Mayo businesspeople to discuss use of social media for business

The next meeting of the Mayo Open Coffee Club will take place on Wednesday, July 7^th, in GMIT’s Castlebar campus – and the topic for the meeting will be ‘the use of social media for business.’

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Limerick Greenhouse Start Up Bootcamps

The Greenhouse Incubator in Limerick is organising a number of very valuable free startup boot-camp sessions in Limerick. The sessions will take place in Limerick once a week for 10 weeks and will last 3-hrs each. They will be a combination of live 2-way video format, live sessions, workshops and pitches.

We aim this at early stage start-ups and will deal with a wide variety of topics that start-ups will encounter. It’s also build around real world experience rather than theoretical data. Places are limited so it’s important that people register early.

For more information: Greenhouse Start Up Bootcamps.

31.May.10 General Read more Comments (0)

June meeting of Mayo Open Coffee Club

The next meeting of the Mayo Open Coffee Club will take place on Wednesday, June 2^nd, in GMIT’s Castlebar campus.

21.May.10 General Read more Comments (0)

Tomorrow’s meeting called off

Tomorrow’s (Wednesday) meeting of the Mayo Open Coffee Club has been called off – sorry about the late notice. Please advise anyone you know who may have been planning to come along.

We will be in touch soon with details of next month’s meeting.

04.May.10 General Read more Comments (2)

IT Sligo’s Enterprise & Innovation Week

IT Sligo’s Enterprise & Innovation Week is a week-long programme of seminars, workshops, events to promote innovation entrepreneurs and creativity (see attached schedule).  The Enterprise & Innovation Week’s Programme will formally launch in the Innovation Centre, IT Sligo on Monday 22 February. The programme was developed in partnership with Sligo’s County Development Board, Enterprise Ireland and the Western Development Commission.

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Opportunity for Business Start-Ups

The Galway Mayo Institute of Technology is now recruiting for the next Midlands & West Enterprise Programme (MWEP) commencing in April 2010. This is a one-year programme providing entrepreneurs with business skills, networks, facilities and supports necessary to navigate and execute the business start-up process.

09.Feb.10 General Read more Comments (0)

Better Business travelling roadshow – ‘bootcamp’ for businesses

Castlebar and Sligo will be two of the 18 nationwide stops for the Better Business travelling roadshow later this month.

05.Feb.10 Events, General Read more Comments (0)

LEAP/FAS Training in Westport

Avail of training for your staff at NO COST – Are you interested in improving the skills of your staff at NO COST to your business.

01.Feb.10 Events, General Read more Comments (0)

Getting on top of time management

A discussion on time management at today’s meeting of Mayo Open Coffee Club inevitably led to one topic – emails!

07.Jan.10 General Read more Comments (0)

Passionate businesspeople brave bad weather to plan for 2010

Despite the bad road conditions, there was another excellent turn-out of over 25 people at yesterday’s Mayo Open Coffee Club (MOCC) meeting in GMIT, Castlebar.

MOCC is beginning to find its feet, and, towards the end of the meeting, a good discussion took place about the future direction of the network. There was a strong consensus that it is proving a valuable and worthwhile network, and we look forward to even bigger gatherings in the months ahead.

Network member Robert Grealis – one of the organisers – delivered a practical and thought-provoking talk on goal-setting. Robert, former Chief Executive of Ireland West Airport, is now a business advisor and mentor with The Discovery Partnership.

The slides he used to illustrate his talk will be made available here on the MOCC website.

Some nuggets that emerged included:

• In these tough times, where things are changing so quickly, it is still important to plan your day, your week, your month, and your year. A plan offers an overview of where your business is going, and helps to focus the people involved;
• ‘Be passionate’ about your business, said Robert. He was preaching to the converted – those who come to the MOCC meetings make the effort because they are determined to succeed;
• Ask customers if there’s anything else they’d like –further opportunity to sell to customers may present themselves simply by asking;
• Brainstorm – with your staff, with your friends, with people you trust;
• Ask yourself “right now, am I making the best possible use of my time” – time management is crucial. Time is one of our biggest resources and must be used wisely. Be careful about the ‘side roads’ you go down;
• Hard work remains the key – persevere – but don’t be afraid to believe in the occasional miracle too.

The next meeting will take place on Wednesday, February 3rd, at 11am in the GMIT. All you have to do is turn up and take part. The more the merrier.

A word of thanks to O’Brien’s, who once again sponsored the refreshments; GMIT, who hosted the event; and guest speaker Robert Grealis.

07.Jan.10 General Read more Comments (0)