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Welcome to Business Talk
Welcome to BUSINESS TALK, the City of Marion newsletter that provides a monthly snapshot of what's happening in your business community.
Business success is essential to the future of the City of Marion as a place to live, learn, work and invest.
We are here for our business community to:
- Be your first point of contact at Council
- Provide local business support services through business associations, including the Tonsley Small Business Advisory Service and the Tonsley Business Support Ecosystem
- Help you connect with local businesses, skilled people and training providers
- Offer networking, information and education
- Lead local initiatives such as Southern Adelaide Economic Development Board, Visitor Economy, Digital projects, Workforce Development
- Activate the Cove Enterprise Hub and Tonsley Business Hub
- Advocate on regional issues.
We value your feedback and encourage you to get in touch with
us
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Hallett Cove Business Association -
Local is the New Black Campaign
The City of Marion of Marion recently provided Hallett Cove Business Association with a $2000 community grant to support to their new initiative
Local is the New Black. The initiative was launched on 28 July at the joint first year celebration of the
Cove Enterprise Hub and the
Hallett Cove Business Association. More than 75 people attended the event which clearly demonstrated the enthusiasm for local networking.
"The reason why the association was launched the
Local is the New Black campaign is that
there are over 4700 local businesses registered in the Hallett Cove/Sheidow Park / Trott Park areas. So this campaign is a call to action,"
Marie Soliman Chairperson of the Hallett Cove Business Association said.
"Shopping locally for goods and services keeps the local economy and community flourishing. It keeps dollars in the community - to be spent in the community. It keeps shops and services open, promotes employment and it helps local people feel connected".
For more information about the campaign visit the
association's website
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Book Reviews
These following books are
available
for loan through the City of Marion library service and provide some excellent ideas about growing local services. Click on this link to find out
more information about there availability.
In 50 fascinating bite-sized tips this book will have you completely re-evaluating the way in which you market your business and sell yourself. After years of sharing her small-business tips and marketing tricks with readers of her popular blog, ChunkOfChange.com, and column in the Long Beach Post, Olga Mizrahi has taken her message to the streets, urging business owners to focus in while reaching out.
 The Local Economy Solution suggests an alternative approach in which states and cities nurture a new generation of enterprises that help local businesses launch and grow. These cutting-edge companies, which Shuman calls "pollinator businesses," are creating jobs and the conditions for future economic growth, and doing so in self-financing ways. Pollinator businesses are especially important to communities that are struggling to lift themselves up in a period of economic austerity. The book details case studies of successful pollinator businesses that are creatively facilitating business and neighbourhood improvements, entrepreneurship, local purchasing, local investing, and profitable business partnerships.
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Retail makes an important contribution to the City of Marion economy and employment. It
- attracts over 15 million visitors to our city annually
- contributes $500 million to our economy each year
- is our number one employer - representing about 5000 jobs
- supplies $124 million worth of goods and services to businesses outside Marion each year, and
- provides our local businesses with goods and services worth $45 million per year.
With more than 1,000 retail businesses in the City of Marion, there are plenty of places to make purchases. We have strong shopping precincts including
Westfield Marion
,
Castle Plaza
and the
Hallett Cove Shopping Centre
. We also have some South Australian business icons in our backyard - to name a few ....
Patritti Wines
,
Kytons Bakery
,
Charlesworth Nuts
,
Warradale Hotel
and the
Boatshed Café
.
A dollar spent in our retail precincts employs someone in a local business - consider buying local.
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Looking for something unique for a client?
The
Living Kaurna Cultural Centre
has a great range of beautiful locally made products that would make excellent gifts. The gallery is stocked with native food products, handmade scented candles and soaps, silk scarves, woven baskets as well as paintings, books, message sticks, pots and prints.
Another option is to find something unique at Gallery M at the
Marion Cultural Centre
. The gallery is a premium visual arts venue providing an ideal setting for both local and touring art exhibitions. It is a versatile exhibition space catering for exhibitions by individual artists, groups and community projects. A shop selling a wide range of hand crafted items by local artists is adjacent to the main gallery. Gallery M is proudly operated by the Red House Group on behalf of the City of Marion.
If you are looking for an exclusive gift for someone special or a corporate gift - come and check out what the Living Kaurna Cultural Centre or Marion Cultural Centre have to offer.
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The City of Marion and partners run a variety of business events including workshops, seminars and networking functions throughout the year.
To view upcoming events within the City of Marion, download the
Calendar of events
to see what is on offer. If there is something else that you would like to see added, please make contact with
Georgie Johnson
, Economic Development Administrator.
nbn™ Rollout
The nbn™ continues to roll out in the region. To find out the status of nbn™ roll out for your individual business just click the
check your address search function on the
nbn™ website.
An information session for businesses is being held on 13 September from 6.00-7.00pm at the Cove Civic Centre.
Please
register to attend this briefing.
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Business Survey - we want to hear from you
The City of Marion works with a range of partners to deliver a number of business support services in Marion and the region which are aimed at helping businesses develop and grow.
Feedback is important to us to ensure that these services meet the needs of your business. Accordingly, we are conducting a survey to identify the key issues that are impacting on Southern Adelaide businesses and what services and support systems would help to address these into the future.
We would appreciate ten minutes of your time to respond to these questions. Business name and contact details are not required and all individual responses will remain confidential.
The survey is open until 30 September.
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We hope you have found this newsletter of interest and please feel free to forward this onto your networks or others that may be interested in what's happening in the City of Marion and the greater Southern Adelaide region.
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