Over 60 members attended our August Breakfast Before Business. One of our speakers for the morning was Jane Laverty from the Ballina Shire Economic Development Unit, who was there to speak about the EDU’s Business Options, Opportunites and Sustainability Toolkit, or BOOST as its known.

This project has been created to help advise and grow business and employment across Ballina Shire. The key to the BOOST project is the Business Retention and Expansion Survey, which will provide key decision making data to create a dynamic and prosperous economy for Ballina.

Well known keynote speaker Ben Fewtrell, business coach and mentor gave a well recieved speech on 6 steps to success in your business. Ben has owned several businesses and over the last 6 years has worked with over 100 different businesses in 38 diferent industries. He is also a regular contributor for several national business publications and is to be featured in ‘The Secrets of Top Business Builders Exposed’ book.

Also Sandra Jackson from Rivafest gave a brief outline on the Rivafest format for this year.

So to be in the know, come along to the next Breakfast Before Business, you never know what you might learn. For more information about this or any other chamber run events, please call Nadia Eliott-Burgess on 66815049.

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