Krishna De: Insights From Ireland On Digital Marketing, Social Media And Entrepreneurship

Twenty Christmas classics like “Silent Night,” “The First Noel,” and “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” for free.

Thanks to Guy Kawasaki for telling us about this.

Get your iTunes Holiday sampler here. I know my middle daughter will be loading them onto her MP3 player and singing along with them when she is in the car on the way to school!

Internet searches in the UK for “discount vouchers” grew by 47.5 per cent in the year since last August, according to Hitwise, the internet research company. Google’s records show a 67 per cent jump in searches for the term “discount vouchers” between December 2007 and December 2008.

Last month, Ask Jeeves became the latest internet search engine to join the voucher trend. The site, which is keen to differentiate itself against bigger competitors such as Google and Microsoft’s Bing, unveiled a new feature that displays online discount vouchers related to any of the search terms users enter.

One of the biggest hits was the Pizza Express two-for-the-price of one main meal offer voucher, which ran in a Sunday newspaper and online last year. “Pizza Express voucher” was the second most popular voucher-related search term after the more generic “voucher codes”, according to Hitwise.

Robin Goad, UK director of research at Hitwise, said searching for vouchers had become an established part of online shopping. “Consumer behaviour has changed so that people are looking online to research a product, looking at where to find the best price and finally doing a search to see if there is a voucher for it.”

The article also comments that 70 per cent of ABC1 consumers – classed as professional and white-collar workers – say they have used money-off vouchers in the past six months, according to research by Future Foundation, a consumer trend think-tank. This equates to nearly 20m adults in the UK.

Only 62 per cent of consumers classified as C2DEF, which include manual workers and the unemployed, said they had secured bargains in this way.

I have also noticed the ability to add vouchers on some of the online directory listings which are free or a minimal cost to join.

So how could you use online vouchers for example on Facebook or Twitter or on your website? And if you have used online vouchers, what results have you experienced?

 

Patrick Sutton, Director of The Gaiety School of Acting, has gone a little mad! He has decided to give away €5,000 worth of courses in celebration for launching our new Part-Time Programme 2009-2010! All the details can be found in our courses section!

 

You can win a free course by completing a short form on the Gaiety School website HERE. Winner's will be announced at the Gaiety School Free Taster Workshops on Culture Night 25th September 2009.

Tots2Teens are running a Competition for a Free Place at our Paediatric First Aid Class of 29th August in Bewleys Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

Our Paediatric First Aid class is suitable for Parents and Carers of Babies and Young Children. It teaches you how to apply life saving skills to any baby or child in an emergency.

The class is invaluable, it covers Disorders of Breathing and CPR (for infant, toddler, child), choking, wounds, bleeding, fractures, broken bones, burns and various medical emergencies.

In order to win, applicants must agree to write a Short Review or even better a Blog on the class and what they thought of it.

If you are free on Saturday 29th and interested then please comment on this Blog or send an email to info@tots2teens.ie with your name, email and contact number.

Your name will be put in a hat for the draw which will take place on Monday 24th.

If you have a little one under 8 years of age and are in the Dublin area I definitely recommend that you leave a comment on the Tots2Teens blog to enter their competition for a free place.

Do check out their website too as they also run other workshops for parents.