I had the pleasure of being interviewed recently for the leading French Business Magazine, Stratégies. It was about doing business in Ireland and some of the positive aspects of setting up here despite the recession.

You’ll need pretty fluent French to read the entire article but there are some good nuggets in there.

Enjoy!

Strategies Ireland LouderVoice

The Europas, the TechCrunch Europe Awards for European tech companies, will be held on November 19 in London. Entrants will be voted on by the industry and these results will guide a subsequent voting round from The Europas Advisory Board of experts.

LouderVoice is listed in the “Best Business or Enterprise Startup 2010” Category. If you think we deserve the award, why not head over to the site and cast your vote. There are lots of great companies in the other categories too!

We’re always happy to see statistics to back up what we already know and tell clients every day:

The report, which was conducted by Forrester Research Inc. on behalf of Shop.org, the online retailing division of the National Retail Federation, an industry trade group, notes that most retailers regard customer ratings and reviews as useful and directly correlated to sales.

You can read more about this research at Internet Retailer.

How about adding $2.7B to you bottom line?

Via Econsultancy:

… calculates that, since displaying the most helpful reviews has increased sales in the media products category by 20%, overall this feature was worth $2.7bn to Amazon

Contact business@loudervoice.com if you’d like to hear how reviews can help your business!