PROPERTY & REAL ESTATE Wooing the market[John Roberts] There can be few people who doubt the residential property market currently favours buyers and that sellers, faced with extensive competition from alternative options, must do everything possible to present their homes in the most appealing fashion. | |
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Is tech good or bad for work-life balance?[Joanne Bushell] The number of mobile internet devices is set to outnumber humans by the end of this year.1 There'll be more smartphones and internet-connected tablets and monitors than there are people on the planet. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Put comfort and gratification into your event[Will Smith] When you plan a special event like a birthday or anniversary, an event planning company can really make things come together. This is especially useful for those who have very busy schedules and have no extra time to plan a party. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Selling solutions at the BOP: Does marketing matter?[Danielle Jaffit] Marketers are sometimes deemed as superficial and non-essential, value-adds to a business. Maybe its time to evaluate what marketing is at its core, designed to achieve, specifically when looking at selling solutions at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP). | |
RETAIL The future of category management[Warren Harding] In an environment where products are jostling for shelf space and consumer attention, category management is key to ensuring your brand stands out among the clutter. But when you're unable to personally be in every store all the time, how do you keep control and manage your products remotely? | |
MARKETING & MEDIA The practical implementation of real PR measurement... - Ornico[Francois van Dyk] A global public relations measurement survey done in March 2013 by US-based Ragan Communications and NASDAQ OMX showed an industry that was serious about tackling the problem of accurately measuring the value of public relations. | |
LOGISTICS & TRANSPORT Passing the bus[Chris Barry] In respect of the Johannesburg bus rapid transit (BRT) system, could someone please inform the public as to what is actually going on? | |
IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS When it comes to security, size doesn't matter[Doros Hadjizenonos] IT security has no respect for size. A hacking group can have hundreds or thousands of members globally, like anonymous, or just a handful, like the group that mounted the successful Eurograbber attacks against banks in 2012 - but in either case, the disruption to the target organisations is equally severe. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Would the real copywriter please stand up?[Dylan Balkind] In a world of SEO (dead or not) and the immediacy of content-to-consumer needed, there seems to be more copy needed than copywriters out there. Never fear, for an article titled How to get high-performance sales copy without hiring a copywriter hit the blogosphere recently. | |
LEGAL Confessions of a privileged lawyer[Prof Owen Dean] I have a confession to make. I plead guilty as charged. I admit that I am a white male establishment lawyer. I practised for 35 years as a partner of a prominent attorneys firm specialising in the field of intellectual property law (IP). Thereafter, upon retirement, I became a professor of IP Law. | |
LEGAL What does the law say about traditional healers?[Lia Marus] For many years, traditional healers have been looked at very sceptically by many of those who do not visit these practitioners for health-related ailments. However, recent cases which have passed through our courts have left many employers wondering if they now need to accept sick notes from traditional healers. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Aligning paid, earned and owned media for better returns[Chanel MacKay] Once-discrete marketing disciplines are rapidly converging. That means agencies, media planners and marketers need to reassess the way they think about their digital media strategies if they are to achieve a superior return on investment from their spending. | |
HUMAN RESOURCES & MANAGEMENT [BizCareers] Dealing with a glass ceiling and a curriculum mess[Juliette Attwell] These are the two questions we've brought to light this week. Both are important aspects to take into consideration should you decide to leave your current role and explore greener pastures. Is your CV a complete masterpiece or a complete mess? | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT Killing Them Softly[Daniel Dercksen] Killing Them Softly is a provocative film filled with suspense and intrigue that will definitely change your views on what happens in the underbelly of society. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA How Gmail's new inbox is changing the game for marketers[Gerhard Jacobs] Email is unlike other forms of mass media in the sense that, even with the privacy settings we have on social media, email remains yours and yours alone. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Mobile social video - the 'next big thing'?[Desiree Gullan] Everyone's constantly on the lookout for the 'next big thing' in social media, and Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo believes the micro-blogging site has found it in the form of social video sharing - and he may be right on the money. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA The really real reasons Omnicom and Publicis are merging[Justin McCarthy] Advertising dollars follow attention, always have, always will, irrespective of which channels the audiences can be found in. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA A sense of belonging - bite-size lessons from the Big Apple - Off the Shelf marketingBrooklyn bridge information signboard | |
MARKETING & MEDIA You need to create to be the best[Katlego Ledimo] Working life steps in and everything is about creating, adding value and originality, things that school did not really glorify. | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT There's a Disconnect[Charles Siboto] If there is one thing you should learn in this digital day and age (albeit not as digital as science and science fiction speculated in the 20th century) it's that social networks will undo you in a matter of seconds if you are not careful. |