Archive for 'Fun Stuff'
How To Build An Engaged Online Community
To end off 2011, digital marketing agency World Wide Creative is running it’s last Heavy Chef Session of the 2011 in Cape Town. The event features two of Cape Town’s favourite speakers, Dave Duarte and Fred Roed, focusing on one of marketing’s hottest topics: building an online community.
Dave Duarte is one of South Africa’s best [...]
How To Get Unstuck: A Guide For Entrepreneurs
This time of year many creatives are tired, worn out and often suffering from just stuckness. It has been a long year to ride, often with little or no break and we long for the leave that we know we will not take but desperately need.
We entrepreneurs expect of ourselves to just push through [...]
The 13 ‘P’s Of Growing Your Business
This post, although profound is not perfect or anything to do with Mr. Poppins Penguins. It is filled with propaganda issues pertaining to profit and procurement in your small business. So without further pause, here are the 13 P’s, in no specific order, you should be peering at when leading a business – proactively of [...]
Boom! Richard Branson Selects Eight Of South Africa’s Best And Brightest Entrepreneurs
This week, coinciding with Global Entrepreneur Week, the Branson Centre For Entrepreneurship selected eight of their brightest and finest to travel to Tech City, the world famous entrepreneur hub in the East End of London.
The eight delegates dubbed themselves the Boom!Crew, and chose the strapline ‘a force for good’ inspired by Virgin Unite’s focus [...]
SA Blog Awards Public Voting Phase Open: Vote For Ideate!
The public vote phase went live on Monday night with South African bloggers receiving their vote badges. The SA Blog Awards website saw an astonishing 900 votes within the first three hours of this phase. By midday on Tuesday more than 6000 votes had been cast.
The next ten days will see the readers of [...]
SA Entrepreneurs Bro Team Challenges YOU To Make MOney For Charity
It is not often that men get to play with their bodies in public and then ask for people to donate money for their efforts. But once a year Movember comes along and men, and even some women, the world over have 30 days to prove, mostly to themselves, that they can grow facial hair. [...]
The 5 Types Of Clients That Freelancers Face
It’s occurred to me more than once that 98% of my work stress as a freelance copywriter comes from 2% of my clients. The majority is utterly divine: easy to work for, easy to work with, more or less aware of what I do and my industry, happy to be guided by me, and able [...]
New Nando’s Viral Marketing Cools Things Down
While some of you like it hot, there are plenty others who say: ‘Not so much!’. Nando’s has decided to drop it like it’s not-hot by introducing a new flavour of awesomeness – Tangy Tomato. We at Ideate are big fans of Nando’s goodness, so much so that it’s starting to affect our looks.
So, tomato? [...]
Valpré Spring Water Is Giving Away 4 Tickets To FNB Whisky Live Festival
Valpré spring water, winner of the prestigious international Monde Selection Gold Quality Award, is the preferred spring water at this year’s FNB Whisky Live Festival for the third consecutive year. And now, together with Ideate, Valpre is giving away 4 tickets to the Cape Town leg of the festival.
Believe us – you REALLY want [...]
‘Phenomenawesome’ Party Experiment: Using Social Media To Build Community
Chaos Computers is a leading supplier of computer hardware, software and accessories in the greater Cape Town area and have been using social media over the past year to build community and drive sales. Entrepreneur Riaan Swart, founder and MD of Chaos, has been a great exponent of digital media and has been pushing the [...]
