What’s
on this rather long page?
Are the listings really free?
Who I am & why I’m doing
this
My interests overlap your
interests
What is a local business?
Towns & suburbs covered
Can you contact me or do you have
to wait until I contact you?
When will I list your business
category?
Will I list your local
not-for-profit organisation?
Upcoming categories
Are
the listings really free?
Yes.
Your listing will look very
much like one of these:
As you can see, your listing
will include your business name and address and a summary of your business. I
write a summary description of the business’s goods, services or other
offerings, after I’ve asked you questions about what makes your stand out from
the crowd.
Who
I am & why I’m doing this
I’m a local who is both excited
by and made slightly nervous by all these big new buildings going up in Gosford
and I’m not alone in my ambivalence. But with population and house price
pressures from Sydney, and the Australian population as a whole rising, it had
to happen. And it’s good for business: the population goes up, the number of
visitors to our beautiful Brisbane Water area goes up and a rising tide lifts
all ships and their bottom lines.
This website is not a business.
Later, I may or may not take paid advertising. If and when I do, this website
will stick to its amateur tone because it’s driver will always be my personal, amateur
interest in the changes.
My
interests overlap your interests
If your business is locally
owned, my interests overlap your interests. My interests are in tracking the
physical changes to Gosford and the Greater Gosford/Brisbane Water area and, in
time, the Wyong area and out into the hinterlands behind the Central Coast, and
also in the changes to the local retail and other business scenes in the area.
It all affects me and it all affects you, other locals, local business and
visitors to the area too.
The local social, retail,
wholesale, manufacturing and other business scenes are affected by population
rises and visitor numbers. That’s why I’m doing the local listings pages and
why I’m doing them in categories: I want to know what’s out there in each
category, where they are and what makes them the same as and different to the
other businesses in their category. Later, when the population has jumped up
with all these new apartments, the local retail scene will change: there will
be more pet shops, another winery or brewery, more freelancers working from
home, more cleaners, more of most things and, I think, more differences from
one business to another in the same category. So I’ll keep updating my lists,
listing all the new ones businesses that spring up, and we can all watch the
business scene grow and change too as Gosford and the Greater Gosford grows and
changes.
What
is a local business?
On this website, a local
business is a business that’s locally owned. It can be a bricks and mortar shop,
an online shop, a service business like a home and/or office cleaning service
or a cafe or accommodation, a a business-to-public or business-to-business
service, a wholesaler, a lone freelancer working from home, a tradie or sub-contractor, a mobile business
such as a hairdresser or dog groomer or some other service, a small to medium business or
even a big business as long as that business is locally owned.
Towns
& suburbs covered
For the moment, the area I’m
covering is Gosford itself plus what we locals call the Greater Gosford, which
just means the suburbs, towns and villages in and around Gosford and around the
beautiful Brisbane Water estuary. Your business is included if your business is
in one of the places listed below and you
are locally owned. Non locally-owned
businesses need not apply.
If your business is in a place
listed below, you are in the Gosford area:
Avoca Beach
Bensville
Blackwall
Box Head
Booker Bay
Copacabana
Correa Bay
Daleys Point
Davistown
East Gosford
Empire Bay
Erina
Ettalong Beach
Fishermans Bay
Forresters Beach
Gosford
Green Point
Hardys Bay
Holgate
Horsfield Bay
Kariong
Koolewong
Killcare
Killcare Heights
Kincumber South
Lisarow
Macmasters Beach
Matcham
Mount Elliot
Narara
Niagara Park
North Avoca
North Gosford
Orange Grove
Parks Bay
Patonga
Phegans Bay
Pearl Beach
Picketts Valley
Point Clare
Point Frederick (old name:
Longnose)
Pretty Beach
Saratoga
Springfield
Somersby
St Huberts Island
Tascott
Terrigal
Umina Beach
Wagstaffe
Wamberal
West Gosford
Woy Woy
Woy Woy Bay
Wyoming
Yattalunga
Have I left you out? Are you
not there in between the suburbs or towns around you? Email me and tell me your
suburb’s or town’s name and the names of those on either side of it. If your
suburb or town has an old name, tell me what it is and what the new name is and
I’ll use both. Include your answers to the questions below. Help me to help
your bottom line.
Can
you contact me or do you have to wait until I contact you?
I will list your business on my
website when your category is ready to publish.
But you can make it easier for
me to list your business and your category by sending me an email with clear
and precise answers to the following questions:
Are you a locally-owned
business? (You must answer this with
“yes”, “no” or “partly”.)
What is your business name?
What is your business phone
number? (I’ll contact you on various
points.)
What is your exact address?
What is the nearest
cross-street to your business?
What local landmark would help
people find you?
Who started your business? You?
You and your partner/friend? Someone in your family? If a family business, who
started it and when?
What is your business type?
Retail, bricks and mortar, online only, a bit of both, wholesale, import,
export, goods, service, type of goods or services, business-to-public,
business-to-business. If other name and describe that other.
What makes your business the
same as others in your category? What do you supply that they too supply?
What makes your business
different? What are the goods or services you offer that they don’t? Do you
hold your own unique events? What are those events and when do you hold them?
If you’re planning a new type of event, when might you hold it? (I will soon
start publishing seasonal listings of things to do in the Gosford area. I will
be including some business event dates in those listings.)
When
will I list your business category?
When the list for your category
is ready. You can help me get it ready by emailing me your answers to the
questions above.
Unless your business is a
knocking shop. I won’t be listing local knocking shops or sole traders in that
line of business. I have nothing at all against the workers, I just don’t want to
be known for listing that category on my website.
Will
I list your local not-for-profit organisation?
Very likely. I want to cover
the leisure and pleasure and other non-business parts of Gosford too and that
includes non-profit organisations.
Upcoming
categories
These are the categories I’m likely to publish lists of in August,
September and October 2017. I might put one off until the following month and
I’m likely to change the order in which they’re published. You’ll just have to
grin and bear it. It’s free, after all.
August 2017
Beers & Ales, Wines &
Liquors
Karaoke & Open Mike Nights
Views, lookouts & overlooks
Scottish Gosford
September 2017
New to the area?
How to use this website
Local history & family
history
Weekend Markets Galore
October
Halloween
Where to Stay
Clubs w Food & Drink
Beach reviews
That’s all on this subject for
the moment. If you have any questions, ask them when I ring you for information
about your business or email me through this website.
While you're here, have a look at some Winter Blooms, Narringa, Dog Friendly Gosford or Terrigal or click on "older posts" at the bottom of this article.
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