You are certain that you want to start your own business.. That's awesome news - particularly in a country like ours that offers so much for...
We’ve all heard that to write a good book you need a beginning, a middle and an end. Projects, whether they are small short-term pieces of...
Complaining is negative personal branding: you help create your own negative image by whining. Yessirree. This also means that positive branding occurs when you are shining...
Does your business have a “point of difference”? In this competitive market, you need to be able to know how to market to your target audience...
If you're looking to improve the amount of cash in your bank account, you can implement any number of the following strategies and tactics within a...
Within a few weeks of the birth of our first child, Diane and I were already imagining and anticipating how it would be when he was...
Employee engagement is a three-way process and requires responsibility, accountability and ownership from employer, employees and the organization.
The other day I hired a bow tie from a small, independent suit hire shop in Auckland. It was a small purchase, potentially the smallest transaction...
Momentum is the key for motivating yourself. You wake up, you go to work, come home, watch a little television, and go to bed. What did...
It really amazes me how some small business owners believe that having a LinkedIn profile and joining LinkedIn groups, but not participating, equates to networking.
Before our businesses had shareholders, staff, SLA’s and all the other responsibilities that take you from a micro business to something much bigger there was myself,...
Planning is crucial, even more so if you’re running your own business. Preparing a realistic, working business plan can be the difference between you getting your...
Feeling the excitement of actually building something that people wanted and were willing to pay we obliged. Our developers spent many hours adding in features that...
Once you set a precedent with the client that its okay to ring you out of hours to talk business or deal with an issue it...
I like to think, respect is the gift you receive when people trust you. Do you remember Rodney Dangerfield’s comedy line “I get no respect”? I...
This is a hard for me as I spent my 20’s in the military and my 30’s in a professional kitchen – both lean towards heavy...
