Blog entries

The need to sell more....

Colm Lyon — Thu, 27 May 2010 09:28:06 +0100

Earlier this week I attended a dinner in an Embassy in Dublin. It was a small gathering of "senior" business people who were meeting for a round table discussion on the state of business today. It was really interesting. There was certainly a good serving of anger. It came with the starter as the debate raged on about previous politicians, banks, developers and regulators. Blame is of course, an easy game. There were plenty of examples of excess and greed. The slight pause before the main cou...

There was no plan, but there was a vision. There was no staff but there was a network.

Colm Lyon — Tue, 11 May 2010 09:20:40 +0100

This time ten years ago I would get the DART into town and usually getting off at Westland Row and I would hang out in one of the nearby hotels. These were my “offices”. I had my mobile and laptop, which allowed me to work on the go! This went on for several months before a friend of mine was kind enough to give me a “real room” in their offices.

Given that we are having a ten year birthday bash this week there has been some reminiscing of the earl...

The impact of the down turn on Irish online businesses...

Colm Lyon — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100

I know for many online retailers times are difficult. If I compare our March 2009 to March 2010 figures, we see a massive rise in the monthly values processed – from €484m to €737m. If we take out our new business that came during the year, our Irish based businesses saw a net increase of €50m year on year. However 53% of our Irish clients saw their value fall (down €36m) and 47% saw the values increase by €86m. So those that are doing well online ar...

Building Irish Internet Businesses

Colm Lyon — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:50:56 +0100

I run the blog on the Internet Growth Alliance web site and it’s a little strange that I’ve not used a blog on the Realex Payments web site – but here we go. I hope to use it to talk about broader industry issues and would be delighted with thoughts, feedback or ideas for discussion.

I thought my first post ought to be about something that it very important to me. Right from the start my real interest is about seeing Irish internet businesses develop and g...