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Franchisees' tips for success: Franchise Association of New Zealand
Your Business editor Caitlin Sykes interviews Graham Billings of the Franchise Association of New Zealand.
Debbie Mayo-Smith: How you get a better outcome in negotiations
Negotiation skills are an asset to hone to help you achieve better outcomes. Here are nine tips on how to improve your negotiation success.
Special diet companies: Love Cake
Your Business editor Caitlin Sykes interviews Virgina Clark, owner of Love Cake, about catering to people with special diets.
Special diet companies: Little Bird Organics
Your Business editor Caitlin Sykes interviews Little Bird Organics' Jeremy Bennett about catering to people with special diets.
Special diet companies: Blue Frog Breakfast
Your Business editor Caitlin Sykes interviews Blue Frog Breakfast founder Scotty Baragwanath about catering to people with special diets.
Special diet companies: ViBeri
Your Business editor Caitlin Sykes interviews Viberi founder Tony Howey about catering to people with special diets.
Special diet companies: Venerdi
Your Business editor Caitlin Sykes talks with Tim Grainger, founder of Venerdi, about catering to consumers on special diets.
Top 10 communication tips
Business motivational speaker Debbie Mayo-Smith's tips to communicating effectively by making connections.
Husband and wife businesses: Ashley & Co
Your Business editor Caitlin Sykes interviews husband and wife business owners Jackie and Ben Ashley about Ashley & Co.
Husband and wife businesses: Foodbox
Your Business editor Caitlin Sykes talks with Foodbox owners Jenny and Peter Smith about running their business as a couple.
Husband and wife businesses: North Port Events
Your Business editor Caitlin Sykes interviews husband and wife business owners Gavin and Dona White.
Husband and wife businesses: Straker Translations
Your Business editor Caitlin Sykes talks with husband and wife Grant and Merryn Straker about working as a team.
Graham McGregor: Gift certificates to boost sales
Gift certificates are an excellent way to create a quick surge of new sales from your existing clients and customers.
Debbie Mayo-Smith: Running a profitable business by smartphone, pen and pad
How a smart businessman stripped conventional systems from his business and wound up more profitable.
Workplace diversity - Aaron Andrew, Andrew.Stewart
Aaron Andrew is managing director of environmental and planning consultancy Andrew.Stewart, which last year won the Work Life Balance award at the EEO Trust’s Diversity Awards NZ.
Networking: Anthea Baker of Homebase
Anthea Baker, owner of Homebase, a home staging, furniture hire and interior design business talks to Caitlin Sykes about networking.
Your Business: Workplace diversity - Jill Tattersall, KIWA Digital
Jill Tattersall is chair and CEO of KIWA Digital, an Auckland-based production house for experiential digital books.
Your Business: Workplace diversity - Murray Long, Murray Long Builders
Murray Long Builders is a residential building company. Murray Long talks to Caitlin Sykes about diversity in the workplace.
Your Business: Workplace diversity - Tiffany Zyp, Blastacars Drift Karts
Tiffany Zyp is operations manager at Blastacars Drift Karts, which was highly commended in the Divers-ability category of the EEO Trust’s 2014 Diversity Awards NZ.
Huge income tax shake-up proposed
The Government is considering the biggest shake-up of one of the building blocks of the income tax system since its introduction in 1957.
Your Business: Workplace diversity - Bev Cassidy-Mackenzie
Embracing diversity in the workplace isn't a 'nice to have' these days - it's a necessity.
Debbie Mayo-Smith: A great idea for quiet times
Do you, or staff have a quiet period in the day, or perhaps a day of the week where you consistently have a lighter work load?
Your Business: Outsourcing offshore - Jenny McIver, Wishbone Design Studio
Jenny McIver is a founder of Wishbone Design Studio, which produces the Wishbone Bike and other children’s products.
Your Business: Outsourcing offshore - Adrian Falvey, Touchtech
Adrian Falvey is managing director of Wellington-based mobile and web app developer Touchtech.
Your Business: Outsourcing offshore - Aaron Muir, Argus Tracking
Aaron Muir is a director of Auckland-based firm Argus Tracking, which has had its mobile asset management hardware manufactured in multiple countries.
Kiwi-made cosmetic beats world's best
A small NZ beauty company has recorded a breakthrough in scientific tests.
Your Business: Outsourcing offshore - John Cochrane, NZ Trade and Enterprise
John Cochrane is a trade commissioner with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise based in Guangzhou, China.
Your Business: Outsourcing offshore - Oliver McDermott, Blender Design
There are a big range of reasons small business owners in New Zealand cite for outsourcing offshore.
Your Business: Women entrepreneurs - Chloe Van Dyke, Chia
Chloe Van Dyke is a founder of Nelson-based beverage firm Chia.