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BUSINESS CASH FLOW LOOKING TIGHT OVER XMAS AND NEW YEAR? (18/11/2019)
Interface's spot factoring service for SMEs who provide goods and services B2B could be the solution. Why wait for customers to pay when our facility provides 90% of the unpaid customer invoice(s) value now so suppliers/staff can be paid on time.
WHAT IT TAKES TO BUILD A WINNING CORPORATE CULTURE (17/09/2019)
Being successful in the business world begins with a killer culture that starts with you, expands to your employees, and reverberates loudly through every aspect of your business, all the way to to what your clients or customers experience. Learn about the three things to create a winning culture within your business.
PHRASES TO USE WHEN YOU NEED TO PERSUADE AND INFLUENCE OTHERS (17/09/2019)
When you’re trying to be persuasive, your language needs to be fresh, thought-provoking, subtle and psychologically thought out to not only incite the best answers for feedback, but to also achieve the result of getting people to move into action for your business, product or service. Here are are 5 unique phrases to use.
HOW NOT TO BE PART OF THE DEPRESSION STATISTICS IN THE WORKPLACE (17/09/2019)
We are running ourselves into the ground, and it’s our families, health and happiness that suffer, along with our businesses. Here are five things you can integrate into the workplace to make it less stressful for everyone.
CASE STUDY - EARTHWORKS CONTRACTOR (17/09/2019)
Interface Auckland was contacted by an Earthworks Contractor who was experiencing cash flow pressures due to a delay in payment of the final claim on a recently completed job. As a result, the Contractor was behind in its payment to its key suppliers which was placing its new jobs at risk.
BRIDGING THE GENERATION GAP IN THE WORKPLACE (22/07/2019)
As millennials and gen z’ers are integrating thick and fast into working life in 2019, the need for cohesive relationships between colleagues of all ages is becoming a significant aspect to consider for businesses today.
DO YOU USE THESE OFFENSIVE COLLOQUIALISMS? (22/07/2019)
Here are some popular phrases often used in the corporate world that need to be buried in order to create a healthy work culture for all to be a part of, regardless of gender, race and sexuality.
HOW TO OPEN AND CLOSE A CALL KIWI STYLE (22/07/2019)
If you dread it when a prospective customer says, ‘let me think about it,’ you may benefit from a process – proposed by New Zealand’s foremost thought leader in sales excellence Bill James – that helps you land the sale from start to finish in virtually one sitting.
HOW SELECTIVE INVOICE FINANCE WORKS (22/07/2019)
Selective invoice finance is the practice of being able to pick and choose which invoice or invoices, if any, a business wants funded to guarantee sufficient cash flow to meet its commitments on time.
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KEEP THE PRESSURE DOWN: 5 STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING BUSINESS STRESS (21/05/2019)
Stress is an unavoidable part of business - we all encounter moments where we feel overwhelmed, anxious, maybe even depressed. It's a natural part of the human condition, and while external factors can be hard to control, we do have a choice about how we respond to stress and how we manage our emotional wellbeing.
PROSPECTING FOR GOLD: HOW TO FIND (AND KEEP) VALUABLE CUSTOMERS (21/05/2019)
Prospecting for new customers is a time consuming but essential function of any business . Your most valuable customers are those you already have—and nurturing those existing relationships should be your top priority. But clients do come and go, and you need to have a prospecting system in place to ensure the sales continue to flow.
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THINK BIG: LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY IN SMALL BUSINESS (21/05/2019)
The business media is overflowing with stories about A.I, Big Data and disruptive technologies. These developments might seem like a looming threat to a business leader’s core business – future technology that’s poised to steal customers with superior scale and unmatchable pricing.
CASE STUDY - CONSULTANCY SERVICES BUSINESS (21/05/2019)
A recently established Auckland based health consultancy services business secured an assignment in the Waikato that had contract payment terms of 20th of the month following invoice. The business approached Interface because it was experiencing cash flow problems due to the upfront establishment and travel and accommodation costs incurred on the project.
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THREE REASONS YOU SHOULDN'T TRUST YOUR GUT WHEN IT COMES TO HIRING SALES STAFF (02/04/2019)
Business leaders and managers could avoid a lot of pain when hiring sales and frontline staff if they relied less on that feeling of 'we instantly clicked' and instead became more targeted in recruiting people with the right aptitude for the role.
WHICH INDUSTRIES HAVE THE HIGHEST STAFF TURNOVER RATES? (02/04/2019)
LinkedIn recently used the data from its more than half a billion members to establish which sectors, industries and jobs have the highest levels of turnover.
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CONFRONTING AND OVERCOMING HIDDEN FEARS THAT HOLD YOU BACK (02/04/2019)
Childhood fears of ‘unseen,’ or ‘invisible things’ never really go away – they just follow us into adulthood, giving us sleepless nights or preventing us from achieving the things that we most want. What are the top three fears that are keeping us from living an extraordinary life.
THE THREE MAIN FACTORS THAT IMPACT CASH FLOW NEGATIVELY ARE INVENTORY, PAYABLES AND ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLES (02/04/2019)
Every dollar you have tied up in these three factors means a dollar less that you have to spend.
GOVERNMENT SHOULD KEEP HANDS OFF UNIVERSAL DEFERRED PAYMENTS (30/01/19)
Getting invoices paid 90 or 120 days after due date by large corporate companies, commonly called Universal Deferred Payment (UDP), is not a bad thing for small businesses and signals from Government to stamp it out will not help SMEs.
HOW TO INFLUENCE WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU ARE NOT THERE (30/01/19)
When you're not in the room, when you're out of hearing range, people are talking about you. Staff talk about whether, they like you or even be loyal to you... your bosses are discussing whether to promote you, and customers are deciding whether they trust you. So, how do you shape and influence what gets said about you behind closed doors?
FOUR WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR BUSINESS GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS (30/01/19)
New Zealand businesses are underutilising the broad suite of online marketing tools, many free, that are available to them and it’s costing them in lost opportunities.
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