Barristers, mortgage brokers, immigration advisers, executive search, business brokers and consultants. Different work, but the same problem to solve: someone has to decide you're worth trusting with something that matters, usually before they've spoken to you.
Below are some of those sites, along with a few things we've picked up about professional services website design in New Zealand that don't apply anywhere else.
Click a screenshot for a closer look, or the business name to visit the live site. Shots were taken at launch — every client can update their own site, so some will have moved on since.
An Auckland defence lawyer working across criminal and traffic law, with drink-driving and transport charges the specialist end of the practice. The phone number is 0800 ROAD LEGAL, which tells you who the site is written for.
Charles and Phillip Spilhaus, with Anne Forest, handle around 250 applications a year out of the Wairarapa. Charles has fifty years in banking, and a large share of the work is first-home buyers.
Tania and Steve place students into New Zealand courses and take families through the visa process that follows. Steve sits on the NZAMI board, campaigning on English language requirements for residency.
Thirty years of executive appointments across New Zealand and Australia, twenty of them as the local Stanton Chase firm before going independent in 2024. Search, interim leaders, assessment and succession planning.
Matthew Timmins is an Auckland barrister covering police station attendances through to jury trials, sentencing and appeals. The navigation runs in te reo Māori alongside English, which is rare on a criminal practice site.
Williamena Sim runs a commercial property practice out of Albany — acquisitions and disposals, leasing, subdivisions, due diligence, property finance, and the sale and purchase of aged care facilities.
Sheila Elasin is a licensed immigration adviser working across student, visitor, work, family and residence applications. The site carries dozens of client testimonials, a good many of them written in Tagalog.
Irene Joyce has spent more than twenty years advising law firm partners on strategy, culture, supervision and profitability. Her clients are the firms themselves rather than the people who instruct them.
Michael Clarke markets and sells whole businesses, with the deepest networks in transport, logistics, civil, manufacturing and distribution. Confidentiality is the point of the exercise, which shapes how much the site can say.
Crews for construction, industrial and commercial projects — scaffolders, trades staff, demolition crews, warehouse and data entry. Nationwide mobilisation, with briefing and compliance set out as a five-stage process.
A shared platform where independent consultants list a profile and businesses browse them directly. There's no middleman on the engagement — eConsultants makes the introduction and the two parties take it from there.
Project management and compliance consulting on construction work — programmes, quality assurance, consenting strategy, certifications and cost estimating. Brought in when a build needs someone independent watching it.
That's a dozen of them. There are a lot more sites in the full portfolio — advisers alongside trades, clinics, online shops, cafés and everything else we've built over the years.
See the full portfolio →A tradie's website has to prove they'll turn up. An adviser's has to prove they can be trusted with a problem the reader might be embarrassed about, or a decision worth a great deal of money. That changes what belongs on the page.
The most-read page on almost every site here is the one with the practitioner on it. Name, photo, admission or licence, how long they've been doing it, and what they actually work on day to day. A generic "our team is committed to excellence" page gets skimmed and closed. If there's one thing worth spending real time writing, it's this.
Admitted to the bar, licensed immigration adviser, registered financial adviser, NZQA accredited — that's the reader's shortcut for deciding you're legitimate. It shouldn't be a line in a footer. Put it where the service is described, and where the law requires disclosure, link the disclosure statement properly rather than burying it.
Lawyers, financial advisers and immigration advisers all work under advertising rules that a builder doesn't. Guaranteed outcomes, comparative claims and testimonials describing results can all be a problem depending on your profession. We'll write it, but the wording that touches your regulated work should go past you before it goes live.
Someone contacting a criminal barrister at 11pm, or an adviser about a business they're quietly selling, needs to know where that message lands. One named recipient, not a shared inbox. Say what happens next and how soon. And where the work is genuinely time-critical, the phone number matters more than the form.
Including GST, your first year of New Zealand hosting and your domain name. If you've already got a site and it just needs bringing up to date, rebuilds start at $799. Everything's set out on the pricing page, including what you'd pay each year after that.
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