7 strategies to get your team to keep their promises
Great businesses are built on teams that take full ownership of individual responsibilities. Too many businesses let people slide by partially doing things, and accepting excuses for delays and mistakes…
Expert tips for Cash Flow Management
Written by Prime Strategies Business Advisor, Rob Drower. Cash is “King”. Banks report that of businesses that fail, a large proportion of these are due to poor Cash Flow Management. This…
Five factors for Sales & Marketing alignment
By Rohit Roy for Martech Advisor. Sales and marketing efforts are essentially two sides of the same coin, yet quite detached from each other. Only off late have they been…
5 Ways Small Business Owners Can Grow In 2017
Posted Jan 2017 by Preston Pysh on Forbes.com In the world of business it is all about growth. Coach Lou Hotlz famously said, “in this world you’re either growing or…
Industry report reveals SME businesses lacking support
Owners of small and medium businesses often feel they are standing alone against the world, says Prime Strategies Partner, Rob Drower. He believes that many business owners are looking for…
Are you marketing your business effectively? Or just advertising?
Marketing is about how you present your business to your target market and how you position your products and services within that market. First, decide WHO you will sell to.…
Are these the world’s most progressive workplaces?
Tired of endless bureaucracy, pointless report writing, and lack of freedom and entrepreneurship in the workplace? The Corporate Rebels believed that there has to be a better way, and have…
Why New Zealand SMEs succeed with a great Business Advisor
As the world becomes ever smaller, small to medium business enterprises (SMEs) experience ever increasing greater pressure; competition from overseas, online competition and so on. As we move through these…
How the biggest minimum wage rise in a decade will affect you
As you are most likely aware the minimum wage will go up from 1 April 2018. This is the largest minimum wage increase in a decade. Have you thought about…
Insights into becoming more resilient
One key business skill that is frequently over-looked is resilience. Being in business is an ever-changing journey, as markets wax and wane and industries evolve with technology – and all…
5 Ways to prepare for change & engage your team
A great article by the aptly-named Peter Economy for inc.com. Buy-outs, downsizing, staff changes, market changes – there are so many ways a business can transform literally overnight. While these…
Finding time is flying by – and you’re still not having fun?
Article by John Cleghorn, Business Management Consultant & Prime Strategies Group Partner. Here we are in yet another year. Time seems to go by so quickly, doesn’t it? So, for…