We have a website now

We will soon upload our website and transfer our blog to that site for easy access and fresh updates.  It is a work in progress and we would need your inputs to make it as great as possible.  New Zealand has a population of 4.5-million and it is very significant that there are 460,000 small business in the country (according to statistics from MBIE).  That is 10% of our population are engaged in business.  With this mind we are emboldened to carry on with our core philosophy of discovering Kiwi entrepreneurs, events and destinations.  Their stories are out there, waiting for us to discover and share with all of you!

Oppo Ice Cream

The past few days of scorching weather has made me crave for food to cool me down.  My personal favourite is the mango ice cream.  There is a new start up in the UK Oppo Ice Cream that could just be the antidote to the heat wave.  I heard a long time ago that going into the ice cream business is a good idea.  People celebrate all the time with ice cream (birthdays, graduations, anniversaries, etc.).  The old standard flavours like vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry has given way to as many variations and combinations as humanely possible.  There is even a durian-flavoured ice cream.  Read this article and you may just be on your way to an entrepreneurial adventure of epic proportions!

Business strategy

You've got to have a business strategy to be able to profitably make it in your business endeavours.  Some even have just a one-page plan while others have more.  Some would even engage the services of other professionals to write one, while the more enterprising and pioneering ones will do it on their own.  But whatever way or method you're going to use and do, it is very important to just do it!

Entrepreneurial brain freeze

Entrepreneur.com logo

We all get it one way or another.  I know I do.  We see our business as an extension of ourselves, as our personal space.  Oftentimes the line between personal and business gets blurred.  We lose our focus because we are only zeroing in to what we think, what we perceive.  It's great to have this kind of temperament but having said that it pays to also take a step back and think the opposite way.  Take calculated baby steps rather than rushing a new business to the finish line is how this article from Entrepreneur Magazine would like us to do.

Ice block production

Ice blocks

I recently got to read this online article on ice block production.  I read this from smallstarter.com---a website for small business ideas, success tips and inspiration for African entrepreneurs.  We may not be in the Dark Continent, another name for Africa, but the hot weather sure feels like we are.  The recent days have brought very hot weather to NZ even at night.  Of course when we speak of ice blocks in this country it refers to the cold, sweet, hardened ice that children love so much.

Well in this very hot weather, even adults like me wouldn't mind having an ice block from time to time just to cool off.  The picture on your left is actually an example of small blocks of ice in my freezer.  I have a small ice maker built-in to my refrigerator.  But the ice block production they're talking about in this article that I've read is of the more mass, commercially produced type.  These are huge blocks of ice that could be used in the fishing and meat industries, as well as for home use too.  Go ahead, take a read, and see where this might lead you to.  This seems like a viable business venture here in NZ too.

Discovering Kiwi entrepreneurs

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This new blog will primarily focus on discovering Kiwi entrepreneurs, events and destinations.  This is also my personal journey as a contentpreneur, the entrepreneur of the new millennium.  I do believe that content is king and so it is in all its many forms.  From this blog will come videos, tweets, vlogs, photos, and many other digital footprints.

I would like to quote from the founder-publisher of Renegade Collective, Lisa Messenger, "Keep telling us about your adventures along the way.  Sharing as a collective just makes us all stronger."  This is a magazine I've recently discovered courtesy of my daughter Jessica.  I've never looked back since I started reading this mid-2014.  Within it's pages are words and photos of inspiration for existing, aspiring and budding entrepreneurs.