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Northern Irish entrepreneurs given chance to win £50,000 worth of business support
Northern Irish entrepreneurs given chance to win £50,000 worth of business support. The Pitch, Britain’s biggest small business competition, is returning to Northern Ireland with another £50,000 worth of business support up for grabs.
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Offshore Energy Supply Chain Event at Titanic Building
The delegate rate to attend this event will be £50 plus vat. Due to restriction of numbers for this event it is advised to book early to avoid disappointment.
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Workshops to help local businesses maximise resource efficiencies
Invest NI in partnership with International Synergies are hosting two workshops to help match businesses that have resources that they store or disposed of with those that can reuse these resources in a specific role elsewhere.
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Business and University Partnerships Receive Funding Boost
A new multi-million pound package of funding for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships between universities and businesses is a significant boost to the Northern Ireland economy, it was claimed today.
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WIBNI Annual Business Conference Sponsored by Invest Northern Ireland
The WIBNI Annual Business Conference Sponsored by Invest Northern Ireland will take place on Thursday 17th May from 9.30 – 2.30pm at Stranmillis University College Belfast.
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HMRC’s key business messages
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) have published their key business messages for May 2012.
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5 Tips for Great Content Curation
If you’re a curator looking for some boundaries in what feels like the Wild West, here are five best practices to consider.
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REGISTER NOW: Cookstown Export Event: The Roadmap to Export Success
Cookstown is the destination for the next in the series of Export First events. The event – ‘The Roadmap to Export Success’ – will look at the financial and legal considerations exporters should address when doing business in global markets.
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€280k up for grabs for north’s fledgling firms
SOME of the north’s top performing young firms are set to battle it out for a share of a €280,000 prize fund – thanks to one of the island’s biggest business competitions.
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Arvalee ‘Bizzy Bees’ reach young enterprise finals
BUDDING young businessmen and women at Arvalee school and Resource Centre have made it through to the finals of the Northern Ireland Young Enterprise Awards.
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The 5 Things I’d Tell My 21 Year Old Entrepreneurial Self
As I’m sure any entrepreneur would love to do, I’d give anything to step back in time 12 years and have a chat with my 21 year old self. And while I can’t do that I do love to share lessons with as many young entrepreneurs as I can.
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Here’s how I marketed my products and services on the web
Owners Michael and Utta Brown started their website and online shop, www.smokedeel.co.uk, four years ago to complement their existing shop, restaurant and mail order service. Michael explains how they set about it.
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Virtual Offices: what exactly are they?
A Virtual Office is a business location – usually a business centre or serviced office – where your rent services, such as the office address for mail forwarding whilst a receptionist answers your calls and patches them through to you wherever you are.
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Here’s how I manage staff annual leave
Here, HR manager Andrea Ings explains how the business successfully manages annual leave for its 100-plus employees.
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Mobile Advertising: 5 DIY Tips for Small Businesses
When it comes to digital advertising, small business owners (SMBs) must wade through a lot of industry jargon. Today, they have to make sense of words like SoLoMo, and tomorrow, they’ll be evaluating marketing options with terms such as InstaLikes.
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7 Tips for Women in the Tech Industry
Being a female entrepreneur in the male-dominated tech industry is challenging, and comes with a distinct set of barriers.
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May Day call for tax returns
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is urging anyone who has still not filed their 2010/11 tax return to send it online before the end of April, or be charged daily penalties from 1 May.
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Warning over misleading business names
Ensuring your business has the right name is very important. Customers may infer a lot from your business name and first impressions count.
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Northern Ireland business could see energy price cuts
A spokesperson for NIE, the network company, told the BBC: “NIE’s plans for RP5 reflect its focus on delivering an electricity network that is fit for future needs and provides value for money for customers.
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Sound businessman
“I have always been interested in science and physics. I like doing it, it’s as simple as that. It’s my interest as well as my work and I’m extremely fortunate that I get to work in something I am genuinely interested in.
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