Having worked with home businesses for many years, one of the challenges they constantly face is having to build credibility when they operate from an environment they seldom wish to share with their clients.
While it is heartening to see this slowly changing – especially as more and more corporates allow or encourage employees to work [...]
Here is an intersting idea that I have recently come across. It is called the Cardvertizer – and is perhaps the most cost efffective marketing solution you are going to find! Designed to attach to your car window, this device provides a weather – resistant cardholder combined with the opportunity to create your own [...]
Its Thursday – so we must be in …”Christchurch!” The Small Business Expo expanded its reach last year and took in Christchurch and Wellington. We have exhibited at the Auckland Expo since its inception three years ago and decided this year to also take a stall at the Christchurch Expo. I was there for the three days [...]
When I mentor businesses, I like to get them to paint the ’Ideal Picture’ of what they would like their buisness to look like. It’s not unusual for many of my clients to reply that they have never thought what that would look like.
Sometimes we are too busy doing the day-to-day tasks to stop and think about if [...]
With last week being Hospice Appeal Week – we decided it was time for our long overdue visit to our local West Auckland Hospice. Sue & I had attended a Mothers Day celebration at the Hospice the previous Sunday, however last week the BNI Support Team (Sue, Leigh, Fiona and myself) met with the [...]
