Keeping it local
My husband and I have recently shifted to the country from suburban life. It’s still a suburb of Melbourne but an outer suburb amongst the hills and bushland. It’s beautiful and we look forward to many years here as we head towards retirement and grand-parenthood.
While I do run a virtual online business of my own, I find it’s still important to maintain contact with local business operators. There are just some things that need to be done on a local basis. And it’s a great way to get to know the locals and let them know I exist too.
I woke up in the morning realising I hadn’t yet seen a local newspaper so when I went to the post office on my daily trek to the shopping area I noticed some shops had the local paper stuck under their doors. On enquiry I found out where I could get a copy and brought it home to check through the classifieds. (I find it strange thinking about the local paper on the very day it’s become available)
A short time later I had 3 appointments set for the day for a home handyman to do some carpentry, for someone else to come and cut up fallen branches and clear the area at the back of our property and for yet another to regularly mow our very large lawns.
It’s important to support the local business community whenever possible.
Hello Kathie, You done a very good work as always.I currently work from home for a telemarketing company. However, I would like to add to my work load and income. Are there any data entry work from home jobs that I can apply for that do not require me to pay them for the job? Or are there other marketing opportunities that I can work from home? The main thing is I do not want to have to pay anyone to have a work from home job!
I totally agree with you on this. Nate and I go out of our way to support the small business owners as opposed to the large corporations. Small Businesses is what has helped sustain the United States.
On behalf of all the local small businesses we help to support Thank you for helping to buy real, buy local. The GOV helps support them and wel put them intouch with the government support at
http://australiangovernmentgrants.org
We too are just a small local based company, so thanks!
Hello Kathie,
I totally agree with your comment that it’s important to support local businesses. In the UK, out-of-town supermarkets have turned village and town centres into places where nobody goes anymore. The village and
town centre properties are now occupied by solicitors, undertakers, travel agents and other businesses with low or no passing trade. The butchers, hardware stores and grocers have all gone.