Good to see the Maestro home page redesigned after comments the other day. It now looks a lot better, and clearly we are expected to get one of the three quotes now. However, there is still some work to do. Try asking for a quote for $1m of Life Cover (you can’t – too many …
Category Archives: NZ Business
ACC, Benefits and 36,800 words
So you are in a giant battle with ACC, which has included you spending time in Prison for benefit fraud (something you are appealing). You profess that you cannot work because you cannot use a mouse or write, and have mild brain damage. Then ACC (or is it WINZ?) cuts off your current benefit. So …
AdWords Business pages
Google now lets kiwi businesses create a simple webpage to serve as a landing point for Google ads. It’s a clever idea, as it means businesses can go from zero to a fully enabled Google adwords driven campaign in no time at all. It’s called.. well here’s the blurb: “AdWords Business Pages are a feature …
Gareth Morgan’s Kiwisaver calculater
What a weapon – Gareth Morgan Investments (GMI) have built a Kiwisaver fee calculator. Check it out. Plug in your portfolio sizze, and investment strategy, and the calculator will show how much the 6 ‘official’ and GMK’s Kiwisaver products will charge per year. The calculator lets you adjust the unitization factor, which Gareth claims is …
Trade Me too cheap at $700m+$50m?
Apparently Sam thinks so – and so do (and did) I, but $700m guaranteed in the hand is much more interesting than maybe a billion in a year. That $700m got invested remember, and the 12 shareholders were either going to be really wealthy, or, well – really wealthy. What would you have done? especially …
Ferrit’s Sale
Ferrit’s sale. Seems that their 20% off sale is the fruition of the ‘unsubstantiated rumour. Retailers get to sell their products cheaper, Ferrit cops the bill. Actually I feel this is a pretty good promotion, as it drives people to actually do a transaction, rather than just to visit the website. I have not seen …
psst – want to buy a domain?
If you want to steal snatch someone domain, then discountdomains is for you. It lets you snatch domains coming up for renewal, and they use a nice auction system. I’m unsure what to think about the ethics of this..
xtramsn split – the results appear for the first time
We are told in the NZHerald that Yahoo!xtra gets 4-500,000 UB’s a week and 12-14m page impressions. Could we see the source for that information? Yahoo!xtra isn’t on NetRatings and so we have no evidence that this is true? Let’s graph it, and I stress, these figures are not at all comparable – the Yahoo! …
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Safari 3.0
Will Xero support Safari? Safari is my favorite browser, and I only pull out Firefox to blog. Well it turns out Safari 3.0 is better, but still doesn’t work correctly on WordPress. Grrrrrr.
Recent Fairfax developements
I cannot talk about these things much, but…. We at Fairfax signed a deal with TVNZ to use their video content. Stuff had a deal with TV3 that lapsed last year, and of course TV3 is now tied up heavily with msn.co.nz. RugbyHeaven.co.nz will launch soonish, and we managed to bring across Marc Hinton and …
The NZMusic fade to black
It’s sad to see the gradual demise of NZMusic.com – a site that once had a commanding grip on the music scene in New Zealand. Traffic has almost totally dried up over the last two years to just 13% of record UB’s and PI’s. The forum, once the place for musos and fans, has been …
Maestro and Triplejump – more work required
Rod Drury points us to start ups Maestro and Triplejump. Good to see these new sites up and running – well done… But please – go buy the book “Don’t make me think” and apply the learning to your websites: Let’s start with Maestro: now – quickly. What are you meant to do? What does …
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eCommerce is slow to launch in Australia
Right on cue (after the last post graphically showing the lack of a non-Trade Me eCommerce industry) comes a quote from the head of eBay Australia lamenting the same issue in Australia: eBay Tells Retailers To Focus On Online Operations “Major Australian retailers are falling behind their counterparts in other markets in the area of …
NZ Retail stats: How is Ferrit doing?
I’ve updated the New Zealand Retail site daily stats referred to in a previous post. Once again it is Nielsen NetRatings data, for domestic traffic. First and foremost- Trade Me is still the only online retailer in New Zealand (aside from airlines) Let’s look at that by hours spent on site – this is Unique …
Brass Monkey Pix
A selection of the pictures I’ve uploaded to Flickr Day 1 – a perfect run to Arthur’s pass from Blenheim, via Murchison and some dirt Twilight at the rally site in Central Otago- day 3, after a interlude in Auckland for a meeting via ChCh. It was wet…
Lance Wiggs 