We are seeking expressions of interest from businesses who would like to be listed on our website in a new “visit Bellingen” page. We have had nearly 128,000 hits on the site since January 2011 and this year’s festival attracted visitors from as far afield as Canberra and Brisbane.

You can view our website at http://www.bellingenmusicfestival.com.au or contact us on maestro@bellingenmusicfestival.com.au

Free listing on the web is always open on line.

For further information contact Erika Harrison, Directory coordinator snd BCoC member directory@bellingenchamber.com

Hi to all,

We are sending this message out to local businesses but we want to offer this to members first. If you can forward this on to your members would be great, or if not, we would like permission to contact them ourselves.

To do our bit in helping to bring local business to a mass audience we have put an exciting package together for August/September. A great deal for local restaurants, B & B’s etc.

Advertise on our screens in the major centres in Coffs Harbour/Armidale & Grafton for the fantastic price of $200.00(+GST) and initial set up fee of $80.00 for the the period of the Rally and The Buskers festival.

Your investment gets your business maximum exposure. You get up to 30,000 x 15sec flash ads per month (800 to 900 ads per day) on our screens located in the major shopping centres around our area, including The Pier Hotel at The Jetty.

For more information please contact us at wagtailinternetkiosks@hotmail.com or call Jon on 0425 191 957

Kind Regards

Jon Smith

Franchisee: Hi Speed Internet Kiosks P/L

Hi BCoC members

Please see attached an invitation to market your business on high speed internet kiosks – we have negotiated a discount for BCoC members as outlined below by Jon Smith

If you want to take up his offer please contact him directly and advise you are BCoC member to receive discount

Cheers Guy

Guy Saddleton

President Bellingen Chamber of Commerce

ph 0411 229 300

Hello Guy,

As requested during our phone conversation last Friday, I have attached our introduction letter. Wagtail_Kiosks sales pitch2 We own the franchises to Hi Speed Internet Kiosks Pty Ltd in the Coffs Harbour area.

My wife and I live in Sawtell and have raised our family in this area. We are a local business whose mission is to help other local business.

We would like to offer our service to your members. As we discussed, our kiosks are situated in high profile areas in the major centres of Coffs Harbour. We already have a high number of people passing by our kiosks. With the expected influx of visitors that such events as The World Rally Championship and The Buskers Festival etc. are attracting to our area we feel the opportunity to increase public awareness of the fabulous attractions and businesses in our neighbouring areas is too good to ignore.

We are not limited to advertising in the local centres as Hi Speed Internet Kiosks are in high profile areas Australia wide. We have over 500,000 people passing our kiosks every day around Australia.

If you would like more information please feel free to call me to arrange a time to catch up.

Jon Smith

Wagtail Internet Kiosks Pty Ltd

ABN 46 149 355 073

Mob: 0425 191 957

Good afternoon all

I am just sending out a reminder to you all that Small Business September is coming up for 2011 and that we usually coordinate the “Events Calendar” each year. As such, I would like to invite you all to register any events that you are already planning for your business constituents for that month eg business networking events, breakfasts, seminars, workshops, etc.

I would appreciate advice from you if your organisation is already planning a business related event so that we can coordinate the dates (and hopefully spread the events evenly over the month) and ensure you receive maximum promotion within the Coffs Coast region – I have attached an early draft of the Calendar as it stands today.

In addition to local promotion through our databases and with the assistance of the local media, you are also encouraged to register your event on the department’s Small Business Month web site at http://smallbusinessmonth.nsw.gov.au/ (Click on ‘Create an account to register your event’) – and congratulations to the Coffs Coast Business Women’s Network for being the first organisation to be registered in the MNC!

By registering on this site you will gain State wide promotion and gives you another means of registering event participants – you can of course still handle RSVP’s locally.

