This episode is loaded with amazing business insights, that will add value to new business owners, side hustlers, business who need support and generally people who are interested in how amazing NZ businesses start and grow to annually earn over 200 million.   Cecilia details the emotional challenges she faced during her time building My Food Bag and many more anecdotal stories of Au Pair, and the new journey that Cecilia and her husband James are on. Tend is a full-service primary healthcare provider, offering GP services online and in the clinic. They have re-imagined healthcare as you know it, using a mobile app to deliver healthcare without the hassle. 

As founder and creator of one of New Zealand’s most successful ever start-ups My Food Bag – Cecilia is one of NZ’s leading entrepreneurs. A serial entrepreneur and innovator, Cecilia is now the founder and Co-CEO of Tend Health. Cecilia has won more awards than you can shake a stick at (Supreme Winner 2017 Women of Influence Awards, Next Magazine Businesswoman of the Year 2014, EY Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2013, HER Businesswoman of the Year 2012 to name a few).

Following 6 years as Co-CEO of the food delivery service, Cecilia is now a board member and founding trustee of the Prince’s Trust New Zealand as well as Tend Health and Pie Funds. Devoted mum to 9 year old Thomas, 5 year old Leila and baby Charlie, Cecilia is passionate about helping women in business and solving the everyday problems of working mums and dads.

In today's episode, we have the CEO, and Co-founder of Rocketspark, Grant Johnson - Rocketspark was founded by brothers Jeremy and Grant Johnson, along with good mates Richard King and Lee Reichardt, who all graduated from the University of Waikato at different times, and with a range of backgrounds in management, web design and eCommerce.  The four had been working together as designers and developers building websites. Through their own experiences, they saw an opportunity to create a platform that enabled websites to be built more easily and cost-effectively by the customer, putting business owners in control of their online presence.

During our chat with Grant we covered the below: 

💻 What is the easiest way to get more traffic to your website.

In late 2021 we spoke with Tim Jones - The Grow Good Guy, and our chat was focused on B-Corp, what it is, how to apply and the benefits. This one focuses on what B corp is and why you may want to consider being certified for those who missed the full episode. 

In this episode, we speak with Sophie Logie from CavellLeith about employment issues that don't get much air time but are super important for anyone who employs staff. People make mistakes, but when an error or problem becomes a trend, we need to know how to fairly and justly manage these issues at work.

It could be as simple as an employee turning up to work late every day, making a repeated mistake, or taking things from you without your consent. How do you manage this situation? 

We also discuss what an employee can do if they have been unfairly dismissed or unjustly treated and the process they can follow. 

In this episode, we discuss:

Have an issue and would like legal advice? Email [email protected] 

Free advice from MBIE 

https://www.employment.govt.nz/about/contact-us/#scrollto-common-employment-issues

Special guest Ian Cartwright, in today’s episode, we chat to him about his brand-new book 6 Fundamentals of sales know-how, which is THE HOW TO SALES HANDBOOK FOR NEW B2B SALES PROFESSIONALS AND SME OWNERS.

We cover the six sales fundamentals in this podcast. This podcast is a goodie if you need help with your sales or your team needs support!

You can get the book at the below link

https://www.iancartwright.co.nz/the-6-fundamentals-of-sales-know-how

In today's episode, we focus on Google Business Profile, with special guest David Remmerswaal Founder of Dimple Digital.

We cover:  

If you need help creating an automated review process, email David [email protected]

CK started Taggun in 2017 as a side gig to automate receipt scanning for other tech companies. In 2020, I quit my job as a software engineer and went full time into the business. I am very thankful to be able to create a bootstrapped lifestyle business that’s profitable.

Soon after, a series of events made CK realise that it’s hard for a bootstrapped company to compete for and retain top talents. My ultimate goal is to work with a great team, creating great products. So in 2021, he started a new venture - TagTeam - to offer “no-training/no-fuss” AI integrations for other tech companies.

In today's episode, we discuss: 

CK started Taggun in 2017 as a side gig to automate receipt scanning for other tech companies. In 2020, I quit my job as a software engineer and went full time into the business. I am very thankful to be able to create a bootstrapped lifestyle business that’s profitable.

Soon after, a series of events made me realise that it’s hard for a bootstrapped company to compete for and retain top talents. My ultimate goal is to work with a great team, creating great products. So in 2021, I started a new venture - TagTeam - to offer “no-training/no-fuss” AI integrations for other tech companies.

The idea for TagTeam is a high-growth, venture-backed company that gives us the resources to build high-quality AI solutions faster and form a super team of talents to stick together and do this tough thing of growing a start-up.

Ck's social and web links:

In this episode we have Flavio Hangarter a sales expert answering three questions about developing a sales process and how to convert more leads: 

How to create your own sales and marketing process

· How to create a process to convert a lead into a piece of business.

· What a warm lead, cold lead, hot lead|

· How to Start off with the end in mind when writing your sales process

· Why speed is an important factor to convert a lead into sales

How to make your sales offer stand out from all of the “noise”

· How to build the perfect proposition

· How to build a clear customer story

· Be transparent

· Create templates

How to build digital  trust in sales

· Build credibility

· The digital experience/interaction with your brand and offer

· Do you deliver on what you offer?

· Be reliable

Here is the link to a download for the whitepaper Flavio mentioned.  https://selfstarters.kartra.com/page/value-clarity-guide

Flavio’s personal page is www.flaviohangarter.com

link for your personal on the trusted advisor points: https://trustedadvisor.com/public/files/pdf/2010_TA_Whitepaper_Think_Again_Special.pdf

If you have a business idea but no idea how to start, this episode will help develop the framework needed.

If you have an established business but need to develop business processes, this episode will help.

Chris Whelan is the Founder of the Centre of Business Excellence, founded on the belief that we all need to succeed to win. Whereas win/loses means a zero-sum, they believe in win/win and work with business owners to achieve that 100% of the time.

https://centreofbusinessexcellence.com/

Chris's email  - [email protected] 

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In this episode, we discuss:

If you want to skip to the actual podcast content and not worry about my intro (I don't blame you), jump to about 5mins in... 

Thank you, DHL, who helped deliver this podcast to you!

NZ SME & Entrepreneur Festival is from 8-9 November 2022 in Auckland...

www.nzsmeefestival.com

It would be so cool if you followed our team on LinkedIn -  LinkedIn clicks here.

PS: keep being awesome!