Turning your TAONGA into a BUSINESS

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Arihia Witana. Turning your TAONGA into a BUSINESS

TE TIMATATANGA - THE BEGINNING. Taku Taonga: My Gift / Treasure. Taku Mōhiotanga: My Knowledge. Taku Mātau ā-wheako: My Experience

TAUTOKO / SUPPORT

HE Māori AHAU (I am Māori) CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE BUSINESS WORLD IN ANOTHER COUNTRY

“Don’t be a jack of all trades and a master of none.” - (Robert green, 1592)

HE tūruapō, HE WHAKATAKANGA, HE whāinga, HE MOeHEWA / VISION, MISSION, GOALS & DREAMS

What do you need to know?

What to ask yourself?

"DREAM BUSINESS"

"Start your business earlier! It's worth it! Don't be like everyone else and feel that you need to be part of the system."

HE KAIPAKIHI - BUSINESS PLANNING

Why?

What do you need to do?

What do you need to know?

“When I first Started”

HEI AHA TE TAIMA? (What is the time?)

What is acceptable when it is a last-minute lateness?

What is NOT acceptable? Yes, this applies to you as the businessman or businesswoman!

What do you need?

What happens when the shoe is on the other foot when it’s the actual client or customer?

TO DO LIST!

“Even those that are really great at Time Management stuff up.”

HE KUPU KAIPAKIHI /BUSINESS TERMINOLOGY

Where do you start?

What you need to know?

“BUSINESS STRATEGY IS A PLAN OF ACTION”

HE RINGA WHAIUTU - PROFESSIONALS

What do you need to do as the customer?

What do they need to do as the professional?

“Being the one in the middle to help two parties communicate to reach a solution”

PROBLEM - COMMUNICATION

HE KIRIMANA /CONTRACTS & AGREEMENTS

What type of business lawyer?

What questions are they great for?

Before you choose a business lawyer

Where to check?

The most important thing about selecting your own business lawyer or solicitor

“Humble beginnings”

HE MONI /FINANCES / ACCOUNTING

Best to go through the right channels: What do you need?

What do you need to know?

What type of Accountant?

“Finding a great Accountant for our business”

One thing I have heard the majority of times when dealing with clients or customers “I can’t afford it! It’s too expensive!”

HE INIHUA / INSURANCES

What do you need to know and what do you need to do?

“Insurance comes handy at the right time”

HE manatārua COPYRIGHT/ TRADEMARKING & PATENTS

What is Copyright?

What is a Trademark?

What is a Patent?

What do you need to know?

What do you need to have?

“Copyrighted DVD’s brought from Malaysia on my OE”

HE WHAKATAIRANGA / SALES & MARKETING

What do you need to know?

What to ask your customers when it comes to sales and marketing?

What you need to have when it comes to sales and marketing?

“Making use of Sales and Marketing to resolve a problem.”

HE TAUHOKOHOKO / BARGAINING

What do you need to know?

What do you need to have?

“Quality over quantity business deal”

HE HANGARAU/ TECHNOLOGY

What do you need to know?

What do you need to have?

“When Technology Fails.”

HE pūmanawa TANGATA / HE WHAKAMAHI HR & OPERATIONS

What do you need to know?

What do you need to do?

Questions to ask yourself:

Options to consider when first starting

HE HAUORA / HEALTH & WELBEING

What you should already know

What to ask yourself

"WALKING HEALTH RISK"

KUPUTAKA / GLOSSARY

About The AUTHOR. Arihia Witana – (Te Rarawa, Te-Aitanga-a-Mahaki, Ngati Porou, Taranaki)

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Before you start reading this book. Make sure your mind is clear and ear is open to receive knowledge. As the author I don’t expect you to take everything on board in this book. But, I hope that you can use this book from my experiences as a way of helping you to keep on searching for more knowledge or information to help you be successful in business. Each of us have our own story and in our own way we set the path and the example for others to perfect their own TAONGA. (Their own treasured possession / gift.) And turn that TAONGA into something beautiful.

If in doubt always go through the right legal or professional channels to get the answers you need to make the right decisions whether you go into business or not. It’s good to have information that is relevant to now and the correct resources where to get your answers as business is always evolving.

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Spend that necessary time with yourself to get that clarity, you need to sit down and make some hard decisions. But before you do that do up a plan of action, do the necessary research, trial, get the tautoko (support) you need to finalize the decisions that you are about to make.

It is not necessarily a system that helps us have a good life. Nor a system that helps us to be happy. Sometimes you feel trapped and don't feel that you are being taken care of, you watch and observe everyone else being successful. And you feel like you're being left out or being left in the dust.

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