It’s a certified Real Estate bust market, and you are a “successful property investor”. Do you: A: do nothing – you got out long ago, when the signs were there. B: frantically sell out of the remaining “investment” properties you own C: What there’s a bust? D: Start a property magazine and website. Since this …
Category Archives: NZ Business
BurgerFuel BS
Dubai and Burger Fuel No they have not conquered New Zealand yet No they have not successfully demonstrated that they can enter Australia No there is not conceivable explanation why they are choosing Dubai, which is not a sleepy market. But enter Dubai they have. I guess someone had money to burn. Crazy or Ballsy? …
Where in the blogosphere is Michael Carney?
Michael has seemingly abandoned the Trade Me success Secrets blog, which was looking to be a really promising place to discuss and see all things Trade Me. He also seems to have left the Grey Group – where he was also writing an interesting blog. If you want to see what an untended blog looks …
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China: all but wheat, sugar and rice
Wheat, sugar and rice, along with “certain paper products” those are the items that will remain subject to tarrifs when we export them to China. They represent about 4% of our exports to China, so not a bad outcome. All three grains are subject to some pretty serious subsidization and quota-driven distortions in the world …
Netguide has fixed their voting – so vote
After last year’s terrible system that required you to register for some dubious website. Netguide have thankfully chosen to use a simple one page form. You do need to enter an email address and name, and a tech savvy person could game the entries, but overall this is a major improvement. Trade Me is still …
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Tracking your portfolio – Sharesight enters the market
Rod just pointed us to Sharesight – a downunder focused portfolio manager website. The website looks to be yummy goodness – simple to use and so forth. I was initially pretty skeptical though – what use is another portfolio manager when you can do things pretty simply yourself, or with the likes of Yahoo? Yahoo …
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Would you let Telecom design your website?
Telecom is launching something – I’m not really sure what it is, but apparently it will be some sort of Business Oriented Internet plan/ISP – where you get bundled internet access, hosting and things like Xero. Business broadband plans will be “slightly differently priced” … I read that as “more expensive”, but gee I’d pay …
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Decisive flow’s office
I popped in to Decisive flow – aka as home of Natalie from Simpleandloveable . How cool is their office! a little bit of Ikea in a cool space goes a long way well done Natalie and team.
Why intervention is needed for Telecom and not for Auckland
Falafulu Fisi asks an excellent question to the previous post on Auckland Airport: “Aren’t both Auckland Airport & Telecom private companies? Why would you want to say that the government is an interventionist regarding the CPPIB attempt to buying shares in the Auckland Airport but not saying the same thing about Telecom? I am a …
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Ham-fisted intervention in markets is dull thinking
Score one for protectionism, and minus several ranks of the economic freedom index for New Zealand, after the Government intervenes to prevent a Canadian fund from buying into Auckland airport. When the market drops by 2% after a new protectionist law is created it should be obvious to everyone the impact of ham-fisted interventionist Government …
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Why Digitalmax now sucks, and how they can get better
Natalie at SimpleandLoveable laments the passing of a great service into a lousy one – after a shoddy website redesign by DigitalMax. Now I briefly used DigitalMax two or so years back, so I went to the DigitalMax site to see how bad it now is. Let’s start with the homepage, an ask the age-old …
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NetRatings Pop-ins are bad for business
It’s pretty easy to ignore reading the NZHerald (or whatever site) when this happens: I browse in tabs, so I just close the NZHerald tab and move on. It is easier to do that then to move the mouse down to the close (X) button on the NetRatings pop in. Net Ratings could fix this …
Ticketmaster has auctions. sort of.
Here is one for Westlife. A lost opportunity for Trade Me perhaps, but ticketing is a tough market to get into as it is all about tying up the suppliers of the tickets. However, given that, Trade Me (or whomever) still has the ability to enter the market by offering the same service at a …
Judgment Day is here: negative housing equity
SST reports on several stories of negative equity situations happening in Auckland. That’s when the value of a house is less than the money owed to the bank. “One home had mortgages to ASB for $723,000 and Finance Assist for $150,000. It sold for $535,000. … “The mortgage was to Property Finance Securities (in receivership) …
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TVNZ begins to get it right, but still plenty wrong
By abandoning paid content on TVNZ OnDemand, TVNZ’s Jason Paris demonstrates that he gets it. Jason’s a smart guy, and it seems that the people have spoken – by watching ad-supported content and staying away from the paid content. Well done – a good step. Of course Jason et al are seriously constrained by obsolete …
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