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                <p>We’re partnering with Vodafone Business to equip 150,000 small businesses with the digital skills they need to take their operations to the next level.</p>
                <p>The free training programme – delivered exclusively online, and consisting of workshops, webinars and e-learning modules – will empower businesses to kickstart digital change, adopt new technology, and stay safe online.</p>
<p>Joining the initiative is Samsung Electronics UK. Small businesses will now be able to access a range of free Samsung-inspired digital training courses, covering everything from business productivity to protecting digital security.</p>
	
				<p>All participants will be offered a free consultation with a <a href="https://www.vodafone.co.uk/business/sme-business/small-business-advice/personal-advice?cid=en-ent/vhub-ap/dbritain/aws/4.21/ntst" target="_blank">Vodafone Business V-Hub adviser</a>, who can advise on everything from digital marketing strategies to online security. You can speak to a V-Hub adviser Monday-Friday from 8am-6pm. </p>
				
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<p>After successfully completing over 12 years of consulting with companies on a 1:1 basis on their business and financial performance I am now entering the training world to engage my passion for teaching, training, guiding and mentoring entrepreneurs, founders and business owners to thrive financially. I am here to offer you the opportunity to benefit from my expertise in Pricing and Cash Flow Management. I am proud to be known as <strong>The Price Mentor</strong> and I would be proud to teach you The Price Code Methodology</p>

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<p>Susana is a SME business consultant for SME. She helps business owners who want to GROW &amp; FUTURE PROOF their business to achieve their growth goals by providing them with the structure, the knowledge and the tools</p>
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<p>Susana is senior business management and marketing professional with over 25 years hands-on experience in developing and implementing growth strategies in pharma, technology, distribution and packaging industries.</p>
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<p>She has held strategic positions in brand management, product development, international marketing and business development at Global Corporations for EMEA markets.<br><br>Susana and her family moved from The UK to Ireland in December 2020 and setup her own business, <a href=&apos;https://www.bbcs.ie/?&apos; target=&apos;_self&apos;>Beacon Business Commercial Services,</a> during the second year of the pandemic (April 2021).<br><br>Susana is passionate about providing individuals with tools to help them to be the best version of themselves and this is her drive during her corporate career as well as in her own business.</p>
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<p>She is an adventurer, risk taker and loves collaborating with other likeminded professionals. When not working, Susana loves running, reading and travelling.</p>
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<p>Phil went from a kitchen table start up, with no investment, all the way to multi-million pound sale to a PLC 18 years later. He’s travelled the full SME business journey.</p>
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Enterprise Nations welcomes the announcement of funding to help small businesses with rising costs in today’s Budget announcement.

The funding will be available to businesses who’ve experienced rising costs, it will be self-assessed and administered by  revenue commissioners.  Administered by comparing average unit price in 2022 compared to 2021 – if more than a 50% threshold has passed, the business is eligible under the scheme.  40% of increase in bill amount will be available with a cap of €10,000 per month. This is intended to help with rising bills and save jobs. This will need to be approved by the EU Commission in advance of making payments. 

Overall funding allocated to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in Budget 2023 has increased by €36 million, to €940 million.

The breakdown of those schemes is as follows:

announcement aftermath and reactions at RTÉ Business.

Enterprise Nation has helped thousands of people start and grow their businesses. Led by founder, Emma Jones CBE, Enterprise Nation connects you to the resources and expertise to help you succeed.

Enterprise Nation welcomes Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme (TBESS)

Enterprise Nation welcomes the announcement of TBESS for its Irish members.

It’s Budget week, and Ireland is bracing itself in the hope of some positive news to help us all through the winter of high heating bills and overall rising costs.

Small businesses are being significantly affected by the rising costs so any ease in the budget will be welcomed.

We got in touch with some of our Enterprise Nation members to ask them what challenges they are facing in business at the moment, and what their hopes and dreams are for the budget announcement.

What are your ‘hopes and dreams’ for the budget this week?

What challenges are you facing in your business at the moment?

Let hope we all get good news for small Irish businesses when the Budget is presented to Dáil Éireann on Tuesday 27 September 2022.

Hopes for the Irish Budget, from Enterprise Nation members

We asked Enterprise Nation members what their hopes were for the Budget.

Sarah Blake, director of Earthology, has joined Enterprise Nation as an adviser on the upcoming 

Plan it with Purpose programme to be launched next month

Enterprise Nation has joined forces with AIB and GS1 (Global Standards 1) Ireland, designing a programme to help Irish business owners to develop a better understanding of environmental and social issues so they can implement relevant changes to their own business for a better future.

We caught up with Sarah to find out what sparked her passion for sustainability and how she gets companies involved with saving the planet.

Where does the passion for your work come from?

I come from an HR and horticulture background so I have a mixture of two very different areas. When I looked at horticulture and thought I wanted to go down the gardening/garden designer route, I realised all the impacts that were happening to plants, and then therefore us, and crop failure and different things – it was a lot more serious than I thought.

I realised that I needed to combine my two very different backgrounds, and put them to use in a way that would help people to understand what they need to do.

The problem at the moment we have is there are so many other issues globally, but if you look at them, they are all generally related back to sustainability and to climate change in some way - we just need to look at how we can do everything a lot more efficiently.

How do your deliver your expertise and educate businesses on solutions to curb the climate crisis?

A lot of what I do is talk at workshops within companies, from large companies to SMEs, to get them on their journey.

It might be a carbon footprint talk to employees, or it might be about fast fashion, it might be about biodiversity or it might be getting the ‘green team’ going.

A lot of what we do is just educating people to start - it is that whole thing of when you know a little bit go with what you know, but then when you know better, do better.

Enterprise Nation’s Plan it with Purpose programme

I'm on a mission to educate 1 million people to live climate friendly lives by 2024 so this definitely ticks my boxes, in terms of getting people to reduce their carbon footprint.

I have studied it enough now, I have done the Al Gore climate reality training and we’re running carbon literacy training courses with Earthology - I just know we don't have a lot of time to turn this around. I'm on a mission to make more people aware of what they can do and how they can do it.

The launch event for Plan it with Purpose is held at AIB offices on Molsworth Street, Dublin on Tuesday 4th Oct 2022.

As well as a welcome from Enterprise Nation founder Emma Jones, there will be a panel discussion with S﻿arah Blake, director at Earthology and C﻿athal O'Reilly, founder of Narcissips Ireland, and of course some networking.

You can register for the free event here.

Sarah Blake joins Plan it with Purpose as an adviser

Sarah Blake joins Enterprise Nation's Plan it with Purpose as an adviser ahead of its launch next month.

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