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Via Niall - here are 50 things everyone should know.

Enda recommended this book and after I watched the video - I bought it. It really is excellent.

The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
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Fastcom Broadband has launched its new Fastcom Voice service, which is aimed at customers across Sligo, Leitrim and South Donegal. The new Fastcom Voice packages, starting from just EUR9.99, offer free calls to other Fastcom Voice users, a free number with a local area code and hundreds of minutes of free calls to Ireland and [...]

The AIB have launched the “Better Ireland Program” under which they are offering €10,000 funding to qualifying Community Childcare Groups in Carrick-on-Shannon.
The full grant of €10,000 will be given to the community childcare group who receive the most Text/SMS messages!
A number of such groups are in the running to receive the much needed funding [...]

Welcome to eBusiness Live, the fortnightly newsletter from Enterprise Ireland’s eBusiness Unit. In this issue, the second part of our feature on electronic payments examines the security issues surrounding online transactions. We also take a look at intellectual property and how to evaluate this crucial - though frequently intangible - asset. And in our How [...]

Thesourcepool.com launched its service across Ireland on Monday. This free service, which is supported by Enterprise Ireland, is a business to business networking tool that offers firms the ability to connect with industry leaders and professionals online. Thesourcepool is a way of finding professional services to meet firms’ specific business needs online.

The Border People website is an information gateway, designed to help people answer questions about crossing the border in either direction to live, work, study and retire. It will include information on taxation, health care, social services, education and banking which can at times be difficult to access.
Acting as a central access point, this website [...]

Network Members - 82 - up 15% on February
538 absolute unique visitors - up 18% on February
992 Visits - up 33% on February
2,562 Pageviews - up 1% on February

As you may already know, we encourage people to use LinkedIn.com when joining Leitrim Business Network.

 
Firstly:

 
81 Leitrim Businesses have now joined through LinkedIn and so it is becoming a real ‘live’ business network/directory for Leitrim.

Not only that, but each network member brings other contacts outside of Leitrim to the table, [...]

From ENN
Search giant Google has crushed all opposition in a survey of visitor numbers to Irish websites.
According to the report by Net Behaviour, 78 percent of all Irish internet users visit Google every month, well clear of second-placed Yahoo on 49 percent and Aer Lingus on 48 percent. The Dublin-based internet agency commissioned the survey [...]