In the 21st century we face a problem that has potentially disastrous consequences to the economic and social development of our people; global warming and green house gas emissions. If everyone was to do their bit then we can combat this, it’s been proven, so let’s bring it closer to home.

In West Auckland we are lucky enough to have an organization such as Waitakere Enterprise. Through their mission statement and fantastic philosophy on how to help West Auckland business, we can all help on a much larger scale.

We would all like to work closer to home & for Annie Conza from Westside Motivation Ltd, a fresh and innovative NZ written program called XERO has made this more possible than ever before. The internet is the future for business and an “Online, Real-Time” accounting solution is genius for more than one reason.

Take Brett Hancock of www.borndigital.co.nz for example. Born Digital is one of New Zealand’s elite web designing firms who have successfully implemented XERO with the help of Annie @ Westside Motivation. Born Digital is located in Auckland Central and was recommended by Wellington based XERO support to contact Annie at www.0800westies.co.nz. Now after implementation, through the fully online system, consultancy is completed predominately over the telephone or via e-mail. This reduces waiting time & carbon emissions, while assisting with the streamlining & profitability of both businesses.

For Waitakere Enterprise the additional benefit to this is keeping West Aucklanders from having to leave the city in order to make a decent living. As over half of Waitakere’s workforce commute out of the city every morning for work, the need to embrace developments such as XERO to do our part while still elevating our businesses and growing together is essential. This allows us to stay in Waitakere but not shut ourselves off to the opportunities outside of our city.

Email and phone consultancy is the way of the future, and both Annie and Brett love the streamlined process, limited travel costs and minimized paper wastage that makes for an environmentally charged accounting solution.

Productivity and profit are key factors in keeping our businesses growing and moving forward. Having more time working and less time traveling is a no brainier when it comes down to both these key factors. As a city, Waitakere has always been proud of our clean green image and we need to keep it that way. Helping with Waitakere Enterprises mission statement will eventually help delete 7,000 tones of carbon being emitted into our atmosphere by West Aucklanders annually. So if streamlining your business and eliminating loss of profit isn’t a good enough reason to check out XERO, then maybe doing your part to save the planet will.

Shane Conza
Sales & Marketing Manager
Westside Motivation Ltd