About Netco

Netco is a Wellington-based Web design, build and hosting company, established in 1995.

Its principal is John Spavin who started netco in 1995 after putting up a Web site for the then Prime Minister, Jim Bolger. John spent 25 years as a television journalist, freelance writer, Beehive speech writer, author and PC nut (Amstrad, DOS then Windows - Apple was always too grasping for me to be able to afford a Mac) before Netco sprung up.

Netco provides two great bonuses for John: he is able to earn a living from what had been his hobby and he shares work with son, Daniel.

Daniel, the brighter of the pair, lived in the South of France for a year in his late teens as an AFS exchange student so his French swear words are extremely fluent. He also received a Bachelor of Science in computer science and a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration in info systems from Victoria University of Wellington so he knows his on-line onions.

 

Charges (ex G.S.T.)

Web build

Website HTML build, maintenance:

Design, HTML, consulting $145 per hour

Database, content-management

Database:

Database and content management back end work $145 per hour

Writing

Press release:

$325

Articles:

Written from supplied dope sheet or bullet point list $0.55 cents per word

Written from my own research/interviewing $1.05 per word.

Video voice-over:

By negotiation

Web page copy:

Written from supplied dope sheet or bullet point list $100 per page

Written from my own research/interviewing $300 per page.

On Web sites Netco designs and/or builds - 20% discount on rates.