December 5, 2011
Goal-setting for businesses is not easy at the moment. You just have to look at the business confidence surveys. It’s no wonder many businesses are still procrastinating about setting their 2012 goals.
October 12, 2011
What business owner in his or her right mind doesn’t want to restrict competition? Especially if it’s coming from a trusted employee or the person who sold you the business!
July 26, 2011
Making your business sale ready is all about creating opportunity. Opportunity attracts investors and the greater the perception of opportunity the higher the level of interest. Maximising your business’s intangible assets is the best way to...
April 28, 2011
A business which is ‘ready to sell’ is also great to keep. Making your business ‘sale ready’ gives you back the freedom you went into business to achieve.
December 7, 2010
Over the past couple of years, many business owners will have become more focussed on business survival than business growth. However it appears that the New Year holds the promise of a more supportive environment for business growth.
October 18, 2010
How many business owners realise that uncontrolled use of social media by their staff could put their client database at risk?
August 17, 2010
In the last blog we discussed how OCR works and the way the Reserve Bank’s handling of it can affect interest rates. We continue this time looking further at how to manage our rates of interest to our advantage.
August 12, 2010
As the Trustee Services Partner at Gilligan Rowe & Associates, I’m often asked what is going to happen in the economy, the property market and with interest rates.
July 7, 2010
The Government is coming under pressure to backtrack on a proposed IP policy change which could threaten the interests of some powerful multinational software companies.
June 21, 2010
While the economic indicators for New Zealand are becoming more positive, and many large companies increasingly upbeat, plenty of small to medium-sized businesses are still being lashed by the tail of the recession.
June 16, 2010
Now that the dust has settled on what was one of the most anticipated Budget announcements in recent memory, it’s time to ask what the Budget’s proposed changes really mean for New Zealand’s economy and for New Zealanders...
May 14, 2010
Christmas is always a time for celebration but in my book, it’s also a time for reflection and some forward thinking.
May 7, 2010
Well the new year has well and truly started for us. In Trust Land we’ve conducted hundreds of ATM’s which I discussed in my last article.
May 7, 2010
Notwithstanding forceful submissions from business leaders, there still remains a real risk of businesses losing their Internet connections as a result of unauthorised peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing of copyright material by employees.
