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A Great Little Business - The Fundamentals of Small Business Success

This easy to read and follow eBook is tailored specifically for small to medium-sized New Zealand business owners, offering practical strategies and essential knowledge to propel your business to new heights. This is the first in a series of ‘Great Little Business’ ebooks to be released.Whether you're an established entrepreneur looking to optimize your operations or a budding business owner about to embark on your journey, this booklet is your indispensable guide. Inside, you'll find a road...

Master Your Mind - Developing Your Mindset for Greatness in Work & Life

A growth mindset is one which focuses on expansion at all times as opposed to trying to preserve the existing situation. While finances are the easiest and most obvious example to give, the concepts of both fixed and growth mindsets apply to relationships, health, creativity, spirituality, and personal happiness....

60 Minute Profits - The High Speed Money Making Straegy of Pros

Learn how to generate hundreds of dollars each day without creating any products yourself. This is one of the leading money making strategies used by 6-figure gurus. Discover the easiest way to boost your income, even if you're a complete beginner with zero experience. Start making money with this high-speed profit builder and build a successful online business that will give you the financial freedom you've been looking for. And much more ...

Small Business Owners and Farmers -Their Contribution to Communities and Country

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Maximising Sales with Powerful Storytelling Campaigns

As I continue my journey sharing resources to help SME businesses throughout NZ, next up I'd like to share a great eBook about storytelling marketing. That is, integrating and utilising the power of a story in your marketing campaigns....

Leadership Strategies: 5 Critical Steps to Becoming an Effective Leader

Hi, it's Phil here with another valuable leadership resource. This special report reveals the powerful five-step system to becoming a productive leader. You will discover the number 1 skill every successful leader has in common, build effective communication skills to instantly increase your teams productivity and output and master skill #5 (pg. 23), allowing you to free up time and resources. At 28 pages, this is short and sharp, yet essential for those wanting the leadershi...

Online Course: Starting a Freelance Business

Work your own hours and take on projects you love....

Online Course: Choose to Lead

Find out The Leadership Skills That Will Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life Across the years, the perception and definition of leadership has changed. Leadership used to mean a position or a role in a hierarchy. Today, leadership is more of a skill than a role. You can be in a leadership role and have absolutely no expertise in leadership. On the other hand, you can be in a non-leading position but demonstrate a lot of leadership and inspire those around you. We all aspire to...

Covid 19 One Year On: How is NZ Business doing? Phil Wicks shares his observatons.

It's one year on from Covid 19 lockdowns and the business community is still reeling in certain sectors whereas other sectors have boomed. This short interview with Phil Wicks and Craig Connelly discussed some of the pitfalls of growth in a closed border situation and what businesses came out the best....

How You Can Increase the Value of Your Business up to 200%+ Using SIMPLE Proven Techniques

Exit and succession planning expert Phil Wicks has been working with businesses in transition for over 20 years. Phil is an expert on the topic of Exit and Succession Planning strategies which in turn focus on increasing the value of your business and in today's interview, he gives some great tips, a case study and other techniques on how you can increase the value of your business up to 200%+. The business world is changing rapidly. To ensure your business flourishes you need to focus on growt...

Spousal Business Partnerships - Turning Problems Into Profit

The demands of business ownership add another level of stress and complexity in spousal relationships that can, in some circumstances, create issues for the whole business. When a couple operates a business together, their individual roles are generally clearly defined. What may not be so clearly defined is how to manage conflict when it arises. A working relationship, that is also a life partnership, has different dynamics than that of a normal business partnership. In the former you are dealin...

The “Great Business but I Have No Life” Paradox – And How to Solve It!

As a director of a nationwide SME advisory firm I have, over the last few years, been in a unique position to develop a deep understanding around the needs of business owners across many industries. The Number One Long Term Goal of Most Business Owners There is one common goal that is almost universal among all of these business owners, but unfortunately most will never achieve this goal, despite the fact the goal itself is, with a good plan, more achievable than many realise. So, what is that g...