Bellissimo Loyalty Club Launch Party

Bellissimo launched their exciting new, members-only Bellissimo Loyalty Club in The Townhouse on Monday night.

The Loyalty Club will reward members with special discounts and promotions each month in the Bellissimo Hair and Beauty Salon while also being offered exclusive gifts, goodies and offers with the Bellissimo Loyalty Club monthly promotional partners.

Each month sees a new promotional campaign which is only available to loyalty club members. Monthly promotions include exciting brands such as Brown Thomas, Halo, Brannagans and The Kilkenny Shop – and that’s just for starters! September sees members treated to wine in Brannagans and complimentary entry on Friday nights to Halo. During the month of October Brown Thomas is offering Bellissimo Loyalty Club members an exclusive appointment with The Denim Specialist, where a personal shopper will find you the perfect fit pair of denims while November sees members get an early Christmas gift from The Kilkenny Shop.

Bellissimo General Manager, Brendan Murphy says “The Loyalty Club is a way of adding value and thanking our client base for their custom. Each member will receive an elite membership card which, once shown during each promotion, will entitle them to discounts, gifts and various promotions. We’re encouraging people to log on and register with our newly designed website, where you will also find links to our Social Media sites which help followers stay up to date with new promotions and hair and beauty trends.”

For special product previews, invites to the hottest events and enough goodies to bet recession blues, sign up today to the free Bellissimo Loyalty Club by visiting http://www.bellissimo.ie/ .

JW's Brasserie Express Lunch

IN A HURRY? Rally driver Killian Duffy speeds by the Wyatt Hotel to launch the new JW’s Brasserie Express Lunch for busy professionals with limited time for lunch break.

The JW’s Brasserie Express Lunch menu is served weekdays from 12 – 5pm. This menu includes a roast of the day, pasta and a fish dish which is finished with a tea or coffee for €10.50.

For more information, log onto http://www.wyatthotel.com/ or call 098 25027. Also pictured is JW’s Brasserie Head Chef, Eoin McDonnell.

Bellissimo are soon to launch their exciting new, members-only Bellissimo Loyalty Club. The Loyalty Club will reward members with special discounts and promotions each month in the Bellissimo Hair and Beauty Salon while also being offered exclusive gifts, goodies and offers with the Bellissimo Loyalty Club monthly promotional partners.
Each month sees a new promotional campaign which is only available to loyalty club members. Monthly promotions include exciting brands such as Brown Thomas, Halo, Brannagans and The Kilkenny Shop – and that’s just for starters! September sees members treated to wine in Brannagans and complimentary entry on Friday nights to Halo. During the month of October Brown Thomas is offering Bellissimo Loyalty Club members an exclusive appointment with The Denim Specialist, where a personal shopper will find you the perfect fit pair of denims while November sees members get an early Christmas gift from The Kilkenny Shop.
For special product previews, invites to the hottest events and enough goodies to bet recession blues, sign up today to the free Bellissimo Loyalty Club by visiting http://ping.fm/pLEyq

RTE big names attract new listeners

The big names at RTÉ radio had cause for celebration after the JNLR figures showed they continued to gain listeners.
With Radio 1 holding on to the top spot as the most listened to station in the country, Morning Ireland ’s Aine Lawlor and Cathal MacCoille, Joe Duffy, Marian Finucane, Ronan Collins, Ryan Tubridy and Pat Kenny all saw their listenership figures increase on a weekly basis between July 2008 and June 2009. There were significant gains for RTÉ Radio 1's Mooney , which won over an extra 17,000 listeners to bring it to 222,000, with Saturday view gaining 24,000 listeners and the News at One getting an extra 18,000 people tuning in. Despite Gerry Ryan's loss of 4,000 listeners, figures were still over the 300,000 mark. In May, it was announced that the show had lost 11,000 listeners. The falling figures are indicative of 2FM's woes, with RTÉ recently announcing it would reposition the station to appeal to an older audience. However, overall, 2FM is still in the second most listened to radio station in the country. Today FM remains in third place at 15 per cent, Newstalk at in fourth at 7 per cent and RTÉ Lyric FM in fifth at 4 per cent.
Newstalk has increased its daily listenership by 16 per cent, with 257,000 listeners tuning in and an increase of 10 per cent on listeners every week at 542,000. Tom Dunne's morning show has added 26,000 to its audience, a 53 per cent rise, while The Right Hook has gained 15,000 listeners - a rise of 16 per cent. The Breakfast Show , which recently brought in Ivan Yates as a presenter, has risen 12 per cent, adding 8,000 listeners.
In Dublin, FM104 came out on top with a market share of 11.5 per cent. However, this is a slight fall of 1 per cent on previous figures.
In local radio, the most listened-to station remains Highland Radio in Co Donegal, which grew its market share by 1.8 per cent to 64.2 per cent.
New station 4FM is has 95,000 listeners each week, 16 weeks after it launched. The station, which is available in Dublin, Cork Galway, Clare and Limerick, has set a target of 150,000 weekly listeners by the end of its first year.

