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Tuesday Push : Loudervoice.com from Conor O’Neill

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

This weeks Tuesday Push is Louder Voice.

Louder voice is developed by Cork-based business Argolon Solutions, spearheaded by Conor O’ Neill.

Loudervoice allows anyone to post reviews about anything via several sources including blogs, Twitter, Jaiku, SMS and more. I have written a couple of reviews in the past and I plan to continue.

In their own words :

LouderVoice is all about reviews but with a BIG difference. Instead of expecting you to spend time and effort writing reviews for us, we’re interested in your reviews wherever you write them

In the highly detailed words of 11850 :

You may try this website on Loudervoice; http://www.loudervoice.com/about/ Thank you.

(Click here if you’re wondering why I brought up 11850)

There is a great Help section on their site to teach you how to begin reviewing : http://www.loudervoice.com/help/

The Loudervoice homepage reminds me of Yahoo and Lycos a few years back. Im all for healthy white space on a website design but LV manages to get a lot of stuff into a page very very well. Review of the day, review of the week and latest review widgets on the homepage are great.

There are a lot of tick marks on the homepage, it would be great to see more profile images from those reviewers, maybe only those people with profile images should be able to make the homepage.

In my opinion it is detailed, quality services like Loudervoice, driven by its user base which will drive more and more customer purchases. Many people I know look for reviews or ratings when searching for a hotel or B&B to stay in, this will spread to more and more products and services.

Word of mouth is the most influential business referral technique. In the absence of people recommending items to you, reviews and ratings such as those provided by Loudervoice are the next best thing. In a similar manner, I find myself using Google Blog Search more and more when searching for items on the web rather than using the usual website search to get a more up to date and personal opinion on what ever I might be searching for.

Loudervoice is clearly aware of this trend as they have recently launched Loudervoice for Business – Connecting commerce and customers. Conor writes about the launch of Loudervoice for business in their blog.

I would be excited to see if I would be able to use Loudervoice in relation to our own eWrite software to allow users to review our products to make sure we’re kept on our toes.

Deservedly, Loudervoice has been short listed for the Moviestar.ie Irish web awards. Good Luck Loudervoice!

Loudervoice…. 5 Stars!

The Tuesday push is part of a coordinated effort to spread the work of the Irish tech community.