The #WhatsNext Podcast

Book a call with Phil to discuss gaining clarity on your business: https://calendly.com/philsmith Most business owners would rather find a magic solution than do the boring work that actually gets results. Phil and Luke break down why changing accountants won't fix your cash flow problems, why there's no shortcut out of debt, and why the answer is always the thing you don't want to hear: do the wo...

Grow your business with our 90 day business planning: https://nextadvisory.nz/90-day-business-planning/ Your suppliers are sneaking in price rises while you're still charging last year's prices. Meanwhile, you wonder why your business has no cash. Phil and Luke break down why business margins are getting their margins crushed and what you can do about it to protect yours. The businesses thriving r...

Most business owners just pick a random ACC classification code when they set up their company. Then they wonder why their ACC bill is so high. The problem? It's ridiculously easy to get this wrong. You set up a company, they ask for your business industry classification code, and you go "I don't know, that one looks close enough." Meanwhile, there are dozens of subcategories with wildly different...

Labour just announced a 28% capital gains tax on rental properties, Phil and Luke break down what this actually means. If you're interested in working together: Visit our website https://nextadvisory.nz Let's connect over a quick call: https://calendly.com/philsmith/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nextadvisory.nz/

Looking for help buying a business? Book a call with me at https://calendly.com/philsmith/ Most business owners would rather go broke than make the hard decisions. Then they act surprised when they lose everything. Today Phil and I break down why Kiwi business owners are too scared to right-size their businesses even when their family home is on the line. We cover the tough conversations you're av...

Looking for help with your accounting to create clarity & better decisions? Go to https://nextadvisory.nz IRD debt has exploded from $4 billion to over $10 billion in just 5 years. Now they're getting serious about collecting it. Phil breaks down what's really happening, the new collection powers IRD are using, why 500,000+ Kiwis owe money, and how penalties are racking up faster than people c...

Book a call with Phil to discuss buying/valuing your business: https://calendly.com/philsmith/buying Most business owners are doing cash flow completely wrong. Then they wonder why they're always stressed about money. You do the work, send an invoice, then wait 20+ days to get paid. Meanwhile, you've already paid wages, materials, and overheads. That's backwards. Phil breaks down the real cash flo...

This week Phil dives into how you can go about buying into your employers business to build wealth. If you're interested in working together: let's connect over a quick call: https://calendly.com/philsmith/ Get our $20,000 business planning tool for free: https://nextadvisory.nz/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nextadvisory.nz/

The third and final session with Gordon of his 90 day business planning, you guys have loved the first two sessions so we thought its only right to share the third one too. If you want to explore doing the 90 Day Plan please email Luke: luke@nextadvisory.nz and say that you've seen this video. We can see if there are spaces available. If you're interested in working together in other ways: let's c...

Andy from Abstract Floors joins us to share his journey from running solo to leading a team and hitting major milestones. A raw and inspiring look at the highs, lows, and lessons of building a business the right way. We touch on the deep work required as an individual to get there too. Andy reveals some of the success to his brand growth as well as the many tactics and tips required to run a succe...

The reserve bank have dropped the official cash rate by a massive 50 basis points from 3% to 2.5% but will this really stimulate the economy and put confidence back into it to get people back out there spending money. We're not too sure and in this we're going to try predict how low this could actually go.  More information about our 12 month program here: https://nextadvisory.nz  If you're intere...

Ever wondered how to actually price your services for profit, with confidence? In this behind the scenes coaching call, you’ll hear real advice I gave to a Kiwi business owner struggling with pricing, cost, and value. We cover: Why pricing based on competitors is a race to the bottom The difference between cost-based and value-based pricing How to test your prices and use real market feedback Why...

Statistics New Zealand recently updated their household net worth data, and we are about to take you through what you need to have in terms of Net Worth to be considered in the top 1%, 5%, 10% and 50% of wealth in New Zealand. As always with data like this you need to be careful not to read too much into this or compare yourself too much but their are lessons we can take from it too and start thin...

Recently we asked a large number of business owners what their number one challenge was in business and in this podcast we'll take you through some of their responses. We're sure that you will probably relate to a number of these because they include things like people, cashflow and bureaucracy getting in the way. Feel free to let us know your #1 challenge in the comments.

Today we are exploring hindsight and what we would tell ourselves 12 months ago and then what our future version of ourself in 12 months from now would tell our current selves. Strap yourself in because this one is going to get you thinking and we'll give you some examples to help you in your own situation. If you're interested in working together in other ways: let's connect over a quick call: ht...

We hear from various business owners across NZ who have worked through our 90 Day Business planning program and find out what they learnt!

We are currently on our annual business planning process and will give you some updates from some of the days that we are down here If you're interested in working together in other ways: let's connect over a quick call: https://calendly.com/philsmith/ Get our $20,000 business planning tool for free: https://nextadvisory.nz/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nextadvisory.nz/

We are currently on our annual business planning process and will give you some updates from some of the days that we are down here If you're interested in working together in other ways: let's connect over a quick call: https://calendly.com/philsmith/ Get our $20,000 business planning tool for free: https://nextadvisory.nz/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nextadvisory.nz/

We are currently on our annual business planning process and will give you some updates from some of the days that we are down here If you're interested in working together in other ways: let's connect over a quick call: https://calendly.com/philsmith/ Get our $20,000 business planning tool for free: https://nextadvisory.nz/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nextadvisory.nz/

We are currently on our annual business planning process and will give you some updates from some of the days that we are down here If you're interested in working together in other ways: let's connect over a quick call: https://calendly.com/philsmith/ Get our $20,000 business planning tool for free: https://nextadvisory.nz/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nextadvisory.nz/

We have a lot of clients with kids and they all have mixed ways to get a lot done in their business, with tactics and tools that help them. In this podcast we go through some of the comments that were left in the skool group to help juggle kids and business. Hopefully you can learn from some of them.  If you're interested in working together in other ways: let's connect over a quick call: https://...

We are noticing more and more clients are having a slower December and January which got us thinking what else could be contributing to this. It seems like many business owners are getting frustrated with the level of sick days and working from home days, and how those are potentially impacting the amount of annual leave someone can stack up. In this podcast we'll start the conversation on it and...

We recently recorded a 90 day business planning session with Gordon who was happy for us to share it, you guys loved it and so here's his second session so you can follow along with his journey. We both hope that it helps you. If you want to explore doing the 90 Day Plan please email Luke: luke@nextadvisory.nz and say that you've seen this video. We can see if there are spaces available. If you're...

We're coming up to the end of the year where very quickly we will be in summer and Christmas mode and we'll lose a lot of weeks because people will stop making decisions, so in this podcast we'll take you through some of the things you should be thinking about to make sure you close out 2025 well and start 2026 on the front foot.

The reserve bank are finally telling us that they're rolling over and bringing the official cash rate down faster than they had expected to previously and this sent the markets into a bit of a frenzy with excitement, but is it all a little bit too little too late. In this podcast we will go through some of the headwinds for the economy and wether we should be getting excited or encouraging ourselv...