Strategic Partners

In an increasingly competitive marketplace successful businesses will be the most efficient and productive.  They will have made the right decisions in adopting new ideas, new products and new services.

The business environment is dynamic and there are new services, products and technology solutions being offered and promoted to business owners every day. Many of these new services and resources are valuable to a business owner whereas many others will prove to be expensive duds.  A business owner is faced with a number of challenges:

·        They have limited time to research and evaluate new ideas and the relevance to their business

·        New technology provides opportunities to reduce costs, improve productivity and the quality of services delivered to their clients, but change needs to be managed correctly to achieve the full benefits for the business

·        They need to understand and learn from the experience of other businesses that have implemented these new ideas to avoid making common mistakes


How the Business Development Network assists clients to overcome this problem

The Business Development Network is continually scanning the business environment and evaluating new products, services and technologies.

This process of due diligence means that the clients of the Business Development Network avoid the challenges and problems faced by other business owners and are able to select and effectively implement those new ideas that will have the most benefit for their business.

To overcome this problem for our clients the BDN routinely undertakes significant research and conducts due diligence on the products and services that are being  released into the market. This enables us to identify the best options available to meet the particular needs of a client.  This is of significant value to our clients because firstly it saves them significant time and costs in researching the market, and secondly we can guarantee the performance of the products and services we recommend.

We have established service level agreements with a broad range of service providers and this means that we can assist our clients by passing on discounted prices that we have negotiated, provide reference clients who are currently using the recommended products and services, and where required project manage the implementation of new products and services on behalf of our clients.

 
The Business Development Network Strategic Partners and Suppliers

Category

Reference Web sites

Accounting services

www.scw.co.nz

Accounting software systems - online and Internet based accounting systems

www.smartbusinesslive.co.nz
www.smartbooks.co.nz
www.quicken.co.nz

Brand design and development of brand collateral and marketing materials

www.lime-red.co.nz

Business finance

www.shlock.co.nz

Call Centre – customer management and telemarketing

www.corpcall.co.nz

Credit control and debtor management

www.eccreditcontrol.com

Customer Relationship Management software

www.reboot.co.nz
www.trialta.com
www.sageact.com.au
www.act.com

 

Data Base design and development

www.estock.co.nz

E-commerce - Web site development, online business, E- marketing

www.zeald.com  

Employment law services - National access to employment law services and advice from a team of experienced employment law professionals

www.gibsonsheat.co.nz

 

Factoring and debtor invoicing

 

www.shlock.co.nz
www.fifocapital.co.nz

Financial planning and investment advice

www.fsb.co.nz

Health and Safety compliance and software

 

Legal services

www.lawlink.co.nz
www.gibsonsheat.co.nz

 

Licensing and Intellectual Property protection

 

Meeting and communication processes

www.deemac.co.nz

Networking  and generating referral business

www.bni.co.nz

Payroll systems - online and Internet based

www.smartbusinesslive.co.nz
www.ims.co.nz
www.comaac.co.nz

Printing - Business stationery and marketing materials

www.printstopplus.co.nz

Recruitment

www.starbusiness.co.nz

Sales training

www.friedman.co.nz
www.starbusiness.co.nz

Software – business software

www.microsoft.co.nz
www.apt.co.nz