Coffee Time Minutes - 28th April 2010

Welcome - Welcome to our new visitors.

Apologises - Tarnia

Who we are? Small and Home Business owners meeting to build relationships from other SBO’s.

What is CT? Relatively casual meeting group, where you can network, talk about business ideas and strategies, and learn from one another.

Where? Tuggerah’s Zenith Centre.

When? At 10.30 am on the 2nd & 4th Wednesdays of the month. Arrival 10.25 am for 10.30 am start. (Runs for about 1 hour)

Update on our Raffle? The raffle is going around. This will go together with today’s collection to the Iris Foundation. For April so far we have raised $70 ($41 last fortnight & $29 from this week).

Tickets will be $2 each, or three for $5. If you would like to donate a prize to the group for the raffle, please let me know. Other wise I will purchase from the collection of funds and will be worth up to the value of $10 each fortnight. All monies will be donated each month to the charity of choice.

Networking:
· Coffee Times: May the 12th and 26th
· Wyong Chamber of Commerce Networking after dark - May the 11th
· B2B Networking night – 13th May (Wyong Race Course)
· Central Coast Women’s Luncheon – April 22nd –(Mingara)

Expos:
* B2B Buy Local Festival on tomorrow the 13th May at the Wyong Race Club for more details please contact Lyn Thompson – there is over 150 businesses/exhibitors booked in, with expected crowds of a couple of thousand people. Pop along and show your support.
* BEC & DSDR Small Business Month in May – keep an eye out for what’s on.
* Central Coast Extravaganza Business Expo – 23rd June at Mingara – 67 exhibitors booked out of 75 exhibitors. If you would like to go along please contact Cindy at Central Coast Women’s Networking

Education:

BEC courses evening courses - For more info contact the BEC on 4355 4885 or info@ccbec.org.au

Wins:

Warren – picked up a new client he had spoken to many years ago.
Ted – Tomato patch networking, meetup.com

Who are you & what do you do: 30 Sec story about you

Dean Brown:
Woodview Home Loans & Finance
www.homeloansandfinance.com.au

Natalie Pye:
C & N Freight.
www.cnfreight.com

Ted O’Shannessy:
Financial Freeway
www.financialfreeway.com.au

Moria Bayliss: Herbalist Moirabayliss@yahoo.com.au

Kathy Bree:
Coffee News Central Coast
www.coffeenewscc.com.au

Dayasagar Saraswati:
Craniosacral Therapy, Yoga & Meditation
dsaraswa@bigpond.net.au

Warren Garth:
Cats accounting
www.catax.com.au

Toni Oliver:
Toni Oliver Conveyancing
www.tonioliverconveyancing.com.au

Challenges in Business:
This week we didn’t discuss any challenges in our businesses. Next time

Presentation:

Today’s presentation is by Warren Garth from Cats Accounting.

* Diagnosing the health of your business
* Provide innovative and proactive tools for business
* Routine health checks required for all businesses, his software can help in this regard.
* Cats Accounting – is a family business. Warren has 30 years experience in Accounting, and he is the managing director

Open Forum – discussions were had on cashflow & problems with cash flow.

Thanks everyone for sharing ideas, solutions and recommendations with everyone. Thank you Warren for sharing your knowledge with us all. I look forward to next time.

Raffle Drawn:

Prize donated from: Tarnia Gurney
Amount collected this fortnight: $29
Today’s Winner – ?Ted
That is a total of $300 donated to the Iris Foundation.

Have a wonderful fortnight.

Thank you Dean for running the meeting.

Thank you for coming along today. Feel free to network with your peers.

Our Next Meeting is on the 12th May. We will start at 10.30am sharp.

Our Next Presentation will be by Open Forum about business