Please contact me if you have any queries about this message

regards

Grant Burrows | Business Development Manager | NSW Department of Trade and Investment, Regional Infrastructure and Services | Suite 5, Level 1 | City Square, Harbour Drive | Coffs Harbour NSW 2450 |

PO Box 1028 | Coffs Harbour NSW 2450

T:02 6650 3143| F:02 6650 3139 | M: 0428 835 647 | E: grant.burrows@business.nsw.gov.au

W: www.industry.nsw.gov.au| www.business.nsw.gov.au | www.smallbusiness.nsw.gov.au

Dear Colleagues,

Just a quick reminder to advise that the Country and Regional Living Expo is on in Sydney next week. Thank you to those of you who have replied already. If you have any interest please let me know by Wednesday this week so we can get things organised.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Cheers

Stuart

Stuart Allardice

Manager Economic Development and Tourism

Bellingen Shire Council

PO Box 117

Bellingen NSW 2454

Mob:0428670357

Ph:02 6655 7306

Fax:66552310

Email:sallardice@bellingen.nsw.gov.au

” It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change” Charles Darwin.

From: Stuart Allardice

Sent: Tuesday, 5 July 2011 4:38 PM

To: ‘Guy Saddleton Real Estate – Guy Saddleton’; ‘grant@kirklandrealestate.com.au’; ‘bev@barwickstevens.com.au’; ‘paultipper@bellingen.com’; ‘bhamilton@midnorthcoast.com.au’; ‘sales@kirkland.com.au’; ‘contact@nathancardow.com.au’; ‘peter@reod.com.au’; ‘dorrigolive@bigpond.com’; ‘dorrigobranch@elders.com.au’

Cc: Peter Wilson; ‘Susan Haworth’; ‘President of Dorrigo Chamber of Commerce – Peter Lynch’

Subject: Country living Expo – Sydney

Dear Colleagues,

Just wanted to contact you and advise that Council, in conjunction with Coffs and Nambucca Councils will be attending The Country Living Expo in Sydney – 5 – 7th August – www.frdl.org.au

The Expo is held at Rosehill Race Course which is located in the geographical heart of Sydney. The Expo attracts up to 10,000 people who are genuinely interested in moving out of Sydney into regional NSW. We view s this expo as an economical way to reach a market that is usually out of reach from a dollar perspective. We will be taking with us, promotional material including Focus magazine, Real estate guides, currently available jobs and general support information

To assist people with the move a jobs board has been established and will be situated at the entrance to the Expo. If you would like to be part of this exciting offer please forward to me the following:

Field – Admin/trade etc

Job title

Brief description

We will then enter this info into the Expo web site, plus jobs board. Please note this offer is for jobs in Urunga, bellingen and Dorrigo

We will also need a card/flyer of your contact details to give to customers when they come to the stand.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best Wishes

Stuart

Stuart Allardice

Manager Economic Development and Tourism

Bellingen Shire Council

PO Box 117

Bellingen NSW 2454

Mob:0428670357

Ph:02 6655 7306

Fax:66552310

Email:sallardice@bellingen.nsw.gov.au

” It is not the strongest of the species that survive,nor the most intelligent,but the one most responsive to change” Charles Darwin.

Good Morning All,

Just a short note to advise that the 2011/12 Bellingen Business Directory will now be distributed late July/early August.

Thank you for your support and we look forward to your continuing support next year”

Many Thanks,

Erika Harrison

Sponsorship Co-ordinator

Bellingen Chamber of Commerce inc

Mob: 0403137841

Good Afternoon everyone

There is a great deal occurring at the moment so I just thought a quick email was needed.

Flood Funding:

- Belinda has coordinated a response and request for $400,000 to promote the Mid North Coast is open for business. We requested the promotions lead to www.pacificcoast.com.au. Belinda will keep you posted on the outcome

Visitor Information Services:

- Currently Northern Rivers are undertaking a study into Regional Visitor Services Strategy. It is a comprehensive study (grant from Dept I + I). Northern Rivers have agreed to show us a copy of the report due for completion at the end of this year. I know this is a hot topic at the moment in many LGA’s and will provide some important NSW regional data for discussion.

Legendary Pacific Coast:

- Cameron Arnold (Chair of Northern Rivers) and I met with the Minister for Tourism and the Minister for the North Coast to provide an update on the LPCTR and the importance of the program to our industry and wider regional economies. It was an excellent meeting. Belinda has a PCTR board meeting latest this month and will provide a further update after that meeting. It is now important for us to keep communicating with the Ministers on our progress and timeline with the RTA on the $5 million signage rollout.

Tourism Awards:

- I know times are a little tough for our industry but please encourage your members to submit and / or attend the awards night.

