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Help for tough times
Whether you want to improve cash flow, raise productivity or attract customers – there’s information and resources to help your business through tough economic times.
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The Government has been working to improve the New Zealand business environment. Find out what changes they’ve made and how these may affect your business.
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When times are tough every dollar counts. Here you’ll find useful tips and ideas to help you get on top of your business cash flow.
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Unpaid debts are a major cause of financial problems for many businesses. You can improve cash flow by finding ways to collect payment more quickly. Your options could include adjusting your terms of payment, or changing your debt collection processes. Here you’ll find tips on how to get paid on time and recover unpaid debts.
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In these tough times many businesses are looking for ways to reduce costs and work more efficiently. Improving productivity, workplace safety, energy efficiency, and your business skills are some of the ways you can save your business money while benefiting its performance. Whether your business is big or small, there are ideas here to help you stretch your dollar.
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Your business plan is an outline of your business operation and your goals. It sets the general direction for your business and details how you plan to achieve your business targets. This is information and resources to help you develop a business plan.
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Marketing and acquiring new customers doesn’t always have to cost your business money. And if you continue to market and promote your business effectively in a challenging marketplace you’ll increase your chances of success. Read this information for simple and cost-effective marketing techniques and find out how to keep your customers coming back.
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Consider how you can restructure your business and your team to avoid losing staff during tough times. This could include reassigning work flows, or encouraging flexible work options such as working part-time and job sharing. If you’re making staff redundant, there are services available to help you and your people through the changes.
If you want to make some immediate changes to survive and thrive, then you'll need to analyse your business. These interactive templates will help you quickly assess what is wrong and what you can do to improve your business now.
The templates are provided in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and .pdf format.
Many businesses need help from time to time. Whether your issue is staff, business systems, cash flow forecasts or planning, there are people and tools to assist you.
Use these tools to get the help you need for your business now.