The Mina Amso Show

Is the New Zealand economy in trouble? Economist Shamubeel Eaqub: "Yes, I think we are." Bernard Hickey: "we built an economy, which is a housing market with bits tacked on." The cost of living, tax debt and super, before New Zealand votes on Saturday 7 November. We put one question to two economists, a liquidator, a tax lawyer and the head of Auckland's business chamber. W...

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Nicola Taylor is a lawyer by background and co-founder of Tax Traders and Taxi. Tax Traders was named Best Place to Work in Aotearoa for 2024 and is a certified B Corp. For most owners, the timing of tax matters more than the amount. We put that to work on the hardest cash flow date of the year, 15 January. Logitech👉 https://www.logitech.comPwrfullyLearn How to Tell Your Story On Podcast To Grow...

James Hurman was named the world's best strategic planner. He is the founder and chair of Previously Unavailable, the Auckland venture company behind Tracksuit and AF Drinks, and the author of Future Demand. His argument: advertising doesn't cause sales, it decides which brand wins them. · We put that to work at NZ scale: a business under $1 million, a $20k marketing budget split the way h...

<p>How do you get your first 1,000 customers without spending a dollar on ads?</p> <p>Angus Simms co-founded Wonky Box with his partner Katie after a hailstorm in the Tasman marked a season of pears and apples. Six years on, Wonky Box says it has 17,000 active subscribers, warehouses in Auckland and Christchurch, and more than 100 growers.</p> <p>They spent nothing on...

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Get Booked & Paid With Podcasts. Start for Free 👉 https://www.pwrfully.com Damien Grant is the principal of Waterstone Insolvency and one of New Zealand's best-known liquidators. He has run Waterstone since 2006 and writes a weekly column for Stuff. His firm has handled some of the country's most public collapses, including Waikato construction firm Stanley Group, Ponsonby restaurant...

Get in front of your ideal clients, start for free! Check out: www.pwrfully.com(REPLAY) New Zealand sales expert Bill James breaks down how to win sales when the economy is against you and buyers have gone quiet. He shares the Rule of Two No's, the referral process that returns 105 leads for every 100 clients, and the one word that is silently lowering the value of everything you say. If you r...

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Pwrfully Get Booked & Paid With Podcasts. Start for Free https://www.pwrfully.com Hannah McQueen is a New Zealand chartered accountant, financial adviser and entrepreneur. She began at KPMG before founding Enable Me, a financial coaching business built on a mortgage-structuring formula she developed with the University of Auckland. She grew it to around 100 staff and 10 offices, worked with ro...

Bernard Hickey is one of New Zealand's best known economics commentators. Trained as an economist and as a journalist, he has spent more than three decades covering money, markets and housing. He now runs The Kākā, a subscription newsletter and podcast, and co-hosts an ANZ-funded economics podcast.<br> <br><br> Episode Sponsors<br> AcademyEx<br> Get ahead with AI&...

Ashish Saxena is a former executive at Lucent-Alcatel, Nokia and General Electric, an investor, mentors business owners across multiple markets. This is his second appearance on Notes From The Executive. What I Asked Ashish Why is a $13M business with a 2% margin more dangerous than a $1M business at 25% Why is revenue the metric quietly killing most NZ businesses How do I sell something before I...

Tim Warren is the Co-Founder of Ambit, a New Zealand AI software company serving Financial Services, eCommerce, Retail, Telco and Utilities. Before Ambit, Tim was a COO at JBWere and an executive at Goldman Sachs. He is an angel investor with more than 15 investments and was previously on the board of Flying Kiwi Angels. In this conversation he tears apart New Zealand's government AI strategy,...

Nicki Osbaldiston is a NZ marketing strategist and founder of Client Focused Approach. She has spent years repositioning founders whose marketing was never the real problem and built a framework experienced operators use to win back premium clients without producing more content. Episode Sponsors AcademyEx Get ahead with AI https://discover.academyex.com/mina Pwrfully Get Your Free Podcast List ht...