Trading Post @ Fitzpatrick's Castle Hotel Killiney - Tuesday, 23rd March 10

 

Trading Post is a business network for small business owners, organised each month by Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Enterprise Board.

You are invited to attend an evening Speednetworking® event from:-

7-9pm on Tuesday, March 23rd in Fitzpatrick's Castle Hotel, Killiney.

Speednetworking® is a time efficient way to meet a large number of fellow entrepreneurs in one night, establish initial contact and use this contact to network further.

5 Top Tips for Speednetworking:

• 1.      Arrive with an open mind.
  You could make the most valuable business contact of your life at an event like this.
• 2.       Bring plenty of business cards and promotional material with you.

1. 3.      Be prepared to give concise description of your business –
    Limit it to a “60 second  commercial” for your business.
2. 4.       Consider your approach – you can use it to make sales, make contacts, solve  problems, conduct market research, generate ideas, exchange info and/or meet suppliers and buyers in your industry.

• 5.       A day or two after the event, take a look at the contacts you have made, make a date in your diary to contact these contacts.  Following up soon after the event can yield better results than waiting too long to call.
  

6 Ways to Improve your Business by Speednetworking:

• 1.      Make business contacts 
• 2.   Increase Sales
• 3.      Problem solving. 
  Ask other business owners how to overcome a specific problem – guaranteed to leave with a solution!  
• 4.      Market research.  Get objective opinions on your new product/service offering
  
• 5.      Generate ideas. Ways of doing things in other industries could lead to new ideas for your business.
• 6.      Exchange information.  Give advice on hiring staff in return for time management tips.

 

TO BOOK YOUR PLACE AT THIS EVENT, PLEASE CONTENT:- 

Angela Tynan, Network Manager, DLRCEB 
angela@dlrceb.ie  / 087 2235269