You’ve got a great idea, you’ve got the passion, you’ve got the people... How do you bring it all together?
The answer is a business strategy. Put simply it is a plan that shows how you are going to achieve your goals.
Ask yourself where is your business now? Where do you want to take it? What do you need to get it there?
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Topics:
Business Support,
growing business,
start ups,
entrepreneur,
strategy,
planning
As of 1 April 2021, new minimum wage rates before tax came into effect. Find the information you need regarding this below.
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Topics:
Business Support,
growing business,
start ups,
exports,
import
Belinda Bullock’s motivation for starting her own business was pretty grim. Covid had forced her into redundancy from Air New Zealand and her husband David, a pilot on the same international aircraft couldn’t work when he developed melanoma.
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Topics:
Business Support,
business mentors,
growing business,
start ups,
exports,
import
Welcome to our December In the Chamber update. We hope you're able to treat yourself to the time you deserve with family and friends this Christmas break! Read on to find out what's going on a the Chamber as we close out the year and move into 2021.
To help keep your exports moving over the holidays, we will still be open and operating over the break. Check out our hours here.
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Topics:
Business Support,
growing business,
start ups,
exports,
import
Welcome to our November In the Chamber update. Read on to find out how we can support you as we close out the year.
Following the announcement of an Auckland CBD Covid case, we have information on the Leave Support Scheme available HERE.
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Topics:
Business Support,
growing business,
start ups,
exports,
import
Welcome to the October 2020 update of In The Chamber. This month we look at the recent election, the inevitable effects Brexit will have on trade and how we're working to continue our support for New Zealand business in the coming months.
Read on to find out what's been happening in the Chamber, how you can participate in our various events and what support you can find for your business.
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Topics:
Business Support,
growing business,
start ups,
exports,
import
Mindfulness doesn’t teach us to manage our stress, it teaches us to stop making it! Through a simple and scientifically proven meditation process it allows us to improve happiness, productivity and profitability by removing stress. Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success, and this is true for business as well as individuals.
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Topics:
start ups,
entrepreneurs,
SME,
mindfulness,
employees,
course,
stress management
‘Start-ups and SMEs can be hard work when you’re sitting at the kitchen table or alone in the garden shed. That’s why GridAKL was set up to bring people and ideas together.’
Very few light bulb moments happen in isolation. Ideas take off by bouncing concepts around with like-minded people. That’s really the crux of GridAKL - a place and community designed to help businesses make their next move.
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Topics:
growing business,
start ups,
technology,
entrepreneurs,
SME,
innovation