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MARKETING & MEDIA

#Bookmarks2017: Digital download with... Superbalist

Superbalist says, "We’ll always have our selfie!"

[Leigh Andrews] Local digirati shone at the recent IAB Bookmark Awards 2017. Here's some feedback from Klyne Maharaj, marketing manager at Superbalist...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

#Bookmarks2017: Digital download with... Net#work BBDO

[Leigh Andrews] Local digirati shone at the recent IAB Bookmark Awards 2017. Here's some feedback from Brad Reilly, ECD at Net#work BBDO...

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LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT

#OnTheBigScreen: Action heroes and deadly rivals

[Daniel Dercksen] Two local films are released this week: a pacifist primary school teacher is hunted down in the taut thriller Jagveld, and a young professor consumed by alcoholism is saved from self-destruction in The Tribe...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

#Bookmarks2017: Digital download with... Rogerwilco

Team Rogerwilco at the IAB Bookmark Awards 2017.

[Leigh Andrews] Local digirati shone at the recent IAB Bookmark Awards 2017. Here's some feedback from Charlie Stewart, CEO at Rogerwilco...

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TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY

Know these top five marketing trends to travel in 2017

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[Stephen Marshal] With purchases happening online, the travel industry is going completely digital to expand its business beyond expectations. Here are a few trends for the year 2017 that you need to watch out for...

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FINANCE & INSURANCE

How Africa's mobile revolution is reaching the unbanked

Andrew Torre, Visa president for sub-Saharan Africa. Source: Tass

[Nicci Botha] The continent's mobile banking revolution is only just beginning, and although payment systems are becoming more seamless, cash is still king in Africa...

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RETAIL

Making customer feedback pay off

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[Wynand Smit] The entire customer journey, whether in sales or customer service, must be as seamless as possible and working with feedback from your customers is the best place to start...

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Ruth Cooper

[With or Without Sugar]

What are the prominent business leaders, politicians and public figures thinking about when it comes to managing their images and messages in the media and the public domain? In this episode, Giles Shepherd, Group CEO at The Brand Alive Group, chats to leading image and communications consultant, Dick Foxton, CEO of Foxton Communicating, about the intrinsics of building and managing a successful personal brand.

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HUMAN RESOURCES & MANAGEMENT

Skilled workforce on tap – the rise of the on-demand economy

[Phillipa Geard] The on-demand economy is growing and bringing with it a fair share of social change that is about to shape the future of work in 2017...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

How direct are you?

[Andrew MacKenzie] When I mention direct marketing, do you cringe and think of all those offers you receive overflowing in your postbox? Although this form of direct marketing does have a place, I'm talking about direct marketing with a bit more impact, that's far more memorable...

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HUMAN RESOURCES & MANAGEMENT

Recruiting millennial graduates through EQ

[Antoinette Pombo] The reason it is so difficult to recruit graduates that are able to fit in and positively contribute to their team is the generational gap between the Millennials (graduates entering the workplace) and previous generations...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

#Bookmarks2017: Digital download with... King James Group

King James Group at the Bookmarks.

[Leigh Andrews] Local digirati shone at the recent IAB Bookmark Awards 2017. Here's some feedback from Dan Pinch, ECD at King James Group's Society and Matt Ross, Group ECD at King James and Punk…

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Ruth Cooper

Pixies - Cape Town

Pixies performed at Kirstenbosch Gardens, Cape Town on the 16 March 2017, with support from local band Springbok Nude Girls.

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MARKETING & MEDIA

#Bookmarks2017: Digital download with... Jolly Good Digital

[Leigh Andrews] Local digirati shone at the recent IAB Bookmark Awards 2017. Here's some feedback from Brian Palmer, head of digital at Jolly Good Digital…

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MARKETING & MEDIA

#Bookmarks2017: Digital download with... Vega School

Vega School's digital stars Bernard Cloete, Julia Smith and De Wet Cilliers.

[Leigh Andrews] Local digirati shone at the recent IAB Bookmark Awards 2017. Here's some feedback from Darren Meltz, copywriting and digital strategy lecturer at Vega School of Brand Leadership…

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Ruth Cooper

[IAB Bookmarks Awards]

Behind the scenes at the 2017 IAB Bookmark Awards,

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Ruth Cooper

[IAB Bookmarks Awards]

Danette Breitenbach chats to John Sanei, trend specialist at the 2017 IAB Digital Summit.

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FINANCE & INSURANCE

The race for the payments space

[Nicci Botha] Long the bastion of institutionalism and trust, and therefore fairly resilient to disruption, banks are now in a war of adapt or die...

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