Member since

12 March 2010

Bio

As an avid writer active in New Zealand Social Media I love sharing knowledge and helping clients find ways to work smarter and better understand their online marketing.

I consult through my company Spark Consulting which specialises in two areas;
"Biz::Shed" - Online tools for business &
"Naturally Organic Marketing" - making online marketing achievable for NZ Small to Medium business owners.

Posts

Google Business Becomes Google Places – Can Customers Find You There?

Today, Google announced that its Local Business Center will now be known as Google Places and has added new features to the service.

Spicing Up Your Yellow Pages Listing

As an idea designer for Spark Consulting I am often looking at ways to get way outside the box so when looking at our advertising on Yellow Pages New Zealand it was inevitable that I would be dissatisfied with a bunch of boring text to describe me.

Spark Consulting getsCloud with Solve360 CRM

A large part of my working life revolves around my role as a Cloud Application Consultant helping people “getCloud” This is a 3 step process of Discovery, Adoption and Direction, but one area which I have not been able to find that “Good Fit” for the varying needs of so ma

Networking With Social Media When Business Is Quiet

Last week I had an interesting conversation with one of my “Naturally Social” clients who presented me with a question around not being able to afford having someone in his organisation spending time on social networks because business was a bit quiet and they needed to be chasing sal

Getting Things Done: Contexts For WebWorkers

I use task lists every day, in fact lists are my glue but when you sit in front of a computer with a list of stuff to do each day that continually gets added to it is so easy to not be as efficient in processing that list as we would like to be.

Zendesk - When The Trial Is Over

As a freelance IT consultant for Spark Consulting I have spent a lot of time trying to find my workflow app in the cloud space to allow me a simple process for creating tasks from emails, allowing clients to create task requests without