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Sage Pay E-Commerce Roadshows
By Sarah Hastings
Online trading has never been more important. Changing consumer and retail patters have had a major impact on the way in which Irish businesses trade and consumers shop.
Whether you are a new internet business or are extending your ‘bricks and mortar’ business to the net, Sage Pay’s Dublin and Cork morning seminars will demonstrate what you need to focus on to develop a successful e-commerce business. From the rise of mobile commerce to digital marketing and website optimisation, the seminars will showcase e-commerce best practise. Register here (link to: http://www.sagepay.com/ireland/seminars) to attend the events.
- Dublin: May 30th in Bewleys, Sandyford – registration from 08.30am
- Cork: May 28th in River Lee Hotel, Western Road – registration from 08.30am
Guest Speakers: John Coburn- Praxis Now, Alan Coleman- Wolfgang Digital
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Posted under: Sage Sponsors Product Start Up of the Year In The Startup Awards 2013
by Aisling White, Senior Marketing Specialist at Sage
The 2013 Startup Awards in association with Vodafone Ireland will take place on Thursday, June 13th 2013 in Dublin and will celebrate the very best Irish start-up businesses across all sectors of the economy. The ‘Startup Awards 2013” in association with Vodafone – is Ireland’s only dedicated awards program to reward excellence in the Irish business start-up community.
Avril McArdle Digital & Marketing Manager at Sage with the winners of the product Startup of the year at the 2012 awards, The Handmade Soap Company and comedian Colm O’Regan.
Sage are sponsoring the Product StartUp of the Year category. We also sponsored this category in 2012 and presented the award to the Handmade Soap Company at the awards ceremony last year.
“2012 was the first year of the Startup Awards and we were blown away by the response. With companies like Kooky Dough, Keoghs Crisps and the Handmade Soap Company as winners last year it is a real testament to the pool of start-up talent in Ireland today,” said Stephen Dillon, founder of Startups.ie.
The Startup Awards are also partnered PayPal, Dell, DCU, Squires & co Chartered Accountants, O’Rourke Reid Solicitors, Foras na Gaeilge, The Irish Independent Business Week and Newstalk 106-108FM.
Sage Accountant Roadshows 2013 #FutureOfAccounting
Robert McNamara, Accountants Division Team Manager, Sage Ireland
The Sage Accountants Roadshows will be taking place in Dublin, Cork and Galway during the first week in February.
With some exciting speakers on board it’s bound to be a fantastic and informative event. Remember, the event qualifies for CPD Hours so with limited spaces available be sure to register today.
Topics Covered In The Roadshows Include;
- Harnessing the Power of Online
- Debt Collection for Accountants and their Clients
- Manage Your Cash Flow with Sage
- Sage Accountants Club
- Ask the questions you’ve always wanted answered by an Economist
For those that can’t attend keep an eye on the Twitter hashtag #futureofaccounting to follow the conversation online.
About the Speakers
Budget 2013 – Free Post Budget Briefing And Review For Tech Businesses
Sage will be exhibiting at the Irish Internet Association post Budget Briefing on Thursday 6th December. We will be there to answer any questions you may have about how you can use our accounting software to manage the impact of the budget on your business.
The IIA are hosting this free event in partnership with The Digital Hub, to review the impact of the budget for the ICT sector in Ireland.
A panel of experts will analyse the budget through the eyes of the start-up, indigenous tech and FDI ICT community with particular attention to amendments and additions to tax reliefs, start-up and export incentives.
The panel will comprise; Michael McGivern, Tax Partner at RSM Farrell Grant Sparks, Constantin Gurdgiev, Adjunct Professor in Finance at Trinity College Dublin and Brian Caulfield, Partner at DFJ Esprit.
Sage Wins Best Support Team At CCMA Awards
The Sage Payroll team won Team Of the Year at this year’s Irish Contact Centre and Shared Services Awards. The CCMA Awards were held on Saturday 17th November in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin. The awards, hosted by CCMA Ireland, recognised the organisations that demonstrate best practice and ongoing commitment to excellence in the Irish Contact Centre and Shared Services sector.
The Payroll Team plays a core role in the Sage Ireland Technical Support Centre and manages over half of its customer contracts, supporting customers on Sage’s two payroll products (Sage Quickpay and Sage Micropay). Each year the team face a challenge of peak demand for their support service at year end with call volumes up 300%. This year in addition to extended opening hours, a blog and video tutorial were offered to assist customers at peak times.
From L to R: Rutendo Matarutse Software Support Specialist, Ciara Simon Software Support Representative Finola Mahon Payroll Support Team Manager, Aoife Brannigan Software Support Specialist
Success At The Dublin Web Summit
By Beatrice Whelan, Social Media and Content Specialist at Sage
We had an amazing two days at the Dublin Web Summit on the 17th and 18th October. We were exhibiting at the Web Summit to promote Sage One and Sage CRM and we had a phenomenal interest in both products.
