Mobile business applications are powerful enablers for workers and for business efficiency. Bill Bennett went app spotting.
Smartphones and tablets mean you no longer need to be chained to a desk to run a business. You can trade anywhere there’s mobile data coverage. These days that effectively means all of New Zealand except, perhaps, the distant ‘wop-wops’.
For many years this magazine has endeavoured to educate owner managers on the merits of debt factoring as a means to smooth cashflow and fund business growth. Today factoring has become accepted as a game changer; it’s time to catch up on the latest developments.
It’s uncanny how a series of events can lead you to a place where you were born to be – a place where you can make a real difference in the world. For Greg and Leanne Holdsworth, that place is their ‘new design casket and urn manufacturing business Return To Sender. By Glenn Baker.
When North Shore IT business FaceMe was last featured in (NZBusiness), it was February 2012 and the entrepreneurial company had just won the BNZ/Virgin Business Challenge, with its prize of $100k in cash and one-on-one time with Sir Richard Branson.
Jonny Mole, CEO of Chilli, introduces the concept of ‘audience equity’ and its increasing relevance within the emerging ‘connection economy’. In this three-part miniseries, Jonny outlines how the concept applies to the functions of Selling, Marketing and Recruiting within an ambitious privately-owned business.
COVER STORY
Green shoots
FEATURES
Apps that mean business
Flexible factoring
Mobile business applications are powerful enablers for workers and for business efficiency. Bill Bennett went app spotting.
Smartphones and tablets mean you no longer need to be chained to a desk to run a business. You can trade anywhere there’s mobile data coverage. These days that effectively means all of New Zealand except, perhaps, the distant ‘wop-wops’.
For many years this magazine has endeavoured to educate owner managers on the merits of debt factoring as a means to smooth cashflow and fund business growth. Today factoring has become accepted as a game changer; it’s time to catch up on the latest developments.
It’s uncanny how a series of events can lead you to a place where you were born to be – a place where you can make a real difference in the world. For Greg and Leanne Holdsworth, that place is their ‘new design casket and urn manufacturing business Return To Sender. By Glenn Baker.
When North Shore IT business FaceMe was last featured in (NZBusiness), it was February 2012 and the entrepreneurial company had just won the BNZ/Virgin Business Challenge, with its prize of $100k in cash and one-on-one time with Sir Richard Branson.
Jonny Mole, CEO of Chilli, introduces the concept of ‘audience equity’ and its increasing relevance within the emerging ‘connection economy’. In this three-part miniseries, Jonny outlines how the concept applies to the functions of Selling, Marketing and Recruiting within an ambitious privately-owned business.
COVER STORY
Green shoots
FEATURES
Apps that mean business
Flexible factoring
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