Clients often ask us about suppliers for various website related services. Because we work in these circles, we often come across them or have used them ourselves. The list below are just some suppliers that we think stand out in their field and suit our small to medium business clients. 

Important note. We have not tested all those suppliers listed here, so we cannot vouch for the quality of their product or service. We encourage you to do your own research and due diligence to ensure that these are the right suppliers for you....

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Aplus

Lots of SEO companies guarantee Google Search Ranking Results, but most of them are scams. Aplus do guarantee results and we have seen it.
With over 126 New Zealand and International websites, (a number of which are Zeald website)  optimised for Google during the last five years, Aplus have the knowledge and experience you need to get your website ranking higher... Guaranteed. Watch the video testimonial on their homepage of Zeald client Chris Gallagher.
Contact: Gabriel Bradly
Phone:  (09) 448 1188
Location. 6D, 331 Rosedale Rd, Albany, Auckland
Email. gabriel@aplus.net.nz
Webste. www.aplus.net.nz

Business applications

Unleashed Inventory Software

Unleashed is an online inventory management software that connects with your Zeald ecommerce website and Xero accounting system. The Unleashed integration provides accurate and up-to-date inventory records across your website and offline store with accurate accounting data through Xero; all in realtime, and online.
Website. www.unleashedsoftware.com
Email. solution.support@unleashedsoftware.com 
Phone: 64 9 447 1334 

Social Media Management

Mosh

Mosh specialises in helping businesses and brands effectively utilise the power of social media. We'll help you communicate your brand in a real, interactive and engaging way.
Having spent the last few years working with some of NZ's best known corporate brands on their social media strategies, we have come up with Best Practices to share with small to medium businesses that will lead directly to your bottom line. We believe in relationships and results, and will provide you with the tools to make social media an integral part of your overall business strategy. See our Small Business Package.
Contact: Jon
Email: jon@mosh.co.nz
Website: www.facebook.com/TheMoshHouse

 

Big Fish Chicks

Big Fish Chicks is a company that develops and designs Facebook Fan Page strategies particularly with regard to promotions/competitions - great with the change-over to Facebook Timeline. Check out the video on the website for more information about this service.

Contact: Jodie Jelas
Website: www.timelinestrategies.co.nz

Language translation

Blue South

Wherever your market, whatever your technology, Blue South can meet your language translations needs - on time; on budget; professionally. They can translate everything from Software to User Manuals, Product Data Sheets, Marketing Materials and Websites.
Contact. Ruth Sullivan
Website. www.bluesouth.com.au

Web video

Subzero Group

Are you looking for an experienced, creative partner, who can deliver stunning results within your budget & timeline?

Subzero is a creative studio, based in Albany, Auckland. We provide design, commercial photography and video production for print, digital and online media.

Contact. Viivi Ronkko
Website. www.subzerovideo.co.nz
Lovation. Albany, Auckland

Promo-Videos

Videos have the WOW factor! I create Promotional Videos from $99.00 which can be uploaded to Youtube, Websites and Social Sites. We are very affordable and very fast!  I produce the Videos using Professional Reseller Licensed Video Editing Software and I can take images from Screen Shots, Powerpoints, PDF, Websites, Photos and upload Videos into your Promotional Video. 

Contact. Maree Hudson
Website. www.promo-video.net

Real tv

For the past 10 years we've been making high-end award winning television and digital media for other production companies. Now we've formed 'Real', we're making the same quality television and digital media under our own company's name - using this value to answer your company's needs.
Contact. Kim Goodhart
Location. Ponsonby, Auckland
Website. www.real-tv.co.nz

Sarau Media Ltd

We create video advertising to promote businesses online or television; produce short films and documentaries while also providing film crew and locations for international film companies coming to NZ
Contact. Annette Eggers
Location. Moutere, Nelson
Website. www.saraumedia.co.nz

InSite Media

Virtual Studios

Virtual Studios have an automated service, known as Website Telly, that allows you to turn your still photos into your own video online. They also have templates you can use to create your own video by uploading a raw video file in the following formats: AVI, MPG, MPEG, WMV, SIU, MOV, MP4. Like YouTube, the video is hosted with Virtual Studios on their servers.
Website: http://www.websitetelly.com

De Vere Video

De Vere Video Productions was formed in 1991. Its Director, John de Vere, an ardent user of Super 8 film on his African Safaris years earlier, realized that there was indeed life beyond these cameras with a tiny eye piece. de Vere Video Productions has constantly kept abreast with changing technology and is 100% digital in all facets of production.
Contact. John de Vere
Website. www.deverevideo.co.nz

Silverline Media

Video hosting

Zeald does not provide video hosting services, for two reasons; firstly the Zeald servers are not configured to give a satisfactory video playback performance.  Secondly the load that streaming video would put on the Zeald servers could compromise all Zeald sites. So it's best to use one of the options below:

YouTube

YouTube is the most well-known free video hosting company, which is owned by Google. You can upload video of any format and YouTube will convert the media. YouTube is also the second largest search engine behind Google.
Website: www.youtube.com

Vimeo

Vimeo is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share and view videos. It makes an excellent alternative to Youtube. While it may not have as many followers as Youtube, its followers are very loyal with a "designer or indie film focus"
Website: www.vimeo.com

e-cast

BrightCove

Audio hosting

SoundCloud

SoundCloud lets you move music fast & easy. The platform takes the daily hassle out of receiving, sharing & distributing music for artists, record labels & other music professionals.
Website. www.soundcloud.com

Photography

Images in Space (Product Photography)

Images in Space specialise in commercial product photography.  They can also do product effects e.g. 'Image Spin'
Website. www.imagesinspace.co.nz

George Passmore Photography

George Passmore is a commercial photographer, specialising in Advertising & Marketing campaigns, Portraiture and Design.
Website. www.georgepassmore.com

