.JPG) Enter the Suncorp Western Sydney Awards for Business Excellence for your chance to win $10,000 visit www.parramattachamber.com.au
Seeking Western Sydney Business Leaders who are proud of their staff and business growth
As a company that is pursuing business growth, we invite you to enter the region’s most established business recognition program: the Suncorp Western Sydney Awards for Business Excellence.
For 20 years, since 1991, these awards have showcased dynamic small, medium and large businesses operating throughout Sydney’s Greater West, giving recognition to those that strive for excellence and have achieved sustained growth as a result. Our awards acknowledge all areas of business practice, with several category awards and an overall winner receiving the ‘Suncorp 2010 Business of the Year Award’, which carries a prize of $10,000.
Information can be obtained by downloading the registration of interest form, guidelines and questionnaire at www.parramattachamber.com.au
The awards close on 30 July.
For more information contact the Chamber on 9683 6655.
Difficulty telling your company’s story?
Many successful business people report that they would be significantly more successful if they could effectively encompass the critical aspects of their business in written communications. In other words, they identify the need to be able to tell their business story.
These skills are needed when creating business plans or marketing campaigns. They are essential when you have something important to tell your industry or the general public and vital for submissions seeking capital. The ability to encapsulate all that is good in your business is indispensable when entering awards, such as having a shot at the $10,000 major prize in the Suncorp Western Sydney Awards for Business Excellence.
Free seminars are being conducted by The Parramatta College, on Wednesday 14 July and Thursday 15 July, between 5 and 7 pm, at the Chamber’s offices in Palmer Street, to assist businesses in telling their stories. These seminars will help you to identify the WOW factor which sets your business apart from others and which could help your business be a winner.
In the past 19 years that these awards have been presented, universal feedback from winners, finalists and entrants is that preparing their awards submission helps them develop a much deeper understanding of how their business really operates, the marketplace it operates in, and the true effectiveness of the plans they have put in place.
Firm and sound ideas on how to improve their business operation was the natural outcome of preparing their submissions.
Take your business to the next level, the first step being to attend one of the Parramatta College’s free seminars by contacting the Chamber on 9683 6655.
Broadband Way to Go
The Chamber is excited about Parramatta Council’s ParraConnect concept and looks forward to more details and to being closely involved with the elements which affect business.
Council describes ParraConnect as an initiative which explores ways digital technologies can improve communities. A connected city and community framework designed to link existing programs as well as foster the development of new digital initiatives in the local public sphere, spanning the cultural, educative, enterprising and socially inclusive interests. ParraConnect evolved from a partnership between CivicTEC and Parramatta City Council.
At the recent launch of ParraConnect, council announced some of the early components including the Wireless CBD proposal and a digital small business education initiative.
The Chamber certainly looks forward to understanding more about the proposed small business education initiative. Small business is one of the essential drivers behind the Australian economy and a group that is always in need of time-efficient delivery models for increasing their knowledge and capabilities.
Should council succeed in developing a high-speed WiFi network across Parramatta CBD, the key elements to making such a network a valuable tool are applications and content.
Applications already discussed include a parking space finder, interactive tourist experiences, entertainment and travel timetables as well as shopping and restaurant guides.
Imagine arriving in Parramatta for the first time and your mobile phone logs onto a local portal which loads a guided tourism walk with commentary, gives you a preview of what performances are on at Riverside Theatre, tells you the performance times and allows you to book tickets. You may want directions to stores offering discounts on various shopping items. You may wish to find a particular type of restaurant, and whilst enjoying your meal you notice an Eels home game kicks-off soon so you book tickets and receive directions to Parramatta Stadium as well.
*** Events July 2010 – Mark your diaries
Business Excellence Lunch
Friday 30 July 2010
Parramatta RSL Club
Details available on the Chamber’s website soon
Contact Parramatta Chamber on 9683 6655 or info@parramattachamber.com.au for more information or for an invitation to attend.
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