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Jessica Tennant
MARKETING & MEDIA
#NewCampaign: Sol Beer's 'My sunshine in a bottle', a South African first

#NewCampaign: Sol Beer's 'My sunshine in a bottle', a South African first
[Jessica Tennant] Sol Beer's 'My sunshine in a bottle' campaign, created in partnership with The Odd Number and launched in November last year, has to date reached a new audience of 900,000 followers and an engagement rate of 6%, surpassing the industry standard of 1%...

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Brendan Seery
MARKETING & MEDIA
#OrchidsandOnions: When cute becomes cloying and how to win (and lose) at the car insurance business

#OrchidsandOnions: When cute becomes cloying and how to win (and lose) at the car insurance business
[Brendan Seery] Sometimes cute does work in advertising. And sometimes, as a critic of advertising, if you pan something which is cute - or, even more dangerous, includes an animal - you incur the wrath of diverse constituencies, whose hate mail wishes you all manner of unpleasantness...

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Grant Fleming
MARKETING & MEDIA
Key trends in email marketing 2018: What you didn't know about this tried and tested channel

Key trends in email marketing 2018: What you didn't know about this tried and tested channel
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[Grant Fleming] While wide usage of email has been around since the early 1990s, it remains a tried and tested tool for communication, and particularly for effective direct marketing campaigns...

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Jarryd Chatz
IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Part III: The rules and language of the internet

Part III: The rules and language of the internet
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[Jarryd Chatz] Our 'how the internet works' series is dedicated to helping you understand what the internet is, what it does, and how it works...

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Damon Stapleton
MARKETING & MEDIA
Be somewhere

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Image © Damon's Brain
[Damon Stapleton] I want you to imagine I am telling you the story of Goldilocks and the three bears. In your head, run it through. Picture all the details, the twists and turns and the big ending...

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Ken van Ginkel
[Marketing & Media] 

The latest TV commercial for Chicken Licken's Hotwings product sees traditional ATL agency Joe Public set out to once again show the extreme lengths one goes in order to satisfy the craving...

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Jessica Tennant
MARKETING & MEDIA
#Newsmaker: Philasande Sokhela partners with Artifact SA

#Newsmaker: Philasande Sokhela partners with Artifact SA
[Jessica Tennant] Artifact SA recently partnered with Philasande Sokhela, taking the ad agency to level 4 BBBEE (under the new MAC codes) with several divisions offering specialities where needed, including digital (level 4 SME), promotions (100% black-owned), integrated (51% black-owned) and print (51% black-owned)...

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Nicci Botha
HEALTHCARE
New clinical skills training centre aims to improve quality and safety

New clinical skills training centre aims to improve quality and safety
[Nicci Botha] The quality and outcomes of the health service often boils down to getting the basics right, such as employing best practices in clinical procedures...

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Leigh Andrews
MARKETING & MEDIA
#BehindtheSelfie with... Musa Kalenga

Kalenga on camera.
Kalenga on camera.
[Leigh Andrews] This week we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Musa Kalenga, chief future officer at House of Brave (HOB)...

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Lunice Johnston
MARKETING & MEDIA
Tiger Brands' failed attempt to manage the listeriosis crisis is costing them severely

[Lunice Johnston] Failing to plan for a reputational crisis happens more often than it is comfortable to think about. Lunice Johnston writes about what steps are crucial to successfully handling a reputational crisis...

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Adrian Goslett
PROPERTY & REAL ESTATE
1% matters - how the VAT increase affects property sales

1% matters - how the VAT increase affects property sales
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[Adrian Goslett] The power of one: a phrase that has been quoted in many a clichéd motivational poster, but one whose power has never quite been fully grasped - until now...

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Martin Myers
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
#MusicExhange: Jennifer Ferguson

#MusicExhange: Jennifer Ferguson
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[Martin Myers] Jennifer Ferguson's songs for healing comes to the Baxter for four performances only, from 4 to 7 April 2018.

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Tom Jackson
IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
SA machine learning startup DataProphet secures Knife Capital funding

SA machine learning startup DataProphet secures Knife Capital funding
[Tom Jackson] Cape Town-based machine learning startup DataProphet, which develops and implements product development solutions to a wide range of industries, has now received a multi-million dollar funding round from Knife Capital...

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Lauren Hartzenberg
RETAIL
#ECMA18: It's not an apocalypse, it's a retail revolution

Nicholas Haralambous
Nicholas Haralambous
[Lauren Hartzenberg] As store closures continue across the globe, we're witnessing the demise of physical retail as we know it...

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Leigh Andrews
MARKETING & MEDIA
What they don't teach you at university: The PR Hustle

The PR Hustle... All images © Mick Creative.
The PR Hustle... All images © Mick Creative.
[Leigh Andrews] There's no denying those who work in the public relations and media industry work hard. But in 2018, it's all about working smarter, not harder. So if there's a way to streamline and simplify the process of both generating content and ensuring media coverage, both sides benefit. That's where Jana Leonard's PR Hustle fills a gap...

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Sindy Peters
ESG & SUSTAINABILITY
Serve others and the money will follow, says entrepreneur Pontsho Manzi

Serve others and the money will follow, says entrepreneur Pontsho Manzi
[Sindy Peters] Pontsho Manzi, managing director of Botlhokwa Group, is a businesswoman with the Midas touch...

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Ilse van den Berg
IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
How to avoid falling prey to a Facebook/Cambridge Analytica-type scandal

How to avoid falling prey to a Facebook/Cambridge Analytica-type scandal
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[Ilse Burger] Following revelations that Cambridge Analytica exploited the personal data of millions of Facebook users, the social network is finding itself in a remarkably anti-social predicament...

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Cari Coetzee
TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY
The private members club set to transform Africa

The private members club set to transform Africa
[Cari Coetzee] The QSL Members Club will be an incubator for Africa's leading lights, an organic platform for ideas to be birthed, connections to be forged and for plans to be set in motion...

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