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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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 …
Good to see the Maestro home page redesigned after comments the other day. It now looks a lot better, and clearly we are expected to get one of the three quotes now. However, there is still some work to do. Try asking for a quote for $1m of Life Cover (you can’t – too many …
For the last few days eBay USA has pulled its Google ads, after Google planned a huge Google Checkout party during eBay’s annual seller conference. The party was eventually canceled (eBay owns PayPal of course, the main payments platform), but the ads have not reappeared yet. I wonder (hope) whether eBay will actually look at …
the online dating sensation that is sweeping the nation: LegoFriendfinder
A great video ad from Microsoft of all people, taking aim at traditional advertising…. in a trade marketing campaign. The video is promoting Microsoft’s Digital Advertising Solutions. There is an associated blog, by the Microsoft employee creator, (pretty sure he had some heavy lifting help from his ad agency) called bring the love back.
Google now lets kiwi businesses create a simple webpage to serve as a landing point for Google ads. It’s a clever idea, as it means businesses can go from zero to a fully enabled Google adwords driven campaign in no time at all. It’s called.. well here’s the blurb: “AdWords Business Pages are a feature …
What a weapon – Gareth Morgan Investments (GMI) have built a Kiwisaver fee calculator. Check it out. Plug in your portfolio sizze, and investment strategy, and the calculator will show how much the 6 ‘official’ and GMK’s Kiwisaver products will charge per year. The calculator lets you adjust the unitization factor, which Gareth claims is …
It seems, says the WSJ, that we already seeing companies spring up to help you defend your online reputation. Or maybe that is to remove your online reputation. ReputationDefender was founded by a Harvard Law grad in October, and they will politely (then not so politely) ask websites to take down references to you. Sometimes …
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Ferrit’s sale. Seems that their 20% off sale is the fruition of the ‘unsubstantiated rumour. Retailers get to sell their products cheaper, Ferrit cops the bill. Actually I feel this is a pretty good promotion, as it drives people to actually do a transaction, rather than just to visit the website. I have not seen …
If you want to steal snatch someone domain, then discountdomains is for you. It lets you snatch domains coming up for renewal, and they use a nice auction system. I’m unsure what to think about the ethics of this..
We are told in the NZHerald that Yahoo!xtra gets 4-500,000 UB’s a week and 12-14m page impressions. Could we see the source for that information? Yahoo!xtra isn’t on NetRatings and so we have no evidence that this is true? Let’s graph it, and I stress, these figures are not at all comparable – the Yahoo! …
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Will Xero support Safari? Safari is my favorite browser, and I only pull out Firefox to blog. Well it turns out Safari 3.0 is better, but still doesn’t work correctly on WordPress. Grrrrrr.
I cannot talk about these things much, but…. We at Fairfax signed a deal with TVNZ to use their video content. Stuff had a deal with TV3 that lapsed last year, and of course TV3 is now tied up heavily with msn.co.nz. RugbyHeaven.co.nz will launch soonish, and we managed to bring across Marc Hinton and …
Actually that’s a title of an entry of Marc Andreessen‘s new blog. He’s the sort of guy that gets 48,562 pageviews in his first 4.5 days of blogging. I imagine Sam Morgan would get a similar (NZ scaled) response if he started blogging. I agree with Marc’s criteria for hiring good people – (Intelligence,) Drive, …
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Lance Wiggs 