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The telephone is a powertool in sales, it is one of the most widely used tools for increasing business, it produces excellent and predictable results, yet it is something sales people will always try to avoid.

Buyers and sellers are both achieving their goals and objectives in the O’Donnellan & Joyce auction room. Colm O’Donnellan of O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers outlines that this year in particular has been a great year for buyers as they are obtaining tremendous value with sellers placing extremely attractive reserve prices (minimum prices) on properties in order to achieve sales. With less competition in the auction room than in previous years, tremendous value has been obtained for the buyers, in some cases below the advised minimum values.

‘Direct marketing’ or direct mail as it’s also known, is simply targeting people by post or email ‘directly’ at their home or business. I believe direct marketing is one of the most cost effective methods of promoting your business, which is always valuable, but especially so in times of recession.

Joyce’s of Headford will offer a special promotion for three days only — from tomorrow (Friday) to Sunday customers who spend more than €500 can win up to 50 per cent back on their purchases with the annual ‘spin and win’ promotion.

Q. My wife and I are owners and directors of a trading company. The company has been badly hit by current economic conditions and we do not envisage our trade recovering. The company’s balance sheet position has deteriorated rapidly and assets only slightly exceed liabilities. Our main asset is the premises from which the company trades but which is owned by us personally. This is subject to a large mortgage which we are struggling to pay and we are currently in default. If we continue trading it is unlikely that we will be able to meet our liabilities. I was told that our creditors or the bank could liquidate the company. Is this true? If so what are our options and what does the liquidator do?

Almost 100 jobs look to be going at the Kilkenny-based forestry firm Denber Forestry Services, which has told its creditors that it plans to go into liquidation.

A move by the Government to reveal the names and details of payments made to farmers by the EU but to withhold information regarding the top ten artists in receipt of tax exemptions has been strongly criticised.

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A sixty-year-old man who fraudulently cashed in a number of social welfare cheques, with a total value of over €1,100 appeared before Kilkenny District Court last week.

Five of Ireland’s regional airports have issued a joint letter to the Finance Minister, Mr Brian Lenihan TD, requesting an urgent review and amendments to several measures contained in the proposed new air travel tax.