“… it is the small businesses and people like you and me that are going to make the change”, was the unanimous belief of all those who attended the last Mayo Open Coffee Club in the McWilliam Park Hotel in Claremorris.
Unfortunately only a few attended the 5th Meeting of the MOCC and we were only able to welcome Ger Brady, who runs the CityLocal.ie for Mayo, as well as David Glynn from the Hotel itself as new faces to our two-weekly meetings. The setting in the McWilliam Park Hotel was luxurious and exclusive and we were very well looked after. Thank you David!
The main topic of discussion was: “How can we attract more people?” – Ideas that were brought up ranged from rather quirky ideas like Liam appearing at our next meetings in a clowns costume to do some entertaining as the Mayo Open Coffee Clown to organising special events like a “Home Workers Day” or “MOCC Business Dinners”.
Unfortunately we had no local visitors from Claremorris, so the the final conclusion: “We need to get more attention, as networking is real fun and good for your business too”. To drive this discussion we decided to create a discussion mailing list, who everyone is free to join who is interested in playing a more active part of the Mayo Open Coffee Club. We will be announcing new activities and ideas in the days and weeks to come, so to keep yourself up to date, you should subscribe to our RSS Feed.
The winner of the Free Dinner was decided to be the ones with the furthest way to travel to this Meeting – Thanks Liam 
23.Apr.09 
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With the next Mayo Open Coffee Club Meeting we will begin our journey through the county. Claremorris will be followed by Belmullet on the 20th of May, Mulranny on the 17thof June and Charlestown or Ballina on the 15th of July.
The
5th Mayo Open Coffee Club
will take place on the
22nd of April
at 11am
in the
After an introductory round, we will hold an informal meeting in which local entrepreneurs will have he opportunity to talk about their businesses and projects. At the end of the meeting a businesscard raffle will be held. The prize of a dinner for two is sponsored by the McWilliam Park Hotel.
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Yesterdays 4th Mayo Open Coffee Club Meeting showed that despite tough times laying ahead, the entrepreneurs of Mayo are willing to take on the challenge.
After a few words of welcome by Liam Horan and an introductory round, Niall Marren from forgottengold.com gave a presentation of his new business venture. The native Sligo man started his Galway-based gold for money recycling business last year and has since been able to withstand the effects of the credit crunch, which has now turned into a full-blown recession. “Our business is based on trust and transparency of transactions”, Niall concluded and encouraged other entrepreneurs to follow that track. He also added that customers want to have a “warm buzzy feeling” when dealing with companies. This is unfortunately in harsh contrast to the way most businesses were and some still are dealing with their clients. The consensus was, that these days it was easier to do good business, than it was 2 years ago.
After the presentation a quick Q&A was held, which lead over to a more general discussion about internet marketing, twitter, search engine optimisation and the use of social networking events.
Attendance
It was good to see even more new faces at the 4th Mayo Open Coffee Club, bringing the total number of attendees to 38. We welcomed
- Maria Kilkullen and Noreen Fahy – Amway
- Alastair McDermot – websitedoctor.com
- Colin McLean – Galway Ventilation Systems
- Brian O’Briain – www.mayohealthcare.ie
- Stan Kuznetsov – MiTAG
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‘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.
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