Small business grants NZDoes your small business qualify for the MBIE Capability Development Vouchers?
Up to 50% co-funding
- Register at the Regional Business Partners website. A Growth Advisor will call back in a week to get some details and do an assessment. Tell them you've reached out to Alexanders (this is a criteria for eligibility).
- The vouchers are small businesses grants that NZ businesses can utilise to help grow and develop. You may qualify for vouchers to help pay for services such as coaching/support on what you can do to reset your marketing strategy, improve your website performance, social media strategy, ecommerce store development, Google Ads coaching, email marketing. Generally it takes the form of training sessions or workshops, and guidance that builds the management capabilities of owners, operators and enthusiastic in-house staff. Please note programming, graphic design and clicks are not eligible services.
- There are different criteria for each fund and only a Business Advisor through the Regional Business Partners network is able to determine what your eligibility is, and what voucher amount you may qualify for. To learn more, visit here.
To be eligible
Be operating with 50 or fewer FTE’s
Be GST registered in New Zealand
Be operating in a commercial environment – i.e. currently trading
Be privately owned or a Maori Trust or Incorporation under the Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993 or similar organisation managing Maori assets under multiple ownership
Have undergone assessment by a Regional Business Partner
Business should also:
Have the potential and desire to grow
Demonstrate commitment to improving management capability; indicators of commitment include seeking advise, working through the assessment process, and a willingness to co-fund and commit time to capability-building activities. This fund is not available to charities.
What you stand to gain
Outcomes - Depending on the coaching (it can be tailored)
Improve web performance
Understand Digital marketing
How to rank better on Google
Social media strategy
Build online campaigns
Keep relevant & combat competition
For more details on the MBIE small business grants and how to apply, or if you would like further information on Alexander’s digital coaching programme please get in touch.
Why choose Alexanders?
Reviews
Alexanders were engaged because they tailored their approach to accommodate our needs in our rebrand, redesigning the website and activating social media capabilities. They bent over backwards to deliver under considerable time pressure, made more complicated because both suppliers and tradeshows were located overseas. Because of Alexanders market research, they have been instrumental in helping us to become a more market-oriented organisation and we look forward to completing our transformation with them. 1
Our business is about building lasting relationships. Law firms are typically stereotyped as impersonal businesses. Rachel helped us to define who we are and what core values drive our business – passionate, proven, professional. She helped us to integrate these 3 values into our marketing material and business development programme. This helped to shape our new brand focussing on people and relationships. The outcome has been very successful, resulting in excellent feedback from existing and prospective clients. Rachel clearly understands our business and her communication style and project methodology encouraged all of our team to contribute to the discussion resulting in complete buy in to our new brand.
Our work was looking tired and out of date. The branding work they did for us gave us a whole new image and self-belief. It set a platform for us to be as big as we want to be. People love it. “Who the hell did that?” they ask. The work set us apart – modern and refreshing yet still professional. We’ve been growing at more than 20% pa for the last two years since the branding work. It’s still the personal relationship that matters, but I keep getting surprised about the number of people who know us. While it’s obviously not the only contributor, I have no doubt the branding was instrumental in our success. They do the job, and are patient!
We needed insightful, fresh, and striking ideas to reposition, to support our expansion into Chch, to align with our technology services, and to show why Croys is worth partnering with. I wanted something that was a bit different and unexpected. The new Croys brand is fresh and vibrant! This is the reaction from our team:
“We’re a bit edgy. It nods back to our Agricultural beginning but now we’re a bit of a disrupter.”
“It says we’re professional, contemporary, avant garde, human.”
“We comprise of bright & sharp people.”
“It connects with the land & our region – represents rivers, fields and mountains or the Canterbury plains.”
Marcus Murdoch, Croys
Thanks for all the great work on this your efforts are very much appreciated. We now have a product that is a great vehicle to promote the company and is clear who we are, what we do and what our values are.