Irish Times 18/08

GET THE JOB DONE WITH CLEVERMIKE.IE

CleverMike.ie is a new online service for those looking for competitive quotes from tradesmen for specific domestic jobs or those undertaking a completely new build. Whether it’s a plumber, carpenter, builder, electrician, CleverMike.ie has a pool of experts from whom you can receive qualified, referenced quotes.

Helping people to save both time and money, CleverMike.ie provides an innovative service where you can log on, post that job you’ve been meaning to get around to or post your new build, and let the quotes come to you, for free! CleverMike.ie does all the groundwork so you receive competitive quotes from tradesmen in your area.

Director of CleverMike.ie, Tony Aherne, comments, “Clevermike.ie was setup when a friend who was doing a self build home came to me and mentioned that he was looking for a guttering system. He had contacted three suppliers and the price varied by over €600 for exactly the same product! This, coupled with the current economic climate whereby people are more careful with their cash and competition for business is hugely increased, encouraged me to investigate the concept of matching suppliers and tradesmen with customers. Most people undertake to project manage the build of their own home and have little knowledge of who will price each stage or how to ensure best price for best quality. This led me to believe that there was a need for a service like CleverMike.ie and with this, the site was born” Tony continues, “All tradesmen must register and are vetted on CleverMike.ie, ensuring those using the site receive the highest quality of service”.

Although CleverMike.ie vows to find you the most competitive quotes in your area, Tony advises that the cheapest quotes do not necessarily signify the best value for money, just as the dearest quote may not mean a higher quality of workmanship. For this reason, he recommends that each quote you receive is accompanied by at least two references ensuring that whatever your budget you know exactly the standard of work you can expect.

For more information on the service, log onto www.CleverMike.ie.

The Gold Rush

The price of gold is at an all time high, a newly launched company, TheGoldRetriever.com, is encouraging people to take advantage of this and start turning their old gold into new money. TheGoldRetriever.com offers a rapid response service whereby ‘gold diggers’ can post their old or broken gold jewellery and receive an instant evaluation and cheque. This has sent people checking the backs of sofas and sifting through dismissed jewellery boxes.

Gold is the only worldwide accepted measurer of value. For years now, the price of gold has been in a steady climb. Going from $280 per Troy Ounce in January 2002, to its current high near $1000. That’s a 350% climb in just 7 years!

Greg Heaslip, Director of TheGoldRetreiver.com, holds a PhD in Material Science and is an expert in the field of metals analysis and gold. Commenting on the recent increase in new businesses trading in gold Greg says, “With the steep rise in the value of gold it is no surprise we have seen a number of companies immerge urging people to search out gold items they may have for immediate evaluation. It is important to make sure that your evaluator is not only credible but has relevant qualifications to ensure that you are getting a fair price for your gold pieces.”

Regarding the future of gold prices Greg comments, “I believe the price of gold will continue to rise. Nevertheless, it has been rising for the past 10 years or so and just like stocks or the property market there is always a risk of it tumbling. Therefore, I urge those interested in selling their gold not to wait and then regret not selling. TheGoldRetriever.com makes it very easy for people to do so in a confidential, trust worthy manner by offering an insured postal service”.

Greg explains how the process works, “Customers request online or via phone a ‘Precious Metals Recycle Pack’ that is sent to their home or business. Once it arrives, they package their gold items in The Gold Retriever’s secure, insured and freepost Recycle Pack. Customers simply send us their unwanted gold – be it jewellery, sovereigns, pens, even their gold teeth.

Upon receipt, the company’s trained professionals test all items to assess their value - based upon the quality and quantity of each piece’s gold content. The Gold Retriever uses the latest techniques and advanced technologies to ensure that all jewellery appraisals are accurate.

Once the value of the broken or unwanted jewelry is established, the company promptly phones the customer with an offer. If for any reason a customer is not completely satisfied with The Gold Retriever’s offer, we return everything free of charge in keeping with our 100% customer satisfaction guarantee. However, if this offer is accepted, The Gold Retriever immediately posts a cheque to the customer.”

For further information or to apply for your ‘Recycle Pack’, log onto TheGoldRetreiver.com or free phone 1800 800 888.

Avail of Sterling Prices for bareMinerals from Natural Serenity.ie

From August 5th NaturalSerenity.ie will be helping customers and lovers of bareMinerals make-up take advantage of sterling prices while keeping their conscious clear by shopping locally!

Natural Serenity owner Yvonne Hughes recognises the need for value while providing service with a virtual smile, “we are delighted to be in a position to offer customers these savings through our online shop. We can ship nationwide and overseas with a very quick turn around time. Customers are commenting on the convenience the online store provides while testifying that savings to be made with the sterling prices certainly add up.”

The easy-to-use website features an online currency convertor so savvy shoppers can quickly calculate the savings. Based on currency conversion rates at time of going to print, the popular Get Started kit that was €65 is the cheapest in town at €48 (£41.35) which is a saving of €17! Mascara that would normally be €18 is €15.29 (£12.50), Prime Time primer that is normally €25 is €20.84 (£17.85), with similar savings to be made on all brushes and eye shadow sets.

Check out http://www.naturalserenity.ie/ for more details