Cost Effective Digital Workshops at Dungarvan Enterprise Centre

Dungarvan Enterprise Centre, in conjunction with Waterford City Enterprise Centre, will be hosting a number of Connect Online workshops aimed at improving local business online skills and output.

The workshops, which are being generously subsidised by the Local Enterprise Office, will cover a wide range of digital topics. They begin on April 1st in Waterford city and will run until Dec 2015.

Workshops on offer include Twitter,Linkedin,Pay-Per-Click advertising, Google Analytics, Facebook, SEO, You Tube, Blogging, Pinterest, Email marketing, generating quality content for digital marketing, and managing your online presence. The wide range of selection allows participants to pick and choose particular areas of digital marketing that may benefit their business output and intake.

Date	Description	Location
01/04/2015 6pm-9pm	Twitter for Business	Waterford City Enterprise Centre
08/04/2015 6PM-9PM	Linkedin	Dungarvan Enterprise Centre
15/04/2015 10am-1pm	PPC & Google Analytics B2B	Waterford City Enterprise Centre
22/04/2015 10am-1pm	PPC & Google Analytics B2B	Dungarvan Enterprise Centre
29/04/2015 6pm-9pm	Facebook for Business B2C	Waterford City Enterprise Centre
06/05/2015 10am-1pm	Facebook for Business B2C	Dungarvan Enterprise Centre
13/05/2015 6pm-9pm	Search Engine Optimisation	Waterford City Enterprise Centre

As consumer activity continues to transfer rapidly to the online market with the ever explosive and expanding growth of digital technology, these workshops will  allow small business

owners insight into connecting with their customers through numerous means of digital channels.

Date	Description	Location
20/05/2015 10am-1pm	You Tube	Dungarvan Enterprise Centre
27/05/2015 6pm-9pm	Blogging for Business	Waterford City Enterprise Centre
03/06/2015 10am-1pm	Pinterest	Dungarvan Enterprise Centre
10/06/2015 6pm-9pm	Email Marketing	Waterford City Enterprise Centre
17/06/2015 10am-1pm	Generating quality content for Digital Marketing	Dungarvan Enterprise Centre
24/06/2015 6pm-9pm	Managing your online presence	Waterford City Enterprise Centre

Each individual workshop will last for three hours and will cost participants just €30.
Moreover, due to the enticing variety of workshops on offer, participants can avail of a special four the price of three discount- an offer that allows them 12 hours of training for under €100.

There are two sites for these workshops- Dungarvan and Waterford City. Dungarvan Enterprise Centre and Waterford City Enterprise Centre are connecting together to deliver this project. This collaboration will provide networking opportunities for business across the county. These workshops will allow business from all over Waterford the chance to meet and work closely together and develop ties that can help benefit each other.

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Power Hour in association with Dungarvan Chamber

Power Hour for YOUR Business
When;   Tuesday 25^th March 2014
Time; Lunch at 12.30pm   Power Hour 1-2pm
Where; Town Hall, St Augustine Street, Dungarvan
Cost; €15 per member     (light lunch included)

How about 1 hour where you get to showcase your business, build contacts, raise your profile and gain referrals….?

The Dungarvan & West Waterford Chamber is joining forces with the  Dungarvan Enterprise Centre  to host a Power Hour. This was a huge success in 2013 and we would like to give attendees another opportunity to give a 90 second presentation about their business or services.

The session will then continue in groups that will be rotated where we hope people will be able to meet, network and product bundle. Leaving the power hour we hope you will have built your profile, informed others about what you do, work together in the future with other members and gain referrals.

Max 18 people per session.

Dungarvan Enterprise Centre’s “Lunch with Bill Liao” deemed a huge success

Dungarvan Enterprise Centre’s “Lunch with Bill Liao” deemed a huge success

Last Thursday marked the arrival of Dungarvan Enterprise Centre’s most ambitious event to date. The lunch time seminar with entrepreneur Bill Liao proved to be a huge success amongst all attendees and Dungarvan’s local businesses.

Our guest speaker Bill Liao delivered what was described by many attendees as an “Inspiring” and “Thought Provoking” seminar. Bill touched on a number of subjects such as his own background and rise to prominence in the business world, getting investment, value creation, the key aspects to being a successful entrepreneur and the importance of networking. The speech itself was preceded by an informal buffet lunch where the participants in the seminar could network and we are pleased to announce that a number of exciting new business contacts were created.

The topic of entrepreneurship was something that Bill Liao was keen to discuss as he explained the importance of learning from ones mistakes, “Failure is the number one aspect of entrepreneurialism, it is all about how you handle and learn from failure.” A particularly interesting piece Bill spoke about was a concept that he learnt form Daniel Pink called “The ABC’s of Enterprise and Selling.” In this Bill explained that in order to increase sales one must adopt:

•  Atunement – “Be friendly, polite and increase your listening skills…atunement with investors is very important.”

• Buoyancy – “You want opinions of and interactions with your product to be resilient and positive.”

• Clarity – “More Simple instructions or brand will be chosen over all other cheaper alternatives.”

Bill went on to say that he became the man he is today because of a single question “Imagine handing over fifty grand without suffering any pain or loss. Imagine who you would have to become.” His understanding of the power of networking is something that really shined through in his visit. He made various new contacts and connected the seminars participants with his own contacts. Even during the seminar he promoted a number of businesses he was working with such as Sunzu and Task Messenger. This showed his extraordinary ability to constantly make introductions.

We couldn't be more pleased with the turnout to this event and would like to thank you everyone who came or helped out. Hopefully all our seminars in the future will be as successful as this one!

A Shot of Mags Durand O' Connor, Bill Liao and Anike Tyrell.

A group shot of entrepreneurs networking.

Who is Bill Liao? The entrepreneur and self-made millionaire comes to Dungarvan.

The 16^th of May 2013 marks a very important date in Dungarvan Enterprise Centre’s calendar as Bill Liao, investor, author and member of the entrepreneur hall of fame will be visiting us to give a once off seminar on the digital world.

So who is Bill Liao? Aside from his full time role as venture partner with the highly successful firm SOSventures, Bill Liao is also a founder of charity WeForest.org and co-founder of the innovative business social network XING. In 2011 Bill Liao co-founded the ground breaking Coder Dojo movement in an attempt to teach children how to write computer codes and programs. In relation to the movement he has stated that “Computer programming is a language skill and it needs to be learned young.” At this time Coder Dojo is operating in 22 countries and teaches 10,000 children every week. Bill Liao is also known for his involvement as investor and director in such companies as Silicon Republic, Storyful and many more and from his best-selling book “Stone Soup: The Secret Recipe for Making Something from Nothing.”

Having Bill Liao come to our Centre is an absolute privilege. Especially as DEC Coder Dojo has been such a success with the young people of Dungarvan. Anike Tyrrell, CEO of Waterford County Enterprise Board noted that “Dungarvan has one of the best fibre optics networks in Ireland and Bill Liao is a huge name in the digital world, his presence in Dungarvan only further pushes the notion that we could transform our town into the digital centre of the south-east.”