Bank of Ireland's November 2011 Enterprise Week kicked off in Waterford's Granville Hotel to a packed house. The key note speaker was Dragon’s Den entrepreneur Norah Casey, CEO of Harmonia Publishing. Norah again emphasised the possibilities for young women to achieve anything in modern Ireland. When Norah spoke at the Women in Business Enterprise Week’s in May she stated that “showing them good role models is one of the best ways to do it” Anne Marie Caulfield is the current President of the Waterford Chamber of Commerce and a retailer in her own right with Super Value supermarkets in the south and south-east of the country. The Waterford Chamber of Commerce represents over 600 member companies at local level and also their interests to government and other key stakeholders. Also represented was Retail Excellence Ireland in the presence of the current chairman Kevin Jephson. Retail Excellence Ireland is Ireland’s largest retail organization. It’s members come tog  [...]
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A Massive Thank You from all of us here at allaboutbusiness.ie to everyone who took part in Enterprise Week. It sure was a busy week, with lots of events and exhibits in branches up and down the country. We would like to say a big thank you to all of the speakers, exhibitors, attendees and Bank of Ireland staff that made it all happen. To check out some of our exclusive videos from some of the flagship events in Waterford, Belfast, Dublin West and Newbridge , please click here.    [...]
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Tags: entrepreneurship, ooyo, OOYO11, Out On Your Own, RDS Conference, SMEs

At this years Out On Your Own conference, All About Business were part of the large audience of entrepreneurs, students and SMEs owners who gathered in the RDS to hear guest speakers, financial services experts and of course the Dragons talk about entrepreneurship and give advice about starting up and growing your own business. To see some video footage from the event you can click here and if you want to listen to the full panel discussions you can find them here in our podcast section. We here at allaboutbusiness.ie felt that Niall O' Farrell, Retail and Property Investor and RTE Dragon's Den Panellist gave a particularly good speech about how to build a brand at this year's conference and we thought we would share some of his tips with you. Click here to read a list of the AAB top 10 articles to bring yo  [...]
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Tags: Domain Name, GIBO, Online Presence

A new initiative aimed at helping SMEs to establish an online presence has been launched. The Getting Irish Business Online (GIBO) initiative is the first of its kind in Ireland and is backed by several leading Irish online companies, such as Irish Domains and Blueface.

The initiative offers small businesses a chance to get an internet domain, email, web presence and VOIP phone line with local geographic number free for a year. This is a much needed service for start-up businesses who often find it too time consuming or expensive to establish a web presence on their own. According to the CSO nearly one third of businesses do not have a website, and only about a fifth have e-commerce capability.

The GIBO initiative will help small business save costs and start using   [...]
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