Meath County Enterprise Board

Aimed at: Those who are considering starting a new business or those who have been in business for less than eighteen months.
Course Objective: To provide those who are considering starting a business or those who have recently set up their own business with the necessary knowledge and tools.
Topics to be covered include market research, legal issues, marketing, sales, book-keeping & taxation, people management, e-business, best practices and business planning. On completion of the course participants will have produced their own business plan.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices

Aimed at: Those who are considering starting a new business or those who have been in business for less than eighteen months.
Course Objective: To provide those who are considering starting a business or those who have recently set up their own business with the necessary knowledge and tools.
Topics to be covered include market research, legal issues, marketing, sales, book-keeping & taxation, people management, e-business, best practices and business planning. On completion of the course participants will have produced their own business plan.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices

This seminar will address a range of taxation issues for start-up businesses. Topics covered include; basic principles of taxation, starting a business, tax compliance (payments & returns), allowances and tax relief, legal structures and cost of compliance.

This seminar is to provide participants with an understanding of how to maximise the return on a limited marketing budget. It deals with cold calling, advertising, on-line marketing and various other methods of promoting a small business on a low budget.

The course will provide participants with an understanding of the bookkeeping cycle and the way to keep accounts. Participants will acquire the knowledge and skills to record transactions in a manual accounts system and draw up daybooks. Participants will also be able to complete all necessary tax returns for their business.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices.

This one day workshop is designed for anyone thinking about starting a business or about to embark on a start your own business course. The workshop is designed to give budding entrepreneurs the low down on what to expect in starting a business. THe practical content focuses on bringing participants up to speed on what is required to get started, the resources that are available to them and to identify the areas they can start working on straight away.

Basic computer skills are a pre-requisite.

Participants will receive a comprehensive resources pack as part of the workshop.

This half day workshop is part of the Google Initiative - "Getting Irish Business Online".
The aim of the seminar is to provide assistance and support in setting up your free Google website and tips on how to attract more traffic to your site.

Pre-Requisites: You must have a registered business and be operating within County Meath to participate on this workshop. You must also have registered a domain name through the site www.gettingbusinessonline.ie.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices, Trim Road, Navan.

Note:
Further details on the Getting Irish Business Online Initiative can be found at www.gettingbusinessonline.ie.

This seminar aims to help business owners to set up systems and procedures that will enable them to keep control of their cash flow and manage it on an on-going basis, with the ultimate objective of maintaining a positive cash flow, which is critical to the survival of any business.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices.

The aim of the seminar is to provide guidance and tips on how to produce an effective blog for your business. It will cover the basics of blogging and the decisions and strategies that you’ll want to consider when setting up a blog.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices

This workshop will provide you with advice on how to promote yourself and your business more effectively. Participants will be provided with tips and proven techniques for handling all stages of the sales cycle which will lead to increased confidence in selling.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices

Aimed at: Those who are considering starting a new business or those who have been in business for less than eighteen months.
Course Objective: To provide those who are considering starting a business or those who have recently set up their own business with the necessary knowledge and tools.
Topics to be covered include market research, legal issues, marketing, sales, book-keeping & taxation, people management, e-business, best practices and business planning. On completion of the course participants will have produced their own business plan.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices

Aimed at: Those who are considering starting a new business or those who have been in business for less than eighteen months.
Course Objective: To provide those who are considering starting a business or those who have recently set up their own business with the necessary knowledge and tools.
Topics to be covered include market research, legal issues, marketing, sales, book-keeping & taxation, people management, e-business, best practices and business planning. On completion of the course participants will have produced their own business plan.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices

The aim of the workshop is to help you demystify all the jargon and understand how search engine optimisation (SEO) works. How employing good SEO techniques can greatly increase the amount of traffic to your website.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices

This is an intensive one day training course on all aspects of the Big Red Book Accounting Package.

Aimed at: Owner/Managers of small businesses and those who are in charge of the accounts/payroll function within a small business.
Course Contents:
- Installation and Set-up
- The relationship between all the books
- Making Entries in the Big Red Book
- The Bank Reconcilliation and VAT Schemes
- The Book Enquiry & Report Facilities
- The Nominal Ledger
- VAT & Cash Receipts
- Allocation
- Backing Up

Venue: Meath County Enterprise Board Offices.

This workshop will focus on the importance of good customer service in what has become an increasingly difficult business environment. It will help you to review and examine your current customer service policy. Topics such as measuring customer service performance and linking it to customer loyalty, how to engage and interact with customers in a positive manner and utilising good customer service to generate additional sales, will be addressed during the workshop.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices

The workshop will provide you with the skills to effectively use sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, IGO people and Twitter. You will learn how to create online profiles for you and your business and connect with existing and potential customers in a more efficient and effective way.

Meath CEB Offices.

