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PAID RIGHT NZby Mel Curwood
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Media, podcasts and speaking

Articles, interviews and media features on business, cash flow and getting paid properly.

By Mel Curwood. More than 25 years working across New Zealand business, and nearly a decade helping trades, contractors and blue-collar businesses get paid in full, on time, every time. Over 350 of them.

Speaking

In August 2026 Mel sat on the national Mission Intelligence: The State of Play panel at the NZQBA Bookkeeping Conference in Auckland, alongside Inland Revenue. The conference described the panel as covering “what’s happening across NZ businesses right now ... from cashflow pressure and funding challenges to the ripple effects of late payments.”

She writes about what came out of it in our businesses were never intended to be banks.

Podcasts

Articles and features

As found in media.

  • Good Magazine
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Venus Businesswomen
  • Waikato Business News
  • Waikato Times
  • The New Zealand Herald

For media and event organisers

Mel speaks on cash flow, getting paid in full and on time, late payment and its ripple effects through New Zealand business, and what business owners can do before a customer fails. She works in person or online anywhere in New Zealand.

Call 0800 968 783 during normal business hours, or get in touch here.

When blue-collar, trades and hands-on businesses are strong, everybody wins.

If you came here checking who we are, the best place to see how we think is the work itself.

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