Over the last 20 years we have helped businesses and organizations from all over the world blend strategy, content and delivery to support their small business client base. The following special projects give you an insight into the breadth and depth of our experience.
Small Business portals
The Small Business Company can build and maintain your portal, develop and manage your strategy, create content, build online tools,
e-newsletters and social media campaigns, or anything in between.
Partnering with the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development, we create the content and manage www.business.govt.nz, the New Zealand Government portal for small business.
This portal is regularly held up as best practice internationally.
We built and maintain The National Bank’s Business Resource Centre. This site contains a range of small business focused content including over 160 ‘Solution Guides’ and a workshop registration system.
Consulting
Our global experience in small business means we often get asked to assist with small business strategy for our clients. Glen Senior, our CEO, is the prime architect of most of these. His expertise is often sought by governments and large corporate companies via consulting projects, key note presentations or small business segment evaluations.
We worked with ANZ to make their benchmarking Insights tool a more useful tool for small businesses.
Special applications
Animations
Animations can help users understand complex business issues but are used more often to engage and teach.
Mobile apps
Apple Apps and mobile technology platforms allow our clients to keep
up-to-date with new technology and new ways of delivering content to small business
owners.
Video
Video use, as a business communication tool, is growing in popularity. TSBC creates informative or training videos for clients. Two recent examples include:
This MYOB Pricing Video assists users with understanding the implications of a tax change, and includes an online pricing calculator to allow people to calculate the change in their after tax income. TSBC assisted in scripting this video and built the online calculator.
This
Guthrie and Steele
case study, which showcases an existing small business.
Young enterprise resources
We are passionate about small business, and believe there is a need to encourage
young entrepreneurs to think about being in business for themselves (if not now,
then some time in the future). We have two popular resources:
The Small Business
Game UK is an online business simulation built to engage and educate young
entrepreneurs in schools in England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland and New Zealand.
Wolves Lair is a resource
for schools to help them run an event in class, where students prepare a business plan and then present their idea to potential investors (similar to the UK TV show ‘Dragons Den’). The resources are linked to curriculum.
Training
We often get asked to train staff in larger organisations on small business issues, or to develop physical training programmes aimed at small business owners. An example of this is the course material, handbooks, training, and case studies we developed for the workshops at www.businessresourcecentre.co.nz.
CD-ROM development
Purpose built CDROM planning tools for Microsoft, the National Bank, Companies Office,
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, and Tourism Industry Association.
Other examples
Inland Revenue Tool for Business is a purpose built platform for Inland Revenue, who wanted an interactive educational
tool to encourage small business owners to voluntarily comply with various regulations,
once they understand the benefits of doing so. View it here
Lloyds TSB benchmarking tool. We created a prototype benchmarking tool for Lloyds TSB allowing users to compare
their financial and management data with their peers, and then providing educational
information and content to help improve their performance.
MYOB Product selector is an easy-to-use online tool to help people select the accounting package best suited to their business needs.
Costs
Costs can vary depending on your needs so we can scope a project plan and provide an estimate
for you.
Find out more
Contact us now to order or enquire about how we can help
you deliver rich interactive content to your small business clients.