E-pire’s blog

Thanks to a good kick up the arse from James on his blog http://eirepreneur.blogs.com/
we have a rejuvenated interest in our MapEire project, we hope to be able to link up with him in the near future to get as much information as possible for the site. We are celebrating this as any Irish person would, with alcohol of course! You can now add update and view Drink prices from pubs up and down the country. Raise your glasses folks!…

MapEire got a mention yesterday on Google Maps Mania so i decided to add some fuel prices today. We had kinda stopped working on it as we couldn’t get station prices automatically from the fuel companies. Also Building a community of people willing to update prices seemed unlikly. Maybe if we get some people adding prices/stations we can do some more work with it in the future….

Get an office as soon as possible, working at home sounds like the best job ever but you will never get as much work done. Too many distractions around you and too easy to take longer breaks, sleep in a little longer or finish up a little earlier….

No.1 Dont put a - hyphen in your company’s name

Why? Cos it makes it more difficult to tell someone your email/website addresss over the phone (I wonder how many emails for us have gone to epire.com) and google doesn’t index it properly. Google seems to index ‘e’ and ‘pire’ separately compared to other search engines gahooyoogle search for e-pire
edit 9th Oct, our google page ranking for the search “e-pire” has jumped 30+ positions in the last 4 days!…

It was down for an hour or so bit of a pain altogether, thank god it doesnt happen too often or we would be out of business. Makes you realise how much we depend on it. We spent the time practicing our decision making techniques!…