#MusicExchange: Jarrad Ricketts

[Martin Myers] Jarrad Ricketts is a singer-songwriter and performer based in Cape Town, who is making great strides within the music industry.

Longevity through customer experience

[Danette Breitenbach] When it comes to customer experience, many brands talk the talk. Not that many walk the walk. Avis Rent a Car (Avis) is not one of these...

#StartupStory: Kingdom Agency

[Jessica Tennant] Kingdom is the new agency on the block, with a heart for positive messaging and making a difference. As such, the insight, strategy and creative agency, founded by friends Donna Mathews and Herman Wallis, applies a triple-win philosophy, whereby...

Reminiscing about Wimpy's sizzling campaigns

[Juanita Pienaar] Wimpy is celebrating its 50th birthday and managing executive Molla Bonnet reminisces by talking us through some of her favourite Wimpy campaigns to date...

#EntrepreneurMonth: Life after rugby

[Nicci Botha] After 10 years of professional rugby playing for the Lions, Stormers and Stade Francais in Paris, Anton van Zyl hung up his boots...

When was the sale lost?

[Chris Brewer] Every now and then I find myself looking at a vehicle that carries no detail about the company the driver works for and what they do - such a wasted opportunity.

Living le good life at Langebaan Country Estate

[Ilse Burger] Out on the R27, mountains get replaced with sand dunes and flat, stretched out spaces. But that doesn't mean it's any less beautiful. In fact, I find the West Coast allows me to breathe a bit...

How to influence the customer of the future

[Jill Young Schutte] No one can accurately predict the future, but present-day research and information can direct us on how to make informed decisions for days ahead...

The power of consumer insights (combined with woke strategy and creative)

[Thomas Sepheka] Never has it been so evident to acknowledge and value the power of consumer insights in 2017...

#BODJHB: Chris Weylandt on the basics of retail

[Jessica Tennant] On day two of the Johannesburg version of Business of Design, Chris Weylandt explained his tactics to competing or rather leading in the retail game...

#GBCSA2017: The potential for buildings to become mini utilities

[Sindy Peters] The future of large public utilities, such as Eskom, is uncertain...

#NewCampaign: Local Land Rover campaign features in Figaro Digital magazine

[Jessica Tennant] Figaro Digital recently featured Exponential's Land Rover campaign in their case studies section...

Cocreating the CapeTalk conversation in the digital decade

[Leigh Andrews] With the rise of social media, there's a deluge of that 'breaking news' information to sift through. You need to be ready to switch focus at the drop of a hat - even while on-air...

Drought threatens industry, but fine wine booms

[Roland Peens] A significant drop in yield on an already unprofitable model means the industry will take a serious hit in 2018. The lack of rain during winter has left vines across the Cape without the required water reserves...

Sikuvile Awards 2017: Recognising the soldiers of the truth

[Danette Breitenbach] The Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalist of the Year 2017, City Press' Sipho Masondo, says he received death threats as well as bribes when he was working on the story that earned him the Award...

#EntrepreneurMonth: Go out there and do something that you love

[Ilse Burger] A startup born in a dorm room in 2007 is now a successful business with 36 stores around the country. To date, weFix has expertly repaired smartphones as well as tablets, laptops, and DJI drones for over 700,000 customers...

#EntrepreneurMonth: Supporting disadvantaged artists through the Grassroots Art Project

[Ruth Cooper] Poor working conditions, minimum access to beneficial networks and lack of skills and resources for promotion are just a few of the challenges that disadvantaged artists face when aiming to make viable careers from their creativity.

O'Brian on the entrepreneur-driven business of advertising transformation

[Leigh Andrews] O'Brian is a true SA advertising rarity - a 100% black-owned through-the-line agency with a 20-year track record. Cofounder Mxolisi Evan Tyawa lets us in on the agency's highlights, as well as his views on economic transformation in advertising over the last 20 years - or rather, lack thereof - and how to make this a reality going forward...