• How to win new business in the 'new normal'
    The post-lockdown period could be the best time to win new business, writes Ben Paul. All it takes is the right approach, service innovation, and a positive attitude.
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  • FROM THE EDITOR
    Buy MAY issue here What a mess! (Now let’s sort it) Well, there we were, literally minding our own businesses, when out of the blue emerged an unprecedented global catastrophe.
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  • Helping business owners transition to retirement
    Hastings-based Barry and James Rosenberg are the father and son team behind 65 Not Out – a subscription-based online resource to help people transition from business to retirement. Not surprisingly,...
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  • 5 practical STEPS to improve your SEO
    Richard Conway shares his best advice for driving customers to your website via Google search. With more than 3,000 updates annually, the Google search algorithm is always being refined and tweaked...
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  • Humanity champions
    Samantha Gadd’s Humankind is on a mission to improve employee experiences across New Zealand. Its success story is an inspiring one based around pivotal reinvention, employee-centricity, and simply...
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Finance
Managing ‘the books’ 2020-style
Friday, 01 May 2020

Lisa Martin, Executive Director of GoFi8ure, discusses all things accounting and bookkeeping, and shares some best practice management advice with business owners.

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Business Management
Successful businesses know how and when to pivot: do you?
Friday, 01 May 2020

As we settle into 2020, it’s fair to say that responsiveness will be the thing that makes or breaks your business, writes Advisory.Works' Simon Mundell.

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Other
Become a Supporter
Friday, 24 April 2020

At NZBusiness our focus is to inspire, educate and inform business owner managers in New Zealand’s dynamic small and medium enterprise (SME) sector – the backbone of the economy.

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Business
PODCAST: How your business can thrive beyond Covid-19
Tuesday, 12 May 2020

BreakThrough Business Solutions’ Fiona Clark offers some practical advice to help business owners get through the next six months, and make their businesses more resilient in the process.

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Covid-19
Home office communications: what’s really essential?
Tuesday, 21 April 2020

Working from home has become commonplace in recent months around New Zealand. Bill Bennett reviews the communications technologies on offer for business owners.

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HR and Health & Safety
Friday on his mind
Tuesday, 21 April 2020

Eighty4 Recruitment’s Mark Fisher is about to make a nine-day working fortnight permanent for his staff. He has advice for businesses looking to do the same.

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Covid-19
‘It’s All Good’ on the West Coast
Monday, 25 May 2020

From Israel to New Zealand, Anat and Rami Edwy have found their home and inspiration on the West Coast, where they run a successful natural skincare and personal care company.

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Covid-19, Technology
New kit detects employee fever at access points
Wednesday, 20 May 2020

A Kiwi IoT specialist has released the Adroit Fever Kit - a no-touch, portable device that enables employee screening at all access points to a business.

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Covid-19, Marketing
Buy NZ Made campaign to ease the pain
Wednesday, 20 May 2020

Buy NZ Made has launched a campaign challenging New Zealand businesses, manufacturers and producers to ‘make their way out’ of our current tough times.

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Exporting
Wild about honey
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
Go Wild directors Francesca Bonventre and Kaai Silbery are the driving force behind a distinctive new freeze dried honey product from the Chatham Islands that has a promising export future.
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Technology
Should you trust your cloud provider to protect your data?
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Around the world, businesses are moving to the cloud at a rapid rate. But Leo Lynch questions whether the cloud is really the best place to store your mission-critical data and applications?
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Technology
Addressing videoconferencing security concerns
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic response saw many organisations rush to adopt, or dramatically expand their use of, video conferencing. But with it comes increased privacy and security concerns.
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Inspiration
The business that matches users with books, movies
Monday, 25 May 2020
Narrative Muse is an online tool that perfectly matches users with books and films written, directed and made by and about women and non-binary people.
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Inspiration
Guide on failure reveals how to succeed
Thursday, 21 May 2020
A new tongue-in-cheek book, How to Fail Fantastically, says failure is a critical step to success. It's author Ken Williams believes rather than fear failure, you should embrace it.
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Inspiration
Online market a lifeline for F&B producers
Thursday, 02 April 2020
Maker2u, the online farmers market, which launched on 23rd March, is providing much needed new sales to artisan food and beverage producers that have had other sales channels collapse with Covid-19.
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