SmallBusinessExpo 21 - Digital Brochure

CONNECTING BUSINESS ACROSS AUSTRALIA

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4-5th November 2021 Victory Room, Marvel Stadium Docklands, Melbourne

www.sbexpo.com.au | info@sbcmedia.com.au +61 3 8689 9898

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MEMBER OF THE ABF GROUP

Welcome

About SMALL BUSINESS EXPO 4-5th November 2021 Victory Room, Marvel

ATTEND An entrance of 2,000+ small business professionals and business owners attend our exhibition, with the primary agenda of improving and growing their business.

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The inaugural Small Business Expo (SBE) and the Small Business Connections Summit (SBC) will be presented in November 2021 Melbourne Australia.

Small Business Expo provides a opportunity for the small business sector to connect with over seventy exhibitors from Government Agencies, Industry Associations, Chambers of Commerce, brand partners and exhibitors from all industry sectors.

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Australia’s Biggest Small Business exhibition, showcasing business across all industry sectors.

SBEXPO 2021 taking care of business.

SPONSOR Position your brand and engage with qualified visitors and over 80 exhibitors and speakers at SBEXPO 2021.

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Welcome

Why attend?

• Discover new business opportunities • Connect and re-connect with business leaders at the #1 business event • The latest solutions that will help your team break through the noise and improve the way they capture, convert and retain your audience • Networking online to benchmark your journey with the business sector • Free seminars & workshops to develop your knowledge so you can outperform your competitors • Learn from the best at the SBC EXPO 2021 online in Australia • Innovative ideas, products, solutions and networks • One-stop-shop SBC Expo 2021

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Why attend?

Engage with decision makers online

Small Business Expo is a major business-to-business event.

Our mission to help small and medium businesses to engage, connect and grow. Recognising the many challenges that SMEs face from increased competition, the ability to adapt to rapidly changing market demand, technological change, and capacity constraints relating to resources, knowledge, innovation, and creativity.

Small Business Expo serves as a platform for SMEs to showcase products and services, network, forge new business opportunities, survive and succeed in the COVID norm and beyond.

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Cash-flow and ongoing funding options, effective marketing initiatives, health and wellness issues, cyber security, staff incentives and HR, technology & IT and engaging with government, are some of the focus at Small Business Expo.

Small Business Expo provides new and innovative ideas, to manage and grow business, across all industry sectors as well as “Connecting business across Australia” As business embraces the new norm, and realigns with the challenges of covid-19, the demands on business owners to embrace and engage effective strategies today, are critical.

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Email: info@abf.events | www.ABF.Events

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TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS 4-5 November 2021, Marvel Stadium, Docklands, Melbourne

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SBC Media Platform SmallBizWeek is supported by the SBC media platform, which delivers strategic content to Australian small-to-medium businesses, entrepreneurs, established business leaders and various stakeholders in the SME sector.

SBC Media Includes

Advertising on SBC • Digital adverts

• Sponsored Events

• Multimedia adverts

• Local Travel and Wine Promotions

• Sponsored Editorials

SBC monthly digital magazine

ABF/SBC digital news website

ABF & SBC weekly newsletter

The SBC magazine delivers readers with the latest SME news, events, interviews, trends and inspiring real-life small business stories. The magazine’s carefully curated content is designed to help support small-to-medium business growth, reach new markets, discover new tools, scale business and connect with the larger SME community in Australia.

SBC Focuses on Topics Critical to the SME Community, including: SBCVision.TV

• Cybersecurity for Small Business • Startups and Entrepreneurs • Funding and Cash-Flow

This multifaceted platform comprises an interactive website, digital and print magazines, weekly newsletters and social campaigns. SBC aims ato educate, connect and grow small-to-medium enterprises across all industries.

• Tips and Advice for SMEs • Social Media and Digital Marketing • Big Tech for Small Business • SME Lifestyle, Travel and Luxury Goods

ABF/SBC Subscribers

30K+ Subscriber database

Audience: SME owners and community members throughout Australia, representing all industries. Additional subscribers from the U.S., Pacfic and Asia.

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The Small Business Expo and the SBC media platform are backed by the ABF Group: a market-leading authority in the SME sector. For more than 10 years the ABF Group has been curating high-profile business forums, conferences and events; providing business brokerage services and strategies; and facilitating trade between Australian SMEs and the Chinese market.

SBC Networks

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About Organiser

ABF Events For a decade now, ABF Events (ABF) has firmly established itself in the Australia business sector. Through an expansive business, media and events platform across the Australia Pacific/Asia network, the ABF platform has upheld a focus on connecting Australian businesses from within the SME mid-cap market sector who are either already engaged in or are seeking to engage with domestically and internationally.

ABF has developed a major, annual SME focus event schedule, hosting events across Australia and Asia. The ABF network of partners and associations across business, government and industry bodies from all industries sectors, brings together leaders including dynamic C-level executives from a range of the top-100 companies, federal and state ministers, leading international academics, senior government officials, economists and other community leaders.

Connecting Business Across Australia MEMBER OF THE ABF GROUP

+61 33 8689 9898 | info@abf.events

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