Testimonials

We contacted The Small Business Advice Programme in April last year and were delighted with how willing they were to support us and how available they were to give advice. WE were quickly put in touch with a suitable mentor who met up with us on a number of occasions and really helped shape the way for us and I am sure contributed to our rapid growth over the last year. I hope lots of other young businesses are given the same support that we received from this fabulous, much needed organisation.

The mentor provided to me was useful and accessible. I would definitely recommend any entrepreneur to contact smallbusinessadvice.ie for guidance with their business development queries – as they were friendly and always helpful.

I found Small Business Advice very good. Tom my adviser scrutinised what I do. All aspects of my business. It was like pulling a jigsaw apart and refitting and outlining probmatic stages, refitting in a different way. I learned a lot and I hope to put it into practice in the coming year.
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I was very grateful to receive the support of the Small Business Advice Programme at a time when I really didn’t know which way to turn. I had set up a small service based business and I knew that I needed a Client Agreement document for both myself and my clients to set out the working responsibilities of both parties etc. and clearly define working boundaries.  I contacted the Small Business Advice Programme and was amazed at the level of support I received.

I was delighted with the support we got from the Small Business Advice Programme over the last few months. The mentor assigned to us had a lot of experience in a similar industry to ours. He proved to be very insightful and he was able to shed light on areas of our business that we should be driving more.  After the numerous meetings we had with him, I believe we now have a better vision and focus for our Company going forward.

I contacted the small business advice programme in May 2010 when I set up my company JSTA.
My adviser was Adrienne and we had 3 consultations. I found her experience and advice invaluable as she gave me some “sideways thinking” promotional ideas that really made a difference. From setting up a website to ideas that would make potential clients take notice of the services I was offering. I would have no hesitation in recommending this service to anyone venturing into the nervous world of setting up your own company.

The Small Business Advice Programme provided an experienced and helpful business development manager who had some very good suggestions as to how I could market myself and my business.  This person gave of his time willingly and his appraisal was speedy, astute and accurate.


I’m a freelance graphic designer in business since 1987.  In the last 25 years, business has changed so much, unfortunately not all for the better.  The last few months of 2011 and the first few months of 2012 were very sluggish.  After hearing a radio advertisement in March last year, I contacted the Small Business Advice Programme to discuss my business, my approach to getting new work and how to drive the business in these precarious times.

I met with David Rogers in May 2010 in Waterford as part of the Small Business advice programme. He helped me come up with plans to boost my income and create new income streams and showed me how to do costings for my projects. Thanks to his advice, I was able to bring in more revenue by making use of the opportunities already at my disposal and I am now able to do costings for my creative writing classes in a realistic way. I found his advice very practical and very necessary at that time to ensure that I stayed in business.