eugene Daly and hosted by Gorey Chamber. While there was no magic solution or dramatically new sales ideas, Eugene gave an excellent interactive presentation where he outlined, using practical examples for the different types of businesses attending, how you can take some simple steps that will allow us all to focus our sales efforts in ways that could deliver real results.

Well done Eugene and Gorey Chamber. Eugene of Daly & Associates can be contacted at eugenedaly@ireland.com

I attended the weekly meeting of the BNI Gorey Chapter, BNI Falcon (substituting for Dave Jordan, Cada Media, Web Designers). While the Gorey chapter is relative small they are very active and I was pleasantly surprised at the range and quality of Business Services offered by the members. If you are a business in the North Wexford area and are interested in a Business Networking Group that will help you grow your business then you could do a lot worse than getting  involved with the BNI Gorey Chapter.

They can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/bnifalcon, send them a Direct Message if you want to find out more.

Gorey Chamber will hold their next monthly lunch on Tuesday 9th March@ 1pm in Nel Sweeney’s @ The 64 on the corner of Gorey Main Street and the Avenue.

For all those into all things related to Gardening and Horticulture chack out Kilmurry Nursery, Gorey, Co. Wexford updated Online Catalogue for 2010.

Grant Masterson gave a very informative presentation about how he developed an Online Presence and eventually an Online Shop for his Skateboard retail outlet Wreckless Skate Shop. Grant gave a very good practical and pragmatic overview of how he got his business online and what are the most important steps in this process.

For anybody in the North Wexford area I would strongly recommend attending these After Hours events run by Gorey Chamber. They are well run and are a great opportunity to network with other people from the business community.

Geting Your Business on Line, Gorey Chamber, Gorey Business Park, 7pm – 9pm Tonight

Are you making the criminal’s life easier by providing them with all the information they need? And could this change how organisations such as Insurance Companies view you?

Check out the following article from Computer World, Mike Elgan: How Buzz, Facebook and Twitter create ’social insecurity’

Had a very interesting conversation with a friend of mine who runs a Holiday and Leisure Park. She told me that she had a fantastic response to an open day she held recently. When I asked her how she had advertised the open day, she told me that she had put an Ad in a National Newspaper, used Google AdWords and finally she set up a Facebook Page for the business and created a Facebook Ad.

When people arrived  she asked them where they had heard about the open day and the results were as follows. The vast majority said Facebook, followed by Google Ads and finally in last place by a long shot was the National Newspaper. The interesting thing is that the most expensive was the National Newspaper, the second most expensive was Google Ads and by far the cheapest was Facebook.

The next time you’re marketing your business think very carefully how you spend your money.

http://www.prospectpark.ie/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gorey-Ireland/Prospect-Holiday-Leisure-Park/132589957710