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These opinions are my own, and not that of any of my current or former clients.
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Fix the basics NBR.co.nz
The NBR’s website went through an upgrade just before the end of last year. It wasn’t smooth sailing for them, but the timing, when everyone was away at the beach, was smart. However the site is still in a bit … Continue reading
The Groupy promotion impact
A Neil over at Webdrive sent through this chart showing the impact of Wednesday’s Groupy $1 Hell pizza promotion with advertising over on Stuff. This is showing the amount of traffic coming in and going out, which approached 60 Mbits/sec … Continue reading
Photo opportunity
A photo from last year’s visit by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. US submarine cable vendor TE Subcom invited Pacific Fibre along to an American Chamber of Commerce event in Christchurch, and Pacific Fibre CEO Mark Rushworth and I went … Continue reading
40,000,000 units sold
At Powerkiwi we have just gone past 40 million units of electricity sold since we launched in February 2009. That’s enough to power 5000 houses for a year, or approaching $9 million worth of power. Our main product is FlowerPower, … Continue reading
We’ve sold Groupy to Yellow
Below is the press release about the sale of the Groupy assets to Yellow. In short Yellow brings to Groupy the marketing muscle required to expand throughout NZ, while the core Groupy team will hop over to keep things moving … Continue reading
Comparing New Zealand to The United States.
A nice little site neatly sums up many of the reasons why I left the USA to come back home. Sure you can make more money, but pretty much everything else is worse. Add into that the knee-jerk responses since … Continue reading
Posted in NZ Business
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Top eleven for 2011
Let’s have a go at fortune telling – no cookies involved. eBooks will become relatively normal. It will begin to feel a little silly to purchase products that require cutting down trees, chemicals, huge plants, toxic inks and expensive production … Continue reading
Want to write? Get a $1345 Webstock package
AllAboutTheStory.com is offering a full journalism scholarship to the biggest and best web event in New Zealand – Webstock. Webstock’s cool – and has a host of awesome and famous foreign and local speakers. In their own words: Webstock 2011 … Continue reading
Quotes from the ACMA business model report
A few choice quotes from the Australia Communications and Media Authority’s “Report 4— Changing business models in the Australian communication and media sectors: Challenges and response strategies” It’s worth reading the report – at least for your industry. “At June … Continue reading
Posted in Australia Business, media, telecom
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The challenge for Fishpond
Here’s Fishpond‘s latest email to me. I like the company a lot, and they are justifiably doing well, but I find it difficult to buy anything from them as I’ve moved increasingly into an electronic world. In September last year … Continue reading
Posted in Australia Business, Internet Business, media, NZ Business
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Too much menu NZHerald
Man tries to burn campervan pair – National – NZ Herald News, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. There are menus and then there is this ridiculous half page affair from NZHerald. For people browsing by scrolling down with a touchpad or … Continue reading
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