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Deadline looms for Mondi newspaper awards
How to deal with cranky old customers
Call for entries to Maputo Advertising Festival
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Marketing | | SME awarded lottery contract
Ngikwazi Field Marketing, a new joint venture between Avocado Vision and Can Do, was recently awarded a lottery contract by Gidani, the new lottery operator as of 1 April 2007. Its mandate is to find, train, accredit and provide ongoing support to the 8000 new and existing lottery retailers.
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| | | Call for entries to Maputo Advertising Festival
Entries for the second annual Maputo International Advertising Festival are now open. The festival, organised by AMEP, honours and recognises advertising agencies, producers and other communication companies from any part of the world, especially from the southern Africa and Indian Ocean regions.
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Cinema | | SA writer among Hollywood’s best emerging screenwriters
The Fourth Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Awards recently named Capetonian screenwriter Paul Johnson’s screenplay, The Last Marine, among the top 10 screenplays honoured this year, following a six-month process of assessing the work of 2500 new screenwriters.
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CRM | | How to deal with cranky old customers
[Chris Moerdyk]There are a lot of cute little phrases used in the business of managing customers. Most of which make those of us who have been in the business for a while want to go outside and throw up in the gladioli. But, there are some buzzwords that have a huge amount of merit. Like “exceeding expectation”.
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Design | | Adobe to release PDF for industry standardisation
Adobe intends to release the full Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), the company announced last week.
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| | | Demystifying “bidding for business with Google Adwords” - Low Fat Digital Communications
[Darren Reardon]The first reason why pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is so important is that you do not pay for customers to view your advert, but rather to act on it! Traditional banner ads are something like billboards – if the customer is in the right place, they will see the advertisement and may act on it.
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| | | Revlon chooses partner-in-style to produce events - Stephanie Moss Solutions
 Revlon South Africa has chosen a ‘partner-in-style’ to produce its 2007 divisional sales forums. The cosmetics and beauty care house has again appointed Stephanie Moss Solutions, creator of stylish events and incentive solutions, to produce the annual events.
More music superstars for SA
Not only is Sir Cliff Richard putting on a third show, on Thursday 8 March 2007, at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town, veteran rock ‘n roll group Guns N’ Roses is scheduled to headline the My Coke Fest, taking place in Johannesburg on 27 April and Cape Town on 1 May – its first appearance in South Africa. “I’ve been fortunate enough to play in some of the most historic buildings and stadiums around the world but performing in South Africa will truly be an honor,” says lead vocalist Axl Rose “I can’t wait to see South Africa. This is a dream come true”.
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Exhibitions | | Complimentary diary of exhibitions - Scan Display
Scan Display Solutions is giving away copies of the Exhibition Association of Southern Africa’s January 2007 diary, which includes all the latest information on exhibitions taking place in southern Africa in 2007.
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Magazines | | Top UK editor for customer publishing seminar
 Kerry Smith, editor of the UK customer title High Life that is distributed free to 350 000 British Airways passengers on all BA flights worldwide, has joined the line-up of speakers for South Africa’s first-ever customer publishing seminar being organised by New Media Publishing and Paarl Media.
Facelift for award-winning accountancy journal
 Accounting and auditing journal Accountancy SA (ASA) has been modernised and revamped, inspired by recognition of the need to remain reader friendly and to stay competitive in the forever-growing print media industry. The new look includes a revised masthead and a fresh page design.
How mags get goods into bags - New Media Publishing
 The power of customer magazines in driving profit and increasing customer loyalty cannot be underestimated and any brand strategist or marketer ignoring this powerful medium does so at their peril. This is the core message of the topics and case studies to be covered by the six keynote speakers at South Africa’s first customer publishing conference that takes place on Friday, 15 February 2007, at the Cape Town International Conference Centre.
Saltwater GIRL, Roxy to host first women’s only invitational in SA - Saltwater GIRL
 Top ranked women surfers from all over South Africa will be waiting patiently to be called out to one of the most innovative women’s surf events of the year, the 2007 ROXY Invitational, for which Saltwater GIRL magazine is the exclusive media partner.
