DFS is perplexed (see the photo caption) why not many people take advantage of their 20%-off offers for online or phone shoppers. The aim is to avoid the up to 40% commission that the airports charge on duty free sales. I’ll give them 4 starter reasons: 1: I’ve never seen an online ad for DFS …
Category Archives: NZ Business
AirNZ fare cut
Good news – I’m a huge fan of value based flights, which increase volume of travel and thus reduce the dependance of the airline on the wealthier segments of business and society. It’s not for nothing that the two biggest discounters (Jetblue and Southwest) in the USA are the two most profitable (and liked) airlines …
geni
geni is pretty cool – they want to build a family tree for the world. Check out the demo. It’s basically social networking family style, and has real potential. But why on earth did “Australasian” Gen-i not own the .com domain name? Is it because they are now owned by Telecom New Zealand? or because …
Google checkout – aggressive promotions
Google express is aggressively recruiting buyers: Sign up and get US$10 free – which you can spend on anything (excluding post and packaging) from some pretty major retailers – including Buy.com and Toysrus.com. Meanwhile retailers get free processing unti lte end of this year. This is exactly what the wannabe online payments players in New …
Telecom increases prices
Telecom are in a monopoly position so they have pricing control – these increases are an easy way to increase profit. 018 calls go up 50% to 75 cents from 50 cents. Given that directory calls over here in the USA are a crippling $1.25 to $1.50, there is plenty of room for further growth. …
mmmmm….
via Stuff – Sam Morgan…. “If you are seeking a chief executive for a company like Telecom, chucking an ad up on Trade Me Jobs is not going to be the sole thing you’ll want to do”…
Yellow pages
Some numbers from the potential Yellow Pages sale emerge, with expected EBITDA of $160m this year. Yellow pages prices have been cranked up over the last few years, and with online being what it is I don’t see huge upside for the printed product. The upside is all online, and although it is essentially an …
Wiki on Trade Me
Codswollops. I cannot comment on this as I’m an insider but not a spokesperson. Apply a bit of common sense to these statements though….. (and no – I’m not going to edit them) (From Wikipedia – TradeMe) Fraud and controversy …In recent times, TradeMe has not in all cases helped out victims of fraud. …. …
NZHerald ads
Some ads are back – there is a Microsoft one (that’s smart enough to know I’m on a mac) served up by http://ads.apn.co.nz/ADCLICK/CID=xxx – which is not the former doubleclick method. There is also a super slow Sorted ad – served by http://secure-nz.imrworldwide.com/xxx, which is Neilsen. The ad appears quickly enough, but clicking on the …
Stuff ads
Well – perhaps there is just no advertising money out there at this time of year. Stuff has esentially no advertising showing. Maybe NZHerald is in the same situation, and is using Google ads as a backup plan. Good show if so. Trade Me, meanwhile, looks to have a full complement of ads, as does …
Woosh – viable or not?
Woosh made a $24m loss on operating revenue of just $10.4m. Operating revenue (which is net sales) was actually down slightly on the previous year, while EBITDA was $12m. Clearly some interest and depreciation in there, which they say is related to network investment. Despite a claim that it will break even this year, these …
NZHerald – resorting to google ads
The good news is that NZHerald is loading super quickly today. The not so good news for APN is that they are using Google ads instead of more lucrative display ads. I’d be really interested whether they are generating real revenue out of those Google ads, but I suspect not after looking at the advertisers. …
on counting correctly
Realestate.co.nz state on their homepage that they are “featuring over 75,000 properties”. Actually, if you add up the listings, they have just 71,522. Seek.co.nz state on their homepage that they have “12,242 jobs online”. Actually if you hit the search button they show just 11,836 jobs. Search4jobs.co.nz show 6,586 jobs if you hit the search …
getting directions
wises.co.nz – it would be nice if your website driving direction feature actually worked on New Years Eve – after all lots of people are travelling. Multimap is guilty of being down as well – in fact only (strangely enough) Yellow Pages worked right now, which uses Multimap and does provide weird results. It seems …
Yahoo! Personals NZ?
With the coming of Yahoo!xtra to New Zealand, will we see the entry of Yahoo! personals? There is an Australian version already, and it seems a gimme to at least give it a serious try in NZ. The Australian site states that it is a place to find Kiwi’s as well, but there are not …
Lance Wiggs 