Malaga & Districts Business Association

Executive Officer's Report

Since the November edition of Malaga News MDBA has been very busy with our Fun Golf Day at Swan Valley Oasis, when Derek Carroll and the team at Bunnings demonstrated quite convincingly their golfing prowess, closely followed by Bill Baguley and the team from Mixtec.

Pictured on the right are the Bunnings Malaga team lead by Manager Derek Carroll (right)

The Armed Robbery Prevention Course, also held in November at the West Coast Street Rod Club was a great success, and subsequently our MCMF now have plans to develop this event further in coming months.

The MDBA AGM/ Christmas Sundowner at Ballajura Community College was held in early December. We were fortunate to retain the services for another year from most of our 2009 Committee.

Rod Henderson was unanimously elected to the role of President again, and we have the addition of Gail Straunch from Bridgestone Select Malaga as our new Treasurer with Kelly Gray from Communicare as our Secretary. We are pleased to have Paul Trotman from the City of Swan on board as our new Ex-Officio, and to welcome to the committee Jack Joy from Jobswest Training Services.

A new year brings with it the opportunity for you to come along to some of the exciting events that we have planned. On February 26 we will have the Media Launch of the 2010 Malaga Business Excellence Awards, followed in mid March by a free seminar to assist you in preparing your entries for the awards. More information will be available on our website www.malagab2b.com.au

Throughout the year we have planned some essential seminars to assist business owners and their staff, in conjunction with our major sponsor City of Swan. These will be held in Malaga at minimal cost, and include topics such as Risk Assessment and First Aid.

If you have any suggestions for desirable short business training programmes then please email

At the City of Swan's Malaga Place Plan in December

Bunnings Malaga Supports the Toodyay Bushfire Appeal

Bunnings hold sausage sizzle for Toodyay appeal

Team members at Malaga Warehouse have been busily involved in collecting goods and donations for the Toodyay fire emergency.

We have been busy shaking tins at the entrances to the store and we ran a sausage sizzle on Friday the 8th January where all funds went straight towards the appeal.

The goods have already been delivered to Toodyay, and we are no longer accepting goods.

We have Free Adult DIY workshops running over the weekend, 11.00 am and 2.00pm daily as well as free, fun workshops for the kids at 10.00am and 1.00 pm.

Come and show your support and help to donate any spare change towards a great appeal and take part in a workshop as well.

Bunnings Malaga Warehouse are open 7am to 7pm and are located at Corner of Marshall Road and Malaga Drive Malaga.

Test your computer hardware for free before buying Windows 7

Before you go out and purchase Windows 7 you can test your computer hardware to make sure that it will be able to run Microsoft’s new flagship operating system. While most new systems should run Windows 7 without a hitch, its always best to know if you will need to upgrade your hardware in advance so that you can budget for the additional expense.

To test whether or not your system meets the system requirements, you can download the Microsoft Upgrade Advisor from the Microsoft website or copy and paste this link into your browser:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/upgrade-advisor.

The file is small, 8.3MB and downloads in about 2 minutes, depending on your internet connection.

Once the file has downloaded, open it by double clicking on it, read the license terms and select “I accept the license terms”, then click install.

Make sure that you have attached and switched on all your devices so that they can be detected by the upgrade advisor (eg printers, backup drives, iPhones) and click Start Check to run the program.

After a few moments you will get a report screen that tells you about your computer hardware.
It is a very easy report to read, green ticks are good, yellow triangles aren’t. You’ll get an explanation of what to do to make sure that your computer is ready for Windows 7.

10X Releases World-first iPhone App

10X launches new iPhone App, Cashflow Pro, literally putting cashflow growth in the hands of local business owners for the first time ever.

10X Perth NE recently announced the release of CashFlow Pro, a one-of-a-kind iPhone application designed to provide business owners with a quick, convenient and accurate analysis of their business’s most important financial indicator – their net variable cash flow. The 10X-exclusive application also offers over 170 practical strategies to help SMEs strengthen their financial position for long-term growth.

10X Business Development Specialist and Coach, Jay Roberts, says that CashFlow Pro is the first cashflow management tool created specifically for the iPhone and will serve a as a strategic tool in the war against business failure. According to Jay, “Cashflow is the number one problem facing my clients and business owners across the country right now, with some 60% of small business owners citing serious concerns about cashflow. Cashflow Pro will give once-struggling business owners the ability to maintain their cashflow position anytime, anywhere with just a few clicks on their iPhone.”