Topics covered include:
• What is assertiveness?
• Understanding and becoming aware of your own behaviour
• Different types of behaviour
• Two way communication
• Assertive techniques
• Dealing with criticism
• Time management
• Self management and personal development
• Receiving and giving feedback

Venue: Meath CEB Offices

With so many changes taking place in the workplace today, a basic understanding of employment law is now more essential than ever before. This intensive one-day seminar delivered by a highly experienced professional in this field is designed to give participants a full understanding of the main aspects of employment law that are likely to impact upon you and your employees. Topics to include contract law, pay and conditions, redundancy, unfair dismissal and bullying in the workplace.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices.

This course will include providing information and guidelines to setting up a Health and Safety Statement and also a set format so as to be compliant with Heath and Safety Laws.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices.

Aimed at: Those who are considering starting a new business or those who have been in business for less than eighteen months.
Course Objective: To provide those who are considering starting a business or those who have recently set up their own business with the necessary knowledge and tools.
Topics to be covered include market research, legal issues, marketing, sales, book-keeping & taxation, people management, e-business, best practices and business planning. On completion of the course participants will have produced their own business plan.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices.

This seminar will cover tax registration and compliance, VAT, PAYE, PRSI, Income and Corporation Tax. You will also cover timeliness and being pro-active to avoid unnecessary penalties and take advantage of tax planning opportunities.

Assessment, Accident Scene Management, Circulation, Wounds and bleeding, Respiration, Asphyxia and Introduction to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, CPR, Unconsciousness, Fractures, Strains, Sprains and Dislocations, Burns, Scalds, Chemicals/Poisons, Electric Shock, medical Emergencies, Crush and Spinal injuries, Casualty, Transportation, Skills and Revision & Examination.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices.

Aimed at: Those who are considering starting a new business or those who have been in business for less than eighteen months.
Course Objective: To provide those who are considering starting a business or those who have recently set up their own business with the necessary knowledge and tools.
Topics to be covered include market research, legal issues, marketing, sales, book-keeping & taxation, people management, e-business, best practices and business planning. On completion of the course participants will have produced their own business plan.

venue: Meath CEB Offices.

Aimed at: Those who are considering starting a new business or those who have been in business for less than eighteen months.
Course Objective: To provide those who are considering starting a business or those who have recently set up their own business with the necessary knowledge and tools.
Topics to be covered include market research, legal issues, marketing, sales, book-keeping & taxation, people management, e-business, best practices and business planning. On completion of the course participants will have produced their own business plan.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices.

The course will provide participants with an understanding of the bookkeeping cycle and the way to keep accounts. Participants will acquire the knowledge and skills to record transactions in a manual accounts system and draw up daybooks. Participants will also be able to complete all necessary tax returns for their business.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices.

This one day workshop should inform you on how to access and review / audit the technology that you use in your business. Are there more integrated IT solutions that you should be using or new technology you should be embracing in order to make your business run more efficiently and make financial savings.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices.

This seminar will provide you with the required knowledge, resources and understanding to take any website to page 1 of the search engines. It will not only provide you with the skills to take care of your own websites search engine rankings but will also be able to ensure that your competitor’s websites are not doing better than yours. Topics include search engine ranking, competition analysis and keyword search.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices.

Aimed at: Those who are considering starting a new business or those who have been in business for less than eighteen months.
Course Objective: To provide those who are considering starting a business or those who have recently set up their own business with the necessary knowledge and tools.
Topics to be covered include market research, legal issues, marketing, sales, book-keeping & taxation, people management, e-business, best practices and business planning. On completion of the course participants will have produced their own business plan.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices.

Aimed at: Those who are considering starting a new business or those who have been in business for less than eighteen months.
Course Objective: To provide those who are considering starting a business or those who have recently set up their own business with the necessary knowledge and tools.
Topics to be covered include market research, legal issues, marketing, sales, book-keeping & taxation, people management, e-business, best practices and business planning. On completion of the course participants will have produced their own business plan.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices.

This workshop will enable you to develop the skills to manage your marketing challenges online using Google Adwords. It will cover the essentials of Google Adwords, why it is used so widely, the basic terminology, the different between sponsored listings and organic listings, the pay-per-click concept and Google Adwords as a direct marketing tool.

This workshop will help you to assess and identify opportunities and client needs and will provide tips and advice on the key elements of a competitive tender. Advice on how to use the government tendering website www.etenders.gov.ie will also be provided.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices.

To provide participants with a working knowledge of the SAGE Instant accounting software. This bookkeeping system is designed for the needs of start-ups, sole traders and small businesses who have limited I.T. or accounting skills.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices.

This workshop will address the key elements of developing a brand and why we need to use branding to differentiate our business. It aims to increase your understanding of what is involved in branding and will demonstrate how to sharpen your brand in challenging times.

Venue: Meath CEB Offices