Product Development Funding:

- Later today or tomorrow Belinda will email the information and appropriate links for the $250,000 product development funding for the MNC. This money is a direct result of FORTO ie us as a regional tourism organisation working with the new government on delivering outcomes for regional NSW. This is a very exciting program for us to manage and I hope each of you communicate to all your operators this important initiative. The second round, $2 million for large scale projects, will be ready in a few weeks to access application forms and Belinda will let you know).

Regional Partnership Program – 2012 onwards

- The MNC Board had an excellent meeting last week discussing options and the way forward. There are still some discussions occurring at a state level of how all programs move forward. Under Destination NSW there will be a 4 member Visitor Strategy committee whose aim is to ensure double tourism expenditure by 2020. Over the next few weeks we should have a better idea of our funding and we will then call a regional reference group meeting so we can all decide our path forward.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to call Belinda. I just wanted to give you a quick update as Chair. Belinda will be emailing information soon re product development

As always thank you for your ongoing support of the RTO. We are growing from strength to strength and we are the leading RTO due to our excellent relationships with local government and tourism operators.

Kind regards – and may school holidays be busy!

Kathy Balodis

Chair – MNCRTO

Kathy Balodis

Macquarie Waters Boutique Apartment Hotel

11 Clarence Street, Port Macquarie, NSW 2444

Tel: 1800 70 25 35 or 02 6580 0291

Email: kathy@mwaters.com.au

Dear Colleagues,

Just wanted to contact you and advise that Council, in conjunction with Coffs and Nambucca Councils will be attending The Country Living Expo in Sydney – 5 – 7th August – www.frdl.org.au

The Expo is held at Rosehill Race Course which is located in the geographical heart of Sydney. The Expo attracts up to 10,000 people who are genuinely interested in moving out of Sydney into regional NSW. We view s this expo as an economical way to reach a market that is usually out of reach from a dollar perspective. We will be taking with us, promotional material including Focus magazine, Real estate guides, currently available jobs and general support information

To assist people with the move a jobs board has been established and will be situated at the entrance to the Expo. If you would like to be part of this exciting offer please forward to me the following:

Field – Admin/trade etc

Job title

Brief description

We will then enter this info into the Expo web site, plus jobs board. Please note this offer is for jobs in Urunga, bellingen and Dorrigo

We will also need a card/flyer of your contact details to give to customers when they come to the stand.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best Wishes

Stuart

Stuart Allardice

Manager Economic Development and Tourism

Bellingen Shire Council

PO Box 117

Bellingen NSW 2454

Mob:0428670357

Ph:02 6655 7306

Fax:66552310

Email:sallardice@bellingen.nsw.gov.au

” It is not the strongest of the species that survive,nor the most intelligent,but the one most responsive to change” Charles Darwin.

For full details click here

We invite you to exhibit at Road Show 2011 – Coffs Harbour.

· Enjoy face to face contact with the business community.

· Increase referral network for all involved.

· Increase & improve profile of your business/government agency.

· Increase contacts on databases.

· Increase marketing opportunities.

· Reach clients you might otherwise miss.

· Exhibitor fee includes promotion in the official APN newspaper lift out, listing (with link) on our website, tickets to the event + more.

Click here to see the exhibitor proposal in detail.

Our Key Note Speaker… Pete Blasina

A well-known face and voice nationally, Peter Blasina – or Pete the Gadget Guy as he is more popularly known – has become one of Australia’s trusted and most high profile technology commentators. He regularly contributes to mainstream newspaper dailies, key technology magazines, and appears as a presenter and commentator on the Seven television network, the ABC Radio network, The Fairfax Radio Network and numerous other AM and FM radio stations around the country.

The Gadget Guy has become popular thanks to his ability to demystify technology and present even the most difficult concepts in an easy to understand and fun way. Pete will speak about development of cross-platform strategies designed to make business easier & more profitable.

Pete will be key note presenter at each breakfast & host the cocktail evenings with exhibitor interviews and Q & A’s from the ‘audience’.

A big thank you to Telstra for sponsoring Pete’s presentations.

We look forward to helping you build your business on Road Show 2011.

Warmest regards,

Kym Kranen

Event coordinator

If you have any questions please give me a call, 02 6676 0084 or email on the link below

North Coast Business Roadshow

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