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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 style="font-size: 0.9em; width: 80%; margin: auto;">Get specialist, solution-based training on how you get the most out of collaboration, online trading, security tools and more. </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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Brian Cooney

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Paddy Mc Dermott

<p>Specialist in Web Design, Digital Marketing, Social Media, SEO, Analytics and Big Data.</p>
<p>Owner and founder of Feedalpha.com and Yourweb.ie</p>

Gary Evans

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.

Go and Grow Online  : Establishing and Developing your Business

Enterprise Nation has partnered with Vodafone, Microsoft and Klarna to help business owners across Ireland improve their digital skills.

Grow and Grow Online  : Attracting ideal clients on LinkedIn

<p>Parene is a platform dedicated to helping moms and dads to succeed in their careers while enjoying the messy start to parenting. I work with parents as a coach/mentor and consultant to create strategies to improve their job performance while creating a holistic plan to help them feel more present at home. <br><br>My background is in Retail Management and recruitment. As a Store Manager in a millionaire store, I had responsibility for over 100 employees including training and recruiting. I oversaw project management of new store openings and increased both revenue and foot traffic in my area through my financial and marketing strategies.</p>
<p>As a recruiter with Morgan McKinley, I worked in a leading global think tank helping to streamline and improve on the recruitment process of software engineers. As we pivoted to a sprint approach, I created a time management system to save manual hours for our team so that we could focus more on finding quality candidates for our clients.</p>
<p>Throughout my 14 years with both I worked with parents returning to the workforce after becoming parents, building schedules and development sessions to foster better transitions that worked for parents.<br><br>As a mom to three and one who wears all the hats of motherhood, I have built a process to support parents in growing their careers while raising their families.</p>
<p>I have created a system that allows parents to increase their take-home pay and confidence while also allowing them to feel more available at home. <br>These tools have helped me and my clients build boundaries, gain confidence and tackle limiting beliefs. It has helped me create a life closer to my values where I can truly offer my authentic self no matter what hat I am wearing</p>

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Online small business meet-up: Cork

Connect with other small business founders in your area, in a fun and relaxed environment.

Winter is coming, and with it, also freezing temperatures. If you have an electric vehicle we have some great ideas on how to get the best out of your EV in winter.

The good folks at Juice Technology, producer of electric charging stations, portable changers and software have given us seven tips that EV drivers should consider to optimise battery charging during the winter.

And to better understand just how your battery operates in the cold, Juice Technology explains how car manufacturers protect e-batteries from the cold.

The cold increases the internal resistance of the battery cells, which slows down the electrochemical process that takes place during the charging time. In addition, cell wear is higher with cold temperatures. 

For this reason, manufacturers reduce the charging rate at sub-zero temperatures to protect the battery. Another measure they take to mitigate the effect of the cold is to use a battery management system that keeps the battery in an ideal temperature range, even at night when the car is not in use.

In addition, we must say that at low temperatures, consumption increases due to heating, and therefore, the vehicle's range decreases.

For the driver, this all translates into less overall range, more energy loss when stationary and a slower charging process, at least until the battery has reached the right temperature.

Recharge the vehicle when you get home, when the battery is still hot: The charging process is slower when the battery is cold, or, in other words, a hot battery absorbs electricity faster than a cold battery. Therefore, if you charge when you get home, when the battery has not yet cooled down, it will take less time to charge to full power.

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Here's seven tips to optimise e-charging in winter

Great ideas on how to get the best out of your electric vehicle this winter.

In this webinar, accredited #SheMeansBusiness trainer 

 explains how you can increase awareness of your business offerings through posts, Stories and live videos.​

SheMeansBusiness, from Meta and Enterprise Nation

Enterprise Nation is working with Meta to support women across the UK and Ireland in growing their businesses online.

Our accredited #SheMeansBusiness trainers will tell you how to best use Meta and the Meta family of apps to grow your business.

