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Ireland’s Review & Rate Solutions Company to Pay €35,000 to Web Partners

2010-03-03T02:48:22-08:00

We have just launched a new partner program paying out substantial commission and bonus payments to web professionals, developers and marketers that refer customers.

LouderVoice is Ireland’s largest and longest standing provider of Review & Rate (R&R) solutions to e-businesses. These solutions give customers the ability to post reviews of a products or services on the website they bought from. R&R tools are seen by market analysts as one of the most important tools for any website serious about online business*.

Our system is delivered using a Software as a Service (SaaS) model which scales effortlessly with a company’s online sales growth. Installation can be as simple as pasting a line of code on a web-page and typically takes less than an hour.

Since 2008, the company has sold direct. On March 1st, we suspended our direct channel and now only sell through partners.

We recognise that companies with serious web businesses already have suppliers they trust to manage the ongoing development of their e-business. We now exclusively support these partners in delivering the hottest web tool of the year to their clients.

We offer an extremely rewarding commission and bonus program. Partners that have 50 customers can earn as much as €7,200 in their first year and larger partners, with 200 customers, can earn over €35,000 within 12 months. Plus, we pay an ongoing commission for the life of the customer.

Launch Partners include Webtrade, WSI – Proactive E-Biz, Hotel Consult, Granite Consulting, Digital Crew, Monsoon Consulting, TNS Distribution and WeddingDates.ie.

As our VP of Sales, Karl Llewellyn tells our customers: ‘All serious web business should have a Review & Rate tool on their site, today. They are missing out on sales without it. We provide our partners with all the sales material and support to allow them convert the maximum number of their customers; all they have to do is implement one of our ready-made campaigns.’

For more information on becoming a LouderVoice partner go to http://www.loudervoice.com/partner-program/

*26% of US e-businesses surveyed use an R&R Solution with a further 73% citing customer reviews as being an investment priority in the next 12 months. Jan 2010, Forrester Research

Klipsch USA Pumps Up The Volume with LouderVoice

2009-12-21T05:23:51-08:00

We really are jumping up and down with excitement to finally announce that LouderVoice's first US client went live just before Le Web recently.Â Klipsch USA now has the LouderVoice customer review system across the entire klipsch.com web-site.

For those in Europe not familiar with this legendary US brand, it had defined high-end audio since 1946 and is adored by audiophiles everywhere.

Building on over 60 years of experience in hifi equipment, they also have the absolute best headphones and docks anywhere for iPhones, iPods and other MP3 players. Listening to music with Klipsch headphones is like having earmuffs removed from your head!

We are thrilled to be working with such a fantastic US company and the Klipsch team was able to deploy our reviews system with minimal effort or support required.

LouderVoice reviews perform three functions for Klipsch. The on-site reviews drive up sales and help customers select the right product; the Facebook Connect & Twitter OAuth integration enables the already passionate customers to be evangelists; and finally the reviews on www.loudervoice.com give a conversion boost and even wider distribution.

The response from Klipsch fans on Facebook to our reviews system has been an absolute joy for us and we look forward to an ever growing body of reviews to help all Klipsch customers.

UPDATE 1: We've also published the announcement on the IIA web-site.

UPDATE 2: Great piece on the launch from TechCrunch Europe. Thanks Steve!

LouderVoice at Le Web

2009-12-07T10:33:44-08:00

Conor will be at Le Web in Paris from tomorrow afternoon until Friday morning. If you'd like to meet up to discuss any aspect of the LouderVoice business then feel free to contact him via any of the following methods:

Mobile: +353-87-9790297
Twitter: @conoro
e-mail: conor AT loudervoice DOT com

Hope to see you there, it's building up to be the best Le Web ever!

Honourable Mention in Top Ten International Web Products of 2009 on RWW

2009-12-04T06:08:31-08:00

Wow.

Jolie O'Dell just did the Top Ten International Web Products of 2009 on the always brilliant ReadWriteWeb.

We didn't make the Top Ten yet but that's OK, we'll be there in 2010

What we did make was the Honourable Mentions list!

The only Irish web company to do so.

The Golden Spiders award was national recognition for what we've been doing this year and now this is global.

To be in the same story as Spotify, Moshi Monsters, Tweetmeme and all the others is a real honour.

Thanks Jolie, Richard and all the RWW crew for the vote of confidence. Any of y'all going to be at Le Web?

2010 The Year of Real-Time Reviews?

2009-11-27T01:57:07-08:00

Trendwatching.com has released its list of 10 Crucial Consumer Trends of 2010.

At Number 3 is Real-Time Reviews

Sometimes we're just a tiny bit ahead of the trends here in LouderVoice HQ:

That's why @review is LouderVoice!

Luckebox launches. Not your granny’s gift boxes

2009-11-26T09:34:03-08:00

We've been working with the Luckebox team for the past few months and they have impressed the socks off us with their plans. As of today, they have now fully launched.

