Hi Folks,
Tradesmen.ie featured on a whole page in The Irish Daily Star Newspaper recently following the success of winning the O2 Ideas Room Competition. You can see the picture below. Cheers for all your help.
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Cheers
The Tradesmen.ie Team
Hi Folks,
Big thanks again to all who voted for us during the O2 Ideas Room competition. A blog post was posted on the O2 Ideas Room blog confirming that Tradesmen.ie won. You can view the the post here.
Cheers
The Tradesmen.ie Team
Hi Folks,
I just wanted to say a big thank you to all who supported us during the O2 Ideas Room competition. We are all delighted to have won and it really means a lot to us to know that people took the time out to vote for us. Cheers.
Since the announcement of the winner last Tuesday, Tradesmen.ie featured on a full page in The Irish Daily Star newspaper (Page 9, I think). The page consisted of a screenshot of our YouTube video with Daisy the Cow and of the Tradesmen.ie homepage, as well as stating that Tradesmen.ie had won the competition. We are due to receive some of the prize very shortly but until then we wait in anticipation.
More recently, today, we received a phone call from radio station Midlands 103 asking to interview our very own Oliver Dempsey about our achievement. Hopefully it all goes well and Oliver gives a cracking interview. We also did an amusing video at the weekend that we thought you all might enjoy. Have a look at it below and thanks again to all for the support.
Tradesmen.ie are delighted to be sponsoring a new charity called GiveandBuy.ie.
GiveandBuy.ie is Ireland’s innovative non-profit marketplace and invites you to sell your unwanted household and workplace items, and/or your trade or professional skills, for the benefit of Irish and international charities. GiveandBuy.ie facilitates you in placing an ad……..a buyer in locating a range of items they may wish to purchase, and the charity of your choice in benefiting from the proceeds of sale.
Put simply, GiveandBuy.ie converts the stuff you no longer need and the service you can offer, into cash income for a range of charities.
If you wish to donate some of your time to charity for leads purchased through our website, Tradesmen.ie will refund you the full lead price if the total income from the job is donated to GiveandBuy or the pro-rata price of the lead if a part of the income from the job is donated to GiveandBuy.ie. Tradesmen.ie is the only trade related website that is a sponsor of GiveandBuy.ie .
All you need to do is register on GiveandBuy and explain to them that you would like to participate in the Tradesmen.ie offer to GiveandBuy members.
Miriam O’Callaghan from RTE is the Ambassador of GiveandBuy. You can visit GiveandBuy here
Thanks for your continued support and we wish you every success in the future!
Best Wishes
Laois company, Tradesmen.ie, was announced as the winners of the O2 Ideas Room Sales Pitch competition on Tuesday, 27th of July.
The O2 Idea’s Room ran a competition where they asked Irish companies to pitch their business idea in 140 characters or less via Twitter, SMS or on the O2 Idea’s Room Blog. Six finalists were chosen and people could then vote for their favorite business to win the grand prize of €50,000 worth of business support.
Oliver Dempsey, founder of Tradesmen.ie, entered the pitch “Want to save time and money on tradesmen and trade professional services? Get up to 4 quotes and compare prices on www.Tradesmen.ie”.
Fortunately for the Laois company, they were announced as winners as they gained the most amount of votes for their sales pitch. For those who are unfamiliar with the business, Tradesmen.ie is a free Irish online service that helps you to find tradesmen and get a number of quotes for your job. All you need to do is to fill in a simple form which asks you to describe the type of job you need to do and what type of tradesman you are looking for. They locate and inform tradesmen in your area who are available and who are willing to quote for the job. The tradesmen are then asked to contact you and organise to give you a quote.
The Ballybrittas or more specifically Jamestown based company have been operating successfully for a number of years now and are hoping to build on the success of their recent victory in the O2 competition. During the campaign, Tradesmen.ie made use of online social media’s such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. They constantly updated fans of their progress on their Facebook page and made regular updates. As well as this, they also produced many videos to market their campaign on their Youtube channel Tradesmen1. These videos were made to reach out to people with the hope that each video would spread online and help create more votes for them. What was unique about these videos was that each of them was made with a good sense of humor as the company believed it was best to have fun and enjoy the opportunity of having the chance to win such a competition. Fortunately, it proved to be a major success and one of their videos with Daisy the cow has to this date over 4,100 views. Quite a success story for a small business which now has the chance grow bigger and help benefit customers, tradesmen and the Irish economy. Congratulations to Tradesmen.ie
Check out Tradesmen.ie’s Youtube videos here and for more information visit their website at www.tradesmen.ie.
Here’s a few words from Oliver Dempsey, founder of Tradesmen.ie, after his company was announced as the winner of the O2 Idea’s Room competition recently.
What tips or tricks did you employ to rally support for voting?
