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The Online Business Accelerator team are running a free live webinar on Friday 5 July, to help Kiwi businesses generate more visitors, enquiries and warmer leads from your website. Your (virtual) pass includes $250 worth of Facebook and website marketing templates, swipe sheets along with a fill-in-the-blanks booklet, so that you can personalise the content […]

The candidate interviews are done, you’ve made the decision on the right person for the role, and they’ve accepted the job offer. Good news. Now you can start planning your new employee’s successful integration to the company. Ideally. I say that because there are plenty of businesses whose approach to bringing new hires on board […]

Ranked by the World Bank as the easiest country in which to start a business, New Zealand has in many respects become the poster-child for entrepreneurship. But after you’ve started the business is where things can get tricky. With around 8,000 small enterprises with staff (between 1-19 employees) established each year, small businesses account for […]

Auckland-based startup Termius has just closed a $4.10m ($2.7m US) seed round with money from some of Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists. The raise comes off the back of Termius graduating from the world’s most prestigious startup accelerator, Y Combinator, and some high-profile praise from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Speaking to #nzentrepreneur from Auckland, Termius […]

Have a prototype up your sleeve or an importing opportunity on your mind? If so, there are various product standards you should know about to enable your product to be sold in New Zealand. The history of invention is littered with many forgotten facts, but perhaps chief among them is the undeniable truth that Leonardo […]

Listen to the interview When Sydney entrepreneurs Greg Moshal and Beau Bertoli got sick of the long and arduous process involved in applying for relatively small business loans, they decided there had to be a better, more efficient way. As a result, seven years ago they launched an online small business lending platform called Prospa […]

The Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association of New Zealand (RITANZ) has welcomed news that the Insolvency Practitioners Bill has passed into law on Wednesday, almost a decade after it was first introduced into Parliament. The Insolvency Practitioners Regulation Bill and the Insolvency Practitioners Regulation (Amendments) Bill are designed to promote better outcomes under the corporate […]

Digital marketing success can be highly subjective. In my opinion, companies are either far too focused on the end sale or the conversion campaign, or they’re on the other end of the spectrum and are only worried about the brand and feel-good creative. So should your digital strategy be focused on driving leads or building […]