‘Forgotten Gold’ businessman to be guest speaker at Mayo Open Coffee Club meeting
Niall Marren, the west of Ireland businessman behind a ‘recession business’ attracting considerable media interest, will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the Mayo Open Coffee Club on
Wednesday, April 8th,
at 11am
Niall, who hails from Mullinabreena, Co. Sligo, has established a business which allows people to cash in their old gold jewellery.
“ForgottenGold.com allows anyone with unwanted gold jewellery to cash in on the current high price of gold,” explained Niall.
27.Mar.09 
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Thank you to all who attended the 3rd Mayo Open Coffee Club today! It was good to see some known faces again, as it showed me that there is an ongoing interest in having a regular meeting and people do not get bored. One reason for that is certainly that new people keep coming in. So far we attracted 29 people and I hope there will be more even more at future meetings.
I was a bit worried over the last few days, that today’s meeting might not attract that many people. But this was probably due to the lack of feedback on this page. So for the future, I would appreciate, if you left a comment in this blog if you plan to attend. This will give others some information about who is coming and might attract even more entrepreneurs and hopefully some investors as well.
New Faces
Today we were happy to see some new faces too:
Topics discussed today (at least those I overheard):
- Service attitudes of irish companies, bad e-mail response times, how to improve service levels.
- Starting a organic brand in Ireland / the West / Mayo. Is there a market for having food delivered to your door?
- Knock Airport, low-cost airlines, tumbling passenger figures
- and of course: Twitter
Did I forget anything? Please leave a comment or a trackback from your blog, thank you!
25.Mar.09 General Read more Comments (2)
Press Release:
Laura Ní Eachnacháin, Gnó Mhaigheo; Cillian O’Mongain, www.cillian.ie, Ciarán O’Murchu, UISCE and Michael Thornhill, Maithú; at the Club Caife Business Networking event with Mayo Ideas Lab, Belmullet on 12th March
Club Caife, an Irish language themed networking event for businesses was held in Ballina, Belmullet, Castlebar and Claremorris to coincide with Seachtain na Gaeilge.
There was a very positive response to each Club Caife throughout the county and in the true spirit of networking; business was created, new ideas discussed and contacts made.
Michael Thornhill of Maithú Software presented his software package ‘Get the Focal’ and spoke of how networking and the Irish language have helped his business grow. Interestingly a number of businesses that attended reflected Michael’s experience with the Irish language and stated that using the Irish language has also been good for their business.
Due to the positive response to the Club Caife a network has been created with the aim to expand and provide services to the members such as translations, advice, marketing opportunities and knowledge. Marketing opportunities that exist include the Gnó Mhaigh Eo on-line business directory. This is a directory of businesses and organisations in Mayo that can provide their service through Irish. Businesses registered to date range from solicitors to shop keepers to hoteliers to web designers.
This event was hosted in partnership with Ballina Chamber, Claremorris Chamber, the Innovation in Business Centre and Mayo Ideas Lab.
If you would like anymore information on Club Caife or if you would like to be a member of the business directory please contact Gnó Mhaigh Eo on 098 26555 or at eolas {at} gnomhaigheo(.)ie.
20.Mar.09 General Read more Comments (0)
Press Release:
Entrepreneurs, investors and venture capitalists from all over Mayo – and further afield – are invited to attend forthcoming Mayo Open Coffee Club get-togethers being held around the county.
The Open Coffee Club concept, first established in London, allows for informal meetings between entrepreneurs and investors. It is completely free of charge, apart from paying for your own coffee, and the aim is to let people share business ideas and possibly potential tie-ups.
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will meet on the
25th of March, at 11am
in the
Royal Theatre Pub, Castlebar
Everybody is welcome! Please leave a comment if you plan to attend. Thank you!
18.Mar.09 Events Read more Comments (3)
Beeing back from Germany after two busy weeks I am catching up on all things that happend. This morning I talked to Liam Horan from Sli Nua Training and he has agreed to join me as organiser of the Mayo Open Coffee Club – Thank you Liam!
Liam has some press background, so he will be dealing with the offline world, while I will do my best and spread the word digitally, not saying that Liam might not drop a post in this blog here and there. Another great advantage is that, beeing based in Ballinrobe, he can cover the southeast, while I will focus on the west of our County.
Our poll for the question “Should the Mayo Open Coffee Club meet in different venues all over the County?” showed a 50% majority for the “Yes, four locations in the four corners of the County would be great”-Answer. We will stick to that and choose four location that will cover the county, without moving into to remote and small little villages. So far we decided on Claremorris for the south-east. Mulranny will probably cover the west, Belmullet or Bangor the north(-west) and Charlestown the east. We might throw in Ballina as quite an important location, too. If you have any other propositions, let us know.
18.Mar.09 General Read more Comments (0)
Unfortunately I was unable to attend myself, as I had to go to Germany for two Weeks. Thanks to Ciarán Duignan from Abaca Photography we have a few photographs. If you attended the 2nd Mayo Open Coffee Club meeting, please tell us about it…
13.Mar.09 General Read more Comments (0)
We are very happy to announce that Michael Thornhill from Maithú will be our guest speaker on the 2nd Mayo Open Coffee Club in the Innovation in Business Centre, GMIT in Castlebar on the 11th of March @11.30am
Michael will tell us how networking helped him land his biggest deal with the multinational company, Samsung to whom he sold his software package for phones; ‘Get the Focal’, a mobile phone application which provides over 12,000 English-Irish translations for off-line use. This application is ideal for Irish language students, parents, teachers, or anyone interested in the Irish language and as Des Bishop said “Get Focal’d!”
We are equally happy to be host to the Club Caife on the 11th, which is a networking event that will give local businesses an opportunity to network with each other in an informal setting and also to learn about opportunities that are available to market their business in a unique way using the Irish language. The Club Caife will tour the County from March 9th to 12th:
- Dalton Inn Hotel, Claremorris – 9th March
- Ballina Library, Ballina – 10th March
- Innovation in Business Centre, GMIT, Castlebar –11th March, 11.30am
- Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet – 12th March
24.Feb.09 Events Read more Comments (4)
