{"id":12466,"date":"2021-08-13T03:29:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T03:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=12466"},"modified":"2021-08-13T03:29:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T03:29:03","slug":"3-5-million-boost-with-20-new-advisors-to-help-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/08\/13\/3-5-million-boost-with-20-new-advisors-to-help-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"$3.5 million boost with 20 new advisors to help businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small businesses will have additional support from business advisory service Business Connect with 20 new advisors providing free advice and a range of new resources, as the NSW Government ramps up its support for COVID-19 impacted businesses.<br \/>\nAn additional $3.5 million has been allocated to Business Connect to meet the demand from small businesses impacted by the pandemic.<br \/>\nMinister for Finance and Small Business Damien Tudehope said some of the new advisors were expected to be on board as early as mid-August.<br \/>\n\u201cThe funding will go towards a range of support measures including new advisors, more hours for existing part-time advisors and more events and resources,\u201d Mr Tudehope said.<br \/>\nMr Tudehope said Business Connect had advisors across NSW and all advice related to COVID-19 is free of charge.<br \/>\n\u201cSmall businesses affected by the current COVID-19 lockdown and restrictions can seek independent advice from Business Connect and business owners can access a range of webinars and online resources,\u201d Mr Tudehope said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe right advice at the right time can be the difference between success and failure for mum-and-dad businesses and entrepreneurs. If we keep businesses in business, we keep people in jobs.<br \/>\n\u201cBusiness Connect advisors and resources can help you to develop a recovery plan, consider your options, manage change and cashflow and market your business to reach new customers.\u201d<br \/>\nMany of the advisors have run their own businesses in industries dramatically impacted by COVID-19 including retail, hospitality, tourism and the arts and creative industries. Multicultural advisors and translation services are available for businesses from non-English speaking backgrounds.<br \/>\nFor more information on the support measures for businesses visit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.service.nsw.gov.au\/campaign\/covid-19-help-businesses\">https:\/\/www.service.nsw.gov.au\/campaign\/covid-19-help-businesses<\/a>. For more on Business Connect visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsw.gov.au\/businessconnect\">www.nsw.gov.au\/businessconnect<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small businesses will have additional support from business advisory service Business Connect with 20 new advisors providing free advice and a range of new resources, as the NSW Government ramps up its support for COVID-19 impacted businesses. An additional $3.5 million has been allocated to Business Connect to meet the demand from small businesses impacted &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/08\/13\/3-5-million-boost-with-20-new-advisors-to-help-businesses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;$3.5 million boost with 20 new advisors to help businesses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}