N4 Studio®

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Product Manager of a software company

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Built for regulated and high-compliance industries to protect their people, customers, operations and reputations by easing administrative burdens and ensuring you can collaborate on, manage and improve governance, risk and compliance processes.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire N4 Studio® to accomplish?

• Create a user friendly search interface using newer technology that is scalable on various devices
• Develop and maintain a mobile application
• Reskin our web add-in to align with branding

SOLUTION

How did you find N4 Studio®?

• Referral
• Other

Why did you select N4 Studio® over others?

• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from N4 Studio® were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Mobile Application: 

1. Develop and maintain the mobile application This work was to create an application that provided an email client to extend the functionality of our existing software product. Effort involved mapping out the user journey, developing a prototype for testing and final delivery. Additional work to improve upon and add functionality followed. 
2. The Outlook web add-in Supporting the front end styling and UI for the web add-in including animations and gestures. 
3. Provide designs for an entire reskin of our product This work involved assessing the existing product and providing a set of 163 icons for the new branding 
4. Search UI Develop a new user interface on new technology to allow us to scale the application. Working alongside our internal team, develop and maintain the user interface whilst improving on existing features and developing additional features.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Delivering the project within budget and on time

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

The team are very quick to respond to any issues or concerns. Projects are always delivered on time. Comfortable with regular catch ups for project management to ensure continued alignment. Agile workflow where pivoting in different directions is well managed. Work is always well executed and at a very high standard. Pleasant to work with and would highly recommend.

What was your primary form of communication with N4 Studio®?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Very charismatic and easy to work with. Working with external parties can sometimes be strenuous, however N4 Studio® has a very clear set of values that feed into the rest of the teams that allow for open communication and successful delivery of goals.

Are there any areas for improvement or something N4 Studio® could have done differently?

N/A

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Head of Marketing of Traffic

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Traffic has established and owns Refresh Renovations, Zones Landscaping and Oncore. Refresh is already the leading renovation building company in NZ’s renovation market and is establishing rapidly in Australian, U.K. and US markets. Zones Landscaping has franchisees operating nationwide in New Zealand, and is establishing rapidly in the Australian market too. Oncore was established more recently and already has a nationwide presence in New Zealand.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire N4 Studio® to accomplish?

• Support our franchise network with local marketing
• National Marketing for our Brands

SOLUTION

How did you find N4 Studio®?

Referral

Why did you select N4 Studio® over others?

• High ratings
• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Referred to me
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from N4 Studio® were assigned to this project?

10+

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.
Supporting head office for over three years across content creation, community management, franchisee onboarding, web design and development, SEO etc. 

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

• What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?
  N4 has helped us generate over 20,000 leads at a head office level, as well as onboard over 60 new franchisees.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?
N4 holds weekly WIPs with us to review and keep track of projects. Internally they have their project management app to keep the team on time with projects. They are also very good at communicating to our wider franchise base status updates and project completion

What was your primary form of communication with N4 Studio®?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

The range of services on offer, and the quality of work delivered. I'm pleased with their willingness to scale their team to meet our growing requirements.

Are there any areas for improvement or something N4 Studio® could have done differently?

Very happy with N4

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am am Business Development Manger of No Fuss Business, a bookkeeping and accounting firm with a difference.

We educate our customers on all aspects of financial and business management including strategy, planning, forecasting and business process tools and implementation through app advisory.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Neon Hive?

Our digital presence, website and SEO performance was unsatisfactory. A recent attempt at upgrading had delivered some great branding and themes but was off target with the voice and SEO performance.

We engaged with Neon Hive to do a review, develop a Digital Strategy for us, then implement the changes and upgrades.

What were your goals for this project?

The primary objective was to generate leads obviously. We wanted to ensure we were being found through our SEO, we were capturing prospects through a newsletter subscription and driving leads through content and retargeting.

SOLUTION

How did you select Neon Hive?

Our workspaces were both in the Stark Properties Panama group of buildings. So we met through that.

The Neon team helped with video at a couple of our workshop events and through further discussion and looking at the work they were doing for other customers, we felt they were a great fit with our business and culture.

Describe the scope of their work in detail.

Firstly Neon developed a Digital Strategy for us by understanding our business, our market and our culture. Then they fleshed out a multi stage plan to migrate and upgrade our website, redevelop content and produce some customer video testimonials.

One of Neon's key observations was to focus on making our customer the hero in our messaging as opposed to just talking bout ourselves. We really liked this.

What was the team composition?

Jono led the way for Neon Hive. He was the primary brains on the strategy. Backing him up was Cody on video and photography content, Hannah on website performance and Courteney on our revitalised copy.

This team continues to work with us every month.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Outcomes were pretty darn good. Over the past 6 months, we’ve seen a 109% increase in website visitors, a 377% increase in organic search rankings (with multiple first-spot ranking keywords), and a 108% increase in organic search traffic.

There have also been 85 website conversions, which is a massive increase from zero conversions we saw before.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We liked the face to face contact and the defined project plan. Neon were great at following up to ensure that we stayed on track. They were also adaptable. When the world changed early 2020 we adjusted the project to suit our changing needs.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Neon are a great team of not only highly skilled people but also really personable and easy to work with. We both have an affinity for technology, this has been an unforeseen benefit as they have also been able to add real value as we started our new App Advisory and Cloud integration business No Fuss Cloud.

Additionally, we have continued to support each other through joint marketing and promotion.

Are there any areas for improvement?

not that I can think of.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m managing director of Allfast Solutions, a fastener supplier.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Neon Hive?

We wanted to upgrade our previous WordPress website in order to promote our items to the market and set up an online ordering system.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

First, they gave us a website concept on the information and photos taken in our store, outlining how the new site could look. We were impressed with it and continued to do more development in the meantime, with both sides providing ideas. We had to work on templates and put about 20,000 different products on the website so getting photos of all our products took a long time.

They developed our new website using Shopify, helping us to install items collection by collection on the website until it was complete. It was handed back to us and we checked every aspect, also trying out the ordering process and how it could work. We continue to make little alterations to the website as we go.

What is the team composition?

I worked with Jonathan (Managing Director, Neon Hive).

How did you come to work with Neon Hive?

We were introduced to Neon Hive by one of our staff members. We met up with Jonathan and had a discussion on what it is we needed, then ran through the concept and discussed the options. We decided to work with them and didn’t consider any other companies.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent $10,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in August 2018, and the work is ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

We launched the website in July 2019 and so far, we’ve only been promoting the website amongst our own current customers. We have 74 signed up and have had 62 orders go through. We want to get it completely right before we go to the market.

How did Neon Hive perform from a project management standpoint?

Jonathan was good and efficient, always coming back to us quickly. We were in communication daily to start with, which then became weekly and later monthly or less. It was such a big project that we parked it for a couple of months because we had to sort some things out within the company and then we came back to it, which they were flexible about. We communicated via email and phone calls, and Jonathan would come and see us once a month or once every couple of months.

What did you find most impressive about them?

They had efficient service and accepted the challenge of putting 20,000 different products on our websites. Generally, they showed a lot of excitement about wanting to get the website up and running and there were always plenty of options available.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, they’re professional and d a really good job, responding well to any questions we have.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

I recommend using them.