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Founder: Alice Herald HQ: Wanaka Tell us about your business. I am a Designer Jeweller. I design and together with my team we craft exceptional jewels and sell them to both my loyal local clientele and the international market. Who and where are your target customers? Both men and women aged 30–70 in Australasia, and […]

When you get praise from a client, it’s a gift. What do you do with it? Having a client who has praised your work is often a rare occurrence for many businesses, and when it happens, it’s important to make the most of the opportunity. Good feedback that you can use is very powerful. The […]

How many business cards might you collect at a networking function? Five, ten, twenty or more? You might get back to the office a couple of days later and sort through the cards, deciding how to follow up on each one. With many conversations in a short space of time, and maybe a few days […]

Wellington-based startup Excio has already secured two significant achievements for its latest creation – an app designed to tell users the story behind the images they look at on their personal mobile devices. First there was an overseas commendation at Slush Up! – a three-day event in Chengdu, China that brings together leading global tech […]

Steven Wild, founder of Wild Software Wild Software is 30 years old and has clients in 16 countries despite rarely marketing its products and services. The secret to its success? Great software and lots of happy customers keen to refer them. When Steven Wild began to tinker with computer programming back in the mid 1980s, […]

Business leaders tend to be incredibly busy individuals. ‘Busyness’ should never be confused with effectiveness, however. We need to switch from being busy to achieving results. Assuming you have a clear vision for your business, and have carefully chosen a small handful of strategic projects to focus on this quarter (one to three maximum) – […]

Auckland based company, UDO Limited have launched the first mobile application to manage flexible working hours of employees in New Zealand. The unique application, FLEXiU, was developed in response to a major driver in changes in New Zealand’s labour market over the last three decades. A recent MBIE National Survey of Employers of the two […]

Before we get into the prickly subject of teasing out the sales superstars from the ‘also-rans’ when hiring new sales staff, we need to understand that the main tool that we use to select staff is at best going to give a seasoned interviewer a 1-in-4 chance of getting it right. In the hands of […]