Recession

This is a nationwide issue

Affecting:

Business Services, Community, Fashion, Industrial, Weddings, IT / Communications,

As everybody is quite aware, we are heading into an economic recession. What can we do, both as individuals and as businesses to work through this for the betterment of our country?

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What we're doing about it

1 Popular Solution to this, 23 other possible solutions

Around here we don't just talk about issues, we come up with solutions and do something about it!

Solutions

Have a positive attitude

11 people support this, addressing Recession

If you think doom is around the corner then it will become reality for you. In every downturn there are opportunities to be made. This is no exception. For a lot of kiwi businesses this is the biggest chance you will ever get to prove your wort... see details

Job Summit

7 people support this, addressing Recession and 1 other issue

The Job Summit Video interviews, blogs and comments from New Zealander's. The Job Summit is bringing together Government leaders, business leaders and entrepreneurs to take New Zealand forward with confidence through the recession and try to reduc... see details

Students fresh from tertiary study

6 people support this, addressing Recession

Some graduates may have found lately that in their respective field they cannot get a job. As the economy is as it is, companies are more reluctant to hire even experienced staff as they do not feel they can afford it, which unfortunately means it... see details

Government to work with kiwi entrepreneurs

5 people support this, addressing Recession and 3 other issues

New Zealand's entrepreneurs are building smart and lean global businesses, and this is exactly the mentality we need to run our own government. We need the government to work with kiwi entreprenrus on solutions to government and country issues see details

Team Work and Co-operation

3 people support this, addressing Recession

This recession with news and rumours of job losses and business closures, now is the best time to remind ourselves that the best way to overcome hardship is to work together. All problems can provide new opportunities and new ways of getting thing... see details

Level the playing field to NZ firms for local and central government procurement

3 people support this, addressing Recession and 2 other issues

Government procurement often favours the large previously proven vendors, many of which are offshore businesses, and also government procurement contracts are sometimes managed by offshore businesses. So the government is going to work to level... see details

Nationwide Cycling Highway for New Zealand

3 people support this, addressing Recession and 3 other issues

The Prime Minister and minister of Tourism John key has kicked off the idea of a national cycling highway to stretch from Cape Reinga to the Bluff It will take two years to build and the energies of nearly 4,000 Kiwis who have lost their jobs. ... see details

Cut back

2 people support this, addressing Recession

When you look at people the same age as you 50, even 20 years ago, they did need as much 'stuff' as we think we need now. Money & material things does not buy happiness. So if people can realise this and stop putting themselves into debt for m... see details

Online Video Promotion

1 person supports this, addressing Recession

Online Video Promotion is a low cost way of doing personalised marketing and sales work while you sleep, eat, do other work and just about anything else. Online Video turns people into customers. Online video is some of the most engaging con... see details

The return of the Barter

1 person supports this, addressing Recession

with cashflows getting tighter and peoples pockets getting shallower. Now would be a good time to return to the concept of bartering. Obviously it needs to be balanced with a good cash income, but the reality is bartering works. I can say that... see details