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Digital finger on the customer's pulse
COMMENT: Being a marketing person in 2017 means getting your geek on.

How to make services easier to sell
COMMENT: When you eliminate jargon it can often make products or services easier to sell.

Number of billionaires in Oz rockets
COMMENT: Many in top 10 are self-made, with rags-to-riches stories.

Dann: Trump's budget battle a real drama
COMMENT: Donald Trump's budget battle will be an epic stand-off of American politics.

Clement: Savvy bankers keep their cash
COMMENT: Shop around banks to get the best deals and keep money in your pocket.

Future for streaming music services?
COMMENT: Companies that can afford to take a loss will be able to offer such a service.

$1m retirement target way over the top
COMMENT: Ignore unrealistic targets - even modest savings are well worth aiming for.

Do you have a 'Rolls Royce' Service Offer?
COMMENT: What do some of your clients enjoy by using your services?

Radio NZ comes in from the cold
COMMENT: Government finally ends the 8 years funding freeze on RNZ, John Drinnan writes.

Budget a 'healthy' lolly scramble
Opinion: PM, Joyce not the kind of parents to risk overexciting with a mad sugar rush.

Pippos: Budget throws blanket over middle NZ
COMMENT: Thomas Pippos, chief executive of Deloitte, on Budget 2017.

The better than nothing Budget
COMMENT: Steven Joyce has hardly thrown fiscal caution to the winds, Brian Fallow writes.

Five elements of a good first Budget
COMMENT: Fran O'Sullivan sets out her expectations for Steven Joyce's inaugural proposals.

Why net neutrality no longer matters
COMMENT: Should all traffic on the internet be treated equally?

Flu jab for the finances
COMMENT: It's time to inject some resilience into your incomings and outgoings.

Watch out for sexually-transmitted debt
COMMENT: Diana Clement explains why your credit rating might be worse than you think.

Taming a mortgage the size of Africa
COMMENT: Any bust in house prices won't affect everyone in the same way.

As Trump tweets, NZ must get on with it
COMMENT: Ruckus in the US makes NZ more attractive for migrants and money.

In this game, we're beating the Aussies
COMMENT: While the NZ Government enjoys surpluses, Australia's dives deeper into debt.

Be healthy, budding app devs
COMMENT: Keen to get a foot in the door in the App Economy, but not sure where to start?

Shelter is for people, not tax
Fallow: More than 90,000 landlords have invested in businesses that are running at a loss.

Time to defrost RNZ funding
COMMENT: Broadcaster's reinvention has helped its case for more government cash.

4 beneficial no-cost marketing resources
COMMENT: A simple way to make great progress is to get the help of other people.

Get more battery life from your phone
COMMENT: Six simple tips and tricks you can use to make your phone's battery last.

Blurry facts fanning housing hysteria
COMMENT: Politicians, bankers and media adding to misinformation doing the rounds.

Cyber attack will only get worse
How can you protect yourself against WannaCry and other digital nasties?

Why KiwiSaver balances go up... and down
COMMENT: What's the difference between a savings account and a KiwiSaver account?

Diana Clement: Do you really need that luxury brand?
COMMENT: Do you really need that luxury brand, asks Diana Clement.