📲 Helping to improve businesses throughout the pandemic has been the uptake in #technology!✅ As shown in our recent #Survey, we've seen an uptake in #socialmedia for marketing, online banking and texting to keep up lines of communication. Read more: bit.ly/3aXf681

As soon as her hospitality studies were completed in #NZ, Fetu-uloa Havili returned to #Tonga to open Lucky Pot Restaurant. Today's #BLPblog looks at her success and hopes for the future: about.businesslinkpacific.com/lucky-pot-rest…

According to 50% of #SMEs surveyed in our latest Finance Report, there have been improvements in their service or product offering in the last 12 months due to being able to offer new services and products to meet new market needs. Find more 👇🧐 about.businesslinkpacific.com/news-and-updat…

Congratulations to John Tierney from John Tierney & Associates in the #CookIslands for being approved as a #BLPAdvisor! John Tiery is now approved for Strategy & Business Planning. You can connect with John and his team here 👇 businesslinkpacific.com/.../603-john-t…...

🌅 Today, we celebrate 60 years of friendship between Aotearoa & Samoa with the arrival of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in Samoa! Samoa is also celebrating the opening of its borders to the rest of the #world this week, which is fantastic news for #SMEs! bit.ly/3oNyIyU

For Samoa's Faleolo Airport Lounge, the return to business has been long awaited! In today's #BLPblog we talk to Co-Owner Clayton Simamao about business struggles, adaptation plans and how a #BLPAdaptationgrant helped with its survival 👇👇about.businesslinkpacific.com/how-samoas-fal…

Today Aotearoa celebrates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. It is with pride we acknowledge the contribution of Māori women in enabling Māori culture to flourish, and express solidarity with indigenous women around the world. Me aro ki te hā o Hine-ahu-one.

🤓 Interesting to see what areas #SMEs invested in as they responded to the #COVID pandemic 👇👇 More from this #survey can be found here: about.businesslinkpacific.com/news-and-updat… 👏👏

12th August 2022 - Happy INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY. Let us celebrate our youth today. As adults let us invoke PEACE, KINDNESS, MORALS to our youth. Let us be good mentors to one another.

Hot off the press, we are proud to release the third episode of the #BLPpodcast! In today's episode, we speak to John Lemoa, BLP’s in-country partner at the Samoa Chamber of Commerce! Tune in below: about.businesslinkpacific.com/the-impact-of-…

Like many #SMEs in the #Cookislands, Angle Productions lost almost all of their business overnight when COVID hit! Determined not to permanently close the doors, Owner Ine Sosene worked extra hard to diversify their offerings. 👏 Check out their story 👇 bit.ly/3PJePnC

Congratulations to Nilesh Sharma, Director of Financial System Managers & Business Development Advisors PTE Ltd in #Fiji for being approved as a #BLPAdvisor! Check our Nelish's profile here 👇 bit.ly/3AQ0VMk

For Tony Langston and his wife, #diversification in business is the only way through hard times. On the #BLPblog today, we share an interview with Tony about his family-run business Ibubu Bakery in Munda, Solomon Islands 👇👏about.businesslinkpacific.com/from-accommoda…

Bula Vinaka to our new interim Chargé d'Affaires at the 🇦🇺 High Comm, John Williams. A career diplomat with extensive experience in the Pacific, John will be advancing the 🇦🇺🇫🇯 relationship until our new High Commissioner is appointed. We welcome him to our beautiful island home

Kia Orana from Keisha Dais, BLP Business Service Manager located in the Cook Islands 👋 🙌 Keisha discusses how #SMEs can improve their businesses through the help of local advisors who specialise in finance, marketing, export and business development. Tune in 👇

We can't wait to learn alongside many of our partners at this year's #xerocon2022 conference! We'll share some of our insights and learning on the #BLPblog soon, so keep your eyes peeled! 🤓

Over on the #BLPblog, we talk to Fave Designs in Rarotonga about their adaptation plans for the business & how an Adaptation Grant helped them start-up the first even embroidery service in the #Cookislands bit.ly/3DqQFvl

👋 Halo from Anna Nawara, owner of Hannah's Beauty Box in Papua New Guinea! In this #video, we hear all about her thriving #SME and how she worked with business advisors from #BLP to improve her accounting systems and more! Watch below to find out more 👇

Over on the #BLPblog, we share a story from #businessowner Simon Chottu in #PNG. Simon's family business, Chottu’s Guadalcanal Products, was in desperate need of storage for its raw resources & sought the help of an advisor to get just that. Read more 👇bit.ly/3BSLCTm

This an excellent #webinar for anyone interested in #learning more about BLP’s essential business tool, the Business Continuity Planner. 👇📽️ youtube.com/watch?v=D83Moz…