Business Victoria is a comprehensive online resource designed to help you start, run and grow your business
Completing these step-by-step guides will give you personalised information on what you will have to do to start or expand your business. All guides provide you with a handy checklist to help you complete tasks.

A Mentor is a trusted guide who advises and shares their experience with the aim of helping you develop a successful business. To survive and thrive in business, it makes good sense to gain all the support and knowledge available to give you a competitive edge.

Mentors at the Small Business Mentoring Service can help you by:
1. Listening: Your Mentor is skilled at looking at issues from a range of perspectives, providing practical insight and suggesting alternative view points.
2. Motivating: Mentors are able to cut through the day to day problems and help you look at the wider picture and work towards achieving set goals.
3. Planning: Mentors will work with you to look to the future and build a plan that sets out the steps to follow.

This fact sheet contains a list of business opportunities or ideas that have been suggested by community members. The suggestions are listed by locality and then by category.

Business Victoria is a comprehensive online resource designed to help you start, run and grow your business. This website has information on:
1. Starting a business
2. Buying, selling or closing a business
3. Managing and improving your business
4. Industrial relations
5. ebusiness and much more.

This fact sheet provides a brief description of the type of help available for those setting up a new business venture or those wanting to develop their existing business:
1. Business Victoria Step by Step Guides
2. Bass Coast Shire Council Economic Development Staff.
3. Business in Bass Coast Website.

When starting a business it is always a good idea to contact your local trader group. The members of these groups can provide valuable support and assistance as you start your new business - especially if your are new to the area.

Whether you are starting a business or growing one, there's a clever way to do it. At business.gov.au you'll find all the information and tools that you need to make business easier. It's your gateway to:
* public information on every registered Australian business
* permits, licences and forms you need to conduct transactions at all levels of government
* the latest information on superannuation and taxation issues
* grants, tenders and contracts information
* professional advice and support and a whole lot more.

The attached fact sheets provides information on business grant website locations and a brief description of the information available on the site.