Pricing
ManawaTech is supported by the local tech industry. It keeps us focussed on meeting our aims.
Plan | Company Size | Subscription |
---|---|---|
Bronze | 1-3 tech staff | $300/year |
Silver | 4-12 tech staff | $1500/year |
Gold | 13+ tech staff | $3000/year |
All plans are an annual subscription payable from the date you you join, automatically renewing on the 1 year anniversary. Prices exclude GST. Only companies can join. Everything for individuals is free.
Member Benefits
Your subscription provides direct benefits to your company. It also helps build and support the local tech community
- Recruiting support
- Local Salary Survey (October)
- Local Developer Happiness Survey (June)
- CV Database access (daily email of new profiles uploaded)
- Job listing promotion (we repost your jobs on our site)
- Contractors to help you fill short term gaps
- Direct referrals (we send you CVs or people)
- Your company listing on our site (people match their skills to your tags)
- Summer of Tech access
- Staff professional development opportunities
- Monthly meetups: attend or speak at
- TechWeek events (8 locally in 2022)
- Mentoring program
- Skills assessment tool
- IT Professionals promote career length professionalism
- Staff with downtime? Offer their skills in the Contractors database to broaden their industry awareness
- CV database: when its time to move on, we help them stay local. They may come back.
- Brand Promotion
- Detailed company listing on our site: helps people buy local
- Search engine optimised links to your web site from ours.
- Your logo in our email newsletters, posters, presentations
- Referrals: people ask us who can help them
- Your story told wherever we go to whoever will listen (eg PNCC economic development committee)
- TechWeek opportunities (run or sponsor an event)
- Your own event: got an interesting idea? We can help find an audience and venue.
- Be proud of your support for the local tech community: add a ManawaTech membership badge to your web site.
- Industry Awareness
- Monthly email newsletter with locally relevant info
- LinkedIn page with locally focussed news, events, opportunities
- Direct emails for specific opportunities
- Members Only Content and research
- Random opportunities
- Research project support: exit surveys (Margo Lawrence), regional export capability (Aidan)
- Young Chamber connections
- Startup ecosystem support: tech co-founder database
- Many others (some at early stage we can't talk about yet)
- Support, advice, connections to get things done in the region
- Building the future
- School trophies + prizes
- Resources for schools: 123Tech, Shadow Tech, local events
- UCOL scholarships
- Finding speakers for Massey lectures
- Support for internship placements, industry projects
- Finding site visits for Chiasma and other student groups
- Regional Economic development
- Adding your voice to our push on local government, tertiary education providers, national bodies
- Showing "mass" to attract big brands and events here
- Ecosystem Map: How do we fit together? What is our regional speciality?
- Physical Map: Where are we all?
- Regional Statistics
- Skills Profile Heat Map showing the top skills in the region
- Building community through many conversations
- Celebrating your success (sharing stories widely)
- Regional promotion through stories
Your voice is added to the others in the region, which helps us all get the attention that once voice alone could not get. It helps us to gradually "lift the tide" so that everyone benefits.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will my staff get poached?
A more liquid / fluid employment market is a sign of a healthy tech ecosystem: proof that ManawaTech is successful. Good people are hard to find and are in high demand. Software people need to keep learning to stay fresh and on the edge of their game. If they have been with you for a few years, they may have hit the limit of how far they can grow and be looking for a new challenge. How can we take a longer term career view of our staff? If you let them go and cheer them on, maybe they will come back in a few years with new skills that will really make a difference to your product or profitability. Keeping them local means they are still here "in the pool". If you have an great work environment with interesting challenges, it will draw people in. Word will spread. As we work alongside each other and become more connected as a tech ecosystem, trust will build. Maybe there are other options if another company needs them for a short time, like a secondment or a sabbatical?
What is my subscription spent on?
ManawaTech is like the plastic thingy that holds a six pack together. In years past, we had many great companies changing the world in their own way, but not much connection between them. We started ManawaTech because it's something the local tech community wanted, but no one had the time to actually make it happen. Your financial support pays the wages and admin overheads of running a small non-profit organisation. We do our best to keep it lean, and to stay close to the ground so we can listen well.
Take a look at out Statistics page for the easily measurable outcomes. Much of our work is intangible: communication, fostering networks, building people and relationships.
Who is in charge?
Currently we have a few part time staff with close accountability to a board that meets monthly. Members are welcome to attend the AGM and will have opportunity to join the board if nominated and voted in by your peers.
How can I help?
Thanks for your enthusiasm!
- If you know of tech companies who aren't members, spread the word. The more we have, the better / bigger / more attractive we look as a combined ecosystem.
- We'd love to hear your success stories and publish them through as many channels as we can find.
- Add a ManawaTech membership badge to your web site, which helps all of us with search engine optimisation
- If you are facing challenges, maybe we can find someone in our network who will know how to help.
- Lending a hand at events is always welcome.
- Join the board and offer your unique perspective.
- Sign up as a mentor to help the next generation up.
- Follow and Like our stuff on LinkedIn to help get the story out
- Add a membership badge to your web site to help more people find us