I’ve tried not to blog abut it, but it is puzzling to see the stock price of AAPL drop slightly when the prices were announced. There were essentially no surprises there, and the and the fan boy population will make sure these things fly out the door. The next question is just how good they …
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Air NZ gets it
The transformation of Air NZ to Jet Blue continues… they are putting video screens in the back of every trans Tasman seat. (I’d ignore the analyst comments in the article- this is about future profitability, and demnstrates nthing about current profits on the route.) now let’s put those seats further away from each other (rather …
BurgerFuel: value or not?
Mark Clare just says No! to the BurgerFuel prospectus. A valuation that implies BF will grow from opening 20 stores from 1997 to now, to 700 in five years is something that he just can’t accept as realistic. I agree – even Subway, the world’s biggest franchise, only has 1200 stores in Australia and NZ, …
Average NZ card transaction size
The average electronic debit & credit card transaction size in NZ is $4.6bn/80m = $57. From memory that average transaction size seems really high – I recall figures of closer to $30 from US and historical NZ experiences. <update – seems I’m wrong – this presentation is showing much higher numbers for the USA – …
Are your customers retards?
Calling your customers retards on your Customer Relationship System is not great practice – it is just not professional, and symptomatic of poor training and processes. Getting bits of your CRS published complete with “retard” comment – well that’s a public relations disaster – as it is for News Digitals Career One. It also turns …
Going to Paris?
How about renting my friend’s great Parisian Pad? It’s a funky little apartment in St Germain. And the relevance to here? well the website is done on WordPress, and I helped out a bit.
Wellosphere Interconectedness
Brenda L (who this blog thinks, for some strange reason, is kiwgrll) has a great post on the interconnectedness of the Wellington blog community – the Wellosphere perhaps. Let me tweak a few things. Rowan no longer works at Trade Me – he is at Xero, where Rod is the founder/CEO. I’m also gone from …
New News Blogs
I notice the West Australian just launched blogs on Friday the 22nd of June. Coincidentally so did we at Stuff. On The House is the first blog, and it is written by Colin Espiner, the political editor of The Press. His first post is a fun read of how things really work in the House. …
GMI’s Kiwisaver site is improved
I noticed while looking for calculators for the previous post that Gareth Morgan’s Kiwisaver.com now has a giant “How Do I join” link on the front page. That’s a great call to action, and a big improvement on earlier. But sadly we still need to print off a completed application form and post it in. …
smartkiwisaver not so smart
Good: creating a website that compares Kiwisaver options Great: Getting coverage in the SST for your website Not so great: being not “available to the public” when the article is published Down right silly: charging $30 for the privilege of looking at your site, when you can get the information for free elsewhere, and when …
Is Perth cool or not?
So everybody who I’ve talked to has raved about Perth, what a great place it is, the wonderful climate, fantastic people and so on. All that seems true. But why didn’t anybody explain to me that Perth is closed from Saturday at 1230 until Monday morning? That late night shopping or 24 hour supermarkets don’t …
More on Ferrit Quality
A little birdie sent me through the rest of the article (along with some rather serious complaining from a couple folk about the inadequacy of theline) Some choice quotes “Brayham believes the success of TradeMe will rub off on Ferrit. “TradeMe is probably one of the best training grounds for Ferrit,” he says. “ eCommerce …
psst – Want to earn over $100,000 per year?
We can influence our income level through a variety of means. Let’s look at the ones tracked by the Census of 2006 – thanks to no right turn for pointing it out. (No Right Turn is coincidentally the first website that comes up when I press the ‘NZ’ button on Safari, so I read him …
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Keepmore – a Xero lookalike targets eBay sellers
Keepmore is a US product in the same space as Xero – simplified accounting through the web. ‘Accounting for the rest of us’ is their slogan, and they offer a package so that you “don’t need to know accounting, where to find deductions or keep up with tax laws”. Their costs are a lot more …
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Ferrit – ‘quality not quantity’
A puff piece or PR – I’m not sure as this piece on Ferrit is hidden behind theline’s rather pricey subscription wall. You can Google the first phrase and see evidence, but no – I’m not going to link to a subscription wall. “Ferrit focusing on quality, not quantity Paul Clearwater Ferrit still has over …
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