Need to be ALMOST a miracle worker to run a profitable business these days do ya

[middleaged2wheeler]

P.S --i don,t know how to "clip the quote" when replying to certain sentences---is that just a copy and paste system--cheers.

[mstriumph]

So when do we get together and bring back the guillotine?

where can i send my tender for the sharpening contract please?

[Gremlin]

P.S --i don,t know how to "clip the quote" when replying to certain sentences---is that just a copy and paste system--cheers.

Use the quote button, delete sentences you don't want, but leave anything with square brackets [] and stuff inside them.

[middleaged2wheeler]

Yes, it is sad that so many businesses have gone under lately but the Chronic is one that won't be missed. Hopefully they will get rid of a few of the deadbeats who currently work there and replace them with people who can spell and don't write crap.

the Chronicile as not so much will it be missed,but had 6 day coverage like any other full time newspapaer--- so you want to place an urgent advert in for next day for" boil the drinking "water or some other important issue--now you have to wait 4 days as it is only a giveaway.
I was thinking of an "INBOX NEWS " subscription fed online newspaper--as an opportunity--easy home business--but hey i,m almost sixty now and don,t have full on drive i used to have 20 years ago----trimming trees is only a distant memory--still an opportutnity in my mind neverthe less--Trade ME started in some garage and sold out for the biggest bikkie ever in recent times--stil honeing my compuer skills and knowledge. NICHE marketing sounds more liveable than the VICE like clamp some have to work under as self employed. After all ,these are the days of our lives--sounds korny i know but how you spend them and wear yourself out, is important and when younger you think your energy and stamina is endless but hit 55 and its different .I known people work full on until 67 quit and be dead with 18 months--hey hey got to get some pleasure out of life.
Today 14:39

Just trying out my QUOTE SKILLS

[Rhubarb]

I run a small business (14 staff). I would be busier if I could get more staff. Trades people are being attracted to Oz to earn big money in the mines that I could never match. If I was in their position I would go to!
Compliance costs, ACC, Insurance etc etc make it hard for me to pay the staff what they are really worth. I would love to pay them more but the market sets the sell price and thereby the profit margin. I have increased my staffs wages by just over 30% in the last four years at the expense of company profits but without the staff where would I be.
When the weekend comes around I ride my bike and forget about the world until 8am Monday.
Is Kiwibiker the right place for an economic rant???

[scracha]

Is Kiwibiker the right place for an economic rant???

Of course. It's the best place in New Zealand for a rant of any kind.

On a different tangent.....the builders and construction companies are easily the worst at paying on time, closely followed by estate agents. Must be why so many are going under...they're not paying each other.

[Robert Taylor]

I run a small business (14 staff). I would be busier if I could get more staff. Trades people are being attracted to Oz to earn big money in the mines that I could never match. If I was in their position I would go to!
Compliance costs, ACC, Insurance etc etc make it hard for me to pay the staff what they are really worth. I would love to pay them more but the market sets the sell price and thereby the profit margin. I have increased my staffs wages by just over 30% in the last four years at the expense of company profits but without the staff where would I be.
When the weekend comes around I ride my bike and forget about the world until 8am Monday.
Is Kiwibiker the right place for an economic rant???

Maybe its not the right place for a rant but I do notice that those who think running a small business is a license to print money have been less voiciferous of late. I agree with everything that you say, certainly everything is out of balance, the multinationals and the socialists are equally to blame.

[Coyote]

where can i send my tender for the sharpening contract please?

Don't know about that. House of Knives are meant to be sponsoring the revolution against capitalism.

[Boob Johnson]

With the average person,s spending power being sucked up with general cost of living, to run a profitable successful business, seems you either have to be a near miracle worker,or have some locked tight Government contract.
I live in the Horowhenua area, and in recent times, LONG STANDING businessess have folded the last of which was our daily newspaper yesterday. The list of GONE bussinessess would be impressive, if some one was trying to achieve that statistic--but is in reality -terrible.
Feltex, Phil Turnbul, Levin Chronicle, local textile place, to name a few.
What with all the Finance companys that have evapourated people,s savings on top of that--WHO, WHAT , is causing this concentration of wealth into fewer hands---Is it Govt policy--covert albiet?
Unless the average person has spending power, above and beyond, weekly living costs,how can business survive---and who would be game enough to start one up.

Welcome to normal business conditions.


