Join Business Whangaparaoa for an evening of local networking.

Date: Wednesday 16 August
Time: 5.30 to 7.30 pm
Venue: The Archer, 570 Whangaparaoa Road
Title: Overcome Helplessness and Thrive in Difficult Times

When an elephant trainer starts working with a baby elephant, he or she will use a rope to tie one of the elephant’s legs to a post. The elephant will struggle for hours, even days, trying to escape the rope, but eventually, it will quiet down and accept its limited range of motion (Wu, 2009).

When the elephant grows up and is more than strong enough to break the rope, it doesn’t even try – it’s learned over time that any kind of struggle is useless.

Like the elephants, we learn a lot of our thought patterns and behaviours early on and it can be hard to change our patterns. So, how can we overcome learned helplessness and make sure we are acting in a proactive accountable way to help us stay on top, even in difficult times?

A huge thank you to our sponsors of this event -

Calling all New World Shopping District business owners (New World Shops to Arklow Lane region). Join Business Whangaparaoa for a casual get together to find out -

• What you want from us as your local business association
• How we can help grow your business
• What is happening in our Whangaparaoa business community

Date: 10 November 2022
Venue: Ferntinental Cafe, Gulf Harbour Country Club
Time: 5.30 to 7.30 pm
Speaker: Futurist Dave Wild - Create Your Future

Do you sometimes wonder what your future holds? In the search for answers, it’s easy to miss the signals of the future all around us. However no-one can foresee the future precisely. So the best way to predict the future, is to be the ones creating it. Just as we’re making the machines smarter by writing new code, we can also rewrite our own habits. Changing the way we think. Shifting the way we lead. Creating the future. Today.

A huge thank you to our sponsors - Telos Group Real Estate and Hibiscus and Bays Local Board

Register and pay for this event and get FREE access to Dave's online Mindflex video course. In just an hour it teaches people new ways of adapting to change. Watch this before joining us to see Dave live!

https://youtu.be/jtW9NVaIVV8

Celebrate Christmas with Business Whangaparaoa!!

Join us for our annual end of year Christmas celebration, following our AGM, to thank our members for their support with drinks and nibbles at -

• Venue: Paraoa Brewing Co
• Any time between 6.00 - 7.00 pm
• Thursday 8 December

Discounted drinks for Members and complimentary nibbles for all

All business owners/managers welcome!!

If you can join us please register below to give us an idea on numbers for catering thanks!

Join Business Whangaparaoa at Manly Bowling Club on Sunday 18 September, 2 pm for an opportunity to hear from your candidates in the upcoming local elections standing for Hibiscus and Bays Local Board (Hibiscus Subdivision) and/or Albany Ward.

Get your questions answered and find out what they plan to do for you in the next term of office.

For catering purposes, if possible please register interest below

Join Business Whangaparaoa in our 2022 business network event series!

• Date: Thursday 1 September
• Time: 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
• Venue: The Archer, 570 Whangaparaoa Road, Stanmore Bay
• Speaker: Rachel Klaver
• Marketing: What's Working for small businesses this year

Cost: Members: $17.50 / Non-Members: $34.50 (inc GST)

Join Business Whangaparaoa for an evening of networking with local businesses and to hear our speaker Rachel Klaver.

Join Rachel Klaver, marketing strategist and co-owner of Orewa marketing agency Identify, stuff columnist and podcast host for a night learning about what marketing strategies currently work best for small businesses across the board.

While there are always industry specific actions a small business owner can take, Rachel will help you get a grip on the following:

• How social media is changing and why this is important for small business owners
• What you should be doing every week
• Why building an email list is more important than ever
• How the privacy laws and policies are impacting your marketing
• What you can do to make your marketing work better for you

Rachel's focus is on organic (free) marketing rather than paid advertising. She also welcomes questions, and can give you real, relevant and up to date advice on your marketing.

A huge thank you to our sponsors for this event - 

Celebrate mid-year Christmas with Business Whangaparaoa!!

Join us for mid-Year Christmas and to thank our members for their support with drinks and nibbles at -

• Venue: The Beer Spot
• Any time between 4.00 - 6.30 pm
• Thursday 28 July

Discounted drinks for Members and complimentary nibbles for all

All business owners/managers welcome!!

If you can join us please register below for an idea on numbers thanks!!

On all August BUY LOCAL and be in to WIN!!

Make any purchase from ANY business in Whangaparaoa, Red Beach to Gulf Harbour and enter in any of the following ways -

HOW TO ENTER

Entry Box - Place this form and a minimum $20 receipt (attached or folded) in an entry box located around Whangaparaoa prior to 5pm 31 August 2022.
Postal entries can be posted to Business Whangaparaoa, c/o 8 Crown Road, Tindalls Beach Whangaparaoa to be received no later than 31 August. An original $20 minimum spend receipt must be included with all postal entries.
Online - Submit online entries at www.businesswhangaparaoa.co.nz/buy-local-2022. A $20 min spend receipt MUST be attached electronically to all entries.
Three prize packs will be drawn on 1 September and winners contacted directly and announced online and on social media.

Calling all Stanmore Bay business owners and managers!!

Business Whangaparaoa would love you to join us at Paraoa Brewing for free nibbles and a drink to get to know your neighbour businesses and tell us what you want to see locally to help you in business from Business Whangaparaoa.

Tell your Stanmore Bay neighbours to come along for an informal catch up with other local businesses to share your triumphs and frustrations, give us ideas on what you'd like to see happening to support your businesses locally and see how we can all work together to make sure Whangaparaoa really is a great place to live and work.

Please register for catering purposes

Join Business Whangaparaoa as we "finally" start our 2022 network event series!

Date: Wednesday 11 May
Time: 7.00 am to 8.30 am
Venue: Red Beach Surf Life Saving Club, Ngapara Street, Red Beach

Cost: Members: $21.85 / Non-Members: $34.50 (inc GST) includes breakfast

Logic Explains, but Emotions Talk – Getting your 2022 business plan to stick!

There are only two reasons why we do what we do. Either it is because we have developed a habit and we repeat our behaviours almost unconsciously, or secondly, because there is a reward that we expect which we value more than the effort we put into the activity that leads to this reward.

So, when you create a New Year’s resolution or a yearly plan for your business, is this done mostly in the first or second scenario explained above?

Your business plans will seldom stick if they require you to dig deep and for you to verbalize 10 times ‘this year I will be sticking to the plan!

There is another way that will double your chances of sticking to your plan, we will explore this.

A huge thank you to our sponsors -

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