It’s no good running a business without tracking progress and knowing what success looks like. Whether you want to scale up in leaps and bounds or at a steady incline, metrics are a critical part of business management. Read these five tips to drive your business growth strategies and stay ahead of the curve.

How often do you see something online which has caught your attention and then you keep seeing it until you eventually give in and buy it?  It’s no coincidence, it’s retargeting – a digital customer acquisition strategy that re-attracts website visitors.  So how does it work?

It’s no wonder that today’s business owner is expected to wear many hats from strategy to finance, sales and marketing and to always be on the look-out for new and exciting methods to get new customers, increase customer retention and increasing business profits. So, it’s fair to say that photography should also be thrown into the mix. Fantastic photographs can be a great source for instantly updating your social media channels or for your marketing collateral.

Business Automation is a hot topic and for good reason.  Today’s digital world is transacting 24/7 and your business should reflect this.  By automating these five things, you can make your business work harder, even while you sleep, saving you hours in your week. You’ll have more time to focus on the parts of the business you love, like strategy, development, increasing business profits or scaling up, so stop sweating the small stuff.

It’s become commonplace that a large proportion of business will be transacted overseas.  The world-wide web has opened up opportunities we couldn’t have dreamt about years ago.   Online retail stores are replacing the high streets.  With so many opportunities presented to us, where do you start to market your business overseas?

Business continuity covers a range of aspects relating to a business being able to perform in the event of a disaster – building access, IT requirements, data records, the list goes on. However, there are other things to consider, and perhaps it’s not always the most obvious choices that should take priority.

On 30 June 2013, the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Countering Financing of Terrorism (CFT) Act 2009 came into effect in New Zealand, imposing a number of obligations on banks, fund managers, financial advisers, debt collectors, safe deposit box vaults and numerous other entities, and was designed to ensure such businesses and financial instructions were able to detect and report potentially criminal origins or purposes of money.

Did you know that 20% of small businesses fail in their first year and 50% of small businesses fail in their fifth year? This puts small business owners at significant risk, and not just in their first year of business. Small and medium-sized businesses don’t have the deep pockets or backing that large enterprises do, which is why even short-term cash flow problems can sink a business with an otherwise promising future.

Did you know that Bartercard's Property site contains millions of dollars in listings each with a trade component? Sound property investment could provide an ideal way of using Trade Dollars to achieve long-term financial prosperity. 

Anna Herd moved to New Zealand with her family nearly four years ago and became a Bartercard member almost immediately.  Her husband had previously owned a franchise in the UK so they were no strangers to the Bartercard network and how it worked.  Here, Anna tells us how Bartercard benefited a long family weekend away in Rotorua.