Build an email list

Emails lists are a crucial component of any marketing campaign and customer relationship strategy these days.
In fact, a recent survey of internet marketers carried out by Webtrends found that email is the most popular marketing technique used by companies. But with so many rules and guidelines prohibiting the sending of unsolicited emails, how can you [...]

SOHO Solo Small Business Conference

“Reinventing oneself in challenging times…”

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When: Friday 20th February from 10am – 2pm
Where: Kinsale Yacht Club, Kinsale, Co.Cork, Ireland
Keynote address from David Puttnam, Lord Puttnam of Queensgate-renowned film producer of The Mission, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express etc
Who should attend?

Entrepreneurs, potential entrepreneurs – possibly with prior international experience
Those looking at and exploiting new opportunities
Those [...]

Google Desktop

http://desktop.google.com/

This free app from Google is probably one of the most convenient ways to search your computer’s files, folders, email and web history. After you download the application, it runs in the background, indexing your entire hard drive. Once that’s done, searching for something on your PC becomes as easy as using Google to search [...]

FAS Sales Programme

Even in this economic downturn
 
Are YOU and your Sales People
Utilizing all Sales Opportunities All the Time??
 
It is Time to start thinking like a WINNER
 
IMPROVED PERFORMANCE means not just MEETING TARGETS but BEATING targets!
Are you and your sales people motivated and feeling confident?
 
Nothing Happens in Any Organisation Until Someone Sells Something
 
This 3 DAY SALES PROGRAMME can [...]

I’m a home worker — and no, I don’t wear pyjamas all day

Susan Daly on the pros and cons of earning a living from your back room
It will come as a surprise to many of my friends that I am not writing this article in my pyjamas. There is a certain stereotype of the person who works from home. It involves the notion that daytime TV watching [...]

Upcoming training

Quantum Business Solutions (Neil O’Brien)
    &
South Cork Enterprise Board (SCEB)
    ‘Grow Your Business’
(Top tips on increasing your sales and profits)
Normal cost €1,000
75% funded by SCEB
Cost to you Just €250
 The training program will include.
 5 training workshops
 3 one to one coaching sessions
 Great networking opportunities
 Comprehensive manual & workbook
Workshop dates:   5 mornings from 30th September to 28th October
Time:    8.30 -11.30
Venue:   LMI offices,
              [...]

IT@Cork business continuity workshop – 30th Sept.

Business Continuity Breakfast – Sponsored by HP
 
I would like to make you aware of an upcoming business continuity event being organised by it@cork – an independent not-for-profit organisation representing the interests of ICT professionals in Cork. 
 

Avoiding Disaster – The Man with the Plan, Tony Andreucetti, Business Continuity Senior Consultant, Hewlett-Packard Business

 

Learning’s from PepsiCo Cork DR [...]

Evening Course

Award in First Line Management Aim To give practicing or potential managers a practical grounding for their formal development in the role, resulting in a step change in performance. Learning Objectives On completion of this course you will be better able to:
• Solve problems and make decisions
• Manage change at work
• Build a better Team
• [...]

Eliminating the Sleaze Factor in Marketing

 “In the 15-plus years that I’ve been teaching entrepreneurs about sales and marketing, the most significant barrier to success named by my clients and students is that they simply don’t like to market and sell.
 
The roots of this dislike are varied. Sometimes what gets in the way is fear of rejection, or self-doubt of one’s [...]

LMI upcoming programme

The next “open” Leadership Management Ireland (LMI) Effective Personal Productivity programme will commence in Cork on Thursday 18th September 8.30am to 11.00am. It will take place in LMI’s Offices at the Airport East Business & Technology Park, Cork . It will run each Thursday thereafter for 8 weeks . Each workshop will run from 8.30am [...]