Welcome to Aikenstix

We offer smart thinking in a changing world – We’ve worked through change propelled by the internet and technology since 1991 and helped companies adapt and grow their business. We’re recognised experts at finding new ways to reach customers through smart ways of communication and use of technology.

There are a lot of self-acclaimed experts out there who will throw around buzzwords and pressure you that you simply must be on twitter, facebook and hundreds of other “social media” platforms. We have pioneered social media and mobile solutions for major business but we won’t bamboozle you with buzzwords. You tell us what your business needs to grow and we will offer our advice on the smart use of the new trends and ideas out there that may be suitable and more importantly how you can progress this. But it may be, that you don’t need every new fad out there. That’s why you can trust us. We’re not going to sell you anything you don’t need.

We help businesses understand the way the world is changing and where suitable, how to apply change to your business in the way you do things or how you add to your services.

These are tough times – and you need to ensure any change you do is financially realistic and measurable.

Change can be scary and in the too hard basket when you’re focusing on the bottom line. It’s not wise though to ignore learning about new things out there that may help your business survive and grow, keep your customers loyal and find new ones. new ways of doing things and approaching your customers can result not just in growth but in savings but it’s also easy to get it wrong and damage your brand.

There are many practical positive ways we can help – Among them:

• We can take a cold hard look at your current website offerings, review them and then recommend strategies you could adopt to make it better for where you business is heading
• We can show you how new communication strategies like twitter are impacting business and how business is adopting them.
• We can run seminars/ sessions for your key teams on new aspects of Business or Trends or Technology. This can at least bring your teams up to speed and start an internal conversation about whether there is something there for your company
• We can help build successful strategies and empower people in your company with the information they need to use them.
• We can hold your hand through change needed, be on call and monitor progress
• We can act as a sounding board for ideas

Overall, Aikenstix can best be described as helping business to understand and adapt to change / trends in the world by applying smart ideas and thinking to how they approach consumers and the wider business economy.

We can give Your Business a type of Adaption Intelligence™

Drop us an email via the form on the right.

Nigel Horrocks has been on the Internet since the very early 90s, been a Net evangelist and award-winning commentator, was the award-winning editor of NZ NetGuide magazine during its heyday and has helped businesses through change. He was one of the first to join Telecom’s Xtra project for its first 16 months and helped introduce community forums and blogs and social media to APN and been an internet and media consultant for his co-owned company Good & Novak Ltd.

Justin Matthews has been involved in the Internet and related fields for over 15 years. He has architected content management systems, design and managed an international surf magazine, built and run three businesses in web and mobile, and help shaped the look of display news in New Zealand. Recent interest have been in the mobile UI and development, especially in the area of new content and business approaches for this fast emerging market.