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| New Make it Happen Blog Design Live |
| 2008-07-14 23:32:07 |
Been a little quite on blogging for the last few weeks, not due to lack of action thats for sure, awesome things happening across the business, been in a business TV show, heaps of new features at the request of customers and plenty of new happy customers on board. If you’ve popped into the site [...]...
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| How to Achieve Goals in 5 Steps |
| 2008-07-04 01:47:43 |
1. Visualize life on the other side
If you want to achieve a goal, you’ve got to really see and feel the way life will be when its achieved. Goals define a point where things clearly change, a point in time where you know you’ll be able to do things differently because of the platform [...]...
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| Achieving Goals Regularly |
| 2008-06-09 05:11:28 |
Its one thing to get things done and eat through your action or task lists, but it really feels good when all that work leads to achieving a goal.
Achieving Goals Regularly
Goals can be set at many different levels, in PlanHQ some people set their long term strategic goals, but most set short and medium term [...]...
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| World Environment Day |
| 2008-06-04 09:13:35 |
It’s World Environment Day tomorrow, and our home base Wellington, New Zealand is this years host country and city. You’d hope this was an everyday thing really in our lives, but for now having a day marked for it is a chance to have a wakeup call and remind ourselves and the people around us [...]...
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| Private Goals now available in PlanHQ |
| 2008-06-04 03:18:47 |
We’ve made PlanHQ relatively open to your team by default, to encourage a culture of transparency and accountability, where everyone knows whats going on and gets on with making it happen. As more medium sized or larger small businesses come on board, we’ve continued to put in additional security so that managers can let all [...]...
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| Managers and Staff Member Security Roles in PlanHQ |
| 2008-06-04 02:55:58 |
We’ve simplified the security roles in PlanHQ so you can get your whole team involved and limit who sees what that when you add a team member you can make them either:
Manager: Has unrestricted access. They can view and manage all the company data, including financials, others private goals and reports
Staff Members: Restricted access - [...]...
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| New Blog Design coming soon… |
| 2008-06-02 23:46:19 |
We’ve been working on our blog strategy and design over the last while, as we get more of a focus on building communities, and 2 major things are going to happen. The first is getting a focus by cutting the blogs into 2; one for PlanHQ product and company related stuff, and the 2nd make [...]...
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| Fitting in with Googles vision of the web office |
| 2008-06-02 10:20:42 |
I’ve been fortunate enough to spend a little time over the past few days with Google Business Development Manager Tom Duterme, as he’s been chatting to and giving advice to a bunch of online companies at the XMedia Lab conference held in our home town in Silicon Welly and talking about what google looks for [...]...
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| PlanHQ at Apple Developers Conference |
| 2008-06-02 10:18:14 |
Jeremy is on his way to the Apple Developers conference for next week, which should be great fun for him, if you’re around the conference, drop him a line jeremy at planhq dot com.
Although there’s still a few days to go, Steve Jobs won’t be announcing PlanHQ as Apple major partner, although I think if [...]...
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| Getting a deal signed sealed and delivered |
| 2008-05-28 04:40:48 |
I just got a email and photo from my good friend Tom Stokell who’s been working hard for the last year in the UK to secure the first deal for his business, which helps get more people cycling to work by getting businesses to challenge each other in a cycling to work competition. The program [...]...
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| Building Communities |
| 2008-05-22 09:39:06 |
You, your business, you’re part of a bigger eco-system. You rely on having good peers, mentors and advisors, you always need good people, you need networks, and you need to be heard and talked about. And you have a whole lot that can help others around you.
So what is the fabric that weaves these needs [...]...
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| PlanHQ in sync with ical, google calendar and your iphone |
| 2008-05-22 06:13:55 |
If you live by your calendar being with you everywhere, then you’ll know how much you need your Business Management and Getting things done tools like PlanHQ to play with your other calendars; on your computer, on the web and on your phone. If you’re not already using it, get your PlanHQ plan pushing out [...]...
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| Koz at Railsconf 08 in Portland next week |
| 2008-05-22 06:12:23 |
It’s that time of year again, and PlanHQ co-founder and CTO and Rails core team member Koz will be in Portland next week speaking at O’reilly Railsconf. If you’re in the Rails community you’ll know who Koz is, but if you’re looking at doing something with PlanHQ and in the area, then try and connect [...]...
