This is Fremantle’s great market, on the weekend before Christmas. Like the rest of Fremantle the market is almost empty versus normal weekends. It was similar in Auckland, Wellington and Sydney, but I didn’t have much time in Sydney. Either everyone is coming to shop tomorrow, everyone is unusually organized or there are going to …
Category Archives: NZ Business
Torpedo7 NZ’s fastest tech grower
Congratulations to eCommerce sensation Torpedo7, the 87th fastest growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific this year. We’ve covered Torpedo7 before on this blog, and it’s great to see their traffic numbers are being converted into dollars -at a growth rate of 571% over 3 years. It’s even better that they …
No Black backgrounds please
Its always food to see new blogs. However if you are going to launch a new blog, like aotearoarenamemovement and newmasses did this week, then please make it easy to read. I don’t mean the content, but the design. White words on black background simply isn’t that easy to read. And for the Aotearoa Movement people, if …
Fine the kids not the parents
Fining parents of truants $3000 is only going to cause parents to lie and support their children. Moreover I imagine that the incidence of truancy rises as income falls, so this is a tax on those that can least afford it. How about fining the kids instead? and then giving them the opportunity to work …
Rio Tinto: Tiwai Point will be fine, but Kiwis will be affected
With 14,000 workers going from Rio Tinto, the folk at Tiwwai Point’s aluminium refinery are apparently nervous. They have “787 full time staff and 133 contractors” down there in the deep South, a bit under 1% of Rio’s total of 110,000 staff and contractors. So Rio is getting rid of 12.7% of it’s workers, which …
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Trade Me has added at least $3 billion to the NZ economy
A persistent, err, troll over at Bernard Hickey’s blog post on Trade Me and Australia asks an interesting question: “How is Trade Me a productive NZ asset? The answer requires just a little bit of economics, and it is really quite amazing. First – Trade Me sold for $750m, and the money was paid to …
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Never try to lose a French motorcycle Gendarme
Here’s what the French Gendarmerie go through to become proficient on the motorcycle. I wish that this was available to everyone. It makes you want to join up..
Trade Me trounces eBay, and eBay is in real trouble
The evidence mounts against eBay, as they continue to cast away their franchise. It’s really sad to see this happen as they naturally own their space and should be unassailable if they were playing it right. They are not. Over the years the site has increased in complexity and decreased in humanity, until the community …
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Helping societies drink responsibly
In a not entirely unsurprising finding, a researcher in the USA has discovered that alcohol related deaths will fall if you increase taxes on alcohol. No kidding. We seem to have that pretty well figured out in New Zealand and Australia. I’d like to see a much broader international scale study relating the inputs to …
LanceWiggs marketing effectiveness is 97.9th percentile
Well apparently that’s an indication of the marketing effectiveness of LanceWiggs.com versus the “hundreds of thousands” of other ranked websites on Hubspot’s website grader. It’s a pretty lousy measure, truth be told, as Trade Me scores lower at 96.3% and Stuff gets just 95.3%. More interestingly it provides bit more detail about sites’ marketing effectiveness. …
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We are living longer
It seems that we now have a longer life expectancy – 82.2 for women and 78 for men, up 1 and 1.7 years However there is still a substantial difference for Maori – with Maori newborns having life expectancy of 75.1 and 70.4 years. This is a key metric for New Zealand, for any country …
NZ Election Winners – No Google Stuff
Googling “NZ Election” gives interesting results – Stuff is nowhere to be seen and the Aussie sites punch higher than the NZHerald. Poor Stuff – even the Fiji Times is on the front page – ahead of 3 News and TVNZ as well. If I filter for the last hour it is a bit better …
NZ Election winners now confirmed!!!
Here they are. In first place:Electionresults.govt.nz – updates every handful of minutes and is the official source. In second place: TVNZ. There is no rolling text commentary: But despite a tag saying video is only available to NZ viewers the video link actually works and I am now watching TVNZ’s coverage. It seems to have …
Building a Strategy for New Zealand – some starters
Here are a few starter strategy phrases. They should give some flavour of the sorts of things that could make good goals. The idea is not to have a goal cover everything, but to address the key things that drive the big changes in the big numbers. Let’s take life expectancy as an example. We …
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Building a Strategy for New Zealand – two approaches
Writing a strategy is relatively simple – anyone can do it. Of course there is a catch.. The hard bit is getting people to agree to a strategy, (and the really hard bit is to execute that strategy effectively.) One good way to develop and gain agreement to a strategy is to gather the key …
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