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Author Archives: Lance Wiggs
BNZ saga – the card
So my BNZ security card arrived yesterday. Here it is: Now I know where it is at least. BNZ to their credit did initiate yesterday the next transfer request for my rent. We were going back and forward for so long that the rental payment date arrived, and a helpful CS person (another in the …
Free Rice: Addictive, but is it a scam?
Addictive. Very addictive – I’ve managed to donate 1830 ‘grains of rice through the UN to help end world hunger’. However I’ve only managed to get to level 44 – and then only once. There are 50 levels. Here’s the deal. Each time you get an answer right, 10 grains of rice are donated through …
Cycling Friendly Perth
I see that Perth didn’t make the list of the top 11 cycling friendly cities in the world, although somehow I doubt that 4 of the top 11 friendliest bike cities are in the USA. Anyway – perhaps this photo I took on a bicycle ride today will explain why Perth didn’t make the list: …
Yahoo Finance New Zealand
Not what you’d expect… au.finance.yahoo.com/investing directs you to Yahoo!7’s Australian focused Finance site, but changing that “au” to an “nz” yields a different result: nz.finance.yahoo.com/investing Not so useful, unless you live or invest in Brasil
10 Questions to Xero’s Rod Drury
Rod kindly offered to answer some questions about Xero during this earnings release phase, so here they are. My questions are in Bold, Rod’s answers in Italics. Rod notes that we are trying to be as open as possible so I’ll try to give you as much info as I can and explain where we …
AFR will not go free, BusinessSpectator launches
Fantastic news – AFR.com.au has redone it’s moronic pricing scheme, which charged readers (whoever they are) anywhere from $25 to a staggering $150 a MONTH. Rest assurred – they have now come back to reality and are charging just $109 for non subscribers, and $45 for subscribers. That compares favorably with the WSJ.com site, which …
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Xero results – first look
First look at Xero results Revenue 1: Xero made $24k from 204 paying customers and 404 users. That’s $117 per customer and $59 per user, but the report states $54 per customer. Perhaps the $54 is the average monthly per customer revenue. Cashflow 2: Xero received $16k in cashflow from customers (“receipts from customers” – …
BNZ: Owning customers on and offline
During my sagas with BNZ I’ve been struck at how unfailingly polite and efficient the BNZ Customer Service Representitives (CSR’s) have been. They may be dealing with obsolescence on their screens, but at least they are nice with it. They. That’s an issue, and an issue that commenter Keith Tan pointed out also happens with …
BNZ – it gets worse for all of us
My own personal BNZ Sucks saga continues, but there is worse news, via a response to my internal emails: From April 2008, all Internet Banking customers will be required to use NetGuard when logging into Internet Banking. I applied for my damnable Netguard card on the 21st of October (which I blogged about in passing), …
Marketing, PR, advertising and Branding explained
Now I tend to think the word and activity of “Branding” is well over hyped, and that many fail to understand that a brand starts and usually ends with the product/service. But this is funny however you look at it…..
Redirecting to google.com
Seen on this long thread – a way to stop Google automatically redirecting from Google.com to Google.com.a or Google.co.nz or Google.xxx. This happens to me in Perth when I use Safari 3, but not Firefox. Simply use google.com/ncr Google search results are weighted differently depending upon which url you use.
Tokelau connects everybody
Tokelau’s three atolls have no airport nor harbour and are two days sailing away from Samoa and just two years ago its 1100 Polynesians looked and sounded like they were in another time and space in the past. Now they have free broadband Tokelau is, of course, still part of NZ. It’s a great story. …
Telecom – believing marketing trumps reality
It may not actually be an iPhone, but Telecom is inviting comparison between its latest handset, the Okta Touch, and the much-hyped Apple handset. We don’t have to see the Okta to know the answer to this one. I watched the video. TVNZ interviews David Gray (Grey?) Telecom’s Head of Consumer Marketing, which is just …
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We’ve never had it so good
Things are booming in New Zealand – and we have 3.4% unemployment forecast for the September quarter by Westpac, a strong Kiwi dollar and low inflation. I have not seen signs this good in my lifetime. I do worry about US housing and sub prime happenings, froth in the US equity markets and froth in …
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