Real Human

Marketing for Real People, by Real Humans

I'm Jo, a website and marketing consultant based in Northland. I find what's holding your business back, come up with the fix, make it happen, and keep your work coming in.

My Three Questions

Your website is usually the first thing people see, and everything else in your marketing should be bringing people back to it. So it has three questions to answer.

Who are you?
What do you stand for?
Why should I believe in you?

If it can't answer those, it isn't doing its job, and every ad, post and flyer is sending people somewhere that lets them down. I can fix that.

Real Human

The Full Package

Find the problems

I start by looking at what's really going on: your website, your numbers, your customers, and what happens when someone gets in touch.

Come up with the fix

This is the part I love. Ideas, a plan, and a clear reason behind each one.

Make it real

A new website, new words, photos and video, a new brand if it needs one. I don't hand you a plan and walk away.

Keep it coming

Ongoing marketing that keeps the enquiries and sales coming in, with honest reporting on what's working.

What I do

Why a real human

Artificial Intelligence is a brilliant tool and I use it every day. It helps me think faster and try more ideas.

But it can't stand on your shop floor with a camera, get the real story out of you, or notice that nobody's answering the phone. It doesn't know which idea is right for your business, and it won't be the one you ring when something goes wrong. That part's me.

Some of my work

Barelegs Sauna

Barelegs Sauna
My own business

A wood-fired sauna in Ngunguru that my wife Kayleigh and I run. I did the name, the brand, the website, the booking system and the SEO.

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Kitchen Studio

Kitchen Studio
National marketing, 2018 to 2023

I ran the marketing for a national kitchen retailer and found the reports were counting browsers as leads. After fixing that, leads grew 126% over three years on flat ad spend.

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Fortus Safety NZ

Fortus Safety NZ
Brand overhaul

I reinvented the brand, with a new voice, catalogues and signage, and oversaw the build of their new website.

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Tyrepower

Tyrepower
Two local stores

The ads were all price promos and nobody was looking. I put the team in front of the camera and sent 2,439 people to the store page at 88 cents a click.

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Jo Dickman - Real Human

About me

I've been in marketing for 20 years, ten of them running my own web business, and have a few awards under my belt. I'm based on the Tūtūkākā Coast and work with businesses anywhere. Auckland's a drive, and anywhere further is a flight.

More about me

Your Next Step...

Heat Map

Get a free first look

Send me your website. I'll look over it, along with your Google listing and any ads I can see, and come back within three working days with what I found and where I'd start.
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Fire Starter

Book a 15-minute chat

Tell me what's going on with your business and I'll tell you whether I'm the right person to help. If I'm not, I'll say so.

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