Comments on: Goodbye Trade and Exchange http://lancewiggs.com/2009/11/06/goodbye-trade-and-exchange/ NZ Internet, Media and Business Sun, 27 May 2012 02:05:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Life In The Fast Lane » Blog Archive » I want a better bank, not a new best friend http://lancewiggs.com/2009/11/06/goodbye-trade-and-exchange/#comment-14670 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:41:06 +0000 http://lancewiggs.com/?p=2070#comment-14670 [...] think the lessons found at the end of Lance Wiggs’ recent post on Trade & Exchange’s demise, and in Seth Godin’s Meatball Sundae book lead the way to some of the big [...]

]]> By: Bill Bennett http://lancewiggs.com/2009/11/06/goodbye-trade-and-exchange/#comment-14617 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:01:25 +0000 http://lancewiggs.com/?p=2070#comment-14617 There’s an understandable problem for any business which is currently making money and not looking out for category-destroying newcomers coming from left-field.

The smart thing for T&E would have been to acquire some or all of Trade Me at the earliest opportunity. Another smart approach would have been to use the strong revenue flows to clone TM’s business creating a credible rival. The money would have kept rolling in long enough for the new products to kill off the old.

So who should be looking at this and shuddering right now? Fairfax? TV3? Telecom?

All of the above?

]]> By: Lance Wiggs http://lancewiggs.com/2009/11/06/goodbye-trade-and-exchange/#comment-14610 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:26:57 +0000 http://lancewiggs.com/?p=2070#comment-14610 And will they be smart enough to see it coming and react?

]]> By: Glen Barnes http://lancewiggs.com/2009/11/06/goodbye-trade-and-exchange/#comment-14609 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:39:25 +0000 http://lancewiggs.com/?p=2070#comment-14609 So the question is. “What or who will destroy Trade Me and when?”

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