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Tax Basics
 Tax Basics is a three hour workshop that runs through the core tax issues faced by small businesses.
This workshop will cover:
How income tax works, company tax vs individual income tax shareholder salaries & dividends.
Interposed activities, provisional tax, terminal tax & GST basics.
Presenter: John Forde
Date: Thursday 6th August 2009
Time: 5.30-8.30pm
Location: Porirua- TBA when booking
To book a place please register online or For further information please call or email Gabby 04 494 0990, gabby@thebusinesscentre.org.nz
Promotional Strategies
This advanced series is for business owners/operators who have been in business for some time, know their market but are still finding it difficult to get traction in the market place.
Promotional Strategies helps you build a communications plan.
In this workshop you will:
- Reconsider and define your competitive advantage
- Segment your market
- Understand how promotion works
- Walk through communication planning
- Consider new marketing strategies
- Consider some of the different promotional methods available
The Presenter: Warwick McCormack
Date: Wednesday 5th August 2009
Time: 5.30-8.30pm
Location: Lower Hutt- TBA when booking
To book a place please register online or For further information please call or email Gabby 04 494 0990, gabby@thebusinesscentre.org.nz
Show me the Money
DO YOU WANT MORE CUSTOMERS??
Yes- Then this "SHOW ME THE MONEY" workshop is for you!
What You will learn in this workshop:
• How to turn $100 into $103,400 through a powerful real life marketing strategy that you too can implement
• Why most advertising doesn’t work and what to do about it
• The secret formula to create a genuine point of difference for your business to drive more people to your door
• How to get thousands of dollars of free advertising every year
Come along to learn how you can do the same, be inspired and beat the recession.
• The 4 keys to writing marketing and advertising material that really works
• Easy ways to get dozens (even hundreds) of inactive customers returning to your business
• Get masses of people actively sending customers to your business – for FREE!
• How to increase your turnover while reducing your marketing cost
The Presenter: Karl & Mark from Redhot Business Coaching
Date: Wednesday 12th August
Time: 9am to 12pm
Location: The Business Centre
To book a place please register online or For further information please call or email Gabby 04 494 0990, gabby@thebusinesscentre.org.nz
 Mark and Karl from Red Hot Business Coaching are both successful entrepreneurs having built two thriving franchise companies up from scratch one of which has been selected as finalist for NZ Franchise of the Year two years running. Recent clients of Karl and Mark include a tyre company that doubled in size within a year, an electrical company that grew by over $1 Million, and a recruitment company that increased its turnover by 1,000% within 12 months.
Web Sites that work
 This 2 part workshop is designed to provide business owners with the essential understandings they
need to create websites that have maximum potential to generate leads, convert leads into sales, and increase the level of repeat business.
WEB SITES THAT WORK – ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS
WORKSHOP PRE-REQUISITE: None
Description:This 3 hour workshop is designed to provide business owners with the essential understandings they need to create websites that have maximum potential to generate leads, convert leads into sales, and increase the level of repeat business. Attendees will come away with a requirements checklist that they can use to qualify vendor proposals, along with a range of best practise techniques that can be easily implemented, and with quick effect.
WEBSITES THAT WORK – BAKING THE CAKE
WORKSHOP PRE-REQUISITE: WEBSITES THAT WORK – ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS
Description:In this second 3 hour workshop, A hands-on, interactive workshop that underscores and reinforces the learning's gained from the Essential Ingredients workshop by turning theory into practise. Participants are first split into groups. Each group is required to invent a new business initiative for the region, then ‘Internet-enable’ their initiative by applying the best practice techniques and principles. Group initiatives are then rated and scored according to a pre-defined set of criteria.
The Presenter: Hamish Clark & Rick Wallace
Date:
Part 1 18th August
Part 2 25th August
(BOTH WORKSHOPS MUST BE ATTENDED )
Time: 5.30-8.30pm
Location: Lower Hutt - TBA When booking
To book a place please register online or For further information please call or email Gabby 04 494 0990, gabby@thebusinesscentre.org.nz
Outsell your competitors-sales on autopilot
Most sales courses show you how to close, sell more, listen better, have a great attitude, but few give you the online tools to capture more leads, organize and follow up effectively, close more business and farm your customers for more profit.
“ You wouldn’t see an accountant completing tax without a system, so why then do so many sales people try to manage extensive prospect lists, follow ups, multiple quotes and opportunities and ongoing customer relationships with out one. ”
In this workshop you will learn… - How to improve lead capture by 100%
- How a CRM (Customer relationship system) will assist you to close more sales and make more income
- How following a simple sales process and using an online customer manager will make you more money and save you hours per day.
- How to retain and grow your average spend per customer and to show your customers more care and attention.
- How to follow up better and do what you say you will.
- Allow you to focus on customers and prospects at the right time in the sales cycle.
The most successful sales performers in New Zealand use effective CRM or customer manager systems. Its time to step up.!
The Presenter: Assia Salikhova of Assia & Ax advertising and Graham Bloxham of SalesworksCRM
Date: Tuesday 11 August 2009
Time: 5.30am - 8.30pm
Location: The Business Centre
To book a place please register online or For further information please call or email Gabby 04 494 0990, gabby@thebusinesscentre.org.nz
 Assia's diverse past allows her to bring ideas across disciplines and create a bigger vision, greater value and leverage them with an array of inspiring strategies for businesses in any industry.
 Graham has built a sales software company SalesworksCRM with global aspirations that is designed to help sales people to sell better, save time and help them to make way more income. He has won and lost in business and is an extremely accomplished salesperson.
Business Start Up Series
 This 3 part free workshop series is perfect if you are wanting to start your own buisness.
Content is delivered across the 3 evening workshops
To find out more information and to book a place please register online or call or email Gabby 04 494 0990, gabby@thebusinesscentre.org.nz
Dont forget to check out the latest IN-Business eZine, with lots of valuable content including some articles and video not featured in the printed version. www.in-business.co.nz/ezine/aug-sept
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