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Silly Season is upon us! The festive season is upon us and Ferdie Bester reminds us that now is not the time to let your mobile ads go on holiday too. He suggests you get your mobile ad campaigns ready for December and gives some helpful advice on how to keep your customers happy during the holidays. Keeping on the topic of mobile, Michael Fletcher explained recently why Wi-Fi is a viable solution for better customer relationships. He says that in today's 'mobile generation' customers don't want to spend extended periods of time running errands and are therefore demanding 'easier' interactions with their service providers. In fact, if possible, customers would rather interact with their service provider of choice online, than stand in queues for hours. Some exciting news for Ghana and Nigeria is that the Edcon group, the unlisted owner of clothing chains Edgars and Jet‚ will be expanding into these markets next year. If you missed last week's Biz Takeouts show, you can now listen to the podcast to find out more about alternative funding solutions for SMME companies. Have a good week! Cheers! Ilse van den Berg, Editor: Marketing & Media Africa (@Biz_Africa)Comment online in our ed's column archive. Go mobile with apps and m.bizcommunity.com. Engage with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. Subscribe to YouTube and via RSS. Send all your African marketing and media news and event invitations to africanews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-africa@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com. Read "How to contribute to Biz, from op-ed pieces to news". | Today's top stories |
 | [Ferdie Bester] It's almost the end of 2013 and you know you need the well-deserved December break, but now is not the time to let your mobile ads go on holiday too. Read more >>
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 | Last week on the Biz Takeouts show we looked at alternative funding solutions for SMME companies, and also found out more about the upcoming event, Bright Talks. If you missed the show, listen to the podcast which is now available. [twitterfall] Read more >>
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 | Organised by the AMEP - the Mozambican Association of Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations Agencies, the 9th Maputo International Advertising Festival is set to take place from 26-29 May 2014. Read more >>
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 | MTN Business training for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) aims at empowering the SME segment with the knowledge and skills required to run successful businesses. Over 80 participants from northern Uganda received their awards last week after completing the two-day training. Read more >>
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 | Jacques Coetzee Following a long four-day road trip, eight startups from StartupBus Africa pitched their ideas to a group of investors at eKasi, Khayelitsha, South Africa. Read more >>
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 | Gabriella Mulligan The contribution made to gross domestic product (GDP) in sub-Saharan Africa by the broader mobile ecosystem is "well ahead" of other regions in the world and continues to grow, according to the GSM Association (GSMA). Read more >>
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 | Juliette Attwell This week we advise on how to cover your bases with hints on writing a good cover letter and what to do with your glowing references. Read more >>
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 | NEWSWATCH: Just what investors need... Mugabe's government in Zimbabwe has given foreign shops just 30 days... to close up shop. Affected businesses include advertising agencies. Read more >>
|  | Zeenat Moorad Edcon‚ the unlisted owner of clothing chains Edgars and Jet‚ will roll out stores in Ghana and Nigeria next year. Read more >>
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|  | LONDON, UK: The former royal editor of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid warned his boss that if payments to his sources were traced they could all "end up in jail", Britain's phone-hacking trial heard last week. Read more >>
|  | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: - Twitter has announced it has toughened the encryption of traffic to thwart online snooping at the globally popular one-to-many messaging service. Read more >>
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|  | Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa says the network of crime has grown and has become a complex problem in the country. Read more >>
|  | Linda Ensor The government wants to create 7.5m work opportunities between 2014/15 and 2018/19 under Phase Three of its Expanded Public Works Programme, which was approved at a Cabinet meeting this week. Read more >>
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