To rally support for voting we used a number of tactics. We used YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, our own Blog, Twitter, Google News, Yahoo News and a number of other online services. We placed articles, videos and appeals to ask people to vote for us if they liked what we were about. We tried everything we could think of and we were really just learning as we went along. The Internet is changing rapidly on a monthly basis and we find that what worked to sell our products and services 6 months ago isn’t the same now. You need to use a variety of tactics and see what works best for your business. Video accounts for a large proportion of Internet usage these days so we created funny videos that people could watch and enjoy and hopefully pass on to their friends if they liked them. The idea was to create very funny video content that could become viral and spread throughout the Internet. My own favourite was one we did with Daisy the cow. The idea was to create something unique, innovative and funny. What we didn’t expect is that Daisy had other things on her mind that day and she wasn’t as co-operative as we had hoped. The bloopers on the Daisy video were absolutely hilarious and at the time of writing this video has been viewed by over 4,000 people Worldwide and is being viewed by more and more people each day even after the competition has ended! Other funny videos that we did were with the American Football team, the Jazz band, baby Heidi, the salsa dancers and Jedward!! You can see all our videos on our YouTube channel which is called “Tradesmen1“.
How will winning this competition impact your business?
Winning the competition is very important for our business as it gets our name out into the public domain. People will find out how they can receive help if they want to find a tradesman or trade professional. People can discover how they can save time, get a number of quotes and compare prices from rated service providers by simply posting their job on Tradesmen.ie. Gone will be the days of ringing numbers from the phone book and getting no answer, an answering machine, or an answer saying, “sorry can’t do”. The aim of this system is that the customer posts the job and the tradesmen contact them so it saves a lot of time. Reviews from previous clients help customers when deciding which tradesman to use.
On a wider scale it is hoped that the software that is used to drive Tradesmen.ie can be used further afield to benefit people in other countries and that it can be used to bring in much needed revenue into Ireland from overseas. At present our business provides highly skilled jobs in the areas of web application development, digital media and accounts. Our hope is that more highly skilled jobs like these can be created as a result of this increased exposure and that this will be a benefit to the Irish economy as a whole.
Oliver Dempsey
Tradesmen.ie have won €50,000 of business support through the O2 ideas room ‘140 Characters Sales Pitch’ competition.
Hi Folks,
For those who don’t know, The O2 Idea’s Room ran a competition where they asked Irish companies to pitch their business idea in 140 characters or less via Twitter, SMS or on the O2 Idea’s Room Blog. Six finalists were chosen and people could then vote for their favorite business to win the grand prize of €50,000 worth of business support.
Here at Tradesmen.ie, our very own Oliver Dempsey entered the pitch “Want to save time and money on tradesmen and trade professional services? Get up to 4 quotes and compare prices on www.Tradesmen.ie”
The winner was announced on Tuesday (27th of July) and we were thrilled to see Tradesmen.ie named as the winning business. There was a huge amount of effort put into our campaign to win and fortunately we did. This is a great achievement for us and we would like to thank everyone very much for helping us along the way. Many people supported us from start to finish and we are very grateful for all your help. It should be interesting to see what the future has in store for us at Tradesmen.ie and how this will benefit the company. Here’s to a bright future. Cheers.
Hi Folks,
Just an update on what’s going on. We are continuing our battle to win the O2 Business competition and we are currently in 2nd place. Thanks to everyone who voted for us so far. We’ve had fantastic support from many friends and followers. We need as many Votes as we can get so please spread the word about our campaign and tell all to Vote for us at: http://www.tradesmen.ie/02
Below, is a selection of fun promotional Videos that we have done so far. Check them out and we hope you enjoy them. A new Video will be added each day for this week as we continue the run up to the competitions deadline which is July 25th.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPGPJYpcYAI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNWXo15LLto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO80_epxczE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j80Ocr8bEY
Thanks very much.
Tradesmen.ie
Hey Folks,
Hope all is well. First off, I’d like to say, Welcome to our Blog. This is a new Project we set for ourselves, to create some interesting content and try to interact more with our customers and those who use our service on Tradesmen.ie.
So to kick things off, I am happy to announce that Tradesmen.ie has been shortlisted for the Final of the O2 Business Competition. This was a contest organized by O2 and the O2 Idea’s Room, where it invited businesses to submit a 140 character sales pitch. Fortunately, we were chosen and we are now in with a chance of winning 50,000 Euro worth of Prizes for our business. This would be incredible if we managed to win as it would help us feel rewarded for all the hard work that everyone here at Tradesmen.ie has put in over the past.
Our sales pitch was, “Want to save time and money on tradesmen and trade professional services? Get up to 4 quotes and compare prices on www.Tradesmen.ie”.
A brief description was then also provided, “Tradesmen.ie is an interactive service that lets home and business owners request quotes for jobs advertised over the web. It helps tradesmen locate work for the areas in which they are interested. Customers and tradesmen are than matched based on locality, skills, and requirements”.
The 50,000 Euro prize consists of:
€21,500 worth of media space in The Star.
€6,000 worth of O2 office land-line & fixed broadband and mobile services
€7,000 worth of advertising creative services
€5,000 worth of digital consultancy
€5,000 worth of on-line creative and development of your own blog
€2,000 worth of public relations consultancy
€3,500 worth of hospitality at The O2, Dublin
It would be an honor to win such a prize and already we are very proud that we have reached this far. But since we are this close, why stop now? I was always told, there’s no point doing something only half done. So, if you have a minute and would like to vote for us, it would be much appreciated. You can Vote here.
Thanks very much. Let’s hope all goes well, so until next time, Good luck.
Regards,
