How did I get onto the rollercoaster of being an Entrepreneur?
In 1994 I was coming up to the end of a Degree in International Marketing at what was then Athlone Regional Technical College and is now Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT). It was a four-year degree and I loved it. I was incredibly lucky in picking a course I loved, because I went in knowing nothing about it! Our family business was engineering (electroplating to be exact) and the late 80’s in Ireland if there was a family business you went into it. Mainly because there were no other jobs in Ireland at the time.
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Getting from the idea to market. It's not as easy as many people think!
Once you get your idea to market, now you have to grow
Social Media is not marketing. Having a Facebook page is not a marketing strategy
The key here is quality, not quantity
Start Up/Scale Up strategies, some marketing and comments on things that annoy me in business
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You may be a skillful, effective employer but if you don’t trust your personnel and the opposite, then the chances of improving and expanding the business
Here is a link to the Future of Money event I talked at recently. The topic was Fintech in Africa
I have just completed the Common Purpose Senior Leadership program. This is an international prog
Over the last few weeks, several events and discussions got me thinking of the nature of success. Wh