About

We treat your business
like our own.

Latetwenties is for local service owners who are good at the work and tired of being the best-kept secret in town. We get you found online and chosen by local customers, and we treat the job with the same seriousness you treat yours.

If we’re asking you to trust a marketing partner off the internet, the risk should sit with us, not you. Here’s the story of why we work the way we do.

Brendan, founder of Latetwenties.
Brendan · founder
01Founder

Brendan
MacDonald.

Hi, I’m Brendan. In between evening play fights with my kids and church on Sundays, I’m sitting here, in front of a screen, writing, coding and strategising for hard-working local business owners, helping them get their brand and work known in their communities.

I was thrown into the web agency world in 2015. After a gap year, travelling the country playing music as part of a performing arts school, it was a new thing to sink my teeth into, and it stuck. I moved from web, to paid media, to performance, to social, and now full circle back to here. Ten years in the trenches, used to lift up small business owners caught in the middle: established, but not yet ready to pay big-agency rates.

I wanted to build a system that did what was actually needed to get ahead. Strip out the bells and whistles. Deliver something effective, and affordable.

That’s what Latetwenties is about. And it’s the work I’m proud to spend my time on.

02How we work

Mānaakitanga.

A Māori value centred on how we care for others.
It brings together mana(a person’s standing, dignity, spirit) and aki (to uplift or support).

It’s not about transactions. It’s about people.

In our world, that shows up in who we choose to work with.
Local service businesses. Owner-led. Close to the work. Close to their community.

You’re not a board.
You’re not a dashboard.
You’re not a set of KPIs needing explanation.

You’re the person behind it. The one who built it, backs it, and cares about how it shows up.

That matters.

It means we listen properly.
We take what you’ve built seriously.
We carry your reputation with the same care you would.

The work is important.
But it starts with the person.

That’s how we approach it.

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