This Monday, the team at Commerce Warrnambool (of which I am a committee member) are pleased to welcome Mr Bruce Hall to present Marketing your professional services business.

Bruce is an experienced marketer and business mentor and will help your team understand:

• customer service as a marketing tool
• how to ‘know’ and connect with your ideal customer
• how to be more strategic and systematic with your marketing

For the small fee of $55 members and $77 non-members you’ll get 3 hours of expert advice, morning tea and the chance to network with other local professionals.

Numbers are limited, to book follow this link.

Regards

In recent times you may have heard or been told that the medical rebate no longer exists – this is kind of true, except that it does still exist albeit with some very strict rules.

There is an offset available for total net medical expenses for disability aids, attendant care or aged care and the limits that apply will depend on your taxable income.

For example I can still claim this offset for the purchase of my hearing aids as they are used to assist where hearing communication is restricted.

To read the full details of what is included in the calculation of the offset, and how much you may be entitled to claim, have a read of this link from the Australian Taxation office:

https://www.ato.gov.au/individuals/tax-return/2016/supplementary-tax-return/tax-offset-questions-t3-t9/t5-total-net-medical-expenses-for-disability-aids,-attendant-care-or-aged-care-2016/

Regards

Apologies to those of you who tuned in on Tuesday only to discover I was sick, and thankyou to everyone for sending well wishes, I really appreciate it.

I’ve been in this blogging caper for over 400 posts and have never missed a day.  Up until this week I have always found a way, no matter where I’ve been in the world, to get to my computer and string some words together so I don’t let you down, only this week I simply couldn’t muster the energy (do I need to point out that I wasn’t just being lazy, I was curled up on my couch with a nose and chest infection and no voice?  Probably not, but I will just in case…).

Sometimes I worry that I appear ‘too put together’ or as if ‘I can do no wrong’, in fact I actually hope that is the case, because I believe in what I do and what I’m trying to achieve.  But I have leanred that it’s perfectly OK to not be ‘switched on’ ALL of the time, and to give yourself a break when you need it.

I really do try to have these posts written in advance, I have a schedule that serves as the base for all of my social media (for The Tax Chic, Bron Levett Coaching and Business in Heels – South West Victoria as well as supplementing the social media of my family’s businesses), I am a true planner at heart and I feel most composed when the plan is written down (this firmly pegs me in the C category of EDISC!)

Running a business and having a life and staying healthy and spending time with friends and volunteering in the community, this all takes time and effort and occasionally I drop a ball – I hope this helps explain my absence early in the week, and that you can see that I am human too, just like you.

Regards

Sorry folks, The Tax Chic is sick today.

See you Thursday.

Bron