Leitrim Business Network

Are you thinking of Starting a Technology Business? (Engineering, ICT, Life Sciences or Food)
Free Information Evening
Glasshouse Hotel, Sligo, Tuesday 23rd September 2008
Programme
6.00pm Refreshments and Registration
6.30pm Enterprise Ireland Dept Manager: John O’Dea
“Traits of successful start-up companies”
7.00pm Liam Birkett
“Branding and Marketing” Title t.b.c.
8.00pm Philip Martin, Cora Systems
Starting a Technology Business
8.30pm Heinrich Arnold
“From Enterprise Start to HPSU” Title t.b.c.
9.00pm Discussion / Q & [...]

Leitrim Business Network Meetings take place on the first Tuesday of every month at 6pm SHARP in the The Ramada Lough Allen Hotel, Drumshanbo.
Next meeting: Tuesday - September 2nd.

Autumn 2008 Training Courses
Leitrim County Enterprise Board is currently inviting enquiries for the following Business Development Training Programmes.

Start Your Own Business
This programme is geared towards those who are considering establishing their own business or who have recently done so.
Programme Content includes:

Self Assessment / Start You Own Business
Legal Issues for Start Ups
Preparing a [...]

On the Tuesday Push, it is the turn of Toddle.
Toddle helps you build and send great looking email newsletters. Simple idea, amazingly simple way of designing them. They do have a design company as their daddy so that’s got to help. This week they’ve also signed up their 1000th user.
Thanks Damien.

I constantly advise people to join this network using LinkedIn.
Here are some usful tips from Guy Kawasaki (Author of the excellent book The Art of the Start)
1. Increase your visibility.
By adding connections, you increase the likelihood that people will see your profile first when they’re searching for someone to hire or do business with. In [...]

Leitrim County Enterprise Board is pleased to announce that website grants are now available at a maximum level of 50% subject to a maximum level of €1,000. The grant covers web design, hosting and other related costs. These grants are subject to budget availability and are not available all year round however we are now [...]

Today on the Tuesday Push, it is the turn of Pix.ie.
Pixie is a popular photo sharing site based in Ireland. Launched in August 2007, Pixie has registered users from over 120 countries and is currently storing millions of images on their behalf. Pixie’s free service which includes an upload quota of 500MB/month, is used by [...]

Via Damien, 1time is featured on his Tuesday Push.
1time is a web-based time and expense tracking application that allows you to easily keep track of real time project costs. It reduces non-billable time in your company and keeps everyone up to date. Each employee gets their own login and reminders so you don’t have to [...]

It’s a Mans World
Gerard Anthony is a name everyone in the county is familiar with, a name many of us have grown up with. With 21 years of trading under their belt, having recently completed a massive expansion plan and moved into a brand new premises that is seven times larger than the original [...]