Running beyond empty
May 25, 2022
If you’re a Kiwi business owner, you’re be glad to see the end of the past two Covid-ravaged financial years. This stress-busting wellness guide can assist you in recharging and
If you’re a Kiwi business owner, you’re be glad to see the end of the past two Covid-ravaged financial years. This stress-busting wellness guide can assist you in recharging and
Richard Conway explains some simple SEO techniques that business owners can use to edge the competition. The past two years have cemented search engine optimisation (SEO) as perhaps the most
Are under-performers holding back your sales team? Logan Wedgwood explains how the right discipline and structures can help the whole team succeed. What if an over-reliance on inspirational speakers is
With online reviews now trusted more than ever before, Mat Wylie highlights the importance of building your business’s reputation both online and off. When you’re asked to name a
Todd Westwood has advice on how to get your employees mentally match fit. In the workplace, mental health is sometimes more important than physical health. If a team member gets
For many people a tablet computer with detachable keyboard can be a better choice than a laptop. Bill Bennett explains how to find one that’s right for your business needs.
If we don’t invest in the circular economy, we’ll soon be investing in more chaotic price rises and supply shortages. Do it now, and we can be world leaders in high value innovation, writes Andy Kenworthy. Modern New Zealand is an outpost of the industrialised lifestyle developed in the great land masses of the world. That lifestyle is currently unsustainable. It’s even more unsustainable on some remote islands in the middle of the South Pacific. A circular economy, where resources are never abandoned to become waste or pollution, is the only viable long-term option. The need for change is more acute in New Zealand than elsewhere. So we must take the lead. Our wake-up call came in 2018. China stopped
Fiona Clark provides a straightforward guide to building, and maintaining, the best team possible for a post-pandemic workplace. There is a saying going around that it’s time to not only ‘Go Through Covid, but Grow Through Covid’. This is a great way to think about business and how to make the next 12 months count. Whether you are in rebuild mode, in a growth phase, or flat out trying to keep up with demand – we all need one thing, and that is a good team. The reality is it’s hard to grow a business without good people. And there are a lot more challenges now for business owners to navigate. We’ve heard about the ‘Great Resignation’, about the
David McEwen’s successful 30-year career providing share market investment advice recently received a major booster shot with his newly launched Stockfox app.
Cat and Jonny Peters describe the growth of their trades recruitment business as formidable, and they’re only just getting started.
‘Wine-olojists’ Maciej Zimny, Josh Pointon and Jessica Wood created a start-up to help wine drinkers gain further enjoyment of wine by understanding exactly what’s in the bottle.
For Whanganui’s Angela Hewson, business has been a roller-coaster – thankfully with many more ups than downs. She shares her story in the hope it will inspire others in uncertain times. It was the arrival of the aerobics industry in the early 80s that initially sparked Angela Hewson’s interest in the world of sweatbands and lycra. She had been running a successful dressmaking business in Wellington, but it was at Les Mills aerobics classes where she caught the bug that would ultimately define her business career. With her two pre-schoolers in tow, a job in the gym’s crèche in return for free classes seemed like a good deal. “I was quickly hooked and knew I wanted to become an instructor,”
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