Events

Do you ever get so involved in the day to day action in your business that you don’t have the time or energy to plan properly?  Do you have good intentions – but find that planning gets continually pushed down your to do list?

If so, you certainly are not alone.

This event will be held at the Elevate CA Limited offices 7:30am on Wednesday 20 April.  You can find us at level 4, 35 Robert Street, Whangarei.

At this Boardroom BOF event, Rebecca Brennan will work through some tried and true strategies for planning – along with some new ideas that you might not find in the old school text books.  This will be a small group limited to eight business owners – so there will be plenty of opportunity to discuss the challenges that are relevant to you. 

Boardroom BOF events run from 7:30am to 9:00am in the Elevate CA boardroom.  Numbers are limited to eight – and these events are for owners of businesses  that employ staff and have a turnover of more than $1m pa.  Coffee, juice and a light breakfast will be served to help lubricate quality discussion – and as always for Elevate CA events, there is no charge.

Elevate CA runs events events for business owners alternating between Whangarei, Albany and Newmarket – with events scheduled each month.  Check the “Events” tab above to see if there are any other events which might be of interest to you.

If you’d like to attend this event, email Fraser Hurrell (fraser@elevateca.co.nz) before this event fills up. And if you’d like to be included on the invite list for future events, just add your contact details in the box to the right.

Growth usually demands investment in assets, systems, staff, marketing initiatives – and working capital to fund increased debtors, work in progress and inventory.  Without cash, even the most successful business will struggle to achieve growth and realise its potential.  Often the most cash hungry business is one that’s in growth mode.

So what are the options when it comes to funding the growth of your business?  Should you offer a stake to an equity partner – or borrow funds from the bank or elsewhere?  What are the true costs of those options?  What might sway your decision one way or the other?  What if you can’t find a suitable equity partner – and lenders don’t share your enthusiasm?

These are age old questions – and often you don’t know the right answer for certain until after the event.  It’s easy to be wise in hindsight.  The panel at this Business Owners Forum event will focus on the dilemmas and decisions to be made when considering how to fund the growth of your business. 

This Business Owners Forum event will be held at the BNZ Partners facility on Constellation Drive, North Harbour at 5:30pm for a 5:40pm start on Thursday 14 April – and will run through to 7:00pm.

As always for Business Owners Forum events, this session will be free of charge and completely free of sales pitches from the supporters or the panellists. And there will be pizza, beer and wine to lubricate quality discussion.

Business Owners Forums are held monthly – alternating between Whangarei, Albany and Newmarket venues. Although no two Business Owners Forum events are the same, this event will be more or less repeated in Newmarket on Wednesday 18 May.

If you’d like to attend this event, email Fraser Hurrell (fraser@elevateca.co.nz) before this event fills up. And if you’d like to be included on the invite list for future events, just add your contact details in the box to the right.

There is only a finite amount in any marketing budget.  Where do you spend those scarce marketing dollars?  What is the best mix between traditional and digital media?  What works and what doesn’t work?  How do you measure the results?  What are others doing?

Many business owners are asking themselves and each other these questions.  And often they are being guided by people who have a vested interest in a certain answer.

We have assembled a quality panel to discuss these questions.  We are confident that you will walk away from this event with some additional insight and ideas.

This Business Owners Forum event will be held at the BNZ Partners facility on Broadway, Newmarket at 5:30pm for a 5:40pm start on Wednesday 16 March – and will run through to 7:00pm.

As always for Business Owners Forum events, this session will be free of charge and completely free of sales pitches from the supporters or the panellists. And there will be pizza, beer and wine to lubricate quality discussion.

Business Owners Forums are held monthly – alternating between Whangarei, Albany and Newmarket venues. Although no two Business Owners Forum events are the same, this event will be more or less a repeat of the event held in Albany on 18 February.

If you’d like to attend this event, email Fraser Hurrell (fraser@elevateca.co.nz) before this event fills up. And if you’d like to be included on the invite list for future events, just add your contact details in the box to the right.

So you have x amount of dollars to spend on marketing.  Where do you spend them?  What is the best mix between traditional and digital media?  What works and what doesn’t work?  How do you measure the results?  What are others doing?

Many business owners are asking themselves and each other these questions.  And often they are being guided by people who have a vested interest in a certain answer.

We have assembled a quality panel to discuss these questions.  We are confident that you will walk away from this event with some additional insight and ideas.

This Business Owners Forum event will be held at the BNZ Partners facility on Constellation Drive, North Harbour at 5:30pm for a 5:40pm start on Thursday 18 February – and will run through to 7:00pm.

As always for Business Owners Forum events, this session will be free of charge and completely free of sales pitches from the supporters or the panellists. And there will be pizza, beer and wine to lubricate quality discussion.

Business Owners Forums are held monthly – alternating between Whangarei, Albany and Newmarket venues. Although no two Business Owners Forum events are the same, this event will be more or less repeated in Newmarket on Wednesday 16 March.

If you’d like to attend this event, email Fraser Hurrell (fraser@elevateca.co.nz) before this event fills up. And if you’d like to be included on the invite list for future events, just add your contact details in the box to the right.

Whilst we usually wouldn’t suggest that a business owner adopt a hands-off stance with his or her own business, it is a worthy goal to be able to liberate yourself from time to time confident that the wheels will not fall off.  How would your business fare if you take a month’s holiday in Europe during the busiest season?  Often the cost to the business of the owner being absent for any length of time is significant.  If liberating yourself from the necessity to always be within close reach of your business is on your bucket list, this Business Owners Forum event will be worthwhile to attend.

We have assembled a quality panel to discuss this challenge.  We are confident that you will walk away from this event with some additional insight and ideas.

This Business Owners Forum event will be held at the BNZ Partners facility on Broadway, Newmarket at 5:30pm for a 5:40pm start on Wednesday 18 November – and will run through to 7:00pm.

As always for Business Owners Forum events, this session will be free of charge and completely free of sales pitches from the supporters or the panellists. And there will be pizza, beer and wine to lubricate quality discussion.

Business Owners Forums are held monthly – alternating between Whangarei, Albany and Newmarket venues. Although no two Business Owners Forum events are the same, this event will be more or less a repeat of the event held in ALbany on 15 October.

If you’d like to attend this event, email Fraser Hurrell (fraser@elevateca.co.nz) before this event fills up. And if you’d like to be included on the invite list for future events, just add your contact details in the box to the right.