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| | | Deadline looms for Mondi newspaper awards
The final countdown until Friday, 9 February 2007, has begun. Newspaper journalists, feature writers, photographers, graphic artists and layout artists are reminded to enter their best work in the sixth annual Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards.
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| | | The power of babble
The modern corporate world is infatuated with cringe-inducing buzzwords… But what’s fascinating – and not necessarily in a good way – is that over the past few years there has been a discernible growth in the use of superfluous and stupid euphemisms, catch-phrases and job titles in the business world.
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| | | Brand Scan children's research establishes what's 'cool' - Volcano Group
 Since the early 1990s, Reggie’s Dunk has been one of South Africa’s iconic children’s television quiz shows and a hot favourite among the target market. To ensure the show is still relevant today, Reggie’s commissioned Brand Scan, part of the Volcano Group, to explore the current insights and perceptions of the TV show and establish how it could be improved.
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| | | Virgin seals the deal
Virgin Money is the headline sponsor for M-Net’s new blockbuster game show, Deal or no Deal, which debuted on Sunday, 4 February 2007. Being a new brand which only launched in June last year, this is Virgin Money’s first-ever association with an M-Net programme. “There was obvious value in aligning ourselves with Deal or No Deal, because of a number of synergies,” says the company’s Josi McKenzie. “At Virgin Money, everyone gets a good deal in terms of our credit card offering.”
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| | | Live at the Oscars
Nicky Greenwall of e.tv’s The Showbiz Report will once again travel to Los Angeles to bring in-depth coverage of the build-up to the 79th Annual Academy Awards. The show will feature behind the scenes interviews with the men and woman who make the evening happen, as well as a look at what the stars have to say about their nominations. The Showbiz Report’s Oscar coverage starts the night before the Academy Awards on Saturday, 24 February 2007, at 7:30pm and continues on Saturday 3 March, also at 7:30pm.
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| | Events to diarise | 12-week filmmaking course The Excellent Film School - Johannesburg, 24 February
A dynamic, intensive 12-week course providing training in all practical aspects of filmmaking. | | | BOB TV 2007 BOB TV Nigeria - Abuja, FCT, 11 March
BOBTV 2007 addresses the content needs of broadcasters, film buyers and sellers in Africa. | | | Powerspeaking programme The Voice Clinic - Johannesburg, 14 March / Pretoria, 14 March
Empower yourself to present and communicate with enhanced confidence, assertiveness and dynamism! | | | Adobe Photoshop AAA School of Advertising - 444 Jan Smuts Avenue, Johannesburg, 16 April
This two-week course will teach you from a practical point of view, the art of digital image and photo manipulation, editing, modification and enhancement, ranging from basic to advanced. | | | Principles of marketing communication AAA School of Advertising - 444 Jan Smuts Avenue, Johannesburg, 5 May
AAA School of Advertising offers a three year diploma in marketing communication. | | | Macromedia Freehand AAA School of Advertising - 444 Jan Smuts Avenue, Bordeaux, 7 May
A two-week course in Macromedia Freehand that not only teaches you how to utilise this powerful vector-based package from a drawing and page layout perspective but so much more. | | |
| | Upcoming events | Strategic brand management IMM Graduate School of Marketing - Cape Town, 6 February Sussed email marketing Sussed Seminars - Johannesburg, 6 February Selling with confidence The Communication Academy - Irene/Midrand, 6 February Online marketing research IMM Graduate School of Marketing - Johannesburg, 6 February Key account management for sustainable advantage IMM Graduate School of Marketing - Johannesburg, 6 February Marketing planning for profit and value IMM Graduate School of Marketing - Johannesburg, 6 February Strategic brand management IMM Graduate School of Marketing - Cape Town, 6 February Effective selling skills IMM Graduate School of Marketing - Johannesburg, 7 February Online Industry Summit KUGM - Johannesburg, 7 February SA 2010 lets do business conference the Business Dialogue Forum - Gaborone, 7 February | More... Submit an event | | |
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International publication seeks highly motivated, successful, hard-working sales executive. Ideal candidate will possess at least five years' experience in sales/marketing and have solid understanding of the South African "brandscape". read more
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