Whether you like your bread savoury, sweet, crusty, classic or artisanal, Bakers Delight has been perfecting Australia's favourite breads since 1980.
One franchisee of the popular bread brand, Ryan Kirkham, has created a partnership with Bartercard, which has attracted approximately $40,000 in sales every year – that’s a lot of loaves!
Topics: growing your business, increase profit, bartercard, buyer demand, small business, attract new customers, save cash
It happens to all of us – you’re making progress on a project, learning something new, or perhaps keeping with exercise or a diet, and then things start to go sideways. Your motivation gradually fades as the year progresses until your progress has come to a halt and then goals have been shelved. With autumn looming, now is the time to reassess your goals and ensure you’re taking the necessary steps to create good discipline habits that will allow you to succeed. Be they business or pleasure, persistence is the most important quality. After all, all your hard work to date will have been for nothing if you quit now!
Read MoreTopics: growing your business, small business owner, strategy, small business, motivation, goals
We don’t always like to think too far ahead. Long term business growth strategies might not be a priority, nor might it be something we particularly enjoy thinking about, but certain outcomes are inevitable in everyone’s life. In short, you won’t run your business forever.
Read MoreTopics: business strategies, growing your business, small business owner, strategy, small business, trade exchange, succession planning
Bartercard New Zealand is part of the largest global trade exchange, trading over $150 million worth of goods and services outside the cash economy each year. With thousands of members in New Zealand alone, Bartercard provides business opportunities to its members by making use of unused trading capacity and excess inventory to increase profits and get new customers. Total Finish Painting Contractors is just one of the Bartercard members delivering professional results for all their clients’ painting and decorating needs throughout Canterbury and wider South Island region.
Read MoreTopics: growing your business, increase profit, increase cash flow, small business, attract new customers, save cash, spare capacity, build business networks
It might start with a name and a logo, but if there’s one thing the team at Bartercard knows, it’s that building a trusted brand is much more than just graphic design.
Building a trusted brand is critical in the digital age. Having a strategy and focus to help build trust in the right places can maximise your impact, your brand reach, and your market sway.
Read MoreTopics: growing your business, increase cash flow, starting up your business, small business, market research, attract new customers, save cash, spare capacity, build business networks, branding
No matter how long you’ve been in business or how successful you are, you’re bound to be faced with cash flow challenges from time to time. Often, it’s not through poor management, simply the ebb and flow of the business tide that can be difficult to predict.
Read MoreTopics: Cashflow, growing your business, strategy, small business, attract new customers, save cash, spare capacity
When it comes to productivity, there has been no tool more enduring than the humble to-do list. But these days, we find that our lists are growing faster and faster, and it can feel like we’re clearing them slower and slower. And, if you’re anything like us, you may find that the to-do list ends up closer to a “not-done” list by the end of the day. When it comes to achieving business goals, like a profit increase, a to-do list is a vital building block to eventual success.
Read MoreTopics: growing your business, Productivity, increase profit, bartercard, business start-up, save cash
Empty seats to fill? Want to get more customers and boost cashflow in your restaurant or bar? Looking to leverage your business network to increase business profits?
Read MoreTopics: business strategies, small business new zealand, growing your business, attracting new customers, increase cash flow
In this week's blog update, we list the industry tips to keep you thinking outside the walls of your establishment.
Read MoreTopics: growing your business, hospitality, increase cash flow, fill downtime
Thanks to Bartercard, the Return to Paradise Resort in Samoa has a new wedding chapel which is helping to boost wedding tourism and travel bookings in the cash market. Through Bartercard, and the generosity of its members, they’ve attracted a wider market of visitors with a minimal cash outlay.
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