Golden Arches under Southern Skies
This book will strike a loud chord with anyone who has ever tried to get their business to run before it can walk and never taken no for an...
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The truth about Trusts
Should you have a trust? Naturally, the answer is dependent on your circumstances. The primary reason for having a trust is to...
Making your customers feel they are missing out
I have just spent an hour organising flights for a rather complicated trip zigzagging across the Tasman and around Eastern...
Don’t mess with our ACC
For the past six to eight weeks the spin machine has been working overtime and spewing out half truths and misinformation about ACC....
Are you investment ready?
There are many steps or hurdles to overcome before your business may be attractive to an investor, and consequently achieve the...
The customer loyalty myth
This behaviour is not only counter intuitive it goes against the old 80:20 marketing rule – spend 80 percent of your marketing...
Stable and Sustainable? I think Not
On April 17th the NBR commented on the just released OECD report and some of the harsh facts that it includes. We’re in...
‘The Consequence–Free Society’?
Regular readers of this column will be familiar with a central theme I repeatedly mention; the benign business environment from an...
Half full or half empty?
I am not one for astrology or predictions, especially when it comes to the economic outlook, other than to say I have learned that...
The case of the missing origami cranes?
Good communication with staff is fundamental to achieving the obligations of good faith which underpins the Employment Relations Act...
Is marketing all about campaigns?
Marketing is not all about campaigns. That is only a tiny bit of what constitutes the Marketing concept and it is...
Tell them once, tell them twice?
Managers who deliberately repeat themselves are more effective at getting things done, according to research by Professors Tsedal Neeley of...
Do your customers 
trust you?
An Annual Monitor (Edelman PR’s “Trust Barometer”) conducted each year in the US reports that fewer than half of...
Enhancing employer rights with an employment agreement
Are employment agreements all just about paperwork? No, definitely not; they define the rights of both parties to the employment...
A look through the LTC regime
On 15 October the Government released the much anticipated legislation in relation to the treatment of Qualifying Companies...
Business: what’s the point?
Is there a point to business? A purpose?If we were to conduct a street poll, what would people say in response to that question?I am...
What’s the last thing new franchisors need?
If you are going to franchise your business, domestically or internationally, the last thing you want is a...
Employment law changes benefit employers?
Since April 1 a number of changes to employment laws have come into force. These changes are essentially to the Employment Relations...
7 secrets of fabulous businesses
I am often asked what characterises a successful business versus an unsuccessful one. Despite the plethora of books on the...
Is Australia too franchised?
An article in the Sydney Morning Herald a couple of months ago posed the question, ‘Is Australia too...
Don’t drop the ball on poor performance
Performance management is an essential aspect of managing employees in the best of times. However, it is even more important now...
5 Major Myths for intending Franchisors?
If you’ve ever talked about franchising your business, you’ll soon find yourself having conversations with people who...
Don’t worry, everything is fine
Marketing isn’t broken. It isn’t a gazillion times more complicated than this time last year. It hasn’t turned...
To market, to market
2011 has been declared another difficult year for New Zealand’s hard-working exporters – but there have been some positives. Patricia...
Security Check
New technologies are helping to lock down business premises, stock and assets. Steve Hart looks at some of the latest trends in business...
The 7 habits of difficult employees And how to deal with them!
Some employees are nothing but trouble. Dr Mary Casey offers up strategies for dealing with the seven difficult employee types. Every...
Marketing on the new frontier
Kevin Kevany looks at online marketing in a world of hyper-connected, super-empowered individuals. How seriously should we be taking online...
NZBusiness December 2011
COVER STORYFrom mighty seeds - the NZ2011 Business ClubFEATURESTo market, to market - export initiative.Online marketingSecurity...
Kiwis would buy ‘green’ if they knew what it was
New Zealanders would buy more eco-friendly products if they had a greater...
CONTROLLING CAREER CHANGE
Denice Bennett-Rae doesn’t fluff around. The chartered accountant was the financial controller for a multi-national US$35 billion...