Jay is confident that the 10X CashFlow Pro iPhone application will prove to be an indispensable monitoring tool for on-the-go business owners, allowing them to instantly assess the state of their cash with just a few input figures from a profit and loss statement and balance sheet. The application also calculates a business’ Gross Profit, Required Working Capital and Marginal Cash Flow. Included in its cashflow improvement strategies are proven methods to reduce the cost of goods, reduce expenses, improve pricing, reduce debtors’ amounts, slow payments to creditors and reduce stock holding.

• Easy to understand, flow chart style visuals.
• 20 ways to reduce the cost of your goods.
• 80 ways to reduce your expenses.
• 31 ways to improve your pricing.
• 21 ways to reduce debtors’ amounts.
• 5 ways to slow payments to creditors.
• 22 ways to reduce stock holding.
• Use app again and again as your business grows to keep on top of your cash flow.

10X CashFlow Pro is the latest addition to the 10X range of Business Development products, designed to help small-to-medium business owners dramatically improve and grow their business. It is compatible with the iPhone and iPod touch. To download the application, open the iTunes Store and click on the App Store. Then simply enter ‘CashFlow Pro’ in the top right ‘Search iTunes Store’ box or simply access the application via this quick link: http://tinyurl.com/mjsyne

*60% statistic taken from the BREW ANZ Private Research Study, in which 60.6% of companies with a turnover of less than $40M/year cited serious concerns about cashflow

Parking Issues

The Malaga & Districts Business Association is putting together a taskforce to tackle the parking issues within the Malaga area. If you have any issues with parking near your workplace or have a hotspot near you, send in your concerns via email to Julie at

PRIDE OF WORKMANSHIP AWARDS

Striving for excellence is a vital ingredient for any career in this rapidly changing world. To highlight its importance, the Rotary Club of Ballajura- Malaga conducts “Pride of Workmanship Awards” as part of its Vocational Service Programme.

Any employee is eligible for a Pride of Workmanship Award. This award is intended to provide public recognition for an employee who: goes the extra mile: in his or her daily work.

Awards are open to those who live or work in the Ballajura-Malaga district areas.

The theme of the Pride of Workmanship award is
Do it once- do it well – build a better Australia.

Nominations to include a written half page A4 summary on the merits of why the nominee is a candidate for this Award.

Nominations to be sent to:
Patricia Canning, Director Vocational Service
The Rotary Club of Ballajura – Malaga
PO Box 3430
Malaga WA - 6945

Spotlight on Malaga Print and Copy

Malaga Print and Copy offer a range of services

Malaga Print & Copy has grown to become one of Malaga’s leading print providers. Arriving in Malaga in 1998 with a small photocopier and an near empty factory with a nothing more than $15.00 dollars in the bank, a dream and a commitment to customer service and quality we have grown to now employing 4 people with combined experience of over 100 years .

We believe customer service is important and try to have more of a friendship based relationship with our customers rather than a strict working relationship. You need to be flexible when working with your customers and try to achieve an outcome that everyone is happy with and that makes your customer s keep coming back to you.

Every now and then we will drop the ball and fail someone but instead of having it having a negative impact we firstly rectify any problems, learn from the experience and work through why this occurred to prevent them from happening again.

Malaga Print & Copy only use the latest Digital Xerox printers. Reproduction from digital files have never been better, Ideal for short runs flyers, business cards, letterheads etc. Gone are the days when you need to order quite a large amounts to get a cheap price only to find you throw thousands out because they have become outdated.

Coming Soon Variable Data Printing. This will enable our customers to send out personally addressed flyers, letters , special promotions directly to the person the item is intended for.

Malaga Print & Copy also have the latest Digital Plan Printer for all building drawings we can print from electronic PDF files or straight from the original plan. We can also can the Original hard copy and turn this into a electronic file for you to email to suppliers for quotes or just to keep on record.

Malaga Print & Copy also offer traditional offset printing producing anything from business cards to Tax inv books. We use the latest computer to plate technology.

Malaga Print & Copy still use to this day Letterpress Printing machines (presses of the past) for Diecutting, Perforating or Scoring.

To Back up all these services we also have in house binding facilities to professionally finish off your job. Whether it be stapling a document to booklet making we have the equipment to do the job. We are just in the process of installing the latest Polar 92cm Guillotine (march) which will enhance our binding department.

Extracts from the Newsletter -February 2010