This course is a correspondence course which you can do in your own home in NZ or anywhere in the world. You will receive a full course manual.
Session 1. How to Start your Own Successful Business
- Have the right foundation
- The New Zealand way of doing business
- How to contact some helpful resources in New Zealand
- How to Start your own Business
- The eight steps to getting started
- Which is best? Starting or Buying?
- How to use a prepurchase checklist
- How to start with a competitive advantage
- Choosing a name for your business
- Choosing the right business entity
- Choosing a franchise
- Financing your business
- Running your office efficiently
- Business ethics
- Business letters
- Glossary of Business words used
- Getting help
- Great Ideas to build your new Business
Session 2. How to stay Out of Trouble
- Know the Rules
- Contract Law
- Consumer Guarantees
- Sale of Goods
- Fair Trading
- Credit Contracts
- Employment Contracts
- Occupational Safety & Health
- Holidays & leave
- Duties of directors
- Licences & permits needed
Session 3. How to minimise your Tax Legally
- Making a Profit? - Income Tax
- Employing Staff? - PAYE - ACC
- Sales more than $30,000 per year? - GST
- Any staff perks? - Fringe Benefit Tax
- Some Tax Minimising Ideas
Session 4. How to Build your Successful Business
- Marketing and Selling
- How to build your customer base
- The five marketing basics
- The laws of successful marketing
- The common marketing pitfalls
- The marketing concept for your business
- Some common marketing words
- Successful selling techniques
Session 5. How to Increase your Business Worth and make Profits
- Profitable strategies
- The 10 biggest pitfalls to avoid failure.
- How to price for profit
- How to maximise gross margin
- Some 25 cost saving ideas
Session 6. How to Build a Winning Team
