What is purple sneakers?

A mini marketing Swiss army knife

Purple Sneakers is NZ’s smallest marketing and strategy agency. We can be freelancers, contractors, consultants, or a pocket-sized creative agency. While tiny, we have a number of areas of practice:

• Marketing & strategy contracting

• Wholesale work for agencies

• Copywriting

• Creative / content / design work

• Marketing & strategy consulting

• Beverage industry consulting

Pint-sized but powerful

Purple Sneakers has pretty much no overheads: no fancy offices, no account managers or receptionists, and no expensive layers between you and the ideas and effort you’re paying for. We're a one man band in a spare room, we work fast, and we’re super easy to deal with.

Purple Sneakers exists to help you out with whatever marketing problem you have, and because we’re little, we don’t cost a bomb, but we still pack a punch.

PS No job is too small: we’re here to help with whatever you need, and you can rent us by the hour.

who is purple sneakers?

My name is Dave Pearce, and I’m an experienced senior marketing and strategy professional.

I’ve worked in the beverages industry in NZ, mainly in beer, for 15 years, in a range of roles spanning all disciplines of marketing, and a healthy dose of general management, strategy, new product development, commercials, analytics, and research.

Prior to that I worked for a large global management consulting firm for several years in NZ, AU, and the USA across a range of industries.

I’m also a copywriter, with words on beer bottles as well as in anthologies of short fiction.

PS I can't quite decide whether to use "I" or "we" throughout this website, so I'm just switching it up willy-nilly.