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Is our Government cutting existing projects whilst they skite about new projects?

After spending billions this year for little result, that future generation will have to repay, our Governments have started to talk a lot about spending money on infrastructure projects to create jobs. However it seems thay have no interest in protecting small business with existing committed infrastructure projects and are actually cutting them back.

A case in point is the the RTA’s new announcement that they have deleted the Ivy Lane exit from the Tintenbar to Ewingsdale Pacific Highway upgrade. This exit was to have been the major access to the famous Macadamia Castle from the Highway.

Under the new plan it would now be necessary for travellers from the North to exit 16 KM before the highway or backtrack 8km to visit the Castle. From the South visitors will have to exit at Ross Lane, travel 4km to the Castle and then continue on 13Km to rejoin the Highway. ( Yeah Right!)

This will have major detrimental effects on the Macadamia Castle and threatens its very existence. Macadamia Castle hopes to survive but may have to make drastic cuts to staff and infrastructure spending

The Macadamia Castle has become a landmark and well known place of interest to visit for people using the current highway.

As a major Retail business, Macadamia Castle at Knockrow is the area’s largest employer and a major purchaser of local goods. Each month over $200,000 is spent on local wages, produce and services. The business is 35 years old. The Castle is a major trainer of local youth in conjunction with TAFE. It provides a safe meeting place for Mums with young kids.

The Animal Park and is a destination for many school groups and holiday care programmes. It is a showcase for local products stocking over 200 local food items.  Its Café is a showcase for regional Cuisine.

Tony Gilding of the Macadamia Castle had the following to say about the RTA:-
“Despite the smooth words in the RTA documents :-
- The RTA has conducted no economic analysis of the impact on the Macadamia Castle.
- The RTA has made no predictions about the traffic flow that will result from these changes. In particular the issue of how residents and visitors from the North travelling to the  South of Byron such as Suffolk Park will exit the highway. The RTA’s suggestion that many of them will exit at Ewingsdale and travel through Byron Bay town would put pressure on already crowded Byron CBD.
- There is no compensation offered.
- There are vague indications of tourist routes and signage but no specifics.”

So how about spending the original planned infrastructure budget in this case where there is a clear and measurable impact and stop pretending its all new infrustructure spending.

Gifts and homewares retailers will be pleased to hear March and April retail sales growth statistics heading into to their first Gift and homewares trade fair of the coming Christmas/Summer season. The home and giving fair will be held 4th to 7th July at Sydney Olympic  Park, Homebush NSW and GHA exhibitors are cautiously optimistic of a reasonable result follwing a better than expected end to last season at the February 2009 Home & giving fair.

New South Wales leads the way with the highest increase in retail sales growth according to the latest ABS statistics. New South Wales grew by 1.3%,  with Queensland (+0.8%), Tasmania (+0.5%) and the Australian Capital Territory (+0.9%). Victoria was virtually unchanged, while South Australia (-0.1%), Western Australia (-2.4%) and the Northern Territory (-4.6%) all decreased in April 2009.
Australia wide, the Retail sales figures have again risen in April with a national increase of 0.3% following a 2.2% incease in March 2009.

Industries that had an increase in April 2009 (seasonally adjusted) were - Clothing and soft good retailing (+0.8%), Household good retailing (+3.9%) and Other retailing (+0.1%), while the Food retailing (-0.2%), Department stores (-2.8%) and Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services (-0.5%) industries had a decrease.

Freshen your bedroom with this traditionally quilted duvet cover in classic white. The diamond quilted top is smart cotton percale with a plain reverse.  Available in a set that includes a pair of matching pillowcases, this is simply beautiful. 

For perfect accent, team the duvet with superb 500 thread count Classique sheets featuring double corded embroidery in black.  The Orcia Duvet set retails at $359 for a Queen size with the sheeting at $165 and pillowcases at $79.95 pair.  Visit www.rubymoresi.com.aufor these and more stunning bedlinen collections.

A good internet business profile will attract and engage customers to a business, whilst a poor presentation will bore them or drive them to your opposition.

Internet users have a very short attention span and also have many other offers in front of them, so your internet business profile should be  brief and to-the-point yet intriguing . You must entice prospective customers to quickly understand what you offer, to understand about your businesses’; mission, products, services, people and unique competitive advantage.

Try to write your profile in a style that gives readers an idea of the business’s personality, minimizing the use of industry jargon and eliminate large words that others don’t typically use.

Don’t edit someone else’s article as you risk your page or site being downgraded by search engines for Duplicate Content. If you must use someone else’s ideas, then at least rewrite it, rearrange it and rephrase it and add some unique substance to it.

Set out the article in clear sections with bold headings so that readers can quickly drill down to the issue that interests them most.

Internet readers need to be able to figure out what you offer in an instant. You also want to entice them to read more, so start with a compelling hook that not only indicates what you offer but intrigues them to read more. A powerful hook can have several forms such as; a provocative question, a thought-provoking quote, a funny anecdote, a surprising or interesting statistic, or even an enticing image.

You can infuse some personality or hint of the businesses culture into the profile by telling of the founder’s unique road to the businesses’ development, or by mentioning any special awards and honours a company has received, or of the donations or volunteer work it’s staff have provided to the community.  Try to give the reader a grasp of how the firm is unique, special or different from competitors.

Details of the education, training, credentials or experience of key staff can excite some prospects and help them identify that the business fits their own standards and beliefs.

It is critical to spell out the reason why they should deal with you instead of another, by stating your unique competitive advantage. The benefit or reason why your product or service best meets the consumers needs.

Finally it’s important to actually invite or ask people for their business.

Different businesses need different variations of content however the following sections should be at the core of most business profiles:-
1. Introduction with a hook and brief description of what your business offers in products or services,
2. Detailed products or services description,
3. What’s special or Unique about your products or services,
4. Introductory offers or discounts,
5. Prices or charges if appropriate,
6. History of the businesses development,
7. Key Staff member’s backgrounds,
8. Summary emphasising your businesses uniqueness and unique competitive advantage and an invitation to try your products or service.

Selected coastal Thingz Gifts stores in WA are now offering a great new range of wooden coastal design decorative accessories. Their new collection includes the cool blue coloured designs of the Lazy days collection in photo frames and on a sailboat as well as a lighthouse tealight and decorative balls.

To complement this collection they have some all white products like the cute pelican on a mooring pole, some starfish adorned items and also some scallop shell designs.

More wonderful waterfront theme decorative accessories from Things Gifts. Excellent new giftware products.