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Spark Consulting

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Joined February 2010
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News 11 Mar 2011
1000 Pineapple Lumps & 100 Auctions for the Christchurch Earthquake Relief Effort

Seeing all the Kiwis get behind the relief effort as well as heaps of overseas people is a testament to how cool Christchurch will always be and how choice Kiwis are.

Iconic Kiwi - Helping Christchurch

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Fundraiser 16 Nov 2010
One Man on a bike for a cause - Cape Reinga to Bluff

Local Hamilton accountant Mark Campbell has an ambitious ride from Cape Reinga to the Bluff to help raise money and awareness for Te Whanau Putahi.

One Man on a bike for a cause - Cape Reinga to Bluff

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Business 10 Nov 2010
Hamilton Accounting firm boardroom hire assists SME businesses

WAIKATO — Local Accounting firm, Accountants on London have just announced a new initiative to help local Waikato SME business owners promote themselves in this on-going tough economic climate.

Jane Evans, supporting local business

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Education 2 Nov 2010
Sir George Seymour College Opens its Doors across NZ

Sir George Seymour National College of Airline, Travel and Tourism is possibly one New Zealand's largest airline, travel and tourism training providers and on Thursday the 11th of November they are throwing open the doors for a Nationwide Open Day.

Sir George Seymour College Opens its Doors across NZ

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Business 1 Oct 2010
Local Business Owner Gets Big Name Speaker for workshop

WAIKATO — Local businessman Murray Beer from Ibex Marketing has managed to get high profile New Zealand speaker John Morrell commonly known as the Referral Guru to deliver a customised workshop in Hamilton for SME's looking to generate quality referrals from their existing customers.

John Morrell - The Referral Guru

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Technology 25 Aug 2010
Nexus One Android phone - the weekend tour

I was given a Google Android phone the Nexus One from Digital Mobile corporate in Bryant Rd Hamilton to test over the weekend while I participated in the Auckland Google Barcamp.

Nexus One Android phone

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Business 16 Aug 2010
Webmaster gets on the case for small businesses

Via Stuff/Waikato Times - By NICOLA BOYES - Waikato Times Hamilton consultant Russell Masters has a theory.

HELPING HAND:

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Business 3 Aug 2010
Can NZ Business owners do their own SEO (search engine optimisation)

A large percentage of New Zealand Businesses now have websites but while the original intention behind having a website was to generate more sales or enquiries more often than not those goals do not get realised and owners are often in the dark as to "Why".

Where's your competition in Google

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Technology 27 Jul 2010
If you want you want your website to work smarter then you need a StartingPoint

"Before you start marketing your website you need a starting point to know where you are, only then will you know where you need to focus your attention." A website marketing & online visibility analysis can provide an in depth review of your website complete list of specific actions related to your website marketing and online visibility sorted by importance to consider and work through.

Do you need a StartingPoint?

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Technology 13 Jul 2010
Doing the basics in SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) to promote your website

So you’ve got a website… Websites, not unlike retail shop fronts, need to be placed in high traffic areas to gain walk in customers browsing for the products or services that you sell.

Russell Masters - freelance website marketing consultant

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Technology 10 Jul 2010
Digital Photos - Don't lose a generation

I had an interesting conversation with one of the owners of Recover My Files, a New Zealand data recovery lab specialising in photo recovery yesterday about how losing hard drives full of digital photos can erase the memories of an entire generation.

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Technology 27 May 2010
Project Management within Google Apps

Manymoon is a social based team collaboration project management tool available in the Google Apps Marketplace to seamlessly integrate with your companies Google Apps account.

Using the new contextual gadgets for Google Email

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Technology 2 May 2010
Sharing Google Docs from Microsoft Outlook

As an avid user of both Google Docs from the Google Apps suite of applications as well as being fairly well immersed in my day to day use of Microsoft Outlook I was overjoyed to discover the "Harmony for Google Docs" app in the Google Apps Marketplace.

Share Google Docs Automatically

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Business 21 Apr 2010
Google Local 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.

Google Places

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Internet 18 Apr 2010
Gmail adds new Calendar Invitation Feature – Share your Free/Busy info

Google Apps mail and Gmail (Essentially the same thing) has a very cool new feature for inviting friends and clients to meetings and events.When you compose an email message, there's now an "Insert: Invitation" link right under the subject line.

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Business 17 Apr 2010
Spicing up your Yellow Pages Listing

If a picture is worth a thousand words imagine what a promotional video in your yellow pages listing would do.

Yellow meets Youtube

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Business 8 Apr 2010
Spark Consulting getsCloud with Solve360 CRM

Solve360 blends the concepts of CRM and Project Blogs into a private, versatile hub where sales, support, operations and clients team up and stay coordinated. Securely publish individual Project Blogs to anyone with an email address so they can stay up-to-date and collaborate with your team on specific projects.

Russell Masters talks about Solve360

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Business 16 Mar 2010
Do you plan your meetings or fly by the seat of your pants?

I am sure there is not one of us that needs preaching about the necessity of planning.

Meeting Planner - Do you plan?

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Internet 12 Mar 2010
The Pipe - Fast Sales Pipeline Cloud App - 1st Screenshots released

Over the last 6 months we have been developing The Pipe a super fast Sales Pipeline Cloud App to fill a gap in our business.

Filtered by Month

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Technology 11 Mar 2010
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.

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Technology 10 Mar 2010
ntrofi – The Pasword Creation Tool & the best $24 I've spent

Being involved in so much online computing at Spark Consulting I was intrigued by a Waikato Chamber presentation by Tracy Filmer-Clark from ntrofi around password security and what we can do about it.

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Technology 15 Feb 2010
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 emailing me directly and to provide a collaborative area for me to communicate with clients in a project space, also outside of my inbox.

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