Sage Commercial Product Manager, Simon Bell was interviewed at the Web Summit by Paul O’Mahony. You can listen to the interview in the podcast below. Simon talks about Sage One and gives some great advice about how small businesses can build their brand, but inevitably the conversation swayed towards the cupcakes.
It was great to meet business owners and current customers of Sage that dropped by to say hello. Among the many people that dropped by our stand was Krishna De of Biz Growth Media and Lorraine Carter of Persona Branding & Design.
Sage@School Sponsors BSTAI Conference
By Aisling White, Senior Marketing Specialist at Sage
The 26th annual BSTAI National Conference took place in the Radisson BLU hotel in Galway on 12/13th October 2012. The theme of the conference was ‘Promoting Collaboration & Enterprise in the Business Classroom”.
The weekend commenced with a conference dinner on Friday night, hosted by Sage@School. On Saturday the teachers got the opportunity to hear a key note speech from UL economist Stephen Kinsella. This was followed by a plenary session entitled ‘ICT in the Business Classroom’ by Siobhan O’Sullivan. The conference also allowed the BSTAI to launch their new website and gave teachers the opportunity to attend a variety of workshops – assisting them with methodologies and providing them with many useful tips for the classroom.
The Business Studies Teachers Association of Ireland (BSTAI) is a professional association which represents teachers of business subjects in second level schools in Ireland. It is a voluntary association with a branch network throughout the country. The teachers are involved in a wide area of business education, both directly for students organizing awards ceremonies and revision seminars but also developing educational resources for business students and organizing voluntary in-service for their members.
Working In A Digital Age – Sage At Fingal Enterprise Week
How The On-line Era Is Changing Your Business
By Beatrice Whelan, Social Media & Content Specialist at Sage Ireland
Fingal County Enterprise Board is hosting the Fingal Enterprise Week 2012 from Monday 1st October to Friday 5th October. Starting in 2007, it was originally a one day event of seminars and workshops. In response to demand for a greater number and variety of topics, in 2010 the Enterprise Board changed it from a one day event to a week-long series of Enterprise events. This year’s schedule includes 15 events that will take place locations throughout the county, including Balbriggan, Blanchardstown/Dublin 15, Howth, Malahide, Sutton and Swords.
QED are hosting a morning session on Monday 1st October called Working in a Digital Age in the Carlton Hotel, Dublin Airport. The aim of this round table workshop is to energise and invigorate SME businesses about the tools and opportunities in the online area. This is a half day event that will highlight to participants the way in which we do business has changed. The way in which consumers work, think, communicate, socialise and do business in the digital space has changed the way in which SME’s can do business.
The session will be run in the format of a round table with representatives from Apple, Realex, LinkedIn, Facebook and Sage available to answer questions to those attending. I will be taking part in the round table discussion and look forward to discussing the challenges of the digital era with those attending and the other people on the panel.
Sage At The Dublin Web Summit 2012
By Trevor Koen, Digital Marketing Specialist at Sage
Sage will be exhibiting its innovative cloud based accounting and payroll product Sage One at this year’s Dublin Web Summit, which is being held on the 17th & 18th of October at the RDS.
The Web Summit is an incredible two day networking experience with over 3,000 attendees from more than 45 countries across the world, as well as speakers who are the driving forces in technology globally, reshaping entire industries as entrepreneurs, engineers, inventors and more from companies including Google, Facebook, Amazon and Twitter.
We will be keeping you updated with all the action, events and speakers via our Sage One Twitter feed, so make sure you follow us on @SageOneIreland to get all the updates.
Sage Sponsors Start Ups 2012 – Win Free Tickets on Twitter
By Trevor Koen, Digital Marketing Specialist at Sage
Sage is proud to partner with the Start Ups 2012 Entrepreneurs and Small Business Conference taking place at the RDS on the 3rd of October.
Running for the past four years, the Start Ups 2012 is Irelands leading entrepreneurs and small business event, gathering small business owners, entrepreneurs, investors and service providers with the aim of sharing ideas, keeping updated with new developments, networking with peers and discussing investment.
Check out our Twitter account @SageOneIreland for the official competition. All you have to do is re-tweet our official competition tweet, complete with hash tags, and you will be entered into the draw to be one of two lucky followers who will each win one FREE ticket to the Start Ups 2012 event on October 3rd compliments of Sage.
Here is the Tweet;
#SageOne @SageOneIreland is exhibiting at #startupssummit RT to stand a chance to win 1 of 2 FREE tickets to the event http://ow.ly/e017B
The winners will be announced on Monday 1st October.
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