SME&E have teamed up with Startup NZ to kick start your business or ideate your idea with a FREE 12month programme with any virtual, standard and entry-level tickets for the 2022 NZ SME&E Festival in Auckland 8-9 November. Click here for more details 

In this episode, we chat with Richard Liew, StartupNZ programme manager. We focus our chat on the benefits of the programme, including:

What is Startup NZ

How long does the course take to complete?

What do you get out of the course?

If you need advice from a business owner who started in his kitchen filling up bags of Rub to mass producing and being ranged in over 300 stores nationwide, then this podcast is for you! 

Matt and his wife are the founders of Rum and Que; Rum and Que sprung to life at New Zealand's first barbeque competition - Meatstock 2016. A bunch of mates that loved food, flavour and the chance to try their hand at something new. Armed with homemade rubs and sauces, they immersed themselves in a scene like no other.

Today, Rum and Que has evolved into a family-run business. Staying true to our beginnings, we've hung on to our flavours and continued to create and perfect a range of products we are proud to have on shelves and in the hands of competition teams and fellow food lovers to enjoy as much as we do.

https://www.rumandque.com/

NZ SME&E Festival is in the Vodafone Events Centre in Auckland on 8 & 9 November 2022 jump onto www.nzsmeefestival.com to grab your ticket.

have an epic day!!!! 

Have you ever wondered what funding is available for your business? James Bennie is the Business Growth Manager at WellingtonNZ. In this episode, we chat about:

SME&E Festival Auckland tickets will go live next week.

www.nzsmeefestival.com 

Ash Razmi, is a true entrepreneur!  This story is about Bootleg Jerky Co, an award-winning Beef Jerky that started in a garage and scaled to a big warehouse that processes 15,000 packets of jerky a week. Ash started making Biltong for his mates, which motivated him to ditch his day job and convert his 6m x 2.4m garage into an MPI-approved meat processing plant. We cover off alot in our 45minutes, have a listen, this is a good one! 

Challenges of an entrepreneur’s business journey - Guest Ash Razmi Founder Bootleg Jerky

· The honest story behind the Bootleg Jerky brand, from the humble 6 x 2.4m garage to now

· How the Bootleg Brand was developed.

· Why creating a brand guideline and staying true to the guideline is important.

· The value of investing in a consultant to help develop your business

· Challenges Bootleg faces with the ever-increasing living costs

· How to balance margins, and look for opportunities with the assets you have

Jump online and grab some Bootleg Jerky, and… whack in SME&E

Ash, is such a rad dude, he has given anyone from our SME&E community a 15% discount off Bootleg Jerky. Click here to shop and use SME&E as the discount code

www.nzsmeefestival.com 

Don't forget about the NZ SME&E Festival Auckland 8 & 9 November 2022 at the Vodafone Events Centre, click here for details 

 7 Headline presenters | 26 workshops | 1 expert business panel | 1 networking party | 2 Days |700 attendees 

SME&E Festival Auckland 8 & 9 November 2022 at the Vodafone Events Centre. Virtual options too 

At the NZ SME & Entrepreneur Festival Powered by Xero, you will learn how to develop your brand story, create and manage digital marketing campaigns, refine your sales process, develop your business values, and understand why having a thriving, inclusive work culture is a good strategy. Learn how to attract the right talent, create a business and marketing plan, understand social media marketing, work on your business and think more strategically, and develop lead generation and sales processes. Learn how to increase your website's traffic and build a beautiful website to improve your organic traffic. More information here.

Tickets going live in July

www.nzsmeefestival.com 

Today's episode is a journey with Jonty Hodge, co-founder of Aro Digital and Kepla.  Armed with his extensive knowledge of all things Google Ads and Analytics, Jonty co-founded Aro Digital with the drive to create meaningful impacts on the businesses we work with. He's also a co-founder of Kepla, a platform that helps empower anyone to run effective digital ads.

https://aro.digital/team/jonty-hodge

Details about Kepla below: 

https://kepla.io/

SME&E Festival link below

www.nzsmeefestival.com

In this episode, we focus on organisational/business restructures, the process an employer needs to follow and the rights of an employee. 

Sophie leads the employment practice at Cavell Leitch. Sophie’s clients range from large multi-national corporate employers to small business owners, employees, and HR professionals. Sophie also takes instructions from insurers to act for insureds in employment disputes.

Articles about employment law:

https://www.cavell.co.nz/news-opinions

Contact Sophie if you have any questions - [email protected] 

www.nzsmeefestival.com

Leader, motivational speaker, author, businessman, entrepreneur, professional Speaker, scholar, columnist, professional director, educator, husband, father and Board Chair are words used to describe our guest Ngahihi o te ra Bidois.

Ngahihi o te ra Bidois is New Zealand Maori and “The Face of New Zealand”. He is a Professional motivational Speaker who has presented award winning keynotes to organisations around the world and a Professional Director who Chairs multi-million dollar organisations. Ngahihi o te ra is also an educational leader who has held various leadership positions in the education and health sectors.

A multi-award winning motivational speaker Ngahihi is a recipient of the National Professional Speakers Association New Zealand Speaker of the Year and Inspirational Speaker of the Year Awards and others.

In this episode we discuss:

https://thefaceofnewzealand.com/

Contact Ngai here [email protected]

This episode is focused on why you should be tracking the performance of your ad spend to optimise results. We don't want you to give your hard-earned money away without getting something back. So this episode with David from Dimple Digital breaks down why it's so important to know what's performing well and what's not. 

We chat about:

Need some support to get your ad spend in check? Contact David [email protected]