Business - Northland Northern Advocate
Oily Rag: Bargain your way to holiday savings
Accomodation has been in the news recently so we thought we would come up with some ways of saving money when away from home, but first, here is a pest query and some new tips from our Oily Rag website. Marie from Kawerau has a problem keeping pesky white butterflies and insects away from her vege garden. If you have a low or no-cost solution to...
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The Cloud for small businesses
The future is here for small businesses. No longer do they need to buy and maintain costly computer equipment. Business applications ranging from customer management to ecommerce can be run in "the cloud" using no more than a smart phone. Cloud computing is a down to earth idea. Your software applications are based in cyberspace instead of on a... More
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The right technology for your business
Want to be the next Rod Drury of Xero? Then get the right technology right from Day One. Drury took his business international from the very beginning and now boasts: 200,000 customers in more than 100 countries. Thanks to technology fledgling businesses can punch above their weight and appear to have a profile, credibility and "heritage"... More
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Why your business needs a website
If you don't have a website, you're losing business to your opposition. It's as simple as that. Increasingly customers look online to locate goods and services. Both technologies and human behaviour are changing, says Fiona McLeod, a digital marketing specialist who has just returned to New Zealand from London where she was director of... More
Northland hotels up for sale
Are Northland's historic hotels at risk, in what is beginning to look like a mass exodus from the businesses?
Green takes over Colliers division
Well-known Whangarei businessman Calvin Green's first assignment as head of the new business broking division of Colliers International Northland is to sell his own...
Shop offers dignity to smokers
Kevin Carroll can answer all the questions about his new tobacco products shop in the Whangarei CBD before you have a chance to ask them, starting with "trust me,...
Training boosts the bottom line
Some people blame the Government for everything. Jules Smith is not one of them but she could (jokingly) claim that a government voucher system for part-funding...
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New app goes offline
Trailblazing local travel app itravelNZ has found a way to provide detailed travel information on smartphones, while also overcoming the bane of modern travellers -...
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Helping small businesses grow
Northlanders might find it is a case of use it, or lose it, if they respond sluggishly to a new government scheme offering subsidised training to grow business...
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Liz Koh: Changes to credit ratings
Credit scoring is an internationally accepted means of assessing a person's credit worthiness. It is used by lenders to assess not only whether lending should be...
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Taking the helm of a leaner industry
Helen O'Sullivan's impressive CV shows just why she is relishing her newish job as CEO of the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand - although she is the voice for...
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Classics store trading in liquidation
Liquidation of unique Whangarei store Classics Games, Books & Puzzles may soon do what a serious fire failed to seven years ago - bring down the business.
Man charged with arson of his luxury home
A man has been charged with burning down his multimillion-dollar luxury home in the Bay of Islands.Christopher John Robinson was arrested in Thames on April 17 and...
- Houses to be demolished around Wellington Airport
- Sex offender's schools suppressed
- Underwriter's deadly meth overdose
- The snow must go on, Mt Hutt says
Should Whangarei build a Hundertwasser Art Centre at the Town Basin? This poll will run until 10am on April 23, when the results will be presented to the Whangarei District Council as a submission to its 2012/2022 draft Long Term Plan.
This poll ended on 23 April 2012.
Yes
No
This is not a scientific poll. The results reflect only the opinions of those who chose to participate.
Kiwi ingenuity revives fungi farm
What goes around comes around. Just ask Wanganui mushroom farmer Leighton Minnell.
- Northland stakes its claim to fame
- Delivering wool harvest integrity
- Prime time for Alex's top beef
- Industry shakeup - DIRA regulations
