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Six Christmas Email Marketing Tips
Tegan Weber Tegan Weber

Six Christmas Email Marketing Tips

Keen to get a Christmas email out to your customers but unsure where to start? We’ve compiled some helpful pointers to get the most out of e-marketing.

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Your small business Christmas checklist
Tegan Weber Tegan Weber

Your small business Christmas checklist

Christmas lists aren’t just for kids and Santa Claus. Before summer arrives, tick off our small business Christmas checklist to ensure you’re in the best possible shape for the year ahead. 

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Fair Pay Agreements - what you need to know
Tegan Weber Tegan Weber

Fair Pay Agreements - what you need to know

New fair pay agreements (FPA) law came into effect on December 1 last year, marking the biggest shakeup in New Zealand employment in decades. Six months on, how could your business be affected?

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Herd Value Scheme
Tegan Weber Tegan Weber

Herd Value Scheme

The Herd Scheme Values are the National Average Market Values, determined by a process involving a review of the livestock market as at 30 April.

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Keeping costs under control - increasing efficiency & productivity
Tegan Weber Tegan Weber

Keeping costs under control - increasing efficiency & productivity

Optimise employee scheduling through technology to reduce administration time. This includes clock in/out, changing shifts, filling in roster gaps, employee changes through sick and annual leave etc etc with a laser sharp focus on optimizing labour (not too many or too few).

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Careful Christmas Planning
Tegan Weber Tegan Weber

Careful Christmas Planning

We've put together some tips for the rush over the next few weeks, including the answers to some tricky tax questions, and Christmas marketing tips.

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Running a Family Business
Tegan Weber Tegan Weber

Running a Family Business

There are so many upsides to running a family business: working together as a close-knit unit and sharing the good times together. However, being in charge of one can be complicated as you juggle company interests with those of your loved ones.

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Supporting Bald Angels
Tegan Weber Tegan Weber

Supporting Bald Angels

Bald Angels are planning their Christmas Kai boxes and donations! This year, they are planning to distribute 400 significant Kai Boxes and over 1600 Christmas gifts.

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A productive office space.
Tegan Weber Tegan Weber

A productive office space.

Screens have become so omnipresent in our lives that internet addiction is recognised by the World Health Organisation as a mental health condition.

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Marketing Your Business
Tegan Weber Tegan Weber

Marketing Your Business

Now is the time to plan your marketing for the next few months. This is especially key if you are a business operator specialising in tourism or retail who is looking to reclaim the tourism market that will be in full swing this summer.

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Streamlining your tourism business
Whitelaw Weber Whitelaw Weber

Streamlining your tourism business

Technology offers great opportunities for streamlining many aspects of your business including payroll, online booking and reservation management, capacity and scheduling systems, tracking product profitability, asset maintenance and digital marketing.

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How to run a profitable tourism business
Whitelaw Weber Whitelaw Weber

How to run a profitable tourism business

The tourism, hospitality and leisure industry is very seasonal, particularly in Northland which does not experience a ‘true’ winter. It is essential to understand those seasonality trends.

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