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LDS Social

Our Services

We love to see new businesses grow with the confidence that good design has to offer. Based in Wellington, with clients around the world – we offer the whole branding package! From logos to business cards, HTML email to web design – and everything in-between.

Please note:
As of 1 February 2012 our hourly rate will change to NZ$55 per hour. This will effect the regular and contracted rate for both HTML email campaigns and social media updates. This rate does not apply for Our Talented Friends who (if required) will provide you with a separate quote. Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information.

Pricing Indications

Not only are we professional, we’re also affordable. Every project has different requirements and prices will vary in accordance with the time and resources it takes to complete them. However we want to give you an idea of what it will cost to complete your vision, so here are a few pricing indications.  For more information, please read our Terms.

We also offer packages!

Minimum Charge

Our minimum charge is $55.

Branding

Branding & Logo Design

Choose from up to three designs based on your style and requirements. Final artwork is provided to you in various formats for a wide range of applications.

Pricing indication: NZ$440

Stationery

Business Card

Choose from up to three designs based on your branding. Final artwork is provided to you (or your printer) in a print ready PDF.

Pricing indication: Business Card: NZ$220 (Pricing does not include printing.)

Letterhead, Complimentary Slip or Envelope

Choose from up to three designs based on your branding and business card artwork. Final artwork will be provided to you (or your printer) in a print ready PDF.  Letterhead artwork can be made available for online use if requested.  

Pricing indication: NZ$110 (Pricing does not include printing.)

Email Signature (Graphic)

Choose from up to three designs based on your branding. Final artwork is provided to you in various formats for a wide range of email clients.

Pricing indication: NZ$110

PowerPoint Templates

Choose from up to three designs based on your branding.

Pricing indication: Price available upon request.  Brief required.

Web Design

Self Managed WordPress CMS or Static HTML

Choose from up to three designs based on your branding. Choose from a static HTML/CSS website or the increasingly popular self-managed WordPress CMS site (such as this site!).

WordPress is perfect for those of you who require editing access to your site. It has an easy to use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor that even the most non-technical user can master in no time at all! WordPress is the perfect blogging site.

We will:

    • design and build: HTML/CSS styled homepage template;
    • design and build: HTML/CSS styled content page template;
    • design and build: HTML/CSS styled contact page template;
    • layout and styling of finalised site content: text, images and documents; and
    • favicon design (the wee image that sits next to the address bar in your browser).

We also include:

    • Google Analytics (for detailed statistics about your site’s visitors – emailed monthly);
    • Google Sitemap (to help improve your Google ranking) and URL Submission; and
    • Search Engine Optimization advice if required.

Ask us about web/email hosting and domain based (yourname@yourcompanyname.co.nz) email.

Pricing indication: From NZ$1250.  Brief required.

HTML Email

Lipstick Mail Account

Sign up for a Lipstick Mail account to create and send email campaigns, manage your subscriber lists and analyse your campaign stats. We will even give you a piece of code to add to your site, so that your visitors can sign up to your newsletter/emails without leaving your website.

Pricing indication: FREE account setup for Lipstick Design clients.

Beautiful HTML Email Design

Let us create a beautifully themed HTML email for you to send to your clients using our very own Lipstick Mail.

Pricing indication: Design, Typeset & Test: $330

Template Conversion for DIY Email Campaigns

Once we design your HTML email, we can convert the design into a template for you to use at anytime in our easy to use online DIY email campaign editor.

Pricing indication: NZ$110.

Regular Campaigns?

Let us take care of the typesetting for you.  Email through your text and images and we’ll prepare that gorgeous HTML email using your DIY Template.

Pricing indication: NZ$165 or $135 contracted rate.

Our contracted rate is payable in advance for an agreed maximum number of campaigns within a set period of time.

Social Media Setup

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

Take advantage of social media marketing. We can set up and customise your Facebook business page, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts for you. Think it sounds like a lot to manage? Think again. We’ll set it up so that you only have to post to one account, which will automatically populate the rest. Have a blog? Even better, post to your blog and your social media accounts will automatically update and link back to your site.

Pricing indication: NZ$220

Social Media and Website Updates

Website, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn Updates

Need to update your website/social media regularly but can’t find the time to do it?  Email us your updates and we’ll do it all for you.

Pricing indication: NZ$55 p/hour casual rate or $45 p/hour contracted rate.

Our contracted rate is payable in advance for an agreed maximum number of hours within a set period of time.

Email and Web Hosting

Web & Email Hosting

We are not a website hosting company and so we do not offer or include technical support for website hosting, email or other services relating to website hosting. However, we can setup and maintain a web hosting account for you with our preferred third-party hosting providers.

Pricing indication: NZ$120 p/year

Need a domain name (yourcompany.co.nz)? We recommend Domains4Less for affordable .co.nz and .com domains.

Email Setup (yourname@yourcompany.co.nz)

Google Apps!

Save time and money with Google-hosted domain based email, IM and calendar. Boost productivity with Google-hosted documents.

Google Apps are domain based online collaboration tools and include:

    • Domain based Gmail – e.g. yourname@yourcompanyname.co.nz
    • Google calendar – organise your schedule and share events with colleagues.
    • Google Docs – share online documents, presentations, and spreadsheets.
    • and much more!

Includes 25GB of storage and BlackBerry and Microsoft Outlook interoperability!
Requires configuration access to your DNS MX Records.

Pricing indication: NZ$110

Project Management

Allow us to Coordinate

LDS works with Copywriters, Editors, Merchandisers, Illustrators, Printers and Programmers and is happy to manage a team based project for you.

Pricing indication: NZ$65 p/hour

 

Final artwork will be sent to you by email or Dropbox.  For more information on our conditions of service, please read our Terms.