Facebook earned $16.6 billion in ad revenue for the second quarter of 2019, a 28% increase year-over-year. Facebook CFO David Wehner said Facebook earned that the average price per ad across Facebook’s services decreased 4% during the second quarter, while ad… Read More ›
Month: July 2019
Digital marketing news: DON’T BANK ON YOUR BRAND POWER
A recent Nielsen article looked how brand power doesn’t have the sway it once had. Only 8% of global consumers are loyal to the brands and products they’ve always bought. As many different influence affect how consumers spend their money… Read More ›
A crazy thing that helps me write
Everyone has their own quirks when it comes to writing, I am no different. I have one or two that I am going to share. When I am looking to get my creative juices flowing I like doing housework, it… Read More ›
Traditional journalism vs Digital and how to leverage both.
One area in my journalism degree that I found lacking was marketing yourself online. A lot of my lecturer’s had worked in legacy media, and I could be wrong here but didn’t understand how to leverage an online presence. The… Read More ›
Curb your ego
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. If it’s not right,… Read More ›
Just Do It
For a long time I wanted to go back to college, when I finished school the economic crash happened. I had to get a job. After a couple of years in the same job with no prospects of advancing up… Read More ›
How to write more: Lean into the pain
There are two types of people: those who do and those who do not. That is the simple formula for succeeding in life. The world of writing is no different, you have the discipline to sit down and put pen… Read More ›
In the News: 12-07-2019 HSE apologises after 800 women failed to receive smear test results
The Health Service Executive has said that it was known in February there was a computer glitch that meant that hundreds of women who underwent Cervical Check screening were not issued with their results. RTÉ News first reported yesterday that 800 women were affected… Read More ›
In slow news: Varadkar will ignore EU call to nominate woman for commissioner
Recently, I wrote a blog about ‘Taoiseach announces new Citizen’s Assembly on gender equality’, in the post I wrote about what An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar announced that ‘Ireland will be the first country in the world in which men and… Read More ›
In the News: 9-7-2019 Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has apologised to survivors of sexual abuse in schools.
Speaking in the Dáil, Leo Varadkar also apologised for the State’s delay in acknowledging that it had a responsibility to protect the children who were abused. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has apologised to survivors of sexual abuse in schools. Listen to Louise… Read More ›