Out and About
As business owners, we like to get out and about and have a bit of fun whilst we are doing it.
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from nextAdvisory. We hope you have a safe and relaxing festive season.
Breaking up with your accountant 101
Break ups are never easy and it’s no different when it comes time to leaving your accountant. We’ve made it super easy to change accountants as we don’t think it should be messy. Our new clients like to sign on with us electronically, no pen, paper or scanning. Once we have all agreed on the
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Xero Network Key
Save yourself time by using the Xero to Xero Network key. Every Xero account has it’s own unique and private network key so ask your customers and suppliers as you build relationships. Why? When a business that has your key sends you a Xero invoice, you’ll receive it directly into your Xero account as a
It’s nearly Xmas – your chance of getting paid just decreased
Aim: More money in the bank! With the Christmas period fast approaching, it’s time to put some time in to chasing those unpaid debtors. Traditionally, Christmas has been the worst time for NZ businesses to collect money from their clients – we all know that the country effectively shuts down from between 2 weeks to
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Your Xero Mailbox
Your Xero account has a unique e-mail address you can forward documents to. Sick of having to go back and find documents? Sick of printing pdf’s? Sick of uploading documents to Xero manually? Click in to your files/folders box (shown as a heart in the picture) when logged in to Xero and you will find
Xero for Zero
Every week we get a number of Xero queries and also help people who have started using Xero on their own with no training and gotten into a bit of a mess. If you don’t get the basics of Xero right from the beginning, the job to tidy it up can be long and costly
Team
Sometimes we can get stuck in the thinking that we can do it all by ourselves. Even legends like Steve Jobs needed a team.
Hard Work
Success doesn’t come easy, you know it, we know it and there is no hiding from the recipe.
Your business, your livelihood, Our energy
In business and in life, it’s wise to surround yourself with people that understand what you’re trying to achieve.
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![Luke here...I wanted to share a lesson with you that I hope will inspire you.
I have had a number of wins to start 2025. But they didn't really come from 2025 nor my 2025 actions.
They came from YEARS of action taking because action leads to action.
When I got into ‘business’ as a 17-year-old, I didn’t know this lesson. But I’m glad I learned it as it led me here.
I’ve been in business since my first year at university. I was selling my landlords feijoas
I wasn’t happy with the speed of sales.
People weren’t seeing my feiojas at the gate.
Even at that age, I knew things started with attention.
I needed a sign.
And a road cone, to stick the sign to.
Smack bang in the middle of the road.
Cars passing by couldn’t help but see my feiojas.
SOLD OUT!
Now I needed more supply! I would knock on doors and ask if I could have neighbours feiojas.
Then I needed bags - cheers local supermarket . Naughty, I know!
SOLD OUT, again!
This was fun.
Then someone on a bike stole the honesty box and I had to go after them to get it back.
On we rumble, more sales.
Knock knock!
Who’s there?
Sh!t, its a policeman
Wonder what’s happened?
Turns out you can’t take a cone and put a sign on it and put it in the middle of a busy road.
Who would have thought!?
My bad!
I banked a few coins and, more importantly, valuable lessons.
I dollar cost averaged these coins into an aggressive overseas stock fund which is now worth over $1,000,0000.
I'm kidding.
I’ll be honest, I didn’t bank the coins. Most of them were $2 coins so I dropped them in the pokies once I was 18, chasing that get rich quick methodology. Like I said, valuable lessons….
Lessons I have carried through to today into a business that does over a million dollars of sales a year.
Into projects that help tens of thousands of kiwi learn. Into projects that entertain tens of thousands of kiwi.
2 of those lessons are:
It all starts with attention.
1. You have to start somewhere.
2. Starting leads to learning.
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