To meet the trainers and sign up for events and courses, 

<p>I help small businesses, solopreneurs and influencers promote themselves better with little to no budget. And as you&apos;d guess, most of this is done around social media and digital. 
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I usually work with female founded business and most of the brands I support tend to have a rural connection, from being located there to serving there. I also run two Facebook groups, one of which is a membership group, to provide people who want upskill with additional support. 
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In addition, I love speaking at events where I can help people get enthused and grow their confidence around social media, the power of digital, and how they have everything they need to get started. I&apos;m also an award winning PR adviser, best selling author and two x TEDx Speaker.</p>

#SheMeansBusiness: Using Facebook and Instagram to raise awareness of your business

Increase awareness of your business offerings with posts, Stories, live videos and more.

Linda Monahan is a podcast host and corporate wellbeing trainer. She is the owner of the successful ‘Corporate to Calm’ podcast, where she chats to (mostly female) people who have left the corporate world in search of a new journey. 

Linda recently attended the Enterprise Nation Festival of Female Entrepreneurs, an in-person event hosted at Meta’s Dublin offices for aspiring and inspiring women in business. We caught up with Linda at the event to ask about her experience with 

Since leaving the corporate world herself in 2017 - after having two children and no longer wanting the demands of a corporate working week - Linda trained as a personal trainer, then later a pilates instructor which proved very successful online during the Covid restrictions. 

Unfortunately, Linda suffered from two bouts of Covid, which unfortunately left her suffering from long Covid. It was at that time she was forced to reassess her career as she was unable to continue her pilates classes. She then started her podcast and moved into the wellness space. 

About five months after I had Covid originally, I got it again, and it was like my body reset. It was like it completely changed my life, my mind, my everything. What came as a bad experience turned into such a positive one for me professionally - it was great. 

In March 2021 I started the podcast. My corporate journey had come to an end in 2017 and I suppose it was like a death, because I didn't really want it to come to an end - it was like a grieving process.

The podcast is really about finding your calm wherever you are. It’s about finding out what was the motivation for the guests - their catalyst to move from 

. People don’t necessarily want to leave corporate jobs, they just feel maybe they have to because it doesn’t suit them anymore. 

I have four seasons of the podcast which is out on all podcast platforms - my latest season has just launched. As well as women leaving corporate to pursue other things,  I do have two or three men on each season.

When did you first come across the #SheMeansBusiness programme?

I have a picture of me from November 2019 in the Facebook building, when I went to a #SheMeansBusiness event there and it was really good. That was my first introduction to #SheMeansBusiness.

They were doing fireside chats and panels, it was a huge event. I actually met a person at that event that I subsequently interviewed on the podcast. I always come to these events with the purpose of networking. 

How much do you use social media for your business?

It is such a good way to connect to your audience - especially Instagram for me. I haven’t focused on Facebook that much lately and I probably need to get back to that audience but definitely Instagram is a great way to meet people. 

Have you done any of the #SheMeansBusiness online courses? 

I’ve done a couple of online courses. I did a ‘How to promote your business on Facebook’ course. It was a great reminder that Facebook is shared more than Instagram - people don’t tend to share your posts as much on Instagram – they are afraid it will ruin their grid. But with Facebook, they are happy to share. 

The next priority on my list of things to do is learn how to use personalised ads on Facebook. 

Because you get to do a kind of elevator pitch in the sessions, I actually got two more podcast guests from the last #SheMeansBusiness webinar I attended. 

Any tips for those considering the #SheMeansBusiness webinars?

One of my takeaways from the online courses is you get so much more out of it with your camera on. I would strongly suggest that participants turn everything else off for the time of the webinar and give it that full focus. 

Enterprise Nation is working with Meta to support women across Ireland in growing their businesses online.

From Corporate to Calm with Linda Monahan

Enterprise Nation member Linda Monahan tells us how she founded her podcast and used #SheMeansBusiness to network.

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