Business Assist

Season's Greetings from the Business Assist team! 🎄✨🎁 We would love to celebrate with all of you who have been part of our activities this year, whether coming along to our business presentations, networking events, booking a consultation, signing up for a mentor with us, or supporting & referring us in any way. Thank you for being part of our local business network, and we look forward to working with you in 2025, too!!! 😊 Enjoy our Christmas presents in the form of a photo summary of our year together! 😊 P.S.: It is our last day at the office, we will be closed from tomorrow, the 20th of December and will reopen on the 6th of January. We wish you a great summer break if you are going to have one, and good luck with the upcoming season if it is your busy one! #celebration #business #nelsontasman #businessassistnelsontasman

OFFICE HOURS for the HOLIDAYS Our last day before we close for the holidays is tomorrow, Thursday, 19th of December! The office will be closed from Friday, 20th of December and we will reopen on Monday, 6th of January.

A shout out from our business consultations this time goes to the fantastic women behind Tasman Bay Textile ResQ Collective. They work on keeping clothing out of landfill by mending, repairing, repurposing, and up-cycling donated clothes! Check them out! https://lnkd.in/gE7tAMXQ We know business or running an organisation can be challenging and there might be lots of questions arising. With our free business consultations, we want to give the best support to our local community. Whether it is a sounding board, a new perspective, someone to hold you accountable or give you fresh new ideas, refer you to experts, we are here for you, just a call or email away. Gifting a business consult or a mentor for Christmas and to kick off the new year might also be a great idea for someone special you’d like to support! 😊🎄 Please reach out if you'd like to explore how you can make the most of our services, too. Spaces are available from January for our business consultations, as well as for mentoring. Our office is open till Thursday before we go for a break! https://lnkd.in/gATqi8rG #businessassistnelsontasman

We want to support your Business Growth! What topics would you like to learn about in 2025? Tell us and we will make it happen! https://lnkd.in/gQ5c7_ZB #business #businessassistnelsontasman #nelsontasman

When all the work pays off and we end the year on a high! November in pictures & everything we have been up to last month, so we can support our wonderful local Nelson-Tasman business community by offering: ✅free & valuable business presentations, ✅relaxed & engaging networking opportunities, ✅inviting businesses to make the most of our free business consultations and affordable mentoring services! We are delighted to say that the last month in our event calendar was a great success, with record number of event attendees. 📌Two Lunch & Learns in Mapua and Stoke, 📌the Grand Finale of our businesswomen's series sold out again, 📌and a full house at our BizBreak networking in Nelson. 📌We also had our End of Year celebration with our Board and local supporters. As we take a moment to look back, we are so grateful to all our members and participants who came along to engage with our services this month, and throughout the whole year, and to all our guest speakers, sponsors & partners who made it possible. NBS ICIB Brokerweb Insurance and Risk Advisory Apex Accounting Limited Bank of New Zealand Partners Centre Nelson Mapua & Districts Business Association Lynda Moore Alice Hazlett Pūtangitangi Greenmeadows Centre Nelson Provincial Museum We aim to carry on next year in a similar spirit and do our best to keep supporting our fantastic businesses in the region. We hope you will join us, and for now, enjoy our summary from last month! https://lnkd.in/g8EsbM9V Gael, Bea, Gina & the Business Assist Board & Team #business #networking #mentoring #nelsontasman #businessassistnelsontasman

As 2024 is coming to an end, what else is on your business to do list? And also, how can you make this process lighter, as for many of us, it can be a stressful time trying to get everything perfectly ✅✅✅… right? …before the holidays or office closures, or for others, the intense work season arrives… Here is Gael & Gina enjoying the moment of a clean desk space showing you that with consistent determination it is indeed possible! 😁 P.S. Don’t check the bins under the desk or the other “hiding spots” 😉 We hope this post will make you smile, tell us if you can relate in any way and share your goals so we can cheer for you! Our office will be open till 19 Dec, there is still time to book in a free business consultation or to explore how you could benefit from the support of a mentor in 2025! Get in touch, we are here for you! ⏩️ info@businessassist.org.nz ⏪️ #business #entrepreneurs #supportlocal #businessassistnelsontasman

We are proud to be supported by NBS as a sponsor for our Lunch & Learns.

Celebrating our wins as we complete the year. Our last ICIB BizBreak was special, we held it at our office this time, with a fantastic and engaging group of entrepreneurs and businesses in the room, reflecting on 2024 and cheering for each other! So good to feel the support for each other! We laughed, we shared stories of overcoming some big business challenges in 2024, and felt proud for each other for starting new projects, businesses, even lifestyles that came with the work. We are so grateful to you all for coming along and making it a special one! A big shout out to you all and ICIB Brokerweb Insurance and Risk Advisory for sponsoring our event! We look forward to carrying on with our networking and events in 2025, too. Our aim is to support our local business community so you can meet other business owners, support each other, build referral networks - you don’t have to do everything on your own… and have a great time together, too! We will be back in February and if you know anyone who is looking for relaxed, down-to-earth, supportive networking opportunities, please send them our way. We are always happy to welcome new faces in our growing business community. We know some people can feel nervous to join first, and we are always so glad to hear that we could make it an enjoyable experience. Best part, all our events are free thanks to our amazing partners who sponsor us! See you in 2025!!! #networking #business #businessassistnelsontasman #connection #nelsontasman

Thank you to all our fantastic local Business Assist Supporters for coming along to our End of Year Function. It was wonderful to celebrate our achievements together and to look ahead to what the future holds for us all. Thank you for your ongoing support and cooperation which allows to jointly keep supporting our local business community! Here is to a great 2025 for all of us! A special thanks to Nelson Provincial Museum & Apex Accounting Limited for making this event possible. #businessassistnelsontasman

Wrapping up the “Just Talking” businesswomen’s series with this fantastic group at The Grand Finale yesterday! Thank you all for coming along, for your presence, participation and active engagement throughout the whole year. Many of you keep coming back, and it is lovely to see new faces eveytime we come together! We are still in awe of the power of these networking events, so many moments, stories and business journeys that inspired & connected us, and so many laughs shared! We are so grateful to our amazing partners Apex Accounting Limited for sponsoring this series and Bank of New Zealand Partners Centre Nelson for hosting us, it’s been an unforgettable year, we are happy we went for it and co-created this together, with all of you. We hope you enjoyed it, we sure did! This was our final one for this year, we wish you all a great summer and after a well-deserved break hopefully for everyone, we will meet again in February 2025! Watch this space, and we will keep, well, Just Talking… And in the meantime… We are also open to hear your recommendations, what would you like next year? What would be of value for you so we can keep supporting you on your business journey? Please let us know! Bea Pole-Bokor & Gael Gordon & Gina Munro #businesswomen #networking #growth #businessassistnelsontasman #nelsontasman