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11 tips for reducing costs in small business

NZ Entrepreneur

According to the latest MYOB SME Snapshot, a survey of over 500 local SME operators around New Zealand, most believe the economy will decline in the next year, putting further pressure on cashflow and margins. New Zealand based businesses can search Find An Advisor database for accountants and bookkeepers here.

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Mixing personal and business finances common but not always optimal

NZ Entrepreneur

If you’re a small business owner or entrepreneur mixing personal and business finances to support your business, you’re not alone. Mixing personal and business finances in the long run may do more harm than good. Separating out your finances can help you avoid being personally liable for any business debt you take on.

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Are You In Control Of Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

At the same time, if you do have staff, trusting them to take over work with the same standards and expectations as you can be hard, which is another reason why straightforward streamlined systems will make it easier for you and your employees to maintain effective and efficient business operations. The demise of the spreadsheet.

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Four cash flow tips to boost small business

NZ Entrepreneur

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. With around 8,000 small enterprises with staff (between 1-19 employees) established each year, small businesses account for 97 percent of all enterprises in this country.

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12 Tips To Leading Your Best Life (3/12)

Jeff Hilimire

Nine months into building Spunlogic (at that point it was still called NBN Designs), Raj was in New Zealand living his best 22-year-old life thanks to a round-the-world-trip that his parents gave him for graduating college ( I joke with him that his parents made that deal with him because they never thought he’d actually graduate ).

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Asia Pacific SMEs Must Look To Cross-Border Trade

YoungUpstarts

For example, New Zealand and South Korea have 94 and 92 percent Internet penetration respectively, but Thailand is struggling to get to 30 percent [3]. 5] ADB Banking on Better / www.eastasiaforum.org / banking on better sme financing in asean. [6] Because that is where the real opportunities are. [1] 1] eMarketer [link]. [2]

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

It means they have to deal with finances and customers and investors and other things that aren’t what they love to do, which is building software. They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. But then again, I’m living in New Zealand, not exactly the startup capital of the world.