I know internet polls are unscientific, but it seems that Stuff poll voters are pretty clear on housing prices these days: I agree. Just check your rent versus buy numbers. Over here in Perth I’m paying rent of a third of the mortgage payments required to buy this place. I should know – it is …
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MEDIA RELEASE 6 December 2007 FAIRFAX MEDIA APPOINTS NEW DIGITAL HEAD Fairfax Media has appointed Stephen Smith to the position of Group Head of Digital. Prior to accepting the Fairfax Media position, Stephen headed Vodafone’s media and entertainment operations. Stephen will be responsible for Fairfax Media’s Online division, which includes stuff.co.nz, rugbyheaven.co.nz, and the online …
Way to go – accuse Trade Me of not following good business practise, then be forced to cringingly back down in the face of overwhelming evidence. I’m not sure how this one played out, but is sure is amusing reading the resulting article. (Auctioneers).. Association chief executive John Ward had said Trade Me did not …
It seems Wii’s are running out of stores in the US as soon as they arrive, as it appears that the Wii is the Christmas item of choice. Actually that makes sense – at US$250 or so the Wii is not too expensive versus the Xbox and PS3. And let’s face it – everyone loves …
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Over the months I’ve occasionally said one or two negative things about a few companies. Did I say occasionally? Sorry – I meant constantly. Their range of responses has been interesting, and piqued the interest of Bullet PR‘s Nicholas O’Flaherty, who used the BNZ series of rants, along with Mauricio’s Slingshot posts as examples, in …
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Michael Carney is a marketer that sends out an occasional newsletter to the community. It’s quite good (the last one even quoted my father :-). Michael is a influential guy on the NZ scene – he even wrote an excellent book on Trade Me. I do recommend that you subscribe t0 the newsletter if you …
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useless – if you are not in NZ that is: wonder what the site is for? why is advertising material only licensed for NZ??
So my BNZ security card arrived yesterday. Here it is: Now I know where it is at least. BNZ to their credit did initiate yesterday the next transfer request for my rent. We were going back and forward for so long that the rental payment date arrived, and a helpful CS person (another in the …
Not what you’d expect… au.finance.yahoo.com/investing directs you to Yahoo!7’s Australian focused Finance site, but changing that “au” to an “nz” yields a different result: nz.finance.yahoo.com/investing Not so useful, unless you live or invest in Brasil
Rod kindly offered to answer some questions about Xero during this earnings release phase, so here they are. My questions are in Bold, Rod’s answers in Italics. Rod notes that we are trying to be as open as possible so I’ll try to give you as much info as I can and explain where we …
First look at Xero results Revenue 1: Xero made $24k from 204 paying customers and 404 users. That’s $117 per customer and $59 per user, but the report states $54 per customer. Perhaps the $54 is the average monthly per customer revenue. Cashflow 2: Xero received $16k in cashflow from customers (“receipts from customers” – …
During my sagas with BNZ I’ve been struck at how unfailingly polite and efficient the BNZ Customer Service Representitives (CSR’s) have been. They may be dealing with obsolescence on their screens, but at least they are nice with it. They. That’s an issue, and an issue that commenter Keith Tan pointed out also happens with …
My own personal BNZ Sucks saga continues, but there is worse news, via a response to my internal emails: From April 2008, all Internet Banking customers will be required to use NetGuard when logging into Internet Banking. I applied for my damnable Netguard card on the 21st of October (which I blogged about in passing), …
Stuff finally has more domestic browsers than NZHerald – it’s been a long chase, and kudos to the editorial and development teams at Fairfax for the result. Both sites are winners here however – the number of people reading their news online has steadily risen over the years, and the competition has made for better …
Scoopit seems to have stalled a little while back, and is now taken over by a combination of spammers and people that are bearish about housing markets. It needs some more moderation love, which is hard to justify on what is most likely low traffic numbers. What to do? The readers are worried…
Lance Wiggs 