A recent study from The Alternative Board revealed that 64% of small business owners are monitoring their social media accounts only one time per week or less, with 22% of entrepreneurs only checking their social channels a few times a year. Why are business owners...
Date : March 2017 By : PJ Timmins, The Alternative Board – Ireland How many of us business owners see the insurance premiums as non-value adding costs which should be minimised. I was responsible for very significant insurance costs and cover over many years and...
“Failure” was not an option in Ireland for many years. Banks demanded personal guarantees and failure in business could end in personal bankruptcy and effective ending one’s entrepreneurial life, as the minimum term of the bankruptcy was 12 years...
Having spent 22 years in Clerys as a senior executive or CEO, I was surrounded by women leaders for most of the period and one could have believed that the playing field had been levelled. However, my experience over the past few years indicate that significant change...
PJ Timmins In a recent TAB Board meeting, one of our members asked what other business owners are concerned about as they look towards 2017. Top concerns are: Pay increases. There is a lot of competition from better paid government and multinational jobs. Continued...
