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Small Business Show 85 Part 1: Lower The Minimum Wage, Windscreen Washers & Waterless Urinals

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This week on the Small Business Show news segment Kehlan, Olwen and Brian talk about wether or not the minimum wage should be scrapped. Will ease the burden on SMEs or encourage a race to the bottom?

News covered in this weeks discussion:

- Should the minimum wage be scrapped?

- SME owners face double penalties for non payment of Household Tax

- Workers not afraid to ‘let fly’ at work colleagues

The Small Business Show is broadcast each weekend on Clare FM radio & Listened to by over 21,000 people a week ( official JNLR figures ).  Items from the show are published as podcasts throughout the week on FocuSMEIreland.com.  You can subscribe for free to download the MP3s automatically using RSS, iTunes or the Stitcher App.

 

Small Business Show 58 Part 3: Company Focus – Karora Cosmetics

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For this weeks Company Focus we talked to Karen Brown from Karora Cosmetics. Karora is a 100% Irish cosmetics brand that is certainly turning heads in the global cosmetics sector.

After being invited to one of the most prestigious cosmetics events in the world last year, Cosmoprof, the company was approached my two investors looking to get a piece of the Irish company. Needless to say they were turned down, because Karora felt that the company could be even more successful over the next few years.

Karen Brown from Karora Cosmetics talks to the Small Business Show about starting up and explains how they have come such a long way in such a short space of time.

The Small Business Show is broadcast each weekend in syndication on Irish radio.  Items from the show are published as podcasts throughout the week on FocuSMEIreland.com.  You can subscribe for free to download the MP3s automatically using RSS or iTunes.

This segment of the Small Business Show was broadcast on Saturday 25th of August.

Jobseekers Encouraged To Learn Languages

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Jobseekers are being encouraged to develop their language skills in order to get ahead in the competitive market.

An Irish Employment Monitor shows a 4% drop in the number of professional jobs available in Ireland in the last month.

The figures also show that an extra 12% of professionals entered the market during that time.

Karen O’Flaherty, Operations Director at Morgan McKinley, says being able to speak another language gives you a distinct advantage.

“The areas that have certainly continued to be in demand since the beginning of the year are across IT, development, project managers, any of the financial services with language skills.

“Two or three languages are certainly in high demand at the moment.”

Unpaid Overtime Continues Upward Trend

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The amount of unpaid overtime being done by Irish workers looks to be on the increase.

A survey by Peninsula Ireland has revealed that 67% of workers say they occasionally spend time working evenings and weekends without pay to cope with their workload.

It’s also showed that employees are using mobile devices to keep up to date with work while they are technically ‘off’.

43% of these workers feel their bosses do not acknowledge the overtime that they have done.

Small Business Show 55 Part 3: Big Bin Waste Disposal

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On this weeks Company Focus we’re talking to John O’Connor from Big Bin.

The Bigbin Company was founded by John O’Connor and the Kavanagh family in 2010.  The concept of the “pay to use” waste management system was in response to public demand for a more cost effective and convenient method of waste disposal. They saw  the old system of annual waste contracts and specific collection days  inconvenient for many people, particularly households who only produce average amounts of domestic waste.

John explains to us how it works and how it could save money on annual waste disposal costs for households.

The Small Business Show is broadcast each weekend in syndication on Irish radio.  Items from the show are published as podcasts throughout the week on FocuSMEIreland.com.  You can subscribe for free to download the MP3s automatically using RSS or iTunes.

This segment of the Small Business Show was broadcast on Saturday 4th of August.

Small Business Show 54 Part 1: Animation, Eco-Tourism & Lasers

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This week on the Small Business Show Kehlan and Brian are joined by special guest Susan Broe from Wiggley Woo Animation. They are off to the prestigious Cartoon Forum in France later this year, where they are hoping for investment from some of the biggest names in the animation industry for their new cartoon series Mya Go.

Topics discussed this week are:

- Irish Mid-West Plans Freight Hub For Europe and USA

- Hireland Calls On All Ireland Reps For Continued Success

- Domain Registrations Rise – But More Clarity Needed For SMEs

The Small Business Show is broadcast each weekend in syndication on Irish radio.  Items from the show are published as podcasts throughout the week on FocuSMEIreland.com.  You can subscribe for free to download the MP3s automatically using RSS or iTunes.

This segment of the Small Business Show was broadcast on Saturday 28th of July.

Small Business Show 54 – Part 2: Eco-Tourism in Ireland

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Mary Mulvey joins from Eco-Tourism Ireland and why explains why Ireland could be a global player in this emerging sector of tourism.

Eco-Tourism Ireland is an organisation set up to stimulate the development of ecotourism countrywide. To achieve these ends we have facilitated the development of an ecotourism quality label that we hope will stimulate the development of new ecotourism experiences in Ireland and at the same time defend the ethical values of existing ecotourism operators.

In addition the label has been designed to guide visitors travel choices and help them to choose promoters of ecotourism products and the experiences they have on offer.

The Small Business Show is broadcast each weekend in syndication on Irish radio.  Items from the show are published as podcasts throughout the week on FocuSMEIreland.com.  You can subscribe for free to download the MP3s automatically using RSS or iTunes.

This segment of the Small Business Show was broadcast on Saturday 28th of July.