Category Archives: Trade Me

This is not a serious post – unless you want to be Trade Me CFO

Posted on October 19, 2011 by

Trade Me likes to ask candidates for jobs to perform a task that should be simple and fun for the applicant. For the CFO they are looking for it’s to do the following: Now the idea of calculating how much … Continue reading →

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Your time is nigh Ticketek. React or die.

Posted on April 28, 2010 by

Been to this site recently? Not many have. Just 6500 visitors a day visit Autotrader, a lot less than the over 140,000 per day average that visit Trade Me Motors. Autotrader lost because everything was just too hard and too … Continue reading →

Posted in Internet Business, NZ Business, Trade Me | 22 Comments

Goodbye Trade and Exchange

Posted on November 6, 2009 by

Michael Carney picks up that Trade and Exchange has finally given up on publishing in print. They ceased to be relevant a number of years ago, and will not be missed today. However Trade and Exchange were the Trade Me … Continue reading →

Posted in auctions, fairfax, Trade Me | Tagged | 4 Comments

Let’s make it happen

Posted on May 26, 2009 by

On Tuesday last week I was lucky enough to listen to an interesting range of cool people give 5 minute talks on the topics of their choice. (ok – only one person hit the 5 minute market exactly, and he … Continue reading →

Posted in Internet Business, Life, New Zealand Institute, NZ Business, Trade Me | 5 Comments

Well done Trade Me, but the threat remains

Posted on May 25, 2009 by

There’s an interesting article over at eBay strategies, which talks about how eBay lost the market for classifieds and mentions that Amazon is taking out the top end. (If you work at Trade Me then you should have eBay Strategies … Continue reading →

Posted in auctions, Business, Internet Business, Trade Me | Tagged | 6 Comments

Why are Harcourts not yet on Trade Me?

Posted on May 22, 2009 by

There’s a fun discussion happening over on the Unconditional Blog – which if you have not found it yet is well worth following. I commend Alister Helm for not only his writing, but also for balancing the real estate industry … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Internet Business, Trade Me | 5 Comments

Make it easy for me to leave you – unsubscribing

Posted on May 21, 2009 by

Like Rowan, I’ve been unsubscribing from a lot of list emails recently. Let’s see what we can learn from the process. The Good The best email subscriptions are easy to unsubscribe from – requiring a simple click from inside the … Continue reading →

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