Calendar
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Previous Meetings & Speakers
Tuesday 31st August 7.30am-8.30am (Manly)
Email Marketing – getting it right (Manly)
Whether your business sends out regular emails or is yet to send its first, this brief talk by NewsBusiness PR Marketing director David Bateson will give you some very practical advice, hints and tips on deciding what to say, and how often to send. The talk will cover both the creative and technology aspects of successful email marketing for businesses.
This will be the first Club meeting held in Manly on the Bayside.
Wednesday 25th August (Bulimba)
Email Marketing – getting it right
Whether your business sends out regular emails or is yet to send its first, this brief talk by NewsBusiness PR Marketing director David Bateson will give you some very practical advice, hints and tips on deciding what to say, and how often to send. The talk will cover both the creative and technology aspects of successful email marketing for businesses.
This will be the first Club meeting held in Manly on the Bayside.
Tuesday 27th July
What the media wants!
Would your business like to get media coverage?
Come along on to hear Courier Mail journalist Josh Robertson’s advice
Josh Robertson has been a journalist for many years working on a number of different titles. Previously writing for the Business Owner section of the Courier Mail, he is currently one half of the Courier Mail Confidential team covering the social and gossip pages for the paper. He is clearly in a great position to let you know what stories the media is interested in and what journalists really want to know about.
Friday 25th June
Survive and thrive in the economic downturn
If you don’t make the right decisions now, it cold cost you tens of thousands in lost profits – or could it cost you something much worse?

In 2003, Faye Caughey started Kaizen Coaching Queensland under the #1 coaching franchise, ActionCOACH business coaching. The business was named a world finalist in the top performing firms at the 2006 Action International conference in Fiji and only a year later was awarded “Global Firm of the Year” at the 2007 ActionCOACH International conference in Dublin.
Faye has worked in the public and private sector during her 30 year career, working with teams ranging between 2 and 2,000 people, and holds an MBA in Human Resource Management.
Thursday 27th May
Essential Business Tips for Retailers
How can you increase your sales by 50% without increasing your marketing budget?
How can you get customers rushing through the door, leaving your competition behind?

Sigrid de Kaste, Business Marketing Coach and Advisor will share the two most often overlooked strategies you can use to increase sales and have customers come rushing through the door.
These are strategies Sigrid has used herself to build and successfully sell her own businesses over the past 7 years.
Sigrid now advises Small and Medium Businesses on how to achieve more sales, less work and have motivated staff.
Her 10 tips and tricks to survive and thrive, despite the business challenges we are currently presented with, are recorded in her:
“Retailer’s Essential Survival Guide”
and offered to Coffee & Croissant Club guests as a FREE gift.
Wednesday 28th April
“How to grow your business using public speaking” with Debra Jarvis

Debra is an accomplished author and an internationally experienced public speaker, MC and interactive public speaking and presentation skills trainer.