In real life business today if you don’t get online you get left behind!

More and more entrepreneurs in Ireland are now making use of Internet technology to promote their business online and stay one step ahead of their competitors.

If you want to impress the judges at this year’s competition you need to start thinking like these entrepreneurs. You need to be creative and imaginative in how you promote your business to your target audience.

Think beyond posters and flyers!

As well as using traditional publicity tools to promote your business e.g.  posters, flyers etc… try using websites like Bebo, Facebook and YouTube to get your message out there and reach your customers.

Most of you are probably using these already to communicate with your friends – why not do the same to communicate with your customers?

Some ideas to get you started:

1. Set up a website for your mini-company with a Bebo, Facebook, Google Pages or My Space page.
2. Set up a blog using Bebo or My Space blog feature, the Facebook ‘Notes’ feature or set up a separate blog on wordpress.com or blogger.com
3. Upload photos of your product(s) to websites like Flickr, Slideshare and Ovi.
4. Make a short promotional video and upload You Tube.  You can then embed this video on your Bebo, My Space or Facebook webpage.

Download the SEA logo

Download the Student Enterprise Logo here and display on your webpage.