LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT A Dinner Diva's Mexican Feast[Nina Timm] This Mexican Family Feast was my meal choice when I heard that I was a contestant and had to cook in the new cooking/blogging series called Dinner Divas. Why Mexican? It's simple, we love it! | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Summer springs new opportunities for OOH[Ingrid von Stein] It is with awe and amazement that I meet summer every year, and in my heart there is always a kind of reverence for the magnificence of nature's own marketing team. For two thirds of every year the West Coast region and Namaqualand remains under the radar, just long enough for the world to nearly forget it exists. Then Nature's professional marketing teams take the lead and the whole world stops to notice. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Apple: from icon to product[Lex Faure] With the bumpy launch of the iPhone 5, and the underwhelming response to the new Apple iPad mini, attention has again been drawn to difference between Apple the brand and Apple the icon. | |
Nugh Tyer | [Maritime & Fishing] We provide transport and accommodation services for the Marine Industry. |
One-Corporate One-Entrepreneur | [Government] OCOE is an empowerment campaign by an NPO equip entrepreneurs with necessary tools 2 compass & navigate business opportunities that can create value in their own communities. |
One-Corporate One-Entrepreneur | [Energy & Mining] OCOE is an empowerment campaign that will equip entrepreneurs with necessary tools 2 compass & navigate business opportunities that can create value in their own communities. |
MARKETING & MEDIA Is your PR pushing pictures and paper?[Lorrianne Cloete] In the world of consumer lifestyle PR, it wasn't long ago when a close, well-managed relationship with a handful of key publications was enough to secure you high profile coverage for a brand and its key products. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA South Africa needs to enter remarketing[Richard Mullins] Companies that want to position themselves to drive business value from digital marketing must start working towards mastering the discipline of remarketing or risk getting left behind by nimbler rivals. | [Funny Business] Retrenchment[Rico Schacherl] |
MARKETING & MEDIA The 'certifiable' are running universal analytics on Google - a game changer in web analytics[Anne Scharlow] Once a year the 'certifiable' meet just off Google's campus in Mountain View, San Francisco and share new developments with like-minded visionaries with a passion for the user journey and website optimisation through Google Analytics. | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT A trip to Terror Island[Ruth Cooper] First we were treated to some pretty amazing hologramic live visuals and electro sounds courtesy of Etienne De Crecy, then we rocked out in an abandoned cement factory in Nyanga with Two Door Cinema Club, this year act three of the #5GumExperience found us bound for a trip to Terror Island. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA What skills do entrepreneurs really need?[Abram Molelemane] A great idea and the necessary resources to start a business are no guarantee of success. So many have had a sound idea and have executed it passionately and into the right market, but still found themselves as one of the nine out of ten small businesses that fail. What could have gone wrong? | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Primedia Lifestyle future proofing its malls[Doug Mayne] Current tight market conditions have forced the retail property marketing specialist to be more innovative than ever before to ensure a healthy return on investment for clients. | |
AUTOMOTIVE V40 is Volvo's new sparkling gem[Henrie Geyser] The exciting new Volvo B40 range has strutted on to the local motoring stage with all the cheek and bravado of a new car that has just recently been unveiled in Europe to the equivalent of a standing ovation by international motoring writers - and with good reason, because this is the most exciting and most impressive Volvo yet to flow from the marriage between the Swedes and their Chinese rescuers. | |
TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY Stop at Ambre[Rod Baker] Feel like a family getaway with the kids? What a silly question - and if you want a reasonably priced holiday for yourselves as a couple, for your honeymoon, or for the family (and maybe even the family and your honeymoon), checking out Ambre, Mauritius, would be one of your better moves. | |
TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY Small hotel, big experience: 10 out of 10[Brian Berkman] By winning the title of South Africa's Best Luxury Country Hotel for the second consecutive year in the 2012 World Luxury Hotel Awards, The Robertson Small Hotel has confirmed itself as a go-to destination. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA This is an era of advertising evolution[Tinyiko Maswanganye] Advertising has changed. The consumers have changed. The audience preferences have changed, too. The most remarkable change has been the shift by brands to direct the attention to the majority. | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT Seeing Red[Eugene Yiga] John Logan (screenwriter of Oscar-winning Gladiator, The Aviator, and Hugo, as well as co-writer of Skyfall) makes his way back to writing for the stage in Red. The play won six Tony Awards in 2010 (including Best New Play) and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play in 2012. A local staging, produced by the team behind the award-winning Cabaret, is now showing in Cape Town for a limited run. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA At a loss for words[Michelle Mardon] Today, the role that technology plays in influencing the manner in which South African brands communicate with their target audiences is enormous. The obvious reasons include fast and convenient marketing message transmission through a multitude of technological platforms such as e-mail, social networks, websites, YouTube etc. | |
AUTOMOTIVE SA Car of the Year finalists[Henrie Geyser] The South African Guild of Motoring Journalists has announced the 12 finalists in the running for this year's coveted title of SA Car of the Year. |