Xero’s blog has drifted off course recently, as they commissioned external writers to come up with such marvels as Choosing the right smartphone for your business, How to avoid holiday computer disasters, Social networking policy: what’s in yours?, How to exit a business and win and How to make sure your emails aren’t marked as spam. The quality of the …
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Below is an automatically generated post by WordPress.com. While I don’t agree entirely with the direction of WordPress (the last thing we need is yet another social network), I do enjoy their essentially free service that continuously gets better. The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: …
In January 2011 I tried my hand at prediction. Let’s see how that worked out then: 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 and shipping. eBooks are cheaper, fast to obtain and just …
So you are, or are not an Angel. But as commenters pointed out from that post there are several ways to invest, and we don’t want to scare off potential investors. I got some flack for being a bit too negative, and sure, perhaps I was a bit harsh. Everyone starting a business is looking for …
Well it seems the years of investment in lotto tickets for a Nelson couple paid off: Nelson region couple celebrating their $8.2 million Lotto win say they will retire earlier than planned. They had a strategy: The couple has been playing 10 lines of the same Lotto numbers, with all the variations of the Powerball …
On February 10th we are heading South. If you know a school that would like to be involved in following the trip and learning about the region, then point them to http://www.ourfarsouth.org/education, and this brochure for schools. (Credit for the map goes to @ksuyin)
The other night I was speaking to a self-described angel. I asked the standard questions of “What have you invested in?” and teased out approximate answers for “how much, with how many others, when and tell me about the company?”. The answers were shocking to me – he had invested in just one company, it was several …
This really has to be seen to be believed. As the backbone of the imperial army, the Stormtroopers are the empire’s legions, a mass of menacing power in their awe-inspiring armor. Now, one of the most iconic uniforms in the STAR WARS™ universe has been exquisitely rendered in leather by the UD Replicas’ team, setting a …
The New Zealand version of the World Internet Project survey, which Internet NZ funded, has just been released. Apparently only 86% of us use the internet. I guess the others are too you, old, sick, or – and this is the big issue – poor and uneducated. But the finding I most appreciated was that …
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At Texmate NZ we got tired of being confused with text editing software and our former US sister company. We were also increasingly conscious that the name that meant little to our clients or staff, and that we’ve moved on a lot since the early days under the name. So we embarked on a rebranding exercise. We …
MahiFX is getting rave reviews for the quality of their web design. That’s nice, and good that a local NZ company did to this sort of quality, but while the design is nice, the content is disgusting. Here’s the home page. You enter your salary and wonder who John Paulson is. No – it’s not Hank …
Via the WSJ are the sobering statistics on the share of people who have gone ‘wireless only’. The article covers this in context of political polling. The law in the USA, where customers pay to receive as well as make mobile phone calls, is that pollsters cannot use autodiallers or robot calls, and must use …
The jury is back – and the final numbers in. The Let’s make New Zealand the percent post attracted an amazing amount of readership (for this blog). It got picked up …somewhere… and traffic went nuts, and then in early November traffic abruptly halted. All up it received 355000 views, with just 6660 of them …
Once again Air New Zealand has not partnered with Trade Me for their annual charity auction. As I’ve said before this myopic decision decreases the amount of publicity, revenue and mojo Air NZ receives from the event. Auctions will sell for less, less people will se them and the brand association with Sella cheapens the …
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Natalie Fergusson has eloquently written about our latest Flowerpower promotion – so here she goes: $1000 charity giveaway by Nat A few years ago, when we set up Flower Power on Powershop, one of the big drivers was being part of a big change in an industry that seems to quiver in fear at the …
