New Business Part 2

New Business Part 2

On Thursday / Friday I wrote a long piece trying to make more sense of the credit crisis. Well that post snowballed and I kept making updates. This means some of the regular visitors may have missed parts. For that reason I have cut the post into 2 sections –...
Customers in the Middle

Customers in the Middle

As often happens the last post on customer service prompted a flurry of emails. Thanks to Philip for the ideas in this extended sequence as quoted below. In effect a guest post… “Churn is a well known issue in the telecommunications sector but I was piqued...
Petrol and Public Policy in NZ

Petrol and Public Policy in NZ

This morning I was reading some questions over on this post. Another related question is what are the public policy impacts of having a tax on a tax (GST on excise for petrol) and shouldn’t that be sorted? “We think we have it bad in New Zealand paying...
Effective websites and Marketing 101

Effective websites and Marketing 101

The early internet was an exciting era and we’ve all come a long way since then; but then again looking at many of the websites I see on a daily basis I’m not so sure. This post is my way of opening up the conversation to see if we can do much better in...
Changing the world with Dave Eggers.

Changing the world with Dave Eggers.

In the last post I mentioned that the TED prize broadcasts were going to be live so that anyone could see the video as it happened from the TED conference. There were 3 sessions plus a musical performance. It was great to get an idea of the conference in real time...