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Elevating & Connecting Townsville Businesses

Townsville is big enough to have what you need, and small enough that somebody already knows who it is.

Castle Hill. The pink granite hill in the middle of Townsville. You can see it from almost anywhere in the city, and most of the city walks up it.

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What is Elevating & Connecting Townsville Businesses?

A circle of Townsville business owners who introduce each other, by name and in person, to people they know and can vouch for.

Townsville runs on who you know. The Defence community, the port, the hospital, James Cook University, the trades and the small businesses on every corner all overlap, but most owners only ever meet the few people already in their own corner. The right accountant, supplier or first big client is often one conversation away, and nobody has made the introduction.

Your host in Townsville

Every club starts with one person who answers for it. In Townsville that person is Mary.

Host

Mary Stevenson

Mary Stevenson

Business Owner Coach · The Alternative Board Australia

Mary Stevenson hosts Elevating & Connecting Townsville Businesses. She is a Business Owner Coach with The Alternative Board Australia, where she helps business owners, in her own words, amplify the possible, uncover the invisible and write their next chapter in business and in life. Her work is about helping owners line their business up with what they want from their own lives, and building teams and cultures that get results. She meets people face to face in Townsville and online anywhere.

How does it work?

Worth a read

Read How do you meet the right business people in Townsville?

A plain guide for Townsville business owners, new and established, who want to meet the people who could actually help their business. Why the usual networking nights rarely get you there, how Townsville really does business, and why one personal introduction beats a room full of business cards.

Who do you want to meet?

Tell Mary who you are trying to reach, and why. If this club can help you get there, she will say so, and if it cannot, she will tell you that too.

Castle Hill stands nearly 300 metres over the middle of Townsville, and it does something no other landmark here does: it puts everybody on the same path. Before work, the tradie, the surgeon, the student from JCU and the owner of the café on Flinders Street are all on the same track to the top, nodding at each other on the way up. Nobody climbs it to be introduced, but plenty of Townsville business has started with 'I see you up the hill most mornings'. This club is that path, made on purpose.

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