It ain't that bad, well maybe for some but that's never going to change

[alanzs]

--sounds korny i know but how you spend them and wear yourself out, is important and when younger you think your energy and stamina is endless but hit 55 and its different .I known people work full on until 67 quit and be dead with 18 months--hey hey got to get some pleasure out of life.

Ain't korny at all, it's true. I'm just hitting 50. I knew a couple of guys over the years, died alone in a hotel room of heart attacks in their early-mid 50's. The sales meeting went on the next day, like nothing happened. No mention, nothing, didn't want the salespeople to get "unmotivated." Unmotivated so that they'd realize that life is short and the pressure will kill you.

You only live once and chasing the buck has its place. They don't put "He was a hard worker and always made his sales goals" on your tombstone.

[cowpoos]

The corporate world got the blank cheque with Roger Douglas labour Govt way bac in 84 and successive PRIVATISATIONS especially electricity grid, telecom, Gst increases, Employment contracts act ,have squashed the work force,at least those dependant on some sort of production or throughput, as they have to compete with overseas labour standards,UNLESS your in the civil servant realm, who seem to able able to muscle up decent wages.
So PRODUCTION WORKERS ARE COMPETING WITH their counterparts in ASIA and god knows where else. AND THE QUAINT GLOBAL VILLAGE concept is really only a way of putting the boot into our workforce. OUR daily lives are vastly different from a worker in Thailand, Samoa or China and yet NZ workforce has to compete with them--Global village warm fussies is a con.

What a fucking crock of bullshit...you obviously no little of the reasons and necessities of Roger-nomics [as it was so-called]...as it was the result of a very very poorly run economic policy...very very poorly!! thanks to Mr Muldon,et al...our country was in sooo much dcebt...we needed to pay some money back or we were far more in the shit than most people realise!! how peoples memories fail!! Roger Douglas saved out country economically!! without his and the lange goverments forsight on that we would be fucked!! [did I mention Im not a labour govt supporter]...I am constantly dismayed at how stupid...and I mean really fucking stupid people are when they whing about the massive reforms!! its like having too much debt with Hire purchases and not affording the payments...not to mention most of those supposed assets were costing us money rather than making it!!


Now away from that and back to the main subject...the saying you reap what you sow!! is as true in a down turn as in a up turn...if your bussiness is doing shit...it is YOUR FAULT!! no excuses...be proactive...get off your arse sort the thing out or walk away! Don't whinge about companys with Govt contracts etc...they're not lucky...they are just better than your bussiness for getting them!

self pity...whinging and bitching at others ain't going to get you to move forward..seeing what others do...and asking your self how did they?? what makes them?? work out how others do what they do that are better than you...don't knock them coz they don't care at all! the only time they will care is when your the one winning the good contracts,deals,quotes,tenders,etc!!

If whinging made money....New Zealand would be a country full of billionares!

[kickingzebra]

shot aow, what he said, the fish stinks from the head down.

[Pussy]

What a fucking crock of bullshit...you obviously no little of the reasons and necessities of Roger-nomics [as it was so-called]...as it was the result of a very very poorly run economic policy...very very poorly!! thanks to Mr Muldon,et al...our country was in sooo much dcebt...we needed to pay some money back or we were far more in the shit than most people realise!! how peoples memories fail!! Roger Douglas saved out country economically!! without his and the lange goverments forsight on that we would be fucked!! [did I mention Im not a labour govt supporter]...I am constantly dismayed at how stupid...and I mean really fucking stupid people are when they whing about the massive reforms!! its like having too much debt with Hire purchases and not affording the payments...not to mention most of those supposed assets were costing us money rather than making it!!


Now away from that and back to the main subject...the saying you reap what you sow!! is as true in a down turn as in a up turn...if your bussiness is doing shit...it is YOUR FAULT!! no excuses...be proactive...get off your arse sort the thing out or walk away! Don't whinge about companys with Govt contracts etc...they're not lucky...they are just better than your bussiness for getting them!

self pity...whinging and bitching at others ain't going to get you to move forward..seeing what others do...and asking your self how did they?? what makes them?? work out how others do what they do that are better than you...don't knock them coz they don't care at all! the only time they will care is when your the one winning the good contracts,deals,quotes,tenders,etc!!

If whinging made money....New Zealand would be a country full of billionares!

Well said, Poos... you only pull a rabbit out of a hat if you've put one in there first!