RISE Business Tips

6 Ways to Boost Your Gross Profit from a Business Strategy Advisor

6 Ways to Boost Your Gross Profit from a Business Strategy Advisor

Improve your gross profit with these 6 key strategies. Remember, improving gross profit requires a step-by-step approach.

Leveraging Your Strengths: How Business Owners Can Gain Traction in 2025

Leveraging Your Strengths: How Business Owners Can Gain Traction in 2025

Learn how trade business owners can use their strengths in leadership, finance, systems, and marketing to drive growth and success in 2025.

Are You a Follower or a Leader? - How to Lead Business Growth

Are You a Follower or a Leader? - How to Lead Business Growth

Lead your business through change, not behind it. Adapt, evolve, and succeed with proactive strategies and external perspectives.

Aligning Roles With Business Growth - Effective Growth Strategies

Aligning Roles With Business Growth - Effective Growth Strategies

Align your team for business growth. Discover strategies to ensure the right roles and leadership drive success in NZ's evolving market.

Preparing Your NZ SME for Growth: People & Process Management

Preparing Your NZ SME for Growth: People & Process Management

Discover strategies to prepare your NZ SME for growth. Focus on optimising processes, financial planning, customer experience, marketing, and more.

7 Key Trends Shaping the Future of Kiwi Businesses

7 Key Trends Shaping the Future of Kiwi Businesses

Discover seven trends shaping small businesses in Auckland, from sustainability to digital transformation. Learn strategies to thrive in a challenging economy.

Boost Your Trade Business with Smart Marketing Strategies

Boost Your Trade Business with Smart Marketing Strategies

Learn how to navigate Auckland's tough economic climate with effective marketing strategies that build resilience.

Strategies to Maximise Profitability in Trades Businesses

Strategies to Maximise Profitability in Trades Businesses

Explore effective strategies to boost profitability and efficiency in trades businesses with our expert tips and insights.

Enhancing Trades Business Value: Key Assets & Valuation

Enhancing Trades Business Value: Key Assets & Valuation

Discover how a trades business can maximise its valuation by managing tangible assets, financial health, market position, and more.

Maximising Business Growth: A 2024 Guide to Sales and Marketing

Maximising Business Growth: A 2024 Guide to Sales and Marketing

Discover how to keep your sales funnel full and focus on the prize in 2024 with our comprehensive guide on enhancing marketing strategies and building key business relationships.

Achieving Your Business Goals in 2024: A Comprehensive Guide for Success

Achieving Your Business Goals in 2024: A Comprehensive Guide for Success

In the ever-evolving landscape of business, the start of a new year brings renewed energy and an opportunity to set fresh goals.

5 Key Takeaways for 2023 with Rise

5 Key Takeaways for 2023 with Rise

2023 has been a challenging year for business, but we've focused on topics to help you through. Lets look back at five of the key takeaways.

10 Tips for Unlock the Secret to Successful Holiday Hiring

10 Tips for Unlock the Secret to Successful Holiday Hiring

Discover 10 effective tips for holiday season recruitment in our comprehensive guide, perfect for businesses seeking a strategic edge.

Mastering the Receivable Process: A Lifeline for New Zealand's SMEs

Mastering the Receivable Process: A Lifeline for New Zealand's SMEs

Unlock cash flow strategies tailored for NZ's SMEs: Dive into efficient invoicing, proactive communication, and tech tools for optimal receivables.

Key Drivers to Thrive in a Multi-Venture Landscape

Key Drivers to Thrive in a Multi-Venture Landscape

Growing a group business with multiple ventures requires a strategic approach that considers each venture's uniqueness.

Revolutionise Your Recruitment: 10 Strategies to Magnetise Top Talent

Revolutionise Your Recruitment: 10 Strategies to Magnetise Top Talent

In the ever-evolving business landscape, attracting top talent is no longer a luxury—it's a necessity. Whether you're a plumber, a construction company, or an electrical firm, the right team members can...

Hunting for New Business: Organic Growth or Acquisition

Hunting for New Business: Organic Growth or Acquisition

Business growth is the name of the game. Strategies include organic growth and business acquisition, Here are their advantages and challenges.

Adding Value to Business Value, by Systemising

Adding Value to Business Value, by Systemising

Business operations from A to Z can be an enormous task; besides, business operations can vary widely depending on the industry...

Plan Your Way to Financial Success - Why Now is the Best Time

Plan Your Way to Financial Success - Why Now is the Best Time

It’s time to start creating a comprehensive budget as well as forecast your expected revenue and expenses for the upcoming year.

How to Perform the Stop / Keep / Start Model

How to Perform the Stop / Keep / Start Model

Business owners at the beginning of every year are wanting to stop doing, keep doing and start doing things that adds value to their lives.

Overhead Recovery: Factored or not?

Overhead Recovery: Factored or not?

Most of the clients I am working with are having to look at their recovery cost (specifically overhead recovery).

Leadership & Management Questions

Leadership & Management Questions

A few key questions and thoughts when it comes to leadership & management styles and how business owners operate to build and engage their teams.

Developing Your Management Team

Developing Your Management Team

A well-leveraged needs to have the capability of your management team to partner and together fulfil your vision.

Outsourcing: When does it make sense and when doesn't it?

Outsourcing: When does it make sense and when doesn't it?

As business owners, we always need to be thinking about how to best market/advertise in a way to attract new a-type prospects.

Innovation/Resourcing: Is it important?

Innovation/Resourcing: Is it important?

As business owners, I understand being able to keep up with current demand can be rather challenging, let alone being in a strategic thinking place with regards to business innovation...

Getting Sucked Back In

Getting Sucked Back In

I am thinking about how often this happens to business owners getting sucked back into other key team members responsibilities/task.

Avoiding Bad Habits

Avoiding Bad Habits

This month is all about Standards & Norms, what are standards in a business and what becomes a norm (this can be a downward spiral) for most organisations because of unwritten ground rules that have become bad habits.

Old Recruitment vs New Recruitment

Old Recruitment vs New Recruitment

How do you become a marketing expert for attracting new team members in alignment with your company culture/benefits without making it win/loss situation?

Money makes the world go round

Money makes the world go round

The new financial year is just days away and what an interesting year it’s been with businesses having to pivot, adapted and be resourceful given the circumstances.

New financial support for businesses affected by Omicron

New financial support for businesses affected by Omicron

A new targeted COVID Support Payment will be made available for businesses struggling with revenue during the Omicron outbreak.

Attract and Retain | That is the Game

Attract and Retain | That is the Game

Many business owners are looking for the edge to attract the right people, this is besides the fact we have significant staff shortages.

Bring on the New Year

Bring on the New Year

As a business owner, you should always make time for strategic planning to build an effective strategy that can steer you in the right direction.

Attract & Recruit Better Candidates with Video

Attract & Recruit Better Candidates with Video

Jerome partners with trade & professional businesses to plan and action their business goals. Book Jerome for a strategy consult today!

What to do when you are stuck

What to do when you are stuck

The treadmill of life happens to us and around us – so how do we get off it and live a life of purpose? Read more

The truth about business leadership

The truth about business leadership

A business looking to move from Good to Great starts with a Vision. This vision usually comes from someone that has the... Read more.

Health tips for your business

Health tips for your business

With the new year well underway we need to measuring some key aspects of business performance to ensure profitability is tracking up.

Retaining talent, what is your company doing to make this your reality?

Retaining talent, what is your company doing to make this your reality?

People are the centre of our business. Employing and retaining the right ones are vital to your continued growth and profitability.