[Peter Gilbert] Two trillion dollars worth of transactions every day. Planet Earth is open for business. And it never stops. Businesses selling to consumers. Businesses selling to other businesses. The global economy is expanding rapidly. Each year over fifty million businesses are created. It's chaotic, hyper-competitive. What does this mean for sales?
[Douglas Kruger] As a professional speaker, I spend more time at airports than I do eating, sleeping or singing in the shower. Recently, after dragging my bags across the semi-dark of the OR Tambo parking garage, I found a little pink Post-It note attached to the side-view mirror of my car. It had a name and a phone number, and, ominously, nothing more. 5 Nov 2009 12:59
[Katharina Scholtz] Setting goals based on your client's and your organisation's needs can dictate design and navigation choices and ultimately determine how you measure the return on investment. 27 Oct 2009 12:23
[Peter Gilbert] The old debate about whether salespeople are born or made rages on, but it is really a non-argument these days, and great salespeople require a combination of natural talent and the skills acquired through training, practice, coaching, reading, continuous self-improvement and motivation. Here are a few suggestions on working smart 27 Oct 2009 11:42
[Luke Doig] There can be little doubt that retailers face a bleak peak spending season and they are going to have to make a supreme effort to retain market share and attempt to ensure that the declining share of Christmas sales to annual retail sales is arrested. 20 Oct 2009 09:55
Tracer CQM has appointed Rollout, a Stellenbosch-based company, to resell its solutions. As a leading sales productivity methodology and mobile sales company, Tracer CQM combines sector-leading sales and customer value insights; new-generation technology and handheld computers to boost the overall sales process. 8 Oct 2009 11:10
The University of Pretoria and the National Credit Regulator (NCR) have produced a 331-page report entitled The debt counselling process: challenges to consumers and the credit industry in general that spells out the shortcomings in the debt restructuring process and applicable law and identifies the parties responsible for delays or prevention of the process finalisation. 1 Oct 2009 12:47
Digital marketing in South Africa is a fairly young industry and as a result it has a lot to learn. At the same time however, it is becoming progressively skilful and more advanced as an evolving discipline. 28 Sep 2009 07:42
As with everything in life, we can't hope to achieve an objective, if we don't have one to start with. And if we did, what would it be without a plan to reach it? Although this seems obvious, it's alarming how little an objective is considered when embarking on an advertising campaign. And then there's digital... digiVOX, in partnership with Bizcommunity.com, is tackling these issues through a series of one-day training workshops for those involved in digital media planning, or sales. 15 Sep 2009 10:58
[Chris Moerdyk] Online seems to be leading ad spend out of the recession doldrums in South Africa, with significant increases in revenue finding their way through Internet portals. In July this year, for example, Bizcommunity.com recorded an all-time high in terms of gross revenue since its launch almost 10 years ago. 8 Sep 2009 10:50
The first in a series of training workshops covering digital media planning and advertising sales in the age of online will be held in Cape Town on 15 October 2009. The workshop, presented by digiVOX, is endorsed by the Online Publishers Association (OPA) and in is run in partnership with Bizcommunity.com. 7 Sep 2009 07:03
The inaugural Media Owner Sales Team (MOST) Awards was held on Tuesday, 1 September 2009 to celebrate the top media marketing and sales teams in South Africa, an initiative of Wag the Dog Publishers. Overall MOST Award went to the team at Avusa Media: Newspapers. 4 Sep 2009 10:44