Customer Spotlight: Cabin Fever

In this weeks customer spotlight we’ve talked to one of our lovely New Zealand customers Cabin Fever…

Cabin Fever is a creative design studio based in Lake Hawea, New Zealand, focussed on the production of competitive and excellent solutions for your business. Utilising the latest technology in combination with a broad business experience, we can develop original marketing tools or take something that is already good and turn it into something special.

Because of their location I couldn’t go meet them in person (which is unfortunate because Lake Hawea is a beautiful place), but we’ve kept in touch with Phone, Skype and Email.

What does your company do?

Design cool stuff

What services do you provide?

Branding, Graphic Design, Web Design, Packaging, Marketing, Advertising and Research – and top-notch cups of tea.

How do you differentiate yourself from your competitors?

LOW PROFILE with a varied, robust and deeply loyal client base that we have been quite selective with and they have worked hard to find us.

Take very good care of our clients and our contractors and suppliers.  Respect and care is the foundation of everything we do.

What’s the back-story of your company? How/when/why was it founded?

Dave and I came to NZ in 2000 knowing we wanted to start a design company that took care of the smallest to the biggest we could sustain within our personal vision – which is to run a small company well.  No desire to take over the world and grow for growths sake.  We’re in it for the long haul – surround ourselves with good people to do good things.  You don’t choose to live in Lake Hawea and then take over the world.

What’s your latest piece of work?

Are you joking?  Latest pieces – umm – we’re really busy so there’s a bunch going out there…

If you could give other companies in your space one piece of advice, what would it be?

Run your small business well – and never loose sight of your responsibilities to your ‘people’ – have a mantra and stick hard and fast to it – not always easy to do in this fluid and changeable world but when times of trouble come you still stand up straight and tall and the good times are just that – good.

Any exciting work coming up?

Yes – always have exciting work coming up.

You’re obviously a ProWorkflow customer, why did you choose it over competitors?

Kiwi-made but for the big wide world. User friendly, hugely customizable, visionary, forward thinking, well priced  – had all the SaaS bells and whistles and promised good support.

How do you use it in your company?

PWF is the quiet companion that just ‘runs’ the ship in the background. It’s the centre of the business in that we can get on with being creative while PWF gets on with being organized and dependable.  It’s the HUB.  Everything revolves around this one place – for a control freak clients it’s tight security with total transparency and for scatter-brained creatives it’s a guiding light when you need it.  It’s Central Government with user-managed two-way doors.  No smoke and mirrors.

What has ProActive software been like to deal with?

A 100% joy!  A beautiful thing. Never invades and tries to be the rock star.  Stands up and shouts if I want it to or just humbly makes my life, my contractors, suppliers and my clients life easy-peasy.  I love making time to find new ways to tweak and refine the way it works for us. It makes us look good to all who I put it front of.  In a bizarre way I wish I had a HUGE company so I could really spin it’s wheels! 

What do you think of our new blog?

Great. Good idea.  And just to show that I actually do read it – welcome Lara.  Nice to talk to you the other day.

What would you like to see us post about?

PWF tips, Blogging tips, business refinement, new SaaS trends, Kiwi / Global companies like mine.

Any final words?

Am I your biggest fan or what!  Keep on doing what you are doing. You have something special here – don’t mess with that.  Like I said – it’s a beautiful thing!

Thanks so much!

A big thank-you to Georgie from Cabin Fever for letting me bug her with my questions!

Cabin Fever ProWorkflow Testimonial

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