More Red Sea – this time the changes in circulation numbers for Newspapers. The charts show the difference in readership between 2007/8 and 2008/9. Once again these are supplied by Roy Morgan. I’ve put the Sundays, which is once-weekly and not a daily average, into the same charts. Click on the images for larger versions. …
Category Archives: NZ Business
The least remarkable ad campaign
The least remarkable ad campaign, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. I’m pretty sure MyFarm is unhappy about the placement of their advertisement in NBR’s afternoon update email.
A very clever ad
S0 why are we not building using more rail?
Those global roaming costs and Kindle in NZ
Amazon.com: Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6" Display, U.S. & International Wireless, Latest Generation): Kindle Store, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. I’m glad to hear via NBR that both Vodafone and Telecom are fighting for the rights to deliver Kindle content. That’s good, and I hope for the sake of all of us that they can offer …
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Lingopal still big in Japan
Lingopal sales by Region, originally uploaded by LanceWiggs. Six months on and Lingopal is consistently getting half of our revenue from Japan. While Europe has a good showing it is really surprising to us how low the US sales are, considering the overwhelming size of the iPhone/iPod touch app market there. Or perhaps not. US …
News from afar – patience required
After the comments in the last post I decided to find some numbers behind the Mozambique experience of Stuff and NZHerald. Happily the Stuff website eventually came back up. However the experience is less than stellar. My first test shows the home page took 22 seconds to load. Another attempt a few minutes later (done …
USA’s loss of trust in news
Fairfacts confirmed in a post a little while back that his idea of fair is the same as that of Fox News . He did it though while commenting on a particularly interesting series of research. The research is a periodic survey, conducted since 1985 by Pew, on public attitudes to the media. As always …
Assorted pictures from Mozambique
These are pretty small as internet is fickle from here – but hopefully they give an idea of life in Mozambique. Inside a game park (without much game) I saw lots of these bags outside small settlements Getting some help with a flat tire – great fun at dusk. a secondary road my home from …
Fastpitch: a look at the horse’s mouth
Despite the proverb, some gifts should be looked at – if only to determine their true value. The one I have in mind is the $15,000 of touted value in the grand prize for the Icehouse Fast pitch competition. There are prizes for winners in four categories, and one overall winner. The categories are Best …
Contacting me
Contacting me is hard right now. I’m in Mozambique until November and telecommunications are not the best. What does not work Incoming and outgoing calls from my NZ number Outgoing calls from my Mozambique number Incoming and outgoing texts from any number Skype calls What sometimes works Incoming phone calls to my local mozambique number …
Corruption kills tourism
I’m in Mozambique for seven weeks consulting to Mozal – the nine year old aluminium refinery that in 2000 helped signal to the world Mozambique’s successful return from the dark ages of the civil war. It’s a beautiful country, but one that is firmly planted in the 3rd world – this is a very poor …
Vege porn – from the USA no less
I was amazed when I went to a vegetable store in Albany/Berkley, CA the other day. The vegetables were fresh and sufficiently deformed to convince me they were natural. But it was the range that got me – there were veges there that I’d never seen before, and plenty that I wanted to eat – …
Tuesday Three: 3 ways to improve your business
Cut out the middle man Buy your computers and accessories directly – abandon resellers. It’s cheaper and a whole lot faster. Stop external catering for meetings – buy the ingredients at the supermarket and arrange on plates. Put your prices up to lousy customers that eat your time and resources – you’ll either make more …
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Let’s have one industry awards not two
So I’m disappointed with the “2009 New Zealand Internet Industry Awards”, given the poor wording of the entrepreneur of the year award. It’s a new annual award organisation and created by the Liz Dengate Thrush Foundation. The purpose of the foundation is: … to award funding grants for use in practical educational advancement of individuals …
Let’s appreciate our internet entrepreneurs
I read today in Stop Press that there are no Internet Entrepreneurs in New Zealand. To be fair the award criteria were pretty harsh: Internet Entrepreneur of the Year – recognition for that rare breed who has put capital and reputation on the line and successfully contributed to New Zealand’s wealth. That’s a standard, I …
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