Realestate.co.nz state on their homepage that they are “featuring over 75,000 properties”. Actually, if you add up the listings, they have just 71,522. Seek.co.nz state on their homepage that they have “12,242 jobs online”. Actually if you hit the search button they show just 11,836 jobs. Search4jobs.co.nz show 6,586 jobs if you hit the search …
Category Archives: Internet Business
getting directions
wises.co.nz – it would be nice if your website driving direction feature actually worked on New Years Eve – after all lots of people are travelling. Multimap is guilty of being down as well – in fact only (strangely enough) Yellow Pages worked right now, which uses Multimap and does provide weird results. It seems …
how to lose your job
getfiredquickly.com via Stuff. The link provided was the non-functioning http://www.stuff.co.nz/http//www.rateyourbossnz.com.
Yahoo! Personals NZ?
With the coming of Yahoo!xtra to New Zealand, will we see the entry of Yahoo! personals? There is an Australian version already, and it seems a gimme to at least give it a serious try in NZ. The Australian site states that it is a place to find Kiwi’s as well, but there are not …
NZ Shop – update
three new bits of information 1: T’s and C’s for NZShop les through Ferrit states that DVD’s ‘usualy ship 5-10 days’ after order, which implies that NZShop does not hold inventory. Good move. 2: a quick search of the companies.govt.nz website shows that NZShop has been around since 1995, which is pretty cool, and that …
NZHerald Safari woes
My woes with NZHerald and Safari continue. It seems that if the wrong ads are served then the page just will not load. Good ads: Fly Buy’s perfect present generator – Flash, but static Bad ads: Everything else, including “Emirates” flash horror, Rialto Channel, “Big Wednesday”, Ferrit… Even “Velux” – seems to be a static …
Getting the basics right…
In the US the universities led the Internet charge. The same in NZ, afaik. I recall at Massey in the late 80’s, a friend introducing me to the mysteriously cool “internet” and “email”. Sadly, on the surface at least, things have changed for the worse here. One of the most basic tests to assess the …
NZShop economics
Here’s a tilt at NZShop’s financial’s, based on essentially no information. My last order confirmation number from NZShop was over 62000. If this is the total number of orders ever, and the average sales price is $50 (they seem to be all about DVDs), then that’s a total of $3.1m in sales (Say a reasonable …
Improving print readership measurement
APN and Fairfax are joining forces to commission a review on the way Print Readership Research is done in New Zealand. They are looking their own requirements, and that of their advertisers, rather than at changing vendors. Good on them. It would be doubly interesting if the review could somehow relate online readership to print …
Retail sales in NZ
Retail sales in NZ have been quoted a few times as $60bn NZD. Let’s dig into that a little. The latest stats from Govt.stats.nz show $60.5 bn for the year to the September quarter, 2006. The big spends are $13bn in supermarket, groceries and produce, $5.8bn in fuel and $7.8bn in motor vehicle retailing. If …
NZ Online retail – the market
Some interesting comments on the previous posts – worth a look at. I’ll redo some numbers in a while, but in the meantime here are some charts… This is daily unique domestic browsers to the big online shopping sites. (except Gameplanet sorry, which I inadvertently left off). The point of the chart is to show …
why “ecommerce has flopped in NZ”
That article again – right at the bottom, from out of nowhere, come “five reasons ecommerce has flopped in New Zealand”. “1. Mall mania. Trips to the shopping centre are a top Kiwi recreation. 2. Security fears. Kiwis are paranoid about giving credit card numbers online. 3. Bargain hunting. If it’s not cheaper online, why …
Ferrit. Incompetent. #3
Ferrit boss Ralph Brayham says that Ferrit is “aiming for around 300,000 unique users this month, with 2 per cent of visitors buying something.” That’s just 6,000 buyers. Let’s assume they each buy goods worth $150 (I am being generous), and that Ferrit takes 5% of that (generous again). That’s $900,000 worth of sales, and …
Ferrit. Incompetent #2
The Herald’s coverage of eCommerce leaves something to be desired – imagine surveying NZ’s eCommerce space and forgetting the biggest site is Trade Me, not, umm, Ferrit. Perhaps Peter Griffin is a columnist shilling for Ferrit… regardless – we should blame him, as well as the NZHerald editors, and give kudos for whoever did the …
Ferrit. Incompetent
Incompetent – check the spelling….. [update] Fixed now.
Lance Wiggs 