The Google You’re The Business award!
Up to recently, our Local Enterprise (LEO for short) had been the driving force behind the olearyscameraworld.ie web shop glam-up of 2022, our offers creeping up the search results page thanks to their search engine optimisation (SEO) online training courses and us starting to get a vague understanding of how online advertising works.
The continued support and quality material offered to Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) like O’Leary’s Camera World is exactly the motivation we need to keep pushing ourselves to compete in the digital world.
Well it seems like all the hard work invested in our digital transformation is paying off:
We are very proud to announce that O’Leary’s Camera World, your family-owned and independent photography shop, has been picked by Google to join 20 Irish SMEs in winning the 2023 “You’re the Business” competition.
We join great companies such as Douglas’ Stolen Stitches, Togher’s Kemtron, Clonmel’s anewmum, Dublin’s Chimac and many more!
If you own, are part of or are thinking of starting a business get in touch with your LEO (Local Enterprise Office) and Enterprise Ireland. With their support, both educational and financial, we’ve been able to train our staff on SEO (search engine optimisation) and online advertising, we’ve relaunched a new and improved version of our web shop with local stars Doodle Creative and now we’ve attracted the attention of Google!
With “Grow with Google” and the “You’re the Business” program, Google is making good on its word to help Irish SMEs be at the forefront of the digital transformation wave. With our new website, we will be able to make the most of the advertising, analytical and Ai tools they’ve put at our disposal with this initiative.
Oh and, last week, we were invited to The Foundry, Google’s event centre in Dublin! We sent our E-Commerce manager, J-F Turbide, to represent O’Leary’s Camera World and we think he had a great time 😉
“I spend a lot of time glued to the screen here at work running through my daily checklists of things to update, change, fix and improve. My main motivation is our brick and mortar camera shop here in Cork City. O’Leary’s Camera World is a family-owned business, it’s been around for 40 years and I love every minute of working here! The challenge is to transpose this experience into our online presence and I’m up for it. But sometimes, my eyes go square from sitting at screens.
Making the trek to Dublin to visit Google’s headquarters, meet like-minded businesses and get a bit of training (not to mention the chef kiss* catering they had) was exactly the break I needed.
I came back refreshed, more knowledgeable about artificial intelligence and motivated to tackle the online advertising side of things.” J-F Turbide of O’Leary’s Camera World
So there you have it.
We are extremely proud of our award, but the main event is what comes next!
With the help of our Local Enterprise, Enterprise Ireland and Google (!) we have the support we need to keep up with the times, remain a healthy business and keep going as O’Leary’s Camera Word, your family-owned and independent camera shop, now on a national level!
Click here to learn more about the You’re the Business initiative and how it can help you.
And also make sure to get in touch with your LEO and Enterprise Ireland!