I have a huge confession to make. I’ve not had business cards since 2006. Any self-respecting networker or business owner would think i’m mad by not having had any, but i’ve held off for one very good reason (actually two). I paid through the nose for a few hundred cards in 2003 when I first set up one of my businesses… which I then promptly rebranded four months later, with a new logo and the lot. My business cards were bin-bound. I then ordered some more when we moved into our first offices, complete with our new office phone number, address, the lot. 8 months later we ran out of space and had to move offices – and we couldn’t keep our old office phone number as we were on an internal exchange. Business cards once again rendered useless. I stopped bothering after that.
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Someone I haven’t seen in a while – even before my move to London – is Conor Lynch, the founder of online / offline social networking business Connector.ie. Which makes me feel extra bad, considering he seems to be turning into one of the most active networkers in Ireland! I first met Conor in 2005 (I think), at the IIA Net Visionary awards. We had planned to meet up for a pint at the awards after some emailing back and forth, but the ‘pint’ at the awards turned into many more after Conor promptly won an award for ‘Internet Marketer of the Year’. At the time he was heading up the online marketing department for Rabodirect, Ireland’s first online bank.
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Blacknight Solutions are a domain registration / website hosting company based in Carlow. They’ve grown quite fast over the past couple of years, and according to Webshosting.info, have a massive percentage share of the Irish market when it comes to domain registrations. And it’s easy to see why. Their newest sales tool – dropped.ie – is a great way to search for and stumble across ‘second hand’ .ie domain names. As someone who used to spend hours trawling the deleted domains list on the IEDR website to find little domain name gems, sites like dropped.ie are a godsend.
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