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Julian Smith

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Julian Smith

General Manager - MYOB NZ

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Julian Smith (@JulianTSmith) is the general manager for MYOB in New Zealand. A frequent traveller, keynote speaker and business commentator, he blogs on key issues and trends, providing advice on how to make business life easier. When he is not working, Julian offsets his personal ‘carbon footprint’ – or at least reduces the associated guilt – by planting native trees on the 10-acre block he shares with his partner in Matakohe, in Northland.

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  • 20
    Dec
    poetry_and_cloth

    12 great NZ sites for Christmas

    If you've left Christmas shopping to the last minute and the thought of standing in a crowded line at the mall is more than you can bear, try online shopping. With more New Zealand businesses going online than ever before, you will not be short on options to shop online. We’d like to think this is due to our Get Online project, a free website initiative from MYOB and Westpac which has increased online particip

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  • 27
    Nov
    Hobbit_movie2

    5 Reasons We Should Be Happy In Middle Earth

    The Hobbit With thousands of visitors streaming into Wellington for this week’s premiere of ‘The Hobbit’, all eyes will be on New Zealand as it’s transformed into Middle Earth again. While I’m sure the film’s media coverage will wear thin over the next few months, it’s important to remember how much of a boost New Zealand gets with J.R.R. Tolkien’s imaginary worlds and how lucky we are to be livin

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  • 14
    Nov
    nz-workplace_4

    Happiness = Productivity

    A great cake to top off a great year As the final icing on our cake this year, we were recognized in the top 5 best places to work in New Zealand. We placed fifth in the 2012 Kenexa Best Workplace Awards, which is a first for us. It’s a big win, considering they had a record number of nearly 300 entries this year. At MYOB, we have a simple rule. If you want your company to run better, make sure your team i

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  • 10
    Oct
    Satellite

    Tackling the pain of paying people

    We are thrilled to announce the latest update to our popular LiveAccounts with Payroll online solution, designed to solve one of the perennial issues for small employers – managing leave. We know that managing leave is incredibly complex for many smaller employers, and making leave entitlements easier to understand is very high on their wish list. We also know that legislation around holidays and other leave ent

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  • 12
    Sep
    Satellite

    Step up to the cloud

    A little over three years ago, MYOB undertook a major survey of customers, to see how interested businesses in Australia and New Zealand were in the cloud. We’d been developing cloud solutions for around a decade – from the time when the technology was just known as the internet! But as we started to invest more and more in “cloud” services, we wanted to gauge how ready our customers were for cloud-based s

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  • 06
    Sep
    3personas_sml

    Know your business personality!

    No two businesses are the same – and success means different things for different people. But most business owners have in common, are the goals and aspirations that motivate them. And to reach those goals, it’s vital to know what’s really important to you in your business. A great place to to start is to define your ‘business personality’ – it’ll help you identify what you care about the most and

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