Profile & Philosophy
David Hare
David Hare, owner of Lifepod Ltd, is an award winning professional photographer, having acquired NZIPP status (New Zealand Institute of Professional Photographers) during 1994 – 2000, having pursued a successful career in photography, sales, graphic design and publishing, he has successfully consulted for a number of Internet based business strategies that have required extensive project management, branding and technical design.
In addition to continuing in his chosen fields of expertise, he enjoys providing business mentoring and life coaching services to small and medium enterprise.
Taking on roles, particularly as a consultant, is all about comprehensive, professional support for the business owner – releasing them to spend more time with family or business development.
It’s about delivering entrepreneurial projects to market – in person if need be.
It’s about providing the necessary hands on work and the day-to-day chores that any organisation needs for reformation, regeneration and re-engineering; to become the very best it can be in the market place.
Digital Art Director : Technical and Marketing : Strategist
Managing entrepreneurial projects from concept to TTM (Take To Market).
Planning and directing all in-house and outsourced technical and marketing solutions
Business management.
Client management.
Art directing the design of websites and online / offline marketing collateral.
Experienced management of remote / internationally based website development and online / offline marketing collateral.
Experienced in provisioning internet services.
Experienced, award winning professional photographer.
Experienced print designer and publisher.
Strategic business planning and execution
Photography
Art Direction
Copywriting, scriptwriting and editing
Internet Technologies and its associated marketing and ‘cloud’ services
Life coaching
Financial planning
Fatherhood

Lifepod delivers critical and timely advice by assisting your business with strategic leadership and hands on management. By addressing key areas of concern, Lifepod can facilitate change and improve your business prospects including encouraging your personal life goal achievements. By introducing new points of view and facilitating any required action needed to see change take place.
Lifepod helps take the heat out of a crisis situation, improve the chances of success when endurance levels are under pressure and provide strength and control to ensure ongoing prosperity.
Redefining your Point Of Difference and discovering new ways to acquire customers within relevant niche markets is an exciting and motivating opportunity for business growth. Lifepod researches and implements ways that best suit your company’s marketing requirements. Discover just how many new niche market opportunities exist within your own client’s database alone!
Reignite existing sales channels with your company’s Point Of Difference. ‘The same-old-same-old’ gravy-train business runs the risk of been outsmarted by more aggressive market players, seriously impacting your business. Lifepod researches and develops a new marketing strategy designed to breathe new life into your customer relationships, including how they will be managed, when they will be offered new opportunities to purchase from your company and what products and services they will have access to.
Teaching mature business and supply-chain systems some new tricks is critical to ensuring business success. If a company is prepared to take the Change Management journey, Lifepod can help your company reach new levels of success by introducing improved customer service practices, improve back office management, aid in the improvement of staff moral by replacing antiquated business processes with state of the art systems and technology and develop opportunities for your company to improve staff retention rates.
Online Marketing must be included in the holistic planning of your business. Public relation launches, media releases, product launches, ongoing content updates, user-driven content, social networking and traditional marketing collateral all need careful planning, time-lining, project leadership and measurement if maximum return on investment is to be achieved.