8 More Ways to Sell Even More Stuff

Mr. Darren Grant (Managing Director)

OrganicSupermarket.ie

Darren Grant is the Managing Director of the Organic Supermarket.  He holds a honours degree in Business Management, a post graduation higher diploma in Advanced business studies and a black belt in Six Sigma process improvement.  Founded in July 2008, The Organic Supermarket has become one of Ireland’s Leading retailers of organic food and wine.  In 2009, To complement its shop on Main Street Blackrock, Darren launched a nationwide ecommerce solution for the business.  The e-commerce site www.organicsupermarket.ie has become the main supplier of organic food across Ireland and a leader within the Industry.  It is a multi-award winning site including “Most Beautiful Website in Ireland” at the 2009 Irish Web Awards.  “Best Ecommerce Website 2009 at the Eircom Golden Spiders and more recently won “Best Ecommerce Website 2010” at the Irish Web Awards.

Mr. Conor O'Neill (CEO)

Argolon Solutions Ltd. t/a LouderVoice

Conor O'Neill is CEO of LouderVoice which powers Social Commerce using Reviews. 

He specialises in building things, whether it's businesses, technology, community or events. He previously worked in senior management roles with Integral Design, Xilinx, EMC and McAfee and has co-founded two start-ups.

With LouderVoice he took the nub of a technology idea and turned it into Europe's leading provider of customer reviews solutions to SMEs.

He doesn't have any hobbies due to five children and a start-up. But if he did have any free time, he'd try running more.

Conor is also heavily involved in the Irish start-up community through co-editing Web2Ireland.org, founding Ireland's most successful OpenCoffee and coordinating Facebook Developer Garages.  

Ms. Lorna Sixsmith

Garrendenny Lane

Lorna Sixsmith owns Garrendenny Lane Interiors which started in Nov 2007 as a home-based interior design consultancy business coupled with sales of designer fabrics and wallpapers.  An online store was added to the website in August 2008.

Lorna used blogging very effectively in her first year of business and it brought in approximately 40% of her business in 2008.

With the changes in the economic climate and a busy family life, Lorna took the decision in 2010 to phase out the interior design and concentrate on the online sales. This meant investing in a new website to target the international market and to examine new ways to drive traffic to the new site.

With no qualifications in sales or technology, Lorna has learnt what she knows about social media 'on the job' and by attending one-day courses. She took the decision to use Web Results to create her new website based on their expertise with search engine optimisation and web marketing.

The new website www.garrendennylane.com was launched in October 2010.  However, new functionality is being added each month and the design should be complete in May 2011.

Ms. Rosey Broderick

WebResults.ie

Rosey Broderick is a graduate of the University of Limerick in Business Studies & German, having specialised in Marketing. Rosey has worked in various marketing roles in technology related businesses both locally and abroad including Deutsches Reisebüro & Siemens in Germany, Creative Labs, Eircom.net & Web Reservations International.

Rosey set up WebResults.ie in 2007, now a thriving web marketing services company, working with a wide variety of clients in various sectors targeting both local and international markets. WebResults.ie works with clients on an on-going basis, who want to use the web to build their business using web marketing activities to drive quality traffic and through monitoring usability and conversions on the website.

Rosey mentors international businesses in web strategy in web marketing and search engine optimisation & lectures in Online Marketing for the ‘Diploma in Digital Marketing‘ at the Fitzwilliam institute & Digital Marketing Institute in Dublin.

Mr. Laurence Veale (Senior Analyst)

iQ Content

Laurence is a web usability and accessibility expert with over five year's programming experience.

Since joining iQ Content, Laurence has worked on a variety of usability and accessibility projects, helping organisations such as Cavan County Council and the Department of the Taoiseach to evaluate and enhance their websites.

Before joining iQ Content, Laurence worked as a developer for two of Ireland's largest financial institutions: Eagle Star and AIB. As a Senior Software Engineer with Eagle Star Life he worked on developing their award winning website to give brokers and clients easy access to their policies online.

While at AIB, Laurence worked on their New Banking Platform (NBP), a browser based branch application, developed with Java (J2EE), XML/XSL, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. As well as pure development, he also worked on accessibility within the NBP project.Laurence has experience in the following technologies: Java, ASP, PHP, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, CSS, XHTML, XML/XSL, JavaScript, and AS/400.

Laurence has a BA (Hons.) in Physiology from Trinity College Dublin and a Graduate Diploma in Information Technology from Dublin City University. He also has a City and Guilds Certificate in Advanced C Programming from Griffith College Dublin.

Mr. Karl James

OWJO

Karl has over fifteen year's business and financial experience in senior roles with a variety of blue chip companies, Bank of Ireland Group Treasury, Cornmarket Group and Marsh & McLennan.  In 2006, Karl established Crannog Asset Management which currently has over €30 million in private client funds under management across a diverse mix of managed investment products, syndicated property funds and micro VC investments. 

Karl is a high energy fiscally conscious and goal-driven business executive who approaches each new business challenge with an intrinsic flair for innovation, creative problem-solving and measured risk-taking to drive consistent bottom line improvements.  

Karl was central to OWJO's successful completion of the initial fundraising rounds.  Karl's ability to build relationships, trust and rapport, along with his drive for consistent forward momentum, enables OWJO to broker the relationships and make the connections between the people required to create the partnerships and alliances needed to 'get things done'.  Karl has a deep understanding of the on-going strategic positioning, financial planning and control requirements for OWJO and has positioned the company to confidently take its next significant steps forward.

Karl holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance and Accounting) from University College Dublin.

Ms. Lisa O'Dwyer (Business Development Manager)

Digital Reach Group

Lisa’s career began in marketing and promotions in FMCG but the majority of her career had been spent in telecommunications with roles spanning sales, marketing and wholesale at companies including Telefonica O2 Ireland,Eircom, Energis and Telenor.  Lisa was Head of Business Segments and Head of  Wholesale during her career at O2 and has in-depth knowledge of both fixed and mobile technologies.  Lisa has a BComm from UCD and a Masters of Marketing Practice from the Michael Smurfit Graduate School.

Lisa currently works with Digital Reach Group.

Ms. Kathryn Murphy (Co-founder and Editor)

GiftGenies.com

Kathryn Murphy is Co-Founder and Editor of PeopleLovePresents.com. She holds a degree in Architecture from The Bartlett, University College London and has worked in Burke Kennedy Doyle Architects in Dublin, and Jestico & Whiles Architects in both London and Prague. She subsequently spent seven years as a Senior Creative at OwensDDB Advertising Agency where she won many awards for her work on brands such as Volkswagen, Sony and Tropicana, before leaving to set up PeopleLovePresents.com.