What is Creative Hotpot?

Hi, thanks for visiting our website.

We are communication experts and have been responsible for launching, developing and/or nurturing many of New Zealand's most well known and much loved brands. We are dedicated to generating thought provoking strategic and creative solutions for clients, coming up with answers to client issues in non-traditional ways. We pride ourselves on building powerful, relevant, well-loved brands and dig deep to find communication solutions that deliver results.

Creative HotPot draws from a pool of senior, ex-major advertising agency and/or ex-client personnel who are now enjoying a better way of working, which we believe means better results for our clients - we deliver the big agency expertise, without the big agency baggage.  And the way we are structured means we can be as expansive or as contained as you require, and no matter which way you choose to work with us, you can be rest assured that the key personnel allocated to your business will remain constant

We deliberately contain the number of clients we work with so that we can put more time and energy into each of them. We prefer quality to quantity and, as part of that, consider every job a tasty job  ensuring that we make time to apply the same energy levels to the little jobs as we do the bigger, longer-term campaigns. However clients must accept the need for a smart strategy, agree to work to the discipline of a tight, focused brief and believe in the value of a great idea.

Creative HotPot considers itself a challenger brand , acts like one and will encourage clients to do the same, which we know can initially push some clients beyond their personal comfort levels. But tougher economic times require even braver, smarter thinking - and invariably those prepared to make the call, have profited handsomely. The original launches of V, g-force, Chef Legends, Greentree International and CottonSofts are great examples of that, cleverly making each look and feel a lot bigger than their original marketing budgets initially appeared to promise.

"Who's in the Pot?"

Me, of course! My background is that of Writer, Art Director, Creative Director and Agency Owner and I've been performing strategic and creative miracles at some of the biggest and best agencies in New Zealand and Australia for longer than I care to remember. In that time I've enjoyed creating advertising campaigns that clients liked and consumers loved, with many of them winning 'advertising effectiveness' and 'creativity' awards.

But back in 1998 I decided to peel away and set up my own boutique communication business, determined to help clients that were struggling to get the attention and help they deserved. Turning David-style marketing budgets into really clever and highly effective Goliath-style campaigns is my point of difference and my reason for being.

"But wait, there's much more!"

Creative HotPot looks to call on its wide network of the best available strategic and creative talent, specifically selected for their particular expertise  you'd be surprised who is out there and just how many of them we are connected to.

Thank you for your interest in visiting us online. I understand that everyone needs their marketing budgets to work harder and to get an even better indication of what I could do for your business, take a look at the work samples and client testimonials within this site. These will further demonstrate that Creative HotPot has the expertise and the passion to assist you in making a real difference to the communication component (and marketing budget) of your business too.