promote your b2b services and help us celebrate the small business heroes in your region!
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NZ Entrepreneur is proud to present Small Business Heroes, the newest and most exciting national media initiative to celebrate small business across New Zealand.
Are you an expert supplier of services to Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) business owners? Help us bring Small Business Heroes to life for your region and promote your B2B services while growing our next generation of future entrepreneurs.
In Small Business Heroes we’ll be profiling standout small businesses and the enterprising B2B service providers supporting them in a series of NZ Entrepreneur stories and e-magazines covering 19 regions of New Zealand.
A social media campaign will also promote all participating businesses and sponsors on NZ Entrepreneur social media platforms. (See NZ Entrepreneur on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram).
Social Impact
On top of that we’ll be awarding scholarships for the acclaimed Startup NZ Entrepreneurs Programme for the sponsors of each region to distribute to young local entrepreneurs.
A great PR and marketing opportunity for participating businesses, and great for New Zealand!
How it works
- Register
- Email Richard Liew at richardl@nzentrepreneur.co.nz to sign up to be one of our Small Business Heroes 2024 sponsors for your region. For inclusions and benefits please scroll down to see the Sponsor Pricing & Inclusions* section below.
- Tell us about your business
- Once accepted as a sponsor, head over to our Sponsor Questionnaire to provide key information about your business for your Q&A profile feature to be published on NZ Entrepreneur and in your Small Business Heroes e-magazine.
- After completing the Sponsor Questionnaire our Small Business Heroes editor will be in touch with you by email with some further questions tailored for your feature.
- Nominate your Small Business Heroes!
- It’s then time to head to our Small Business Heroes nomination page to nominate your favourite Small Business Heroes for your region. You get to nominate one business in each of the 10 following categories (10 nominations altogether). Your nominations could be for clients of yours, businesses you work with or partner with, or simply your favourite small businesses that you would like to acknowledge for their contribution to your business community.
- Healthcare & Wellbeing
- Tourism & Hospitality
- Food, Beverage & Artisanal Goods production
- Home, Property & Trade Services
- Creative Arts
- Specialist Retailer
- Education & Training
- Fitness, Beauty & Grooming
- Clothing & Fashion
- Iconic Regional Small Business
- It’s then time to head to our Small Business Heroes nomination page to nominate your favourite Small Business Heroes for your region. You get to nominate one business in each of the 10 following categories (10 nominations altogether). Your nominations could be for clients of yours, businesses you work with or partner with, or simply your favourite small businesses that you would like to acknowledge for their contribution to your business community.
- Award a Startup NZ scholarship
- Nominate a deserving young local resident of your choice to receive a Startup NZ Entrepreneurs Programme scholarship (worth $345). (Or allocate it to the scholarship pool for your region for Startup NZ to allocate on your behalf.)
- Share the campaign content
- Help us celebrate the Small Business Heroes and sponsors of your region by sharing the published Small Business Heroes stories, social media posts and e-magazines with your network of customers, fans and supporters!
- Celebrate!
- Give yourself a pat on the back for doing something great for your business, your community and our country. We couldn’t have done it without you!
Meet our team
Richard Liew
Founder & Editor, NZ Entrepreneur
Farida Master
Editor, Small Business Heroes
Michaela Liew
Publishing Manager
Brendan Boughen
Media Lead
Candace Miles
Design & Social Media
With thanks to our national partners
*SPONSOR PRICING & INCLUSIONS
1) Small Business Heroes is an online media campaign organised and promoted by NZ Entrepreneur online magazine, a property of Founder Media Group Limited.
2) To ensure a high quality and diversity of sponsors, participation in the Small Business Heroes promotion is open only to businesses invited to participate by NZ Entrepreneur and the Small Business Heroes editorial team.
3) The fee for sponsoring the Small Business Heroes 2024 campaign is $1500+gst.
4) Upon receipt of the agreed sponsorship fees, each sponsor will receive:
- Acknowledgement as a Small Business Heroes 2024 sponsor for your chosen region with your business logo and hyperlink to your website on the Small Business Heroes sponsors page on the NZ Entrepreneur website.
- 3 x mentions in our Small Business Heroes social media campaign (LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram).
- A Small Business Heroes sponsor profile feature published on NZ Entrepreneur website and distributed by email and social media.
- The right to nominate up to 10 of your favourite small businesses as Small Business Heroes for your region. Nominations may include customers of yours. Alternatively you may allow the Small Business Heroes editorial team to nominate 10 small businesses on your behalf. Your nominees will receive:
- Business Name, Logo, Photo, Address and Website Link published as a “mini-profile” published in conjunction with your Sponsor Profile on NZ Entrepreneur website and in your Small Business Heroes e-magazine.
- An official Small Business Heroes Nominee social media graphic for sharing their nomination on social media (eg Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn)
- An NZ Entrepreneur social media post congratulating them on their nomination (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn)
- The right to award one Startup NZ Entrepreneurs Programme scholarship to a young local entrepreneur of your choosing (under 30 years of age). The scholarship will entitle the recipient to 12 months registration and access to the Startup NZ online course at no cost to them (RRP $345).
- Publishing of your feature profile in a 10 page PDF e-magazine incorporating your nominees mini-profiles, documenting your participation in the Small Business Heroes initiative and available to be shared by you, your nominees and NZ Entrepreneur.
- Sponsor category exclusivity for your region (see 6 below)
- Optional Extra: Supply and publish up to three blogs, articles, tutorials or opinion pieces between 350-750 words on NZ Entrepreneur. Your articles will be published on the NZ Entrepreneur website, distributed via email to 5000 email subscribers, and shared on NZ Entrepreneur social media platforms (Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram). Editorial criteria apply. Add $300+gst.
5) There shall be no more than 12 Small Business Heroes sponsors per region.
6) Small Business Heroes sponsors will receive exclusivity in their respective business category within each region. That is, only one business from each of the following categories can be a Small Business Heroes sponsor for your region. Sponsorship positions and categories are awarded on a “first-in, first-served” basis.
- Accounting
- Legal
- Insurance
- Wealth Management / Financial Advisors
- Marketing
- HR
- IT
- Web Design
- Commercial Real Estate
- Business Brokers
- Printing and Signage
- Business Coaching
- Telco
- Payment Solutions & POS
- Office Supplies
- Fleet & Automotive
- Property Services
- Individual Patron, Club or Anonymous (no category exclusivity here)
7) The 10 businesses selected to be profiled as Small Business Heroes for each region will be selected by the NZ Entrepreneur editorial team, out of the pool of Small Business Hero candidates nominated by the sponsors for each region. Our selection is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
8) By participating in this promotion and subscribing to NZ Entrepreneur email updates you confirm your agreement to our Privacy Policy here.
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