Relationships emerge as Top Priority for CEO’s in 2010 (Gartner)
Posted on 14. Jul, 2010 by Connor in Blog, Sales
According to the 2010 Gartner CEO and Business Executive Survey, “Retaining customers and enhancing existing relationships” is the number one priority for the year. This is up from 2nd place in 2009. ‘Attracting new customers’ continues to place 3rd in 2010. These results clearly indicate the value senior executives are consistently placing on relationships and customer development. This [...]
Relationships = Route to Market
Posted on 08. Jul, 2010 by Connor in Blog, Sales
Understanding, sharing and leveraging relationships (i.e. ‘who you know’) is vital in professional services. Relationships are used across all areas of the business to help improve sales, operations, recruitment and account management. Successful sales people, in particular, understand the importance of relationships. Used correctly, relationships help facilitate warm introductions, identify opportunities and gain valuable insights into political, financial and other [...]
DataHug features in the Sunday Business Post
Posted on 29. Jun, 2010 by Connor in News
Last Sunday we were delighted to see DataHug featured in the ‘Sunday Business Post’. The article also covered a number of other businesses from the Endeavour program and included some pictures of the CEO’s presenting to Investors. You can read the full article here ‘Endeavouring to create Entrepreneurs’ Thanks again to Gavin Daly for the [...]
Meet us at the Dublin Web Summit
Posted on 21. Jun, 2010 by Ray in Events
If you are attending the Dublin Web Summit on Thursday 24th June make sure to let us know. We’re quite excited about the speaker line-up and in particular are looking forward to hearing from the Xing team (Eoghan Jennings and Bill Liao) along with Ray Nolan, Eamonn Fallon and Shay Garvey who we met on Endeavour We [...]
2 Observations and a Philosophy
Posted on 17. Jun, 2010 by Connor in Blog, Philosophy
Observation #1 – Data; Businesses, governments and society are only starting to tap its vast potential. It is an infinite, yet precious, resource that can be bought, consumed, transformed, sold, lost and traded. Data is BIG business. Observation #2 – Hug; Everyone understands and recognizes the power and intimacy of a hug. It is deeply social, and on [...]
Jerry Kennelly launches Tweak.com
Posted on 11. Jun, 2010 by Connor in Blog, News
Jerry Kennelly, the founder of Stockbyte, and patron of the ‘Endeavour Entrepreneur Programme‘ (which DataHug is participating in), announced the launch of his new venture in Dublin yesterday. Tweak.com aims to be a leader in the stock design market. The website is still in closed beta but you can watch a demo below. The first [...]
The Cost of Email
Posted on 08. Jun, 2010 by Connor in Email
Email is not free. In fact, it can be very expensive. In their research entitled “The cost of email interruption”, Professors Jackson, Burguess and Edwards, at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, found that one company with 2850 users spent 9.8 million pounds reading email every year. They established that on average it took 76 seconds [...]
DataHug generates 100k in 2 days…
Posted on 03. Jun, 2010 by Connor in News
… of Relationships that is. Our closed alpha trial was launched on June 1st and has already identified and mapped over 100,000 relationships (106,761 to be precise). Wow. That may be interesting – but so what. Well, according to research, an awful lot of money. Nine hundred and forty-eight dollars to be precise. That’s the annual dollar [...]
DataHug is alive :)
Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by Connor in Blog, News
Over the coming weeks and months we will be bringing you relevant research, news, and updates from the DataHug team. We believe we are going to change the way companies manage, measure and share their relationships. We are doing this to help our clients increase their sales and mitigate risk. … while at the same [...]