Category Archives: Community

‘Discovery Zone’ for new business ideas

March 9, 2010 – 5:49 pm

This is an excellent opportunity for brand new business ideas. A new programme called ‘Discovery Zone’ has been set up in the Rubicon Centre, the host of many Cork Open Coffees.
If you are among the many that aspire to starting your own business but don’t know where to start, then the Discovery Zone could be [...]

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Email marketing Stats for the Cork Open Coffee “After Dark” email

March 4, 2010 – 12:16 am

I sent this email to Cork Open Coffee members last Wednesday at 7.50pm. This was an evening campaign so I was curious to see any differences in open rates and click rates compared to the last couple of campaigns sent earlier in the day.

Email sent to 167 email recipients. (+7 from last email)
Subject length: 5 [...]

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Email marketing Stats for the ‘Cork Open Coffee Friday 17th February’ email

February 24, 2010 – 3:16 pm

The last Cork Open Coffee reminder email to members was sent on Wednesday the 17th of February at 3.50pm.
This was an afternoon email compared to a mid morning email the last time.
As promised, here are its stats:

Email sent to 160 email recipients. (+3 from last email)
Subject length: 6 Words (37 characters, +1 character from  last [...]

By Gordon | Also posted in Reports, email marketing | Comments (0)

Cork Open Coffee Friday 19th February

February 17, 2010 – 6:50 pm

Hi Occers,
This weeks Cork Open Coffee is taking place this Friday the 19th at 10am in The Bodega, Cornmarket street in Cork. No demos this week, just coffee and networking. The Bodega opens at 10am, they have free wifi and a map on their website for how to get there.
We have begun using MailChimp to [...]

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Email marketing Stats for the ‘Cork Open Coffee Friday 5th February’ email

February 10, 2010 – 11:42 am

The last Cork Open Coffee reminder email to members was sent on Wednesday the 3rd of February at 9.50am. As promised, here are its stats:

Email sent to 157 email recipients.
Subject length: 6 Words (36 characters).
Open Rate: 29.6%
Bounce Rate: 3.2%. (Hard bounces, emails no longer exist)
Click Rate: 11.8%
Unsubscribe: 0
New Subscriptions: 5

There were 7 links in the [...]

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Cork Open Coffee Friday 11th at 10am

December 10, 2009 – 9:33 am

This weeks Cork Open Coffee is in the Rubicon Centre, CIT Campus Bishopstown on Friday 11th from 10am – 12pm.This the last Cork Open Coffee of 2009.
There will be 2 demos on Friday. John Dennehy will be talking about his great time tracking application at http://www.assemblypoint.com and Paul Brugger will be talking about a new Twitter [...]

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Cork Open Coffee Friday the 13th

November 11, 2009 – 10:56 pm

Hi OCCers,
This weeks Cork Open Coffee is in the Rubicon Centre, CIT Campus Bishopstown on Friday 13th from 10am – 12pm.  It will be held downstairs in the lobby area as the Seminar Room is booked.
The demo slot will be taken up by one of our newest regulars, Israel Finnerty.  Israel & his partner Dawn [...]

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New Rubicon Center website

August 28, 2009 – 12:34 pm

The Rubicon Center which hosts many of our Cork Open Coffee meetings has a grand spanking new website at http://www.rubiconcentre.ie/. Its a great looking site with some great imagery from around the Rubicon building. Cork Open Coffee is in their Useful Links section.

The site contains plenty of information about the range of services offered in [...]

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Slides from The Embedded Entrepreneur

June 26, 2009 – 5:13 pm

This morning Tom Doherty from Beyond Targets spoke to Corks Open Coffee about a concept called The Embedded Entrepreneur.
Toms talk, directed at Entrepreneurs encouraged those aiming to create a business to put their idea to the test as early as possible. Embed a pre-start entrepreneur in a host customers site for a fixed period [...]

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Kilkenny’s First OCC

January 7, 2009 – 8:14 am

Delighted to hear that the KK crew are finally having an OpenCoffee at 11.30 this morning in the Kilkenny Cafe located downstairs in Market Cross Shopping Centre.

They join Cork, Limerick, Dublin, Waterford, Belfast and Galway as an OCC location. 
If you are based anywhere in the South-East, it’ll be worth checking out. Hopefully they’ll have attendees from Wexford, Waterford, Carlow, Tipperary, [...]

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