Sinéad O’ Driscoll is the founder and CEO of Web Journey, a digital marketing consulting firm specialising in inbound marketing and sales, content creation, websites, and graphic design. Web Journey is also a HubSpot Solutions Partner.
Sinéad started her journey as a software developer in global financial services companies. She was a Software Development Manager for 20 years and during this time, she loved working on User Experience.
This is closely aligned to marketing and encouraged Sinéad to complete a digital marketing diploma along with other marketing and graphic design courses at the same time as having a job.
Learning these new skills while working gave Sinead the confidence to eventually set up her own business.
Web Journey help their clients by driving better, more qualified traffic to their websites, converting this traffic into leads, and providing more sales-ready leads to their sales team so they can win more customers overall. They use inbound marketing tactics, such as social media, blogging, content creation, SEO, lead nurturing, and reporting to help their customers achieve their business growth goals. Their services include:
- Website design
- Digital marketing strategy
- Digital marketing automation
- Content Marketing
- Content Strategy & SEO
- HubSpot Management
Web Journey specialises in:
Lead Generation
Attracting potential customers who actually want to buy from you and turning them into leads.
Competitive Advantage
Getting the edge on your competition to ensure you're winning a bigger share of the market than they are.
Customer Acquisition
Helping your leads through every stage of their buying process so that they're happy with the end result.
Customer Engagement
Delighting your customers by being helpful and supportive to develop better relationships with them.
Why start your own business?
When Sinéad was working in her last contract role, she got an offer to join a company permanently. She had been considering setting up her own business and, instead of taking the permanent job, she decided that the time was right to start her entrepreneurial journey. She wanted a better work/life balance, more variety in her work, and not to be limited to one industry.
As well as being able to choose the work she does, Sinéad loves the flexibility and the challenge of running her own business.
“Life’s too short to be spending 4 hours a day commuting. And yes, you still have to work long hours as a Startup but it’s different when it’s your own and you’re passionate about it – it doesn’t feel like work!”
What about the challenges?
When Sinead started her business, she’d done the marketing and graphic design courses, but she had no experience in sales. So, she had to learn on the job, make mistakes, and learn from them.
Challenges are inevitable and they are an opportunity for continuous development.
“I’ve made many mistakes, but I’ve always learned from them and they’ve made me better. Fail fast – learn fast.”
“From my own experience, the best advice I can give other founders, particularly ones with no sales background, is to not underestimate sales and the value of putting a solid sales process in place at the start that can scale as the company does.”
The other big challenge Sinead had to overcome was getting on top of her accounting. It wasn’t something she was prepared to take on herself so she needed someone competent she trusted to take care of it for her and the business.
Finding the right support
Sinead came to Accountant Online because she felt her first accountant wasn’t a good fit – they didn’t provide enough good advice at the beginning of her journey, didn’t speak to her about her accounts in a way that she could understand and she had ongoing problems getting answers to questions. All these factors prompted her to make a change.
Eager to find the right support the second time, Sinead spoke to a lot of different companies.
Before Sinead joined Accountant Online, she had a call with one of our accountants, Tom. Remembering the call with Tom, Sinead explained how immediately she knew “Accountant Online was the best fit after speaking with Tom.”
“It’s vital to have an accountant that you can talk to, who can explain things in plain English to you and you can trust to get the most done for you.”
Web Journey are constantly looking for new ways to offer more information and new services for their clients. Sinead is continuously developing her knowledge in the industry and growing her business alongside it.
We’re delighted that Sinead is very happy with Accountant Online and would be happy to recommend us. Everyone here at Accountant Online wishes Sinead the best with her business and we’re here to support her every step of the way.
Accountant Online proudly showcases Adscribe Ireland as our client and we hope their story inspires you to take your business to the next step of setting up a Limited Company in Ireland.
If you would like to talk to us about setting up in Ireland, please reach out to our Client Services team or email us at hello@accountantonline.ie.
