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These opinions are my own, and not that of any of my current or former clients.
Monthly Archives: August 2009
The 31 reasons that inflight wifi is not making money
From the WSJ we hear that sales for inflight wifi have been disappointing. It seems that when you give it away the usage is pretty high, but things change when there is a price: “.. in tests and now in … Continue reading
Posted in Air Travel, Internet Business
Tagged Broadband, gogo, gogoinflight, inflight wifi, media, travel
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Tuesday Three: 3 ways to improve your business
Beers work too Give bonuses in kind, not cash. A weekend trip for two to Rotovegas for $300 feels like a lot more than $300 in cash. Insource your legal work by hiring a young, smart lawyer who is 3 … Continue reading
Sky TV’s easy credit
Sky’s results came out this week – and while subscriber numbers grew the financial results were at the low end of expectations. I feel that their product is disappointing – with too much rugby translating into a general loss of … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Investing, media, NZ Business
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The death of rugby
So Wellington wins the Ranfurly shield match against Auckland. Just. With a drop goal making the difference. Meanwhile the All Blacks win the deciding Bledisloe cup game against Australia. Just. With a lucky penalty awarded after a missed drop goal. … Continue reading
Tuesday Three: 3 ways to improve your business
Go green Turn the computers and lights off each night as you leave. Alternatively ask the security guards to do so when they do the rounds. If you have cleaners then ask then to swithcb the lights off after they … Continue reading
A great experience – at Experience BMW
Occasionally I get great customer service experiences – and so it is each time with Experience BMW in Auckland. At BMW stores there is no hard pressure to buy – the stores let the bikes sell themselves, and like Apple … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Internet Business, NZ Business
Tagged BMW motorcycles, Customer Service, Experience BMW, R1200GSA
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My lousy business model
Bryan Spondre keeps calling me out as a Grumpy Blogger – and it seems I am even up for an award. It’s true, and what’s worse is that I tend to rail on the businesses that I work with – … Continue reading
Kiwibank Business – the bank responds well
It also appeared that they just didn’t want my business. Today I met with Andy Bray, the regional manager for Kiwibank business and Wellington area manager Brian Davies – in response to the previous post on Kiwibank Business. I’d left … Continue reading
“Sorry No” – Kiwibank fails business basics
Today I decided to sign up to a new bank for my main business account. I was debating between Kiwibank and ASB – as they both seem to have the best reputation. I decided to give Kiwibank a go. First … Continue reading
It’s the internet – so link to each other
Well done to Russell Brown over at Public Address (I said they write well) for breaking the story on the Kids Can Stand Tall debacle. It’s a good scoop after some digging into the history of the Telethon beneficiary. I … Continue reading
Posted in media
Tagged blogging, credit, linking, media, online media, public address, scoop
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How not to launch an upgrade – BNZ
BNZ announces that their banking site is being refreshed. This brick wall advertisement appeared after logging in with my online banking number, password and that stupid netguard card: Problem is that after a little pause I got this: Which meant … Continue reading
Iceberg in Wellington harbour!
I don’t know when it appeared, but Wellington harbour is sporting an iceberg today. Well done to whoever was responsible. Does anyone know anything more about it?
Tuesday Three: 3 ways to improve your business
Do it yourself Do your own book-keeping and GST returns. Print your own business cards – you own the design, not the design firm Audit your software, and stop paying licenses for anything unused
How consumers shop – some lessons
After a laughably dumb registration process (use fake data) you’ll find the ChannelAdvisor report on How Consumers Shop Online. Let’s start with a caveat – the sample size is 824 people from 29 states in the USA, but there is … Continue reading
Why Wellington is great
Here’s how I got to WordPress camp this morning.
Posted in Life, media, NZ Business
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