Why your business needs student interns (and how to get them)
It’s the catch-22 faced by most startups: you need more workers to boost revenue, but you need more revenue to hire more workers! So, how do you deal with this conundrum? There are a number of creative ways to get that extra help without sinking your business. One of the best ways: start an internship programme. At Rocketspark, we’ve had a number of student interns, and it’s been brilliant—for us and them. Here’s what we’ve learned along the way: ...
February 28, 2019Staff Profile: Lara Villavicencio
Meet Lara, she has just started with us here at Rocketspark as one of our friendly developers. But what you may not know about Lara is that she is also our resident space and planets font of knowledge, she loves to spend her free time watching all sorts of docos and tv series’ like ‘Stranger Things’. Lara recently completed her Computing and Mathematical Science studies at the University of Waikato, after immigrating to New Zealand eight years ago from the Phillippines. She wasn’t very ...
January 22, 2019Meet our summer student interns from the University of Waikato
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January 15, 2019New footer and social media controls: It’s the simple things in life
Like many others, you’ve probably never really thought much about your footer, nor the power it could have. But we’ve been listening to your feedback about some little features you’ve been wanting to see and we’ve answered. Here at Rocketspark, we want you to have as much creative freedom as possible when it comes to editing all parts of your website. ...
December 13, 20186 ways to take your website’s design to the next level
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December 10, 2018The Rocketspark Ecosystem — Part 1: Find more clients
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November 2, 2018The Rocketspark Ecosystem — Part 2: Find a designer
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November 2, 2018Key steps for a search friendly website launch
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October 26, 2018Shaping your service offering
What do you do? It’s a question you’ve been asked a thousand times and, if you’ve got a fledgling design or web business, you might not always know how to answer. If the job pays, you’ll often be tempted to answer “Anything you want”! But we know from cold, hard experience (see below) that it helps to know precisely what services you offer—and do not offer. So how do you shape your service offering? Three words: focus, specify, and choose. ...
October 26, 2018Website clients: Finding your first and how to get more
So you’re a Rocketspark design partner, but you’re having trouble making the leap to web. You’ve stuck your toe in the water, but you’re not sure if you’re ready to dive in. We get it: making the leap to web can be daunting! I mean, how do you get website clients when you’ve never actually built a website?? In this blog post, we look at the WHY and HOW of getting website clients, so you can expand into website design with total confidence. ...
October 12, 2018How to choose a website template
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October 12, 2018How to hand over a website to your client
Saying “goodbye” is a big deal. Maybe you’re sad about it (like when your daughter moves out of home) or maybe you’re happy about it (like when your son moves out of home). Either way, there comes a point at which you have to let go. It’s the same with client websites. As a Rocketspark design partner, you’ve poured time and energy into turning their idea into a web-reality, but now it’s time to bid “farewell” to the project and hand it over to the client. But how? In this blog...
October 10, 2018How to start a web design project
Often in life, starting is the hardest part. That’s certainly how some of our design partners feel about web design. They’re usually gurus in their primary field (e.g., graphic design, marketing etc.) but often feel daunted by the prospect of tackling an entire web design project: How on earth am I going to do this?? The answer is: with a process. Coming up with a web design process that you can repeat for each project is vital. In this blog post, we’ll get you started by covering a few ke...
October 2, 2018Add-ons: A great way to get more out of your online store
Maybe you’re one of those people who likes to trick out your car so it can go super-fast. Or perhaps when you buy an airfare, you always make sure you pay for extra legroom. Or maybe when you book a resort holiday, you like to get the deluxe package. Sometimes we don’t want to settle for the bare minimum; we want to add on to what we buy. In the website biz, we call these add-ons: third-party software that you can “add on” to your Rocketspark online store to get even more out of it. Eve...
September 10, 2018Waipa Business Awards - Celebrating Client Success
It’s unusual for a globally focussed technology business to have it’s HQ in a small town. Despite having clients in over 20 countries, we find that getting it right at home in our local community is important for taking Rocketspark to the world. Last Friday night we attended the Waipa Business Excellence Awards dinner at Mystery Creek as finalists in the Best Customer Service Cambridge category. We were also able to celebrate the success of 11 Rocketspark clients and design partners that ...
September 5, 20182018 Rocketspark Partner Awards Winners
Rocketspark has an awesome network of design partners and we recently celebrated their success at our 2018 NZ/AU awards dinner. Our design partners design websites for their clients using the Rocketspark platform. With 8 awards up for grabs, each category was hotly contested making judging a difficult job. Congratulations to all our 2018 winners. ...
August 17, 2018Copy & link stacks: a magic carpet for your content
Want to unleash your creativity and save time spent designing a website? Heck yes, you do. So let me introduce you to a brand new Rocketspark feature that’ll maximise visual oomph, yet magically minimise time spent: copy and link stacks. ...
August 3, 20185 effective web forms built with Rocketspark
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June 18, 2018Phishing scams: don’t take the bait
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May 16, 2018Help, my website flunked a speed test!: What to do about page loading times...
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May 11, 2018New form builder: The tool you need to get the customer information you want
Customers are a mysterious bunch, especially online. Google Analytics can tell you when a would-be customer visits your site and a few other statistical tidbits about them—but wouldn’t you love to know more? Like what their enquiry is about?...Or what they really thought about your customer service?...Or if you can add them to your newsletter database? The more intel you can get from your site visitors, the better you can serve them. A good webform builder, therefore, is a remarkably power...
April 17, 2018Cambridge Seminar Series
We're teaming up with the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce NZ to run a Seminar Series. The 6 workshop series over 12 weeks will give businesses all the tools needed to be successful in the digital space. Check out the different sessions below. ...
April 9, 2018Add page redirects inside your Dashboard
Page redirects are a clever way to redirect a web page visitor from one URL (web address) to another—the visitor goes to one URL and then get automatically sent to another URL so they don’t actually view the page of the original URL. There’s quite a few different scenarios why you might want to use this feature but now you can set them up yourself inside your Dashboard. ...
February 28, 2018An all new colour picker
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February 7, 2018New features: Customer Accounts done the right way—better for buyers, better for you
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