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Warringah Council wants to hear from local businesses to help shape and develop Warringah’s future business landscape for a stronger local economy with benefits for all the community.

“We want to hear from local businesses to help us chart a clear path forward for future economic development activity in the Warringah area,” said Warringah Council’s Administrator Dick Persson.

“We have a consultation program for local businesses including an online survey and oneonone discussions to help paint a picture of the Warringah economy and shape the future of our local area.

“Once we have developed a thorough understanding of Warringah’s business environment we will be better placed to make informed and relevant decisions for our business community and related issues like local employment and training.

“We want to see and actively contribute to thriving local businesses, satisfied staff and plenty of opportunities for local jobs and education.

“While it is essential that we receive quality information from businesses we appreciate that everyone’s time is valuable so the survey has been designed to only take about 10 minutes.

“I encourage all local businesses to participate in this consultation by completing a survey online or contacting Council for an individual interview,” Mr Persson said. To fill out a survey or be involved in a one on one discussion go to www.warringah.nsw.gov.au or contact Council’s Strategy and Policy Team on 9942 2716. ends

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Evermore Productions

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One of the advantages of being an “SME”, (Small to Medium Enterprise for those of you who ignore accronyms), is adaptability.

For example, over the six month we have been upgrading our customer relationship system. from what I have read, and listening to my friends who work on the stressful side of the harbour, this can be a pretty big job. In some cases costing millions of dollars and thousands of man hours.

In our case it has involved installing and testing a few pre built applications. Obviously this is fairly time consuming, but with only a few staff who are using it, it is easy to communicate to every one what we are doing, and why, and to give them the training they need to use the new system.

The advantage of this ability to chop and change quite easily has been that we have thoroughly tested several applications, and finally settled on a very powerful CRM by the name of Sugar CRM.

There are a few easy changes you can make to your IT set up that will save you money, and possibly time.

1. Install Open Office instead of Microsoft Office.
   This one’s a no brainer. Open office does just about everything that the Microsoft version does, but writes better code and keeps file sizes smaller. Why spend $490 on office when you can get it for free?
2. Install Firefox instead on Internet Explorer
   This doesn’t save you any money, but it might save you catching a few viruses.
3. Install Mozilla Thunderbird instead of Outlook.
   Again, this greatly reduces your chance of becoming infected with viruses, and it’s free!