Startup founders and small business owners are often quite passionate about their businesses, and while passion is an important part of building a business, it can sometimes lead to lack of clarity and can impact effective decision making. That’s where advisory boards come in.
De-cluttering isn’t only for shelves and sock drawers – the Marie Kondo magic works for marketing plans, too.
Four-day weekends, public holidays, restricted shop trading days, leave entitlements, days in lieu… Easter can feel like the perfect storm for small businesses or those taking on payroll alone.
Using LinkedIn to recruit employees for your small business is a no-brainer but getting started may be daunting for the uninitiated. Here’s how to put your best foot forward the first time.
Finding motivation for starting a new business can be easy to come by, but as time passes these feelings may begin to fade. So what do you do when motivation is lacking?
It happens to everyone; you start a solid business and initially growth is solid. But after that first rush things begin to slow down. How you react to a slow down in business growth may determine your long term viability.
When this young professional made the move to NZ from the UK in search of greener pastures, she couldn’t have predicted the result would mean buying a decade’s old horseback touring outfit.
Taking on a personal assistant was once reserved for the higher echelons of management personnel. But with the dawn of the ‘always on’ work paradigm and modern information tech, the virtual assistant has become an affordable solution to a host of logistical problems.
A common fear among business owners is the thought of an idea being copied and claimed by someone else. Question is, how do you protect something as abstract as an idea?