The MoMac Journey.

Once Ryan decided to make his idea a reality he needed to find a workspace – and his parent’s living room in Rangiora seemed like the ideal spot. From the comfort of his childhood home, Ryan spent his time diligently and tirelessly producing videos, photos and a few websites for local businesses. With a minimal budget but a whole heap of determination, MoMac grew rapidly, and Ryan went from being a one-man band to a team of three – Ryan, Head of Tech/ Web Tony and video editor Izaac. Eventually, all good things have to come to an end, and in Ryan’s case, Mr and Mrs McDonald wanted their living room back. So, the next challenge was to find a more permanent and suitable MoMac HQ.

What was needed was a base in the heart of Rangiora’s business hub that had space for the expanding MoMac team. Call it a stroke of good fortune or just good old-fashioned economic sense, but it just so happened that Ryan had a very old and tired house on Blake Street that would be perfect to run MoMac from. Ryan called in the tradies, and the next chapter in MoMac’s evolution began. The transformation and renovation of the new headquarters took three months to complete, and because we’re super into what we do we captured the whole journey by creating a mini Vlog series.

Now with more space to play with, the hunt was on to fill MoMac HQ with the best of the best. With an increased demand for our services, we hired web developers Joel and Michael who took our team from three to five. Young, excited and extremely passionate about the creative digital scene, each member of our expanding team had spent many years crafting their skills as hobbies before working at MoMac. Once they joined MoMac they were able to turn their hobbies into a career – which we think is pretty awesome.

By 2020, MoMac was a team of seven and we were killing it. We invested heavily in our staff and internal development, and purchased new equipment including new cameras, drones, computers, and a lot of really cool hardware. With an ever-improving workflow and high-quality output, we continued to meet our client’s needs which strengthened our brand and brought a lot more business our way.

However, the Covid-19 pandemic and the challenges faced by businesses worldwide stopped us in our tracks for a few minutes. It takes a lot to get the MoMac team down, so instead of feeling sorry for ourselves, we saw this as an opportunity to realign and refocus – making us stronger and ready to attack the next challenge once the world started moving again.

As demand for our services increased, we called the tradies in again and did some more renovations – expanding our office footprint to create a dedicated meeting room and a video editing suite for our content team.