Our Work
Some of our stories and other content
Talk to Sweet Orange if your goal is to influence and inspire with word power. We’re affordable, fun to work with, and we’ll get you the results you are after.
Celebrity Chef’s Cocktails
Kiwi celebrity chef Simon Gault turned from the kitchen to the bar as he launched a fabulous gourmet cocktail range during lockdown. For Gault’s Cocktails, Sweet Orange produced the words for the website including cocktail descriptions, and a press release to let the world know about his mission to revolutionise cocktail-making at home. Get transported to your favourite holiday destination without leaving your deck! Because… who doesn’t love a margarita or piña colada?
Helping school kids thrive
Cluey Learning is an Australasian platform that offers personalised English and Maths tutoring programmes for children in schoolyears 3-11. We work with them on their blog, covering topics from how the Māori language is taught in schools through to homeschooling in New Zealand, and from Tips for Teachers to Diversity in New Zealand schools. You can find the articles here.
Blog & eDM for Millwoods
Millwoods began as an Australian kids’ shoe brand, creating high-quality leather shoes focusing on style, comfort and durability. It wasn’t long before mums craved the same style and comfort as their kids. Owner Jane headed back to the design board to create a range of stylish, fashion forward and ultra-comfortable women’s shoes. To give her beautiful customers a little extra, she decided to work with Sweet Orange and share articles on fashion, styling and – shoes! You can read them in The Millwoods Journal.
Designed for Battle
Sabre Tactical is a veteran-owned company based in Hamilton, New Zealand. This highly skilled team designs, develops, and manufactures a wide range of high-end textile gear. Their products are used by Military, Law Enforcement, K9 Units, the Private Security Sector and more recently the Hunting & Shooting community. We love their brand and their service, and we gave them a hand with their website content. We regularly write new product descriptions for their innovative, high-quality gear.
Featured in Woman’s Day
A Sweet Orange press release written for Karmyn Wynyard and pitched in the right places resulted in a 4-page Real Life feature for her and her business Kawacure in New Zealand’s No. 1 weekly magazine. We know how to get your story noticed and have fantastic media contacts. The cost for a fantatic press release and follow up is less than you may think, so if you are ready to tell your story… contact us today!
Diamonds and a best friend
Cleanliness is good for you
Working with this team from Auckland to get the website and a blog for their cleaning and home organising company Clutter Monkey up and running was so much fun. We love clients that are motivated, enthusiastic, and know what they want! This business saves their clients lots of time, which is essentially what we do, too. They use professional cleaning and organising services to make people’s lives easier, and we use our copywriting skills.
Things to do in Whakatāne
Beautiful Whakatāne is one of the sunniest towns in New Zealand, frequently topping the record of sunshine hours in a year, which makes it perfect to enjoy adventures outdoors and take in the stunning scenery as well as keeping your body moving. It’s also the home of an amazing massage therapy clinic, Body Mechanics on George St, and for them we write a monthly blog. If you’re out and about exploring the region, allow some time for a fantastic massage, too. You can thank us later.
Look at my bosom buddy
When writing for the NZ Herald and working as the online editor for the Bay of Plenty Times, Martine had a weekly column in the paper about all that was weird and wonderful online. Although this one was written in 2014, it is still her best read and most talked about opinion piece
Exceptional coach & healer
There is a lot of fluff out there around Mindset Coaching and Energy Healing, and the last thing you need from your coach is BS. Deb Griffiths keeps it real. As a specialist in both healing and coaching, Deb’s purpose is to uplift, empower and inspire others so they can reach their full potential in all areas of life. We love working with her!
Law Shop with a difference
This Rotorua law firm with an awesome team of nearly all women provides legal advice in a holistic way, without confusing jargon, and at a fair price. We took care of their website content, newsletters, articles and the huge news/blog section. It is full of interesting info and you can
Why we love Tauranga
Let’s talk about intimacy
For Remember July, an online adult store based in Sydney, Australia, we write about sexual wellness and less traditional relationships . This Journal is an adult platform with a difference as the aim is to create a more open understanding of sexual wellness. The online store is a stylish place for people to explore and discover modern sex toys in a beautiful, empowering, and informative way.
Discover it here…
Hawes Building Solutions
This friendly family-owned construction company is a trusted name in the Bay of Plenty. The team thrives on providing excellent service and workmanship to their clients and take care of design, construction and project management for residential or commercial construction projects. We took care of the words for their new website.
The Adelphi Project
This Auckland-based HR business’ ultimate vision is to guide individuals towards professional wellbeing. They help with professional development and guidance or with representation and advocacy for people who are in a conflict situation at work. Like, us, they work with people of all ages, abilities, ethnicities, cultures, faiths, and genders with the utmost respect for each and everyone’s individual story. That’s a great fit with Sweet Orange, and we’ve enjoyed helping them with their content.
Story of a mother, artist, and cancer survivor
Food, must-dos & reviews
Saving the Bean Bag
As the world starts making more environmentally conscious choices, there finally is a sustainably sourced alternative bean bag fill. Made from plants, EcoBeans’ compostable biopolymer product keeps its shape beautifully. It’s non-toxic, an eco-friendly alternative for plastic bean bag fill, and suitable for bean bags of all shapes and sizes. We’ve created their website and took care of 90 Days of Social Media content.
NZ’s premiere Hunting & Outdoors event
Since 2013 until ownership changed in October 2020, we’ve taken care of all marketing and media for the Sika Show, New Zealand’s largest 2-day event for the hunting community. More than 6000 Kiwi hunters came to Taupo each year to visit the show and enjoy the competitions, taxidermy, and the latest innovations in hunting and outdoor-related products and services. In 2018, the show was covered on the national news twice.