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| Sailing the world and generating power |
| 2008-05-18 20:01:17 |
I had the pleasure this weekend of sailing around the Wellington Harbour with captain Glenn Andert and his partner Pamela in the learjet that he’s been sailing for the last 3 years around the pacific between home #1 in California and his new home with Pamela at #2 - New Zealand.
(The bend in the windmill [...]...
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| PlanHQ’s Method takes care of the madness |
| 2008-05-18 18:09:40 |
An Article in Wellington’s Dominion Post talks about how PlanHQ helps teams work together on setting the businesses goals and making them happen.
It’s possible they could have taken the picture of me at a worse moment… I think ; )...
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| Reports Update - Our Plan and Our Progress |
| 2008-05-16 01:19:14 |
We’ve just made some updates to PlanHQ reporting to make it easier to see your overall business plan and your progress against this plan.
Our Plan Tab
The our Plan Tab is a simple view of your strategy, your goals and your financial forecast across your whole business, or for any particular area.
Our Progress Tab
The Our Progress [...]...
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| PlanHQ on Business is Booming TV Show |
| 2008-05-13 21:13:29 |
We did a small segment in a TV series in New Zealand last year called Business is Booming which gives advice and tells stories of small businesses. We’ve only just got this video of the 3 minute segment on where businesses go wrong with business plans and how PlanHQ gets you to achieve your plans [...]...
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| Staying on top of Contacts |
| 2008-05-10 07:18:16 |
I remember a time when it was easy to stay in touch with everyone I wanted to, if I met someone interesting, I stayed in contact and kept naturally kept the communication going.
Can’t stay in touch with everyone
But nowadays this just isn’t possible, and above is just one stack of cards from the past [...]...
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| Track your progress, see what you’ve done |
| 2008-05-07 20:56:58 |
When you’re managing your weekly priorities and getting things done, its good to look back over the week as it comes to an end, and over the last few weeks and see what you and your team have actually done. We’ve just added in simple progress tracking on team members, so you can look over [...]...
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| Unscheduled Down Time |
| 2008-05-06 18:07:18 |
Apologies to anyone who was effected by the unscheduled downtime that occurred earlier today. Our site host experienced an unexpected outage, causing PlanHQ to be down between 2:30 and 3:00 PST, with a possibility of 90mins of poor performance prior to this. We are sorry for any inconvenience this caused, and if you have any [...]...
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| Managing Weekly Priorities as a Team |
| 2008-05-05 19:21:02 |
We’re pretty big on managing our workload for the week ahead, and PlanHQ has been made to make this really easy to do it for yourself and together as a team. We’ve got heaps on, and every person is working on things towards achieving multiple goals across the business, so on Monday we get together [...]...
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| Some Piano… |
| 2008-05-04 08:54:29 |
Teaching myself the Piano… early days, but here’s something little from the weekend - evening calm mp3
The home studio on the hill...
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| PlanHQ Win Emerging Business of the year at Gold Awards |
| 2008-05-01 22:44:11 |
We had a great night last night at the Wellington Gold Awards and are pretty happy to take out the emerging business of the year.
The big winner was KiwiBank, great to see New Zealands only major locally owned bank take out the supreme award, Kiwibank will be one of the pillars of the NZ economy [...]...
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| Managing Multiple Companies on PlanHQ |
| 2008-04-30 23:00:21 |
If you’ve involved with, own or advising multiple companies, then you can get to all their plans in PlanHQ with your same login, which some people, including me just love. If you want to manage multiple companies, just signup for a new plan using the same email address, or invite an existing PlanHQ user in [...]...
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| PlanHQ Finalist at Wellington Gold Awards |
| 2008-04-30 21:53:48 |
We all work hard and pour heaps of energy into our businesses, so tonight’s a night of celebration for us and other businesses in Wellington New Zealand where our main base is, PlanHQ is a finalist in the regions Business Gold awards, should be a great night, here’s our little 30 second finalist video whipped [...]...
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| I’m 29 today, 10% of the twenties to go |
| 2008-04-24 00:41:19 |
Another great day to be alive, rock out of bed to the early sun, have a stretch, have a call with my mum, bike into our cool little office in the city, get some stuff done, chat to some customers, bike down to the beach for a late afternoon mid autumn swim, and the day [...]...
