How to plan BD time when you’re more than just a salesperson
Ben Paul shares three steps to successfully plan and utilise your precious business development time. For many business owners, or those...
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Why working harder isn’t working smarter
Author and strategic leadership expert Alicia McKay explains why rearranging your priorities and throwing away that badge of workaholism...
The link between data quality and sales productivity
If you want your business to better leverage it’s data to enhance sales productivity, Tunc Bolluk suggests three steps to take...
Why digital documents are the new currency of productivity
Chandra Sinnathamby explains why the pandemic has made digital documents a business necessity. The ability to sign, share, review and...
Is gentrification driving small businesses from the ‘burbs?
Higher house prices contributing to the rapid gentrification of suburbs pose another challenge for business owners, who may find their...
7 mistakes not to make when hiring contractors
In a business environment that’s fueling more demand for contractors, Louise Woollett-Ratcliffe explains what NOT to do when taking one...
5 ways to enhance the wellbeing of your people
In these challenging times, business owners and leaders must focus more than ever on the wellbeing and welfare of their employees. Campbell...
Plan for disruption: create a continuity go-bag
The recent Level 3 lockdown in Auckland is a timely reminder to businesses around the regions of the need to be prepared for any potential...
How to gain consumer insights in 2021
Stephen Walker reveals the top five trends affecting the way Kiwi businesses will gain consumer insights in...
The rise of the virtual assistants
Admin Army’s Irene Bennetts explains how remote services are replacing the traditional office administrator, but still saving jobs. ...
START 2021 OFF RIGHT WITH THE MYOB SMALL BUSINESS BOOTCAMP
With the local economy performing better than expected, a COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon and a busy summer season ahead, local business...
A new Privacy Act
A new privacy act means you need to act on 1 December 2020, New Zealand’s updated Privacy Act comes into force. Here’s...
Q&A: Home is where the mentoring is
Sarah Trotman has returned to her mentoring roots as CEO of Business Mentors New Zealand. NZBusiness asked her what it's like to once...
Guide: DIY user experience for small business
User experience (UX) design has often been the domain of large corporations. However, Purple Shirt's Steve Alexander believes that small...
Alberts the answer to CBD uncertainty
Looking for a pandemic-proof Auckland CBD office space? With the arrival of Alberts exciting new workspace concept in Downtown Auckland now...
Why you need to trust your data to drive success
In these covid times it's important for business owners to be more creative with their marketing spend, to make it go further. The key is...
Starting your own business? Beware these 5 myths
Take everything you think you know about starting a business and throw it away. These all-too-common misconceptions about what it’s like...
Closing the disability employment gap
Are New Zealand businesses accessible and inclusive of employees with disabilities? There is still a lot of work to do, and Covid-19 is not...
Leading the charge against Covid
Five ways that Struan Abernethy and his marketing solutions company are surviving Covid-19 and building a high-performance business in...
Why ‘doing good’ in business can bring good
Joe Davis explains why acts of doing good can have a long-lasting impact on reputation and business performance – and are part of a much...
7 key small business trends delivered by Covid
Andy Hamilton shares the seven key trends his team have learned from 285,000 interactions on support forum Manaaki.io, and what they...
How to turn a side-hustle into a viable business
Entrepreneur Chris South shares the key lessons he has learnt on how to progress a side-hustle into a fully-fledged and sustainable...
How to catch trade secret and restraint breaches
Sherridan Cook examines why employers are increasing their vigilance to catch trade secret and restraint breaches. Why is there a current...
Positioning your workforce for post-Covid success
Looking to restructure your business? Susan Rowe sets out steps that can be taken to preserve staff while reducing costs, and what to...
The future of business in a pandemic changed Aotearoa
Pandemics, climate change and the technology-induced democratisation of knowledge and communication are creating a whole new business...
Pivoting through a pandemic
Business entrepreneur Nick Bartlett and wife Tamara executed an 11th hour product pivot prior to the Covid-19 lockdown, which offers...
Business planning in the midst of Covid uncertainty
Xero’s David Bell offers some valuable insight into how business owners can effectively plan for the future during the current Covid...
Need tax certainty? Try a binding ruling
For business owners a binding ruling from IRD has become a commonly used means of obtaining certainty as to how a transaction will be...
Manufacturing in a post-Covid world
Steven Holden examines the opportunities and challenges facing New Zealand’s manufacturing sector and what a post-Covid...
Surviving Covid-19’s hangover: a guide to a post lockdown WoF
David Thomson and Sarah Chin provide a snapshot of some issues, legal and non-legal, to consider as you navigate your business back to...