MindMeld Coaching – a small NZ business embracing eInvoicing

[Audio / Visual: Relaxed music plays. eInvoicing logo appears over a background of a Docotor Who “Tardis”-themed office.]

[Visual: A name and role appears written in the bottom right, reading: “Brenda Ratcliff; Trainer, Facilitator, Leadership Coach, and MC at MindMeld Coaching".]

[Visual: Scene changes to a closeup of Brenda Ratcliff sitting in the office, speaking to the camera.]

Brenda: So one of the things I love about eInvoicing is as a small business, it's much faster for me to do and also much faster to get paid.

[Visual: Scene changes to show Brenda smiling at the camera outside. Switches back to previous shot indoors.]

Brenda: I'm Brenda Ratcliff from MindMeld Coaching. I'm the founder of MindMeld. What I do is I'm a leadership coach facilitator and training, working with clients who want to live their best lives.

[Visual: Scene changes to show Brenda and Kristan standing outside, in front of their Tardis-themed office. Brenda gestures to their office behind them.]

Brenda: So behind me is our office.

[Visual: Various close ups of office, showing Brenda and Kristan walking into the office.]

Brenda: It's decorated like the TARDIS from Doctor Who, it's where the MindMeld magic happens. It's cool, because we can decorate it, how we want. Our business is fun, we want to feel good inside. 2 chandeliers in there.

[Visual: Scene changes to camera focused on Kristan.]

Kristan: It's renowned for being bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

[Visual: Scene changes to Brenda and Kristan sitting inside their office together.]

Brenda: So this is the other half of MindMeld Coaching and my other half Kristan Johnston, who's a leadership coach, trainer and facilitator.

[Visual: Kristan’s name and role appears written in the bottom right, reading: “Kristan Johnson; Coach, Facilitator, Trainer at at MindMeld Coaching”.]

Kristan: My bit I guess, is just connecting people with their purpose. And I guess, building tailormade coaching packages around people to meet their needs. The reality for a lot of people is that they haven't taken stock, often enough about what their role is, what their profile is, in terms of how they speak about themselves. So how do you sum up, you know, 15, 20 years of a career, into a little punchy little excerpt that means something to somebody, and shows how you add value. And it shows what channels you use and how you communicate. And it also shows them, you know, how you help who you help and who you care about.

[Visual: Various slow motion shots of Brenda and Kristan about the office, working. Scene then changes to closeup of Brenda in office, speaking to the camera.]

Brenda: Normally, we have coaching clients, and we invoice them for a package of coaching, generate an invoice on Xero, send it to them as a PDF, and it goes off to their finance department. And we wait until they run all their invoices, at once. That can be weeks. So as a small business you can go ahh.

[Visual: A visual of the NZBN website appears on screen.]

Brenda: But what eInvoicing does means that we just get given an NZBN number, and we put the number on our invoice in Xero. And it just goes badoom match! Gets approved really quickly. And we can get paid within days. With eInvoicing it's just so simple. Yeah, our business admin has got a lot faster because I have to do it! So I'm grateful. How it's changed is that once I get the NZBN number of the organization I'm sending it to, that can be the trickiest bit, then we're off! Never have to say to them again, oh what's happened to that invoice because it's just gone to a number. And then through the magic of eInvoicing, all the numbers get matched up with what the work is for and it gets paid. So it preserves our coaching relationship and keeps it trusted, strong and confidential and positive.

[Visual: Graphic appears demonstrating how to get a business set up for eInvoicing.]

Brenda: So how I found out about it was when I was asked if I wanted to be part of the pilot, I was sent an email and stepped through the instructions on how to do it. Secretly, I thought I don't know if my brain is big enough for this. But once I clicked on it and worked through it all worked out fine, because I already had my NZBN number. I would recommend eInvoicing to other businesses, because it just takes a load off, like I'm a great coach, I can focus on being a great coach. And so it allows other businesses on foot to focus on what they do best.

[Visual: A visual of the the eInvoicing website appears.]

[Visual: Scene changes to Brenda sitting in office, talking to camera. Various shots of Brenda working around the office.]

Brenda: So if you want to find out more about eInvoicing, there's the eInvoicing website and there's also the emails that people will get from business.govt.nz. It's all there. So the future from MindMeld is more and more fabulous for our clients, and for us 2 working together, so that people can come out of the metaphorical shells and just live their best lives. Yeah.