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Digital Start – what is it and how can I use it?

Accelerate Your Digital Marketing Journey with the support of your Local Enterprise Office! The new Digital Start Programme,...

Elaine
March 30, 2025

Adapting your Marketing Plans and Managing Change.

An ability to adapt to CHANGE is now a job requirement for most of us. Change has become...

Elaine
April 2, 2021

Your business during lockdown: What to do and how to do it.

Hope you’re doing well and staying positive as we do our best to run our business during lockdown,...

Elaine
April 17, 2020

What now? Support for SME Businesses during the COVID19 Pandemic

Welcome to a radically-changed marketplace where we all need to avail of every support for SME Businesses during...

Elaine
March 17, 2020

Just tryin’ to keep the customer satisfied (a winning Customer Experience)

Happy customers make me happy!!! A great customer review is worth so much to a business – and...

Elaine
March 20, 2017

Strategic help at grass-roots level from our Local Enterprise Offices

Business Mentoring from Local Enterprise Office Ideation Marketing is one of many companies offering expert marketing consultation and...

Elaine
February 27, 2017

Organize to Mobilise

We are all conscious of the need to “own” our goals, to make them real and tangible, and...

Elaine
September 28, 2016

5 Reasons Entrepreneurs should focus on Team Building

Even if you’ve created a team and put people on staff already, the decision-making (and ultimate responsibility) falls...

Elaine
September 2, 2016

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