Advice – ask (or don’t) and you shall receive

Advice is a constant in most of our lives – be it professional, personal, medical or otherwise – and it often comes our way whether we ask for it or not.

One of the key aims of Under Construction is to publish the most useful tips we can find from those in the know – be they industry experts or those who have been there and done it all before.

This month’s Builders’ Business invited builders to share the best piece of business advice they’ve ever received. Interestingly they all relate to accounting and cash flow management, yet come from a variety of sources – an accountant, an ex-bank manager and a father-in-law.

At PlaceMakers, we regularly seek advice from our customers on how to best support their businesses. With that in mind, we introduced NextMinute, an easy-to-use app that can help you save time and money.

Designed with tradies and field services in mind, the NextMinute app allows you to plan, schedule, communicate, track time, quote, order, monitor and invoice on the go – anytime – through your mobile. To find out more about it, visit placemakers.co.nz/nextminute/.

Once a year, we even take it upon ourselves to offer advice that maybe not all our customers want to hear: “face your fear and get checked!” While Blue September may be over, the need to get checked for prostate cancer is not, so we’ll continue to pass on this advice with your best interests at heart.

Check out to see how branches and customers around the country are supporting and spreading this message HERE. And, once you’ve finished reading, why not pass it on to your own friends and family – they may not take it on board, but at least you tried!

Gary Woodhouse
General Manager Operations & Marketing