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St George bank is offering a business mentor program to local business people (do NOT have to STG customers) running from May to September. It is a fortnightly seminar/session run by ActionCOACH business trainers.
 
The program coaches you in the skills you need to operate a more successful business. It’s also designed to help you network with local business owners, helping improve who you know as well as what you know. The course is valued at $3995 and we are offering this FREE.
 

Coffs Harbour is this year celebrating its 150th year and local businesses and community groups are invited to come on board to join in the fun.

A committee has been set up to coordinate a range of activities such as a street parade, a ball, celebrity breakfasts and special events in the City, with amazing opportunities for marketing exposure to thousands of Coffs locals.

Any ideas are welcome. Contact Kathy Abell on 6648 4846.

Calling all Bras!
A local woman is collecting bras for a chairty called Uplift.  www.upliftbras.org is for women in the third world where a bra is often unobtainable or unaffordable. This project collects new and second hand bras and sends them wherever they have requests. This time they are sending a container of bras to Fiji.

If you have unwanted bras drop them off or to post them to 123 Brodie Drive, Coffs Harbour, NSW, 2450 by Friday 24th September.

Anyone who was at our September 2010 event would have heard Anne Blair read a poem.  So many people requested it - she has put it on YouTube! Click here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSeTu-TxCqY

Business and Professional Women are often called upon to give a short speech or quality assurance presentation, deliver a report, argue their case, or present a paper at a Conference, Forum or Seminar. These are opportunities for women to exercise both power and influence within their own business, association or organization. Yet, for many women such opportunities to be seen and heard, centre-stage, can still be daunting, uncomfortable or even quite frightening.

In this issue      Issue 5 - February 2010

• New Small Business Minister appointed
• SmallBiz website a big hit
• Business experts share knowledge with SMEs
• Small business micro-credit scheme expands
• New Ausinvent website to help inventors, entrepreneurs and innovators
• Funding round now open for Strategic Business Clusters program
• New Aboriginal Economic Development Officers appointed
• Are you a Women in Manufacturing?
• International Women’s Day Lunch - Our Women, Our State…Be Inspired!
• Focus on Western Sydney

http://smallbiz.e-newsletter.com.au/link/id/30256784b6b0b9194bccP0f682cf1274d93e109eb/page.html

When you're running a business, planning is vital. A good business plan is a constant reference to look at each step of the way. It's the tool that helps your business grow and key to determining how it succeeds. That's why we suggest you develop a plan that is both the compass and map of your business, showing both the direction and how to get there. After all, how can you plan for success if you don't have a plan?
Your business plan should: