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The Pittwater Council released some reports on the economic state of the Pittwater Shire recently. Although the figures are a cuople of years old, it gives a great insight into the distribution of industries in the area.

For example, Pittwater’s fastest growing industries are:

1. Manufacturing
2. Health and Community Services
3. Personal and Other Services
4. Education
5. Cultural and Recreational Services
6. Retail Trade

They have created a great little PDF presentation which you can download from their site here. And the full article is on the Pittwater council website.

Jim Lund has been running successful restaurants and cafes for over 25 years, sometimes several at once. Jims expertise and experience are now available through his restaurant and hospitality coaching services, which he offers both online and in person.

Jim has recently launched his new website, http://www.hospitalitycoach.net/ which offers great resources for any manager or owner of a restaurant, cafe or other business in the hospitality industry.

Two great reasons to use Jim’s hospitality and restaurant coaching service…

1. You’ll develop advantages over your competitors
2. You’ll have a business which is easier to manage

Some of the great content includes articles on useful topic like dealing with stress in a busy restaurant, managing your restaurant staff, writing a restaurant business plan and customer service in restaurants

Hospitality coaching is yet another great business here on Sydney’s Northern beaches.

Local website development and design business; Boyd Design has recently launched a new service aimed at the Graphic Design industry.

This new service focusses on providing designers the back end programming a support necessary to deliver high quality websites to their clients. The new brand is aptly names “The web department” and launched in January this year.

The range of services offered include Content management systems, HTML and CSS programming, PHP programming and a range of CMS plug ins that can be easily marketed, quoted and installed.

The service provides a great resource for graphic designers looking to get into website design, without spending years learning to code.

Australian businesses are still yet to enter the world of blogging in any great numbers. Compared to the rest of the world we seem to be a little blogophobic.

Perhaps it is just too much like hard work, or it might be time constraints, but more likely it is because your average business owners and managers fail to realise the opportunity that a blog presents a company in terms of interaction with their customers.

The biggest movement in the world of blogging is definitely coming from the small business community, with quite a few great blogs, right here on the Northern beaches.

The ladies at Women’s Own adventure are doing a great job, as are the team at Enlighten education with their blog on educating teenage girls.

It would also be safe to say that the biggest movement within the small business sector is in the IT industries. Web designers and IT specialists probably make up the largest percentage of bloggers on the scene at the moment.

For a look around some of the better blogs in Brookvale, the Northern Beaches and in Sydney, check out blog.businessinsydney.com. A dedicated directory of business blogs in Sydney.