Influencing the influencers in business

‘Influencing the influencers – finding the gap for business with social media’ will be the subject of one of the talks at a free seminar to be hosted by Online Marketing in Galway on Tuesday, August 26, at 7pm in the Harbour Hotel, Galway.

A presentation will be given by Jenny Brennan of Virtual Office Worx, a social media management agency based in the West of Ireland.

Her vision it is to show small businesses how to leverage the power of social media to generate the right buzz for their content.

Jenny is native of Dublin now living and working from Cong, Co Mayo. In 2011 she set-up a Virtual Assistant business to provide businesses with outsourced social media support solutions to save owners time and help them increase sales.

As her own business developed and grew online Jenny became passionate about connecting with like-minded business people and industry influencers on Social Media to grow her business and now helps her clients how to do the same.

More recently Jenny has had the opportunity to work with influencers in her field including Ian Cleary of Razor Social, Emeric Ernoult of AgoraPulse and Jon Loomer, the world’s leading Facebook Marketing Expert for advanced Facebook Marketers.

Also in attendance on the evening is Breda Fox, Head of Enterprise, Local Enterprise Office, Galway. The Local Enterprise Office, Galway will give an overview of the Online Trading Vouchers scheme to support small Irish Businesses enhance their online trading presence.

The scheme allows trading vouchers to the value of EUR2500 to be issued to support the development or upgrade of an e-commerce website implementing online payments and/or booking systems for example.

Other usage such as purchase of internet related software, online advertising, development of an app, implementation of a digital marketing strategy, may also be supported as part of an overall proposal to establish and manage online trading for local businesses.

In addition to the keynote speaker, Jill Holtz, MD of the succesful information site for parents, Mykidstime, will host a presentation titled ‘Rules of Engagement – How We Engaged 400,000 Parents on Social Media’.

To find out more go to Online Marketing in Galway