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Xero GST Update

Xero is running a series of online seminars to explain how they are rolling out changes to sope with the imminent increase in the NZ GST rate. Xero GST Update Webinar – Business Owners Great opportunity to see how it will work and to ask questions Share this:EmailFacebookPrint

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Google Analytics – Joomla

Good article on how to manually (rather than using a module) add Google Analytics script to your Joomla template. Google Joomla In the article they suggest pasting the Google script just before the closing body html tag. The Google Analytics site actually says to paste the script just before the closing head tag. Share this:EmailFacebookPrint

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Management Buy-In’s

Had an interesting meeting recently with a guy who helps people with succession strategies and business exits. He has an interesting approach – one of their strategies involves looking for potential buyers with strong business skills to take an initial interest in the business (potentially partially funded by the vendor) with an agreement in place [...]

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Xero Pricing

If you want multi currency, Xero will cost you $64 per month plus GST. If you can live without multi currency then next price down is $49 per month and then $29 per month if you can work within certain volume limits. Xero Pricing Plans There are some other alternatives within the Xero world that [...]

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Xero Integrated Inventory

Well worth a look if you have anything other than the most basic inventory management requirements. Unleashed offers a stock management system that can integrate with Xero. Click on video below for an introduction. We see this approach of connecting up selected technology providers to build a solution that works for your business as the [...]

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MYOB LiveAccounts

Little bit surprised to see that as part of the monthly $25 sub for LiveAccounts you only get 100 free transactions fed through from linked bank accounts. After that it costs 11 cents per transaction. I suppose 100 is quite a lot but strange that Xero can manage to provide unlimited (as far as I [...]

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Dealing with Angry Customers

Hmmm – not sure about all of this – I don’t think one single approach can be expected to deal with all the different cultural and personality challenges that customer service has to deal with – however there are definitely some good ideas here. Having one or two key phrases up your sleeve can really [...]

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The role of SME’s

Great article on the crucial importance of small business in the New Zealand economy… SME’s Of 477,000 total NZ businesses, only 228 businesses have more than 500 employees. Self employed people make up more than 10% of the workforce. Share this:EmailFacebookPrint

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Cloud Integration

It was only a few years ago that the Software as a Service model was considered too slow, too expensive and too scary to represent a viable opportunity for the SME market. How times have changed! The next step in extracting value from Saas solutions is in integrating various best of breed solutions together at [...]

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Lead Follow Up

Twice in the last couple of weeks I have seen ads in The Press that caught my eye. I hopped on to the advertisers’ websites, decided they had something to offer and fired off emails to the noted email addresses seeking further details. Days passed – nothing. No autoresponder to recognise my enquiry had been [...]

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