What do they do? Gift boxes, lots of them, all full of awesomeness. Not rubbish cheese or stale puddings but stuff you actually want!

Each box contains a particular mix of things at a massive discount over retail prices. They include:

Box 4 Mum and Dad
Box 4 Cooks
Box 4 New Year
Box of Boys Toys
All 4 Girls
Weekend Girl
Car Stuff
French Wine Discovery
Feeling Lucke
All 4 Music
Apple Box

The boxes can be for yourself, your mates or your company.

The Luckebox team really know their stuff and you are going to hear and see them everywhere in the coming weeks. I have my eye on the Wine and Cooks boxes, if anyone I know is reading this

And yes, of course the reviews are powered by LouderVoice.

Hotel Website Marketing Event

2009-11-25T05:17:52-08:00

Yesterday I attended the excellent Hotel Website Marketing event in Dublin organised by Proactiv Marketing. It was a real highlight of 2009 for me with fantastic speaker after fantastic speaker. I walked away with a ton of to-dos for LouderVoice.

I spoke on the benefit of on-site customer reviews for hotels. The core message was that you can grow on-site sales, reduce online ad spend and improve your customer service by adding reviews to your site.

This is the deck I presented:

LouderVoice at the Hotel Website Marketing Event Nov 24th 2009

View more presentations from Conor O’Neill.

LouderVoice Wins a Golden Spider

2009-11-22T11:38:43-08:00

We were terribly disappointed last Thursday that massive flooding in West Cork prevented us from attending the 2009 Golden Spiders Awards. The awards are the most high profile in Ireland and a win can have serious business benefits locally.

So imagine our shock to hear that we won the e-business category! We were up against some incredibly impressive competition. Getting this recognition from our industry peers on the judging panel really is satisfying.

The timing couldn't be better. November sees us announce our 2009 BES for investors, win that award, launch on our first major US site (stay tuned!),Â and announce our channel partner program (also stay tuned!). You can expect even more big announcements at Le Web in Paris on Dec 9th and 10th.

A huge thanks to Sabrina Dent who designed this new site with zero notice and accepted the award on our behalf. The LouderVoice business reviews service itself has been built by a great distributed team assisting us, including Bartosz Ptaszynski, Lukasz Baczynski and Blair Millen.

LouderVoice BES 2009 (Business Expansion Scheme)

2009-11-15T10:29:41-08:00

The LouderVoice customer reviews system for business has moved into high-gear in 2009. Clients are deploying our EasyReview widget on their e-commerce sites every week. Our first US customer will go live this month along with many more Irish sites. Our second UK site will go live early in the new year.

The most recent research by Internet Retailer tells you everything you need to know about how important reviews are to businesses.

In order to expand the operational bandwidth of the company and aggressively pursue our channel partner strategy, we are raising finance through the tax-efficient Business Expansion Scheme (BES). Argolon Solutions, the company behind LouderVoice, is fully Revenue approved for BES and we will be issuing our investor pack in the coming week.

If you are interested in finding out more and receiving a copy of the investor pack, please contact Conor O'Neill on +353-23-8878257 or conor AT loudervoice DOT com.

Castlemartyr Resort gives its guests a LouderVoice

2009-11-13T02:48:57-08:00

This is the press release that went out to traditional media yesterday:

Guest reviews drive up sales and promote hotel online.

Castlemartyr Resort, the most luxurious hotel in Ireland, now has the market's most advanced customer reviews solution on its web-site through an alliance with fellow Munster companies LouderVoice and Hotel Consult.

Guests of the resort can now review their stay directly on the site and provide valuable feedback and opinion. Those looking for reviews of Castlemartyr no longer have to trawl the web trying to find random information, but can read genuine reviews by real guests on the hotel site itself. Recent research has shown that over a third of visitors rated peer opinions such as recommendations and reviews as the most useful aspect of e-commerce web-sites.

The Dromoland Group worked closely with Pat O'Neill of Hotel Consult to identify the best solution for their needs and chose LouderVoice's unique approach which turns customer reviews into powerful sales, marketing and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) tools. Reviews don't just appear on the hotel site, they are also aggregated to the LouderVoice reviews website and its mobile phone applications. The use of Facebook and Twitter logins means that guests can recommend the hotels to their friends on their favourite social networks.

Bryan Davern, Castlemartyr Resort says â€œWe are very excited to be able to communicate in this way, so that guests who have already had the experience of our resort, can share this experience with potential guestsâ€

Pat O'Neill, Hotel Consult says "It is fantastic that hotels now have the option of having guest reviews on their own websites. The LouderVoiceÂ approach of enabling guests to send their review to Facebook & Twitter too, is a great feature of the service."

Conor O'Neill, CEO of LouderVoice says "The businesses that will survive and thrive in this economy are those that listen and react to their customers' needs. The Dromoland Group embraces this and understands that customer reviews are a key part of that strategy"