My whirlwind time with MasterJack
I left my home in Scotland in August last year to visit my partner on his working holiday in Australia. We planned three months of travelling down Australia’s east coast, and then I would be home in time for Christmas and my 25th birthday. Well, it’s almost a year...
What I learned at the NZ Social Media Forum
Last month, Lisa and I attended the Brightstar NZ Social Media Forum, chaired by Loren Tomlinson of The Social Collective and sponsored by yours truly (for clarification: MasterJack, not me). The two-day conference featured presentations from various social media...
Companies that thrived during a recession (and how they did it)
New Zealand business recession stories In 2006, Rod Drury founded Xero, a cloud-based accounting software company in New Zealand. When the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) hit in 2008, businesses struggled, but Xero saw an opportunity. They recognised that small...
Thank you, Gilligan Sheppard
When I first began working for Gilligan Sheppard, my experience and knowledge of marketing and accounting (this one is obvious) were fairly limited. Despite failing the ‘spelling test,’ Lisa and Debra took a chance on me. Perhaps it was because of ‘team fit’, and they...