| 24 Jul 2013 |
| Marketing & Media Africa | Marketing & Media, Advertising, Branding, Cinema, CRM, CSI, Design, Digital, Direct Marketing, Education & Training, Events & Conferencing, Exhibitions, Magazines, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Newspapers, Online Media, OOH, PR & Communications, Printing, Production, Promotions, Publishing, Radio, Recruitment, Research, Retail, Sales, Sponsorship, TEDxCapeTown, Trends, TV, Youth Marketing, 2012 Design Indaba |
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Today's top stories
 | [Mark Schefermann] Lately there seem to be a lot of campaigns that haven't managed to get the basics right of marketing. Here is a beautiful case study that sums up those basics that should be implemented for any campaign. (video) Read more >> |
 | The Homecoming Revolution London Expo, which takes place from 9-10 November 2013, is expanding its one-stop offering to attract not only South Africans back home, but East and West Africans back to their respective homelands too. Read more >> |
 | [Nicholas Rixon] There is a need for local application developers to develop apps specifically for the African market that solve local problems and provide utility to the local market. Read more >> |
 | [Paul Steyn] It's becoming common knowledge in the travel industry that the single most important part of a website, other than general booking information, is quality blog content. Read more >> |
Zaly Liberté FM, a privately-owned radio station based in N'Zérékoré, a district about 1,000 kilometres south of Conakry, the capital, was ordered to close down by the Minister of Communications, Togba Kpogomou, on 18 July 2013. Read more >>
 | [Matthew Gray] Google has become the definitive source for web search, handling 65.2% of all searches worldwide - more than four times the number of pages indexed by runners-up Yahoo! and Bing combined. In 2006, the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary even included the word "Google," as a new transitive verb as in, let's "google it." Read more >> |
 | [John French] Does cold calling leave you cold? Most people end up freezing when they are faced with the terrifying prospect of trying to sell something to a stranger on the other side of the phone. Read more >> |
 | BANGALORE, INDIA: India headquartered OnMobile Global Limited‚ a global leader in telecom value-added services (VAS)‚ announced on Tuesday that it has won a deal with MTN Group as preferred RBT partner. Read more >> |
 | FRANKFURT, GERMANY: Luxury car manufacturer Bentley, a unit of German company Volkswagen, said on Tuesday (23 July) it will go ahead with plans to launch a sport-utility vehicle in 2016. Read more >> |
 | SINGAPORE: MediaCom Sport has extended its global network with the launch of its first Asian office. The Singapore hub will act as the Asian headquarters for the WPP-owned sports consultancy. Read more >> |
More International
 | A new survey carried out by PPS, a financial services provider focused on graduate professionals, has revealed that of the more than 400 of South Africa's chartered accountants (CAs(SA)) surveyed, 80% believe that SA's struggling municipalities need greater assistance from industry bodies to help them improve their finances. Read more >> |
 | Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has appointed a retired judge to preside over the disciplinary hearing of the department's Director-General Bobby Soobrayan. Read more >> |
 | A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at exploring possible collaboration opportunities within the railway and transportation sector globally has been signed between Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) and the Kirilo Savic Institute (KSI). Read more >> |
 | [President Ntuli] Governments around the world are under enormous pressure to deliver more services with fewer resources. The current European economic climate in countries such as Greece, Spain and others have forced governments to cut their budgets by as much as 50% in some cases - a very serious case of "do more with less". Read more >> |
More Government news
 | [Marion Scher] It's been quite a few years since we last visited the Kruger Park and in those days we towed kids with, whose viewing patience was that of a gnat. So it was with great excitement that we set off for the far northern part of the Park coming in at Punda Maria, another new experience for me. Read more >> |
 | [Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] It has taken nearly 40 years for Jaguar to take a quantum leap from E to F and to finally create a worthy successor to the iconic E-Type Jaguar that fired the world's imagination - an act that the raucously loud and achingly beautiful newly-launched F-Type plays with such refined pleasure that it deserves an automotive Oscar. Read more >> |
 Vega Open DayVega School of Brand Leadership - 27 Jul 2013 Pretoria Surviving the StoryInstitute for the Advancement of Journalism - 31 Jul 2013 to 1 Aug 2013 Johannesburg Dwight L. Moody "If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me. (via Brainy Quote)"
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