Clickthrough

A Practical Guide to Starting A Successful Internet Business

Aisling Mackey

This book is designed to offer a practical step by step guide to setting up your own online business, making it successful, and keeping it that way.  Based firmly in an Irish context, Clickthrough provides a wealth of information, drawn from the author's own experience of developing Ireland's largest online crafting store, as well as several other websites.

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Starting a Business in Ireland - 6th edition

Brian O'Kane

Appearing in its 6th edition since its original publication in 1993, Starting a Business in Ireland is THE book that would-be entrepreneurs are advised to read before setting out on their entrepreneurial journey.

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Ron Immink & Brian O'Kane

Starting Your Own Business: A Workbook has been updated / expanded in this new third edition to reflect changing trends in Irish small business. The easy-to-understand READY / STEADY / GO format remains, as does the build-up of a robust business plan from a series of simple market research-led exercises. New for this third edition is an emphasis on strategy and on pitching a business plan to investors.

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Quick Win Digital Marketing

Answers to your 100 top digital marketing questions

Annmarie Hanlon & Joanna Akins

Quick Win Digital Marketing is aimed at entrepreneurs, business managers and marketing people seeking a practical approach to digital marketing. The book is designed so that you can dip in and out of your top digital marketing questions, as they arise.

Browse by section: Digital Essentials; Digital Toolbox; Digital Marketing; Branding Online; and Managing, Measuring and Making Money Online - or by topic: Blogs / microblogs; Email; Mobile; Photo / audio / video; Social Media; Surveys; or Web.

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Approaches to Qualitative Research

Theory and Its Practical Application: A Guide for Dissertation Students

Edited by John Hogan, Paddy Dolan and Paul Donnelly

Approaches to Qualitative Research provides a unique insight into various approaches to qualitative research, as practiced at the cutting edge of academia in both Ireland and further afield. It brings together a number of academics from various universities and disciplines, each of whom contributes a chapter using a qualitative methodology of their own particular design. Additionally, the final chapter of the book contains a discussion conducted amongst a number of the contributing authors on various issues surrounding qualitative research methodologies, in general, and the conduct of research, in particular.

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The StreetWise Guide to Being Enterprising

Increase Your Career, Business or Social Enterprise Prospects by Using the E-Factor

David A Gibson

The StreetWise Guide to Being Enterprising provides a model that identifies a generic set of skills, designed to enable students to achieve success in business or career. These skills are analysed and their relevance to business and social enterprise are linked in a practical format.

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The StreetWise Guide to Being Enterprising has a companion Workbook & Journal, which provides a record of the readers' own personal and business development and is also very useful evidence for course tutors and business coaches in course assessment.

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Quick Win Marketing:

Answers to your top 100 marketing questions

Annmarie Hanlon

Quick Win Marketing is aimed at entrepreneurs and business managers wanting to start, grow or revitalise a business and companies launching new services or products in the UK or Ireland. It is designed so that you can dip in and out seeking answers to your top marketing questions, as they arise, in four key sections: Marketing essentials;  Launching new services / products; Growing your business; and Revitalising your business.

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Trade Marks Law

Glen Gibbons BL

Trade Marks Law is a specialised book that will be of interest to practitioners, university students, solicitors and barristers practising in the area of commercial law, and the law departments of large corporations.

New for 2009. Click here to order.  Click HERE to see a sample chapter from the book.

The Business Battlecard:

Winning Moves for Growing Companies

Paul O'Dea

Using five simple, but crucial, steps, The Business Battlecard helps you craft a winning strategy to grow your company and rally your team. A strategy that will win you the war on several fronts: the battle against competitors, the battle for customers' minds, the battle for investors' wallets, and the battle for employees' hearts ...

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Could You Be Your Own Boss?

Brian O'Kane

The aim of this book is to help you to come to an informed decision as to whether self-employment is right for you - just now, in your present circumstances. See also www.couldyoubeyourownboss.com. 

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Metamorphosis:

Lessons from the Formative Years of the Celtic Tiger,

1979-1993

Con Power

This is the story of how Ireland succeeded in transforming itself from the bleak situation of 1987 to the success of the Celtic Tiger years has many ingredients, originating domestically, in the EU, and on the world stage. METAMORPHOSIS is an account from the perspective of one insider, based primarily in the Confederation of Irish Industry (CII), who played a key role in national economic initiatives during the critical years of 1979 to 1993.

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Grabbing the Oyster !

Anecdotes & Advice from Icons of Irish Business

Pearce Flannery

Read the stories of Denis Brosnan, Louis Copeland, Denis Desmond, Declan Ganley, Liam Griffin, Anne Heraty, Michael Herbert, Pat McDonagh, Padraig Ó Céidigh, Feargal Quinn, Niall Quinn and James Sheehan and learn what makes them tick ? and how you can develop entrepreneurial traits yourself.

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The Tactics of the Rich:

When it comes to creating wealth, It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it!

Paul A. Overy

Paul Overy's last book, The Tricks of the Rich - see below - gave readers the basics of 'financial intelligence' so they could start to understand and take control of their money. His new book, The Tactics of the Rich, goes a stage further, delving deeper into the ways and means of wealth creation, maintenance and retention. Aimed at those who truly want to be wealthy and who are prepared to make changes in their financial thinking and in their lives to achieve it, Tactics confronts and dismisses many of the myths of financial advice. This book offers an easy-to-read and easy-to-follow solution - if you are ready to apply this and make the necessary changes to your life, click  here to order!

The Tricks of the Rich:

What "THEY" don't want you to know about making money & accumulating wealth

Paul A. Overy

The Tricks of the Rich gives you the basics of "financial intelligence", so you can start to understand and then take control of your money. Learn about the Golden Rules, borrowing to create wealth, how tax-breaks help you to make money, and how to avoid biased or isolationist advice - and then put it all together in an Action Plan, so that you achieve your dream of financial freedom. To order this powerful book and have financial freedom at your fingertips, click here.

Will McKee & John McKee

From consulting interventions with leaders and executive top teams in SMEs, and direct experience of running SMEs themselves, Will and  John McKee have created a simple, real-life-based model that clearly articulates leadership - in terms of vision, team-building, selling, managing and innovation - around the goal of stellar growth.

Stellar growth is the measure of success for a leadership team: growth in profits, growth in turnover, growth in market reach, growth in status.  STAR describes best-practice approaches using real-life examples and demonstrates how you can measure your own competence across a range of critical behaviours.

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The Construction Safety Handbook - online supplements

Supplementary material for The Construction Safety Handbook by

 T.  Curley  is available for free download as follows:

CSH1: Preliminary Safety & Health Plan  CSH1 

CSH2: Safety & Health Plan for the Construction Stage  CSH2

CSH3: Method Statement   CSH3

CSH4: Site Safety Documentation checklist   CSH4

CSH5: Site Inspection checklist CORE   CSH5

CSH6: Site Inspection checklist OPTIONAL   CSH6

CHUTZPAH: Unlocking the Maverick Mindset for Success

Yanky Fachler

The meaning of this wonderfully evocative and rich word, that has no exact translation in English, is elusive. More easily demonstrated than defined, chutzpah envisions possibilities that no one else yet believes are viable, a willingness to demand what is due, to defy tradition, to challenge authority, and to raise eyebrows.All the inspiring stories in this book feature people who went the extra mile: people who employed, harnessed, leveraged, embraced, utilised, exploited, adopted and displayed their chutzpah. You can do the same! Order your copy here!