ReachDesign

Name: ReachDesign
Address: 262A Dakins Road, Carterton, Wellington, 5887, NZ
Telephone: +64211702401
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02/11/2026

Kia ora November 🌱

Spring has properly landed in the Wairarapa. The olive grove is waking up, the days are long, and everyone I talk to can feel the end of the year coming.

Here's what's on the page this month. Quick tips you can use the same day, and a bit of the why behind how I work.

The theme for November is Getting Paid. Pricing, money kōrero and knowing your worth. Because most of the business owners I meet are brilliant at the work and quietly uncomfortable about the money part.

Our next Ara Hui is on exactly that kaupapa. Thursday 19 November, 10am to 11:30am on Google Meet. Six seats, $75+GST. Details at reachdesign.nz/services/ara-hui

So tell me. What's the hardest part of getting paid for you? 👇

28/10/2026

End of October. Eight weeks till Christmas 👀

Here's the tip. Before the busy season lands, write down the three questions clients ask you most. Then write your best answer to each, once.

Pop those answers on your website, your page, your booking confirmation. Wherever people look.

Every time someone finds the answer without ringing you, that's time back. And it helps you get found too, because people search the exact questions your clients ask.

If you'd like a hand working out where your time is leaking before summer, that's what a Koha Session is for. One hour, from $34, pay what feels right. Real next steps, no pitch. Flick me a message 😊

What's the question you answer most often? 👇

26/10/2026

Happy Labour Day 🌱

Back in 1840 a Wellington carpenter called Samuel Parnell agreed to build a store on one condition. Eight hours a day, and no more. Eight to work, eight to rest, eight for yourself.

That's where today comes from.

I love that story, because a lot of us who run our own businesses have quietly given it away. We'd never let an employer take the evenings and the Sundays. But we let our own business take them.

Grow without burning out isn't a slogan for me. It's the reason Reach Design exists. Good systems are how you get your evenings back.

I hope you took the day. Properly. The inbox will still be there tomorrow. 😊

What's one thing you didn't do today?

21/10/2026

"I'm busy on social media but nobody books." 🔧

A massage therapist told me that. She was posting three times a week. Lovely photos. Good tips.

So I asked to see her page the way a new client sees it. The phone number was her old one. The hours said closed Saturdays, which she'd changed ages ago. And there was no booking link anywhere. People had to message and wait.

She didn't have a content problem. She had a front door problem.

We fixed the number, the hours, and put one booking link at the top of everything. Ten minutes of mahi.

Now new clients book themselves instead of waiting on a reply at 10pm.

Before you post more, check your front door. What would a stranger find? 👀

19/10/2026

Confession time 🌱

For a long time I was rubbish at getting found. I'd do great mahi for someone and then wait for the phone to ring. Like the work would speak for itself.

It doesn't. Not on its own anyway.

What I had to learn was that showing up isn't the same as showing off. Telling people clearly what you do is a kindness. It saves them the hunt.

That's been the kaupapa for October in Ara Hui. Getting Found. Being seen without having to become someone you're not.

Next month's hui is Getting Paid. Pricing, money kōrero, knowing your worth. Thursday 19 November, 10am on Google Meet. reachdesign.nz/services/ara-hui

What's the hardest part of putting yourself out there for you? 👇

12/10/2026

Here's a ten minute job for this week 💡

Google your own business. Not your name, the thing you do plus your town. "Mobile groomer Masterton." "Electrician Carterton." Whatever people would actually type.

Then check three things:
✅ Do you show up at all?
✅ Are the phone number and email right?
✅ Does it say where you work and how to book?

Half the businesses I look at have at least one of those wrong. An old number. A closed address. No way to book. People don't ring twice. They just ring the next one.

That's the heart of Getting Found. Not more posting. Just making sure the places people already look are telling the truth.

We're going deeper on this at Ara Hui this Thursday, 15 October, 10am on Google Meet. This is my last reminder before the day. reachdesign.nz/services/ara-hui

What did you find when you searched yourself? 👀

07/10/2026

People ask me why the Koha Session starts at $34 instead of a proper consulting rate. 🌱

Here's the honest answer.

The business owners who need this most are usually the ones with the least room in the budget. They're the ones running on fumes, doing admin at 9pm, telling themselves they'll sort it out when things quieten down. Things never quieten down.

If I priced this the way I could, those people would never book. And they're exactly who I built Reach Design for.

Koha means you give what feels right for where you're at. It starts at $34. One hour, kanohi ki te kanohi or on a call, and you leave with actual next steps. Not a proposal. Not a sales pitch.

Some people pay more. Some pay the $34. Both are welcome here.

If that's you, flick me a message. Let's have a kōrero. 😊

05/10/2026

"I'm not disorganised. I just can't find anything."

That's what a landscaper told me on our first call, and honestly it's one of the truest things anyone's said to me. 👊

Her quotes lived in three places. Some in her email drafts, some in a notebook in the ute, some in her head. Every time a client rang to confirm a price, she had to go hunting.

We built one quote folder. One naming pattern. Date, client, job type. That's the whole system.

She said the best part wasn't the time saved. It was not feeling stupid on the phone anymore.

Small change. Big difference. That's what I love about this mahi.

30/09/2026

Kia ora October 🌱

Clocks have gone forward, the evenings are stretching out, and the Wairarapa is properly green again.

Here's what's coming on the page this month. Quick tips you can use the same day, real stories from real mahi, and a bit of the why behind how I work.

The theme for October is Getting Found. Being visible without burning yourself out doing it. Because most of the business owners I talk to aren't short on skill. They're short on people knowing they exist.

Our next Ara Hui is on that exact kaupapa. Thursday 15 October, 10am to 11:30am on Google Meet. Six seats, $75+GST. Details at reachdesign.nz/services/ara-hui

So tell me. How do most of your new clients find you right now? 👇

27/09/2026

Last Monday of September.
I always find this time of year makes people restless in a good way. You start seeing the year properly. What's worked, what you've just been putting up with.

If you're in that spot, here's what I'd say. Don't wait until you've got a plan. Most people who book a Koha Session with me arrive saying "I don't really know what I need, I just know this isn't working." That's a perfectly good place to start. Actually it's the best one.

One hour. Starts at $34. We map what's actually going on and you leave knowing the next step. No pitch, no proposal, no jargon.

Chaos to clarity. That's the whole kaupapa.

Send me a message if you want to have a kōrero before Christmas creeps up. It always does. 😊

Address

262A Dakins Road, Carterton
Wellington
5887

Telephone

+64211702401

Website

https://reachdesign.nz/

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