A GEM of an energy saving idea

Mercury Energy has released its Good Energy Monitor service (GEM), a web-based tracking and reporting tool providing residential customers with much greater visibility of their energy consumption and cost.

If you're not working on your business it will fail

Worldwide statistics show that 96% of Business start ups don’t survive past 10 years. That means only 4% make it. Key contributors to this high failure rate are lack of financial knowledge, lack of marketing knowledge, poor leadership and management skills, insufficient capital to fund growth, inadequate systems to replicate and scale the business and the business owner not working strategically on the business. Leadership Development and Business Growth Consultant Darren Ward from Bizness Unleashed is passionate about helping Business owners build a commercial profitable enterprise that works. In this article Darren shares simple steps on how to go to work on your business.

Loop Road paved in Gold

New Zealand’s next big thing ‘Loop Road’ has released a 5 track Ep that is causing waves, recently voted numbers 2,3,4,5 and 8 on the public voted website ‘the audience’.

Blackwells to Open

At last there’s an answer to Kaiapoi’s most-asked question: “When will Blackwell’s be rebuilt?” The new, contemporary version of the town’s iconic department store will be open by September 2013.

Enriching Summer School at Corban Estate Arts Centre

From the 14th to the 18th of January 2013, inspiring and experienced artists will come together at Corban Estate Arts Centre’s Summer School in West Auckland. This stimulating annual event attracts participants from all over New Zealand. These tutors/artists are practitioners of eleven diverse art forms and offer and high calibre learning experience, in an immersive arts atmosphere.