12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS: Seven small business ideas

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS: Seven small business ideas
Brent Melville
As small business owners usher in the new year, they’ll be raising a glass to the future, and hoping to forget about 2020. But things look to be on the up.Online accounting firm Xero, which has 414,000 small business clients in New Zealand, says small business revenue through November was 3.2 percent higher than a year earlier. Job numbers also increased by 2.4 percent month-on-month in November. Xero country managing director Craig Hudson said while the rate of growth remains slower than pre-covid, the past six months of positive re...

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