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| Code names, Celebrations and Pavlova |
| 2008-04-23 06:34:32 |
When you’ve got something big to do that will take some time, a code name can be perfect, then when you’re spending all those tireless hours and moments battling with getting things right, you can always just lean on the code name as a light hearted reminder that all is well. Our latest release was [...]...
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| Doing some simple sustainable office things… |
| 2008-04-23 05:22:55 |
All the big guys are ‘getting into sustainability’ these days, but this is more often than not driven from the marketing department as a PR initiative.
I’m not cynical, its possibly better than nothing - sure, but does it actually mean any real change happens in behavior? Maybe sometimes, but I think in reality it can [...]...
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| The New PlanHQ is here… |
| 2008-04-18 09:44:00 |
After a solid 2 months under the radar, and heaps of customer feedback, we’re really happy to launch the 3rd major release of PlanHQ. Launched last night, its a real credit to everyone in the team for pulling this off, we’ve worked close to get it right, and Amiria, Jeremy, Koz, Nik and Oli have [...]...
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| New PlanHQ Website and Focus |
| 2008-04-18 00:33:40 |
We’ve been very busy for the last couple of months doing a major new release of our business plan software tool PlanHQ, to make it even more simple and usable and really focused on making you achieve your goals.
We want you to achieve your plan, so the focus is on helping you get a plan, [...]...
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| How to be an early riser |
| 2008-04-17 22:41:47 |
I’ve enjoyed the nights for much of my life, I’ve come up with some of my best ideas, started businesses, built my international network, designed things, made music, and generally done some of my best stuff in the quiet hours of the late evening and wee hours.
Often after a busy day getting things done, the [...]...
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| Simple Regular Reporting |
| 2008-04-08 00:41:09 |
In our enhancements of the application we are replacing the document tab with a more detailed Reports tab, which is simpler to use and encourages more frequent evaluation of what you have achieved and where your plan is heading:
The new reporting tab will allow you to view your past progress as well as your [...]...
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| Major Enhancements to PlanHQ |
| 2008-04-08 00:18:10 |
We are excited to inform you that next week there will be some major enhancements to PlanHQ.
We are thrilled about the upgrades and hope that you will enjoy them too!
There are 3 major changes you can expect to see:
A brand new, simpler to use interface with a more consistent user experience and a greater [...]...
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| Make a Difference - Start a business |
| 2008-04-07 23:45:50 |
There’s a lot of talk about making a difference nowadays, although I’m not sure too many people feel they know how to do anything significant beyond talking and maybe making a few small changes in their life, which is good, but I think there’s a really simple way to start on the path to something [...]...
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| What I’ll do when I’ve ‘made it’ - Bigger things |
| 2008-04-07 23:10:45 |
There’s so many ways to do something in the world that I feel I’ve had to touch but largely walk past until further notice… that further notice is having the time, ability and influence to be able to do something. I feel like I’m in stage 1 of life right now, quietly building up ability [...]...
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| Where do you fit in the conversation? |
| 2008-04-01 05:28:47 |
We spend a lot of time talking with people, and we also spend quite a lot of time designing product and marketing and communications stuff, and the thing thats really been driving a lot of thinking recently, is where do we fit in conversations?
Go with the flow
People are already having a tonne of conversations everyday, [...]...
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| Koz and Anika are Married : ) |
| 2008-03-13 22:40:06 |
Today Koz just got married to Anika. Big congrats Koz and Anika and look forward to partying tonight on you guys!
Marriage confirmed… By twitter...
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| Like PlanHQ? Become an Affiliate |
| 2008-03-12 15:03:16 |
Quite a few people have asked whether they can make a little money for passing on people to PlanHQ, and the answer is yes! So we’ve just started our affiliate program, if you’re interested in being part of it just drop us an email at support at planhq.com and you’ll et setup in no time. [...]...
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| Share the love - happy customers are cool |
| 2008-03-11 23:03:11 |
Nik just sent an email around our team with a few cool comments he’s received in the support box from customers over the last few weeks, to share the love with the rest of us.
It’s great to get this sort of stuff come in from customers, we like many cool companies don’t just make a [...]...
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| Mexico is getting bigger - How to build an island upate |
| 2008-03-05 18:43:19 |
Last year I posted about How to make an island and solve a few of the worlds problems, 8 months on and a whole bunch of volunteers have now got involved in building the 2nd Spiral Island, and here’s where its at
Find more photos like this on Richie Sowa's Spiral Island
From Randy McCallum - [...]...
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