FreshBooks is a great tool for carrying out certain business functions such as creating professional looking invoices, managing and organising expenses and tracking time, just to name a few. These types of features work well for small businesses and for the most part, fulfil their requirements from an accounting standpoint. But, as a business grows, […]
Back in 2015, I came across an interesting travel insurance statistic; out of the 2.2 million Kiwis who travelled overseas the previous year, 15% of them did not take out travel insurance > It pays to take out travel insurance. With the way that the world has become more ‘uncertain’ since then and with increased […]
If you haven’t already heard about FreshBooks, it is the small business cloud accounting software solution of choice because it makes accounting tasks painless. It makes billing a breeze and at the end of the day leaves you with more time to run and grow your business. Update Get 50% off for 3 months on […]
We all at one point or another find ourselves thinking about or looking for ways of freeing up more time. One such time hack that I am a proponent of is the two-minute rule: if you can complete a task in two minutes, just get it done there and then If there is something that […]
A couple of weeks ago at the end of a day’s work, we got home at 6 pm to a power cut. Earlier during the day, we had received a message from Vector (New Zealand’s largest electricity and gas distributor) notifying us that there would be an outage in our area. Given the time of […]
About a month or so ago, we found ourselves in a situation where we had to have a face to face conversation with one of our service providers. During the conversation, we uncovered a discrepancy with one of the policies that we had with them. At the time, the customer service consultant suggested that we […]
Amazon Prime Day is one of the bigger shopping events of the year where shoppers are offered a range of deals and bargains. It starts on 16 July 2018 at 3 pm ET and runs for 36 hours but, in order to take advantage of the offers, you have to be a Prime subscriber. If […]
Mid last year, eBay took steps towards making sure that its users got a really good deal on a range of items with their Price Match Guarantee. With this offering, if you found something being offered for a lower price by one of their competitors, they matched the price. How the process worked was that […]
Everyone is online these days and it goes without saying that businesses need to have an online presence as part of their sales strategy. Some businesses, both big and small are purely online and have fully embraced all that the ecommerce world has to offer. However a business chooses to get into ecommerce be it […]
