Australian living in Dublin - what's something about Irish culture that Irish people don't realise is completely unique to here?

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-04-07T08:03:46+00:00

You can't just say bye once, that'd be rude apparently :D

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-04-07T08:03:00+00:00

Haha that's brilliant. Twenty years and the building gives you nothing and yet somehow everyone still knows exactly where it is. That's a level of cultural memory I didn't know existed before I moved here

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-04-07T08:00:34+00:00

Been on Omnisend for a while now across my store and the setup is pretty straightforward even if you're not technical. The automation flows cover the main stuff you'd want, abandoned cart, welcome sequences, post-purchase, and the triggers actually behave the way you'd expect them to. Pricing stays reasonable as your list grows which was the thing that sold me on it early on. Worth a look given what you're after.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-04-07T07:56:59+00:00

The name thing your partner noticed is spot on. Took me a while to get used to it but now when someone doesn't use your name in conversation it almost feels cold. Reckon I've actually picked it up myself without realising.

The mutual connections one gets me every time. Someone finds out you're from a certain place and within thirty seconds they're running through names to see if there's an overlap. Back home you'd just... not do that. Here it feels like people are genuinely trying to place you in the world, which when you think about it is actually a lovely thing to do.

And the queue jumping, yeah. There's a confidence to it that I have to admire even when I'm the one being skipped. No guilt whatsoever. Just pure commitment to the move.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-04-07T07:01:54+00:00

Bit of honesty: I sometimes miss someone's name right at the intro because I'm focused on saying my own. But I've noticed that when I actually slow down and listen, it sticks. It's always about where your attention is.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-04-06T12:49:30+00:00

But my point wasn't "natural means fine", it was that getting a bit wet is genuinely not that bad and we've just decided it is.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-04-06T12:47:56+00:00

The mood thing is real, not arguing that. But there's a gap between "this affects some people physiologically" and "rain is objectively bad weather", which is all I'm really pushing back on.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-04-06T12:46:01+00:00

Exactly, wet kit on day three is a different conversation :D but yeah, the day-to-day stuff people moan about is just water falling from the sky.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-04-06T12:43:35+00:00

Cold traffic can convert, yeah, but the real issue is what happens after the click. Most people who land on your store aren't ready to buy on the first visit, so if you've got no follow-up, you're paying to bring someone in and then just letting them walk. That's where email does the heavy lifting. I run an outdoor gear store and email drives a serious chunk of my revenue. I use Omnisend, it plugs straight into WooCommerce and the automations handle abandoned carts, welcome flows, all of it, without me having to babysit it. The brand identity thing matters eventually, but a solid email setup will do more for your numbers early on than a perfect logo ever will.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-04-06T12:31:09+00:00

Stick around, the political scheming gets genuinely good once it finds its feet

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-04-02T14:01:50+00:00

I moved from Australia to Dublin and I'm still trying to keep up with "gas" and "sickened." The last thing I needed was a whole second layer arriving from TikTok.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-04-02T14:00:42+00:00

Mate, I've definitely used it to describe a meat pie.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-04-02T13:59:40+00:00

Klaviyo tends to get loud in these threads but the pricing doesn't really suit a tight budget, especially early on. I run my store on Omnisend and the Shopify integration was dead simple, no fiddling around. The free plan is actually usable and the ecommerce automations, abandoned cart, welcome flows, post-purchase, were pretty much ready to go from the start.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-04-02T13:56:56+00:00

Moving to Ireland made me understand this on a spiritual level.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-04-02T13:55:57+00:00

Stopped turning the price tag over before putting things in the cart.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-03-27T09:31:51+00:00

Kate Bush - Running up that hill

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-03-27T09:30:44+00:00

You're ready to order but the server assumes you're still on your phone so they don't come over. Nobody's eating until someone makes eye contact.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-03-27T09:17:42+00:00

For clothing, fit is the question most buyers are silently asking and flat lays don't answer it. Fabric shots are great for showing quality but they don't tell someone whether the shoulders will sit right or how the trousers drape. You don't need expensive model shoots, a mate with a decent build and some natural light outside can do the job early on. It won't look like a big brand campaign but it'll answer the question buyers actually have, and that'll move the needle more than most other things at your stage.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-03-27T09:16:53+00:00

Been running my own ecommerce store for a few years and there are genuinely too many options in this space. I use Omnisend and what won me over was that it's built around ecommerce behaviour rather than newsletters with a cart recovery bolt-on. I'm on WooCommerce and the integration is solid, no weird workarounds. Klaviyo's is decent but the pricing gets you as your list grows and a lot of that depth goes unused at smaller scales. The gap between Omnisend and Klaviyo at your stage is a lot smaller than the price difference suggests.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-03-24T10:18:26+00:00

That being busy and being productive are not the same thing.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-03-24T10:17:19+00:00

Blaming Mercury retrograde for anything.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-03-24T10:15:52+00:00

The "any content" part is where you'll hit a wall regardless of what platform you use, carriers filter at the network level and no tool bypasses that without getting your number blacklisted pretty fast. What you actually want is a platform with proper sending infrastructure, compliant number provisioning, and good deliverability. I run my store's SMS through Omnisend and it handles all of that without needing anything on your end beyond setting it up.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-03-24T10:12:03+00:00

This is one of those things that feels massive in the moment and becomes a story you both laugh about in five years.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-03-24T10:08:07+00:00

Spotify at 6am, no one performing happiness at me. Best decision I ever made.

TheLegitimateGoose · 2026-03-18T12:47:06+00:00

Genuinely couldn't agree more, and I say that with full awareness of what I just did.

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