Flash animation

Note: Apple devices such as the i-phone and i-pad cannot display flash animation.  We recommend you consider carefully whether flash is an appropriate choice for your website

Infinity Web Creative

Design and develop across all digital mediums including websites, iPhone/iPad apps, web based applications, interactive kiosks, and rich internet application.
Website. www.infinityweb.co.nz

Tanya Gray

Freelance Developer
Website. tanya-g.dmlive.co.nz

Catherine Chi

Freelance Developer
Website. www.catherinechi.com

Convert PDF's to animated flash page turner

Issuu

Provide a free ad supported version or try Issuu Pro 14 day free trial   
Zeald client examples. Charlton Jewellers (paid version), NZ kayak magazine & localmatters.co.nz
Website. issuu.com/business/features

Zinio )

managed by Mercury Digital  in New Zealand, based in Auckland. Zinio take publishers’ print files, and create a digital version of each magazine, host on the Zinio newsstand, and manage the ecommerce via the Zinio site.

Publishers own the content, set their own pricing levels, and opt to enable sales of back issues, single issues, and or subscriptions.

Links from publishers masthead sites can go directly to each titles offer page on Zinio. See the NZ House & Garden offer page as an example.

Readers who purchase magazines through Zinio have the option of reading them on the device of their choice, and NZ titles are currently supported on PC, Mac, iPad, and Android Tablets.

Costs include.

1. Production of each issue (by negotiation)
2. Delivery per issue per reader US$0.25
3. Credit Card transaction costs are passed through to publisher at cost (typically 2.5-4% depending on card company)
4. We remit a negotiated percentage of nett sales with each publisher.

Website. nz.zinio.com

Zmags

Sell annual accounts, each licence represents an edition. The editions can be any amount of pages an include any supported feature with no extra costs. Catalogues, newsletters, brochures, flyers, DM’s, magazines, in fact any type of collateral will work with this software.
The contracts with Zmags are 1 year contracts and the costs are based upon how many publications you would do over the year.
It is accessed on line with a username and password. From here you are able to upload the specific PDF’s and add a number of features.
Website. www.zmags.com/products

The following table compares a number of the top Stock photography suppliers. We have rated each supplier out of 10, 10 being excellent and 1 not so good.

We have tested each supplier for the selection and range by using 2 popular search phrases "New Zealand" and business person"

Stock photography supplier	Overall rating	Selection	Photo Quality rating	Pricing structure
www.istockphoto.com	9 Great price Excellent quality images Great selection (The best selection of illustrations)	9	8	Average US$1 for a low quality web graphic and $US7 for a scalable vector illustration Payment via a credit system
www.sxc.hu www.stockxpert.com	7 Great price Good quality Good selection	7	5	Range from Free using the www.sxc.hu catalogue and average US$1 via a credit system
www.inmagine.com	6 Good selection Good quality images Reasonable pricing Good size comp images without watermark	6	7	Average of $NZ65 - $NZ150 for low res screen images
www.photos.com	7 Great price Good quality Good selection	5	7	1 month US$139.95   3 Months US$249.95   6 Months US$349.95   1 Year US$599.95
www.gettyimages.com	7 Very expensive but very high quality Great selection	8	9	Combination of royalty free and royalty images Range from US$100 - US$500
http://pro.corbis.com/	7 Very expensive but high quality Great selection	7		Combination of royalty free and royalty images Range from US$100 - US$500
www.bigstockphoto.com	6 Good price Good selection Good quality	8	6	Buy ANY photo as low as $1.48 (Buy credits – Discount oferred for bulk credit purchase)
www.shutterstock.com	5 Good price Average selection Average quality	5	5	Subscription model - 1 Month -25 per day US $139 3 Months -25 per day US $395   6 Months -25 per day US $749   1 Year -25 per day US $1359
www.photonewzealand.co.nz	5 Very expensive Great NZ selection	5	7	Rights protected only – quoted manually by account manager

The following table compares a number of the top Stock photography suppliers. We have rated each supplier out of 10, 10 being excellent and 1 not so good.

We have tested each supplier for the selection and range by using 2 popular search phrases "New Zealand" and business person"

Stock photography supplier	Overall rating	Selection	Photo Quality rating	Pricing structure
www.istockphoto.com	9 Great price Excellent quality images Great selection (The best selection of illustrations)	9	8	Average US$2 for a low quality web graphic and $US20 for a scalable vector illustration Payment via a credit system
www.sxc.hu www.stockxpert.com	7 Great price Good quality Good selection	7	5	Range from Free using the www.sxc.hu catalogue and average US$1 via a credit system
www.inmagine.com	6 Good selection Good quality images Reasonable pricing Good size comp images without watermark	6	7	Average of $NZ65 - $NZ150 for low res screen images
www.photos.com	7 Great price Good quality Good selection	5	7	1 month US$139.95   3 Months US$249.95   6 Months US$349.95   1 Year US$599.95
www.gettyimages.com	7 Very expensive but very high quality Great selection	8	9	Combination of royalty free and royalty images Range from US$100 - US$500
http://pro.corbis.com/	7 Very expensive but high quality Great selection	7		Combination of royalty free and royalty images Range from US$100 - US$500
www.bigstockphoto.com	6 Good price Good selection Good quality	8	6	Buy ANY photo as low as $1.48 (Buy credits – Discount oferred for bulk credit purchase)
www.shutterstock.com	5 Good price Average selection Average quality	5	5	Subscription model - 1 Month -25 per day US $139 3 Months -25 per day US $395   6 Months -25 per day US $749   1 Year -25 per day US $1359
www.photonewzealand.co.nz	5 Very expensive Great NZ selection	5	7	Rights protected only – quoted manually by account manager