The spirit of entrepreneurship is alive and well! This is probably not news to you; but it is something that I have noticed more and more recently and I feel it is worth mentioning especially as there is a direct correlation (I feel) between the proliferation of social media and social networks and entrepreneurs. Something …
This is one of those posts where you are pretty sure that you are going to pick up some flack from futurists and the like who are all ready to essentially lay down their lives to wearable technology and any other invention that starts bringing us close to post-humanism. Let me start by saying that …
Social business is a term that is taking the business world by storm of late. Some have defined it as the zenith of social media marketing – in other words a way that social media can finally prove its worth to the organisation. Others define it as a way of digitizing the pre-existing social relationships …
This is more of an observation and some social commentary than a definitive choice in what social media authority service to use. Perhaps that is because there are too many flaws in the currently available social media authority figures. Essentially my question around social media authority is this: Does a large Twitter following (as an …
Content Marketing has become one of the greatest marketing buzzwords in use today. Everyone seems to be jumping on the content marketing bandwagon; but very few are thinking through all the aspects of content marketing and this is what makes content marketing fall short of its promised mark. The following will outline the six aspects …
Facebook and Wolfram Alpha do not naturally go together in the same sentence. Now, I am sure you all know who Stephan Wolfram is! If not, he is the gentleman who gave us Wolfram Alpha; the computational knowledge engine (which is a whole lot more than just a search engine. A computational knowledge engine gives you …
Content creation is one of the most talked about areas of digital marketing at the moment; but there is a lot more to it than simply putting a lot of words down on a blog post before you can call it a content marketing strategy. Essentially there are initially 7 different aspects of content marketing …
This differs quite a bit from my usual type of posts, but it is a topic that has a rather tenuous link to online marketing – but more specifically – content marketing. You see, when you present content to a group of people at a conference or in a speech there is a specific format …
Last week seems to have been the week of interesting digital marketing statistics. There were stats released that cover everything from AdWords right through to mobile ad spend and China! The following are my top 5 as well as some loose interpretation around them. 1. AdWords This one stirred up quite a bit of controversy …
I wrote a post similar to this over two years ago when I essentially compared the DA to the ANC in their digital marketing strategies. With the rise of a new political party, Agang, to the South African political arena, I thought that maybe it was a good idea to have a cursory glance over their …
