Latest from Debbie Mayo-Smith

Debbie Mayo-Smith: Be the MasterChef of your own success

Debbie Mayo-Smith shares her recipe for working smarter and tips for automating tasks.

Debbie Mayo-Smith: Adapting to change

Debbie Mayo-Smith talks to Julie Russell, Secretary of the NZ Bookkeepers Association, who was one of the early adopters of Xero accounting software.

Debbie Mayo-Smith: Making your cash register sing

Research shows that talking only about features has absolutely no impact on making a sale. Here are tips that do make an impact.

Finding new business opportunities

Two autopilot tricks you can set up so business opportunities come to your inbox daily, writes Debbie Mayo Smith.

Debbie Mayo Smith: Your biggest excel database mistake

Your database can be used to increase sales but many businesses make a crucial mistake. Debbie Mayo Smith explains.

Three database rules for easy effective marketing

Social media is popular, but nothing beats having your own database of clients and prospects to market to.

Four FREASY strategies for doing it smarter

Debbie Mayo-Smith's free and easy tips presented to the rural contractor association but with relevance for many businesses.

$715K from a $45 investment: How to cheaply increase sales

How a hair salon used a simple database exercise to drastically increase sales, writes Debbie Mayo-Smith.

Two tips for growing sales and profit

Tuihana Cafe Foodstore owner Nathan Dunn shares his business tips after turning around a struggling cafe.

Five quick reminders to help you improve sales

Debbie Mayo-Smith offers five reminders that will help you to improve sales in your business.

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.

Top 10 communication tips

Business motivational speaker Debbie Mayo-Smith's tips to communicating effectively by making connections.

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.

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?

Debbie Mayo-Smith: How you get complete satisfaction from a day's work