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Strong interest in developing New Businesses in South Kerry

People in South Kerry are showing strong interest in setting up new businesses if the large turnout at an information meeting on the topic last Thursday night in Killarney is anything to go by. The information meeting was organised by South Kerry Development Partnership’s Enterprise Officers and provided those attending with a range of information around starting up their own businesses. Guest speakers included SKDP CEO Noel Spillane who outlined the range of services the partnership can offer those starting up a business from enabling them access the back to work enterprise allowance to securing training through the Skillnets programme. “I am delighted to see so much interest in starting up businesses in the region and the important thing for people is to contact South Kerry Development Partnership in any of our four offices in order to ensure they can access all of the assistance that is available to them” Noel said.

Michael Kenneally of INTREO outlined the many opportunities that exist for those who are on social welfare to get support in developing their own businesses. “Like Noel, we would encourage people to make contact with us in order to get all of the information and support available” Michael said.

Aoife O’Reilly of South Kerry Skillnets, operated through SKDP, pointed out that in many instances, people who are unemployed can access accredited training for free. “Even if people already have businesses set up, they can avail of training at greatly reduced costs as members of Skillnets” Aoife pointed out. Again, she encouraged people to make contact with her for full details.

Lea Parker-Bond of Pigeon Media highlighted the importance of properly using social media as a key tool in promoting new business and more importantly, she highlighted how easy it actually is to effectively use these tools. “Using video in particular helps to encourage people to engage with your business and there are many free or very cheap software tools out there to enable people create their own video’s” Lea said.

SKDP Enterprise Officer Anne O’Riordan who organised the event said she was delighted with the turnout which exceeded expectations. “We hope that information meeting such as this will encourage people make that initial contact with us and both John McCrohan and myself are available to meet with people to help them take the first steps in starting up their own businesses” Anne said.

 

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