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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.

Networking after hours: Warringah Chamber of commerce

Date: Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Time: 6pm till 7.30pm

Venue: Pet O 626 Pittwater Road, Brookvale

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The Manly chamber and narrabeen chamber don’t seem to have anything going on this week.

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Manly council events

Date: Thursday, 12 March 2009

Free Salsa Lessons -  Council Forecourt – 6-7pm!

Date: friday, 13 March 2009

Army Parachute Exercises – Shelly Beach – 8am-6pm

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.