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Eircom Spider Awards 2013

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  • 09-10-2013 3:45pm
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    CoderJoeDoe
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭


    Does anybody on Boards.ie have any experience with the Eircom Golden Spider Awards?? We are a small webdev company with a few clients and we were thinking of entering the awards. That was until we saw that it was €150 to enter and then a whopping €300 each to attend on the night. So if we were entering 3 categories and taking nine people, including clients, it would cost us €3,275. This seems to be ridiculously high and extortionate. I've looked at other awards programmes in this space and they are much much cheaper. So are the spiders an exercise in money grabbing by eircom/the event organisers or do they actually have any credibility and clout?
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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Moved to Design.
    You can find previous mentions using a search like this.

    Might be of interest


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    Fussgangerzone
    Registered Users Posts: 371 ✭✭Fussgangerzone


    It's a racket. I worked in a place where we won a few of these, but with the amount you have to spend to be a part of it, my colleagues and I found it hard to take seriously.

    Most techies won't take it too seriously.

    It might impress some clients though, especially marketing bell-ends. When an existing client's site wins an award, they love it, and can see it as a validation of their investment in your services. Even if it was a pay-to-win scam. If you're going after the big corporate clients it might be worth trying for one or two.

    But of course, the Irish Web awards are free to enter, and has a growing reputation.

    If I remember correctly, the thing that really opened doors for the place I worked was actually the quality of their work, not the awards.


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