11 May, 2011
Social media is no longer a luxury extra for small businesses to use as a promotional tool, it's where their customers expect to find them. This story outlines the case for small businesses to get on social media.
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Submitted by: Fiona A Bowker | Categories: Ad/Media, Small Business, Columns, Social Media
20 January, 2011
Social enterprise is small, tactical and easy to do. As the world recovers from the global financial crisis, homegrown by the community becomes an increasingly important financial driver
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Submitted by: Peter Kerr | Categories: Small Business, Business
18 January, 2011
Business is booming for Khadija Ahmed, the female owner of the only sex store in the Arab world.
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Submitted by: Matthew Hall | Categories: Economy, Management, Small Business, Trade, Asia, Features , Fashion, Families , Asia, Business, Features
17 January, 2011
Tax deductions - 'I deduce that you're lying'. A cartoon by Mike Flanagan.
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Submitted by: Mike Flanagan | Categories: Small Business, Personal Finance, Industry, Management, Cartoons
23 November, 2010
Back in the 1800s Maori entrepreneurs were big wheels in the fledgling New Zealand economy, dominating the coastal shipping and flour milling industries. That ability to spot and exploit business opportunities is showing a renaissance, writes Amanda Cropp.
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Submitted by: Amanda Cropp | Categories: Small Business, Business
23 November, 2010
A part-time entrepreneur who juggles a small business and a demanding job reckons it’s like being a busker and a priest at the same time. “While you’re out there playing your guitar, people are looking at you thinking, he should be tending to his flock.”
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Submitted by: Amanda Cropp | Categories: Small Business
23 November, 2010
Obsessive recyclers Celia and Caro Allison say their commitment to sustainability is paying off for their homegrown fashion business, Dual.
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Submitted by: Amanda Cropp | Categories: Small Business, Fashion, Features , New Zealand
19 November, 2010
The cliche about small towns being so quiet you could fire a shotgun down the main street and not hit anyone pretty much described Sundays in the North Canterbury town of Oxford - until the opening of Jo Seagar’s cook school and cafe, and the advent of a farmers’ market.
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Submitted by: Amanda Cropp | Categories: Small Business, Rural Life, New Zealand
25 August, 2010
Starting a business in New Zealand is easy - the World Bank tells us we are the best around in their Doing Business rankings. But we can do even better, let's put three new things on the companies website: standard documents, official shareholder registers and basic governance tools.
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Submitted by: Lance Wiggs | Categories: Economy, Industry, Small Business, Management, Columns
26 May, 2010
Kiwi artist and activist Kim Paton has opened The Free Store in Wellington to give away food and raise questions about consumerism and needs.
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Submitted by: Duncan John Graham | Categories: Small Business, Features , New Zealand
15 January, 2010
Find out what today's most powerful and cost-effective form of advertising is and how your business can capitalise on it.
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Submitted by: Chris Bell | Categories: Small Business, Tips/Advice
14 January, 2010
In today's increasingly competitive market business must make a choice, continue to try and compete in a "world of sameness" or stand out from the crowd. Its a no-brainer really.
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Submitted by: Chris Bell | Categories: Small Business, Tips/Advice
13 January, 2010
Is your business in a position to capitalise on the development of a unique customer experience as your competitive advantage?
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Submitted by: Chris Bell | Categories: Small Business, Tips/Advice
13 January, 2010
A formula for business growth and profitability in 2010. These are not times for business as usual, business must adopt a real customer focus
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Submitted by: Chris Bell | Categories: Small Business, Tips/Advice
13 January, 2010
Business must understand that in today's market the customer is in charge. Unless a business has a complete customer focus in 2010, businesses will struggle.
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Submitted by: Chris Bell | Categories: Small Business, Tips/Advice
30 November, 2009
My husband and I were having a conversation with some friends about blogging and whether or not it was a viable marketing activity for online businesses. The discussion moved on to what types of businesses would benefit from a blog and what they could blog about. Together, we came up with a large number of potential blog niches and opportunities.
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Submitted by: Kalena Jordan | Categories: Small Business, Tips/Advice
27 November, 2009
Having emigrated to New Zealand from the UK and Estonia, James and Natalia Harrington have embarked on a further journey of exploration – into the building of eco-homes in the city of Nelson in South Island.
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Submitted by: Mic Dover | Categories: Small Business
