Gloria Jean’s Coffees, located in the old post office building, Murphy Street, Wangaratta, want you and your family to shop locally. It helps the town by keeping your local dollars, local!

So, to make things a bit easier on the hip pocket, Gloria Jean’s Coffees Wangaratta will give you a 10% discount* on all drink purchases, if you have a receipt from any wangaratta business that weekend.

10% OFF* - JUST FOR SHOPPING LOCALLY!

* One receipt per transaction. Must be a Saturday or Sunday of the same weekend the purchase is made.
Discount not applicable to any food purchase in store.
Not available on any weekday.

GLORIA JEAN’S COFFEES
“MAKING IT GLORIOUS”

Did I hear you say you don't actually set an annual budget for advertising?

If you sort of shuffled your feet, looked a little coyly, and murmured "yeah, I don't set a budget', you can count yourself amongst thousands of other businesses in Australia - especially those small to medium size businesses where the owner usually ‘is’ the business and are too busy working ‘in’ the business instead of making time to work ‘on’ the business.

A lot of small businesses - especially rural based businesses - feel they get a lot of their sales from...

To help you comply with your tax obligations, Business Wangaratta encourage all small businesses to consider the ATO's free business assistance visits.

Visits are confidential and conducted by ATO staff at your place of business (or preferred location), where they will discuss specific tax topics of interest to you.

Some topics include:
• Understanding activity statements and record keeping requirements
• Understanding employer obligations, including pay as you go withholding (PAYGW), fringe benefits tax (FBT) and superannuation, and
• Using our online services such as Business Portal, tools and calculators.

Go to www.ato.gov.au/businesses or phone 13 28 66 to book your free business assistance visit.

A challenge for any solo business owner is how to get others to help run the business, so that it doesn’t completely take over your life. You can look over everybody’s shoulder all of the time or you can invest in business systems to free yourself.

In reality, solo business owners are going to do most things themselves. But it’s possible to get help from the likes of book-keepers, virtual assistants or colleagues in the same industry. This way your business doesn’t completely take over your life.

Restricted trading days
Victorian law specifies that there are three and a half restricted trading days each year:
    * Good Friday
    * Easter Sunday
    * Christmas Day
    * between 12.01 am and 1pm on ANZAC Day

On these particular days, only exempt shops are permitted to open. See the following information for more detail.

The latest edition of the Energising Small business newsletter from Small business Victoria is now available.

The newsletter contains items such as

• A message from Joe Helper - Victorian Minister for Small Business
• Victorian Government continues to assist Small Business
• Time to thrive for Victorian Small Business
• Competitive Energy Prices for Small Business
• Business Consultation Database
• Interview Skills Coach wins New Business Award
• Profit from Design
• What's NEW Online
• Upcoming Events
• Multiple Contacts List

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A practical marketing plan can save your company from going backwards, and in the scenarios we like to see, propel it into a whole new realm.

Read on for some tips regarding the best way to go about preparing a plan that you’ll want to see through!