If you are a cricket fan; keep reading. If you are not a cricket fan; keep reading! With the Cricket World Cup 2015 having literally taken the world by storm over the last few weeks; I thought this was an appropriate time to acknowledge the genius that is the SAP involvement in the CWC. For the …
Continuing our theme about this being the year of the customer; I thought that today would be a great time to chat about content marketing. A facet of marketing that crosses seamlessly between online and offline. Although marketers the world over all agree that content marketing is vitally important; not all of them are getting it right. So …
According to the Chinese Zodiac, this is the year of the Goat… Which is great… I guess… But more to the point – I think that this is the year of the customer! As I mentioned in a related post earlier this week; organisations are going to have to start thinking more about how their …
Merry Christmas!! A bit shocked at the timing of this post? Well now you know how I felt when I walked into the Cresta Shopping Centre Checkers and was greeted with a hearty, “Merry Christmas!”, as I went through the doors and was further confronted by reindeer, fake snow and other festive wonders!! This post …
When you speak to a search marketer about Search Engine Optimisation; very quickly the conversation can move to the technical aspects of SEO. Breaking it down to the nuances of offsite and onsite SEO. Understanding how the tags on a page need to interact with the URL; headline and image alt-text. And this is all …
Content Marketing and Social Business are indeed linked. Joined at the hip if you will. The simple reason for this is that as much as your external audience thrives on content to become engaged with your brand, products and services – so do your internal stakeholders. See, content marketing or content strategy is the process of …
Earlier I posted an article about the definition of social business and how I believe it is far more about breaking down silos within an organisation than just about having a social presence. After a while I thought that maybe the term “social business” itself is something which needs work in order to ensure that …
There are a lot of definitions around social business. But there are 2 that have a lot of followers behind them. One of them is right; and the other in my opinion is very wrong! First; let’s look at the one I disagree with. Social business in my opinion is NOT when you are using …
Technology has become the the primary driver of change and innovation in business around the world, but nowhere is this more important than in our very own African continent. Acknowledging this is drive of technological innovation is professional services firm Deloitte whom in partnership with SAP, Dell, Investec, Endeavor and SEDA has launched the Deloitte Technology Fast50 Africa …
I have not written about Klout in a while; in fact I have not logged in to Klout in a really long time either. The craze of checking to see what my “Klout Score” was kind of passed and dwindled into obscurity slightly. But be that as it may I logged into Klout again during …
