Can I use a non disclosure agreement to prevent a potential business partner using my idea? I am in the early stages of a potential business venture and do not want the company to take this idea and start it without me.

I Have Customers that like Value 'eg I Run a Set Menu atm 2 Course $28 Everything Homemade ect I do not have Beverage Turnover just food as i am in a shared Space

Hi team! I create affirmation wall prints for kids. Prints are personalised with your child's name and ten affirmations of your choice. I have always wanted to be able to offer my prints in te reo as well. I thought of this because my family member who helped set up my business has children that are fluent so I thought of course that should be an option too. So my intention is from a good place. Note I am Maori but do not speak the language, my parents did not speak te reo either. It wasn't until months later it occurred to me that maybe it wouldn't be received well as a non speaker. Do you think it is OK to offer the translated prints? Because of this situation and the wonderful Maimoa Creatives Instagram I have actually enrolled in a 20 week course to start learning te reo. I am also wanting to do affirmation cards for kids. I want to do an English affirmation on one side and then the te reo translation on the reverse side. So the other piece of advice I wanted was who I could contact to do these translations. Is there a professional service that offers this? I think it would be such an amazing product and from my perspective I'm super keen to do it. Thanks so much, can't wait to hear your advice.

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I currently a sole trader renting 1 room. Im expanding the business into 3 rooms and am thinking of renting one room on a daily rate (not entirely sure how to set this) I'll work from one and will rent it out x2 days a week. The 3rd room I'll put in students/workers and was thinking 60/40. Predominantly I'll be pulling in the clients. My question is what's the best way to utilize the rooms? Our receptionist will be on paye but I'm not confidant to employee more staff, mostly due to fear of the unknown.

Kia ora team. Four years ago I set up an online business. (IT) It pays for itself, however, I am yet to draw a wage, pouring all profit into new initiatives and growth. My problem is I cannot afford to employ someone to create content for me, so I have to do this myself and the workload is enormous. My website has become a rampant beast that is screaming for food (new content) but I just don't have the time to create as well as all the admin and client care required. What do you do when your business is growing rapidly and you can't keep up? Competition in my chosen sector is about to gobble me up and I don't want to lose four years of hard work and investment. Help!

Hi Experts. We are a small plumbing/drainage/gas business struggling in the world of over working with little return. We are not sure what we are doing wrong - maybe pricing structure, what market to approach, what clients are the most profitable to the least profitable and how to hire staff with little to no capital behind us. We have the work there and are constantly busy. We turn away work because we simply dont the have the time to do it, we are too scared to take on staff as we dont have the equipment to set them up with, the finances to secure a weekly wage or the trust that comes with good workmanship. We are are only a newly established company and can see us setting up for failure. Any advise, would be great. Thanks.

We are a small business and need to get a great Health & Safety plan created and implemented within a short time frame. I've rung 3 H & S providers, but they don't belong to regulatory bodies or HSANZ - does that matter? Is there anyone you would recommend we contact? thanks

My name is Maria and I work with Lower Hutt Muslimah Committee (https://www.lhmuslimahcommittee.com/) for the social wellbeing of Muslim Women in the region. At current, I am working as the wellington representative of IWCNZ (https://www.iwcnz.org.nz/). We are aiming to plan and organize an event about “entrepreneurship and small business initiatives” for educating and inspiring Muslim women (where some of them are already engaged in trade activities and there are several others equipped with the skills and qualifications but need mentoring). I was wondering if we can get some help from you to arrange a workshop encompassing the different dimensions of growth in new startups, an introduction to the support available through different government agencies for the new entrepreneurs and other aspects of small business mentoring.

We're a small business start-up, specialising in conference and event management. We are services-based. What is the most efficient process to develop a services agreement based on what we do e.g. should we start from an online sourced template and then have a lawyer review it or start with a conversation with a lawyer who can develop their own template to fit? Thanks.

Hi folks I've recently started a venture and would like to pay myself and any employees properly (PAYE, ACC, Kiwi saver etc). How do I do this?