Tag Archives: South Africa
Top 3 social networks to market yourself on in South AfricaTop 3 social networks to market yourself on in South Africa
Entrepreneurs are always being spread to thin having to do all the work in the business. So with this in mind I though your would like to know the top three social networks that should give you the best return on your marketing effort online.
Facebook
Only because everyone is on Facebook. This is a great network [...]
Inspirational Speech by Christo Wiese on South Africa prospects
This is a speech delivered last month by Dr Christo Wiese, Director of Primedia and Chairman of Shoprite Holdings; and we thought it’s very interesting and sure worth the read!
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social media, marketing, life and, of course, cars. We say “of course” because Yolandi is nuts about anything on 4 [...]
The 2010 World Cup and the State of the Hospitality Industry in South Africa
The Ideate team are big fans of Peter Fleck and the team over at The Last Word Hotels. Having worked with this innovative hospitality company for three years at World Wide Creative, I’ve gotten to know and respect the single minded vision of Peter and his colleagues. We recently asked Peter to share his [...]
A Great Business Idea suited for South Africa 2010 – Bandee
Once in a while we come across an idea that someone has captured else where in the world that we could use in South Africa. This one from Germany called the Bandee has huge possibilities for the World Cup and in general for South Africa.
Bruce Wade is a survivor of the corporate [...]
The South African national anthem demystified
South Africa is quite possibly one of the few nations in the world whose population largely don’t know how to sing and pronounce their own national anthem. With 2010 coming up, I was delighted to see that some cleaver person (unknown to us) has demystified the anthem and made it really easy to get to [...]
8 Reasons Why It’s Great to Be South African
1. We are resourceful
We make it happen, despite the odds. Forget stories about wind-up radios or the CT Scan (which are pretty cool in their own right), this picture says it all…
2. We have aliens living amongst us
Here’s to District 9 being the first of many more movies that will clean up at the Box [...]
We like Allan Gray advertising
South Africa has a rich heritage of great advertising, from the BMW “Mouse / Power Steering” ad in the 90’s to FoxP2’s Mweb campaign work recently, there’s some lekker stuff out there.
We particularly enjoy the Allan Gray work by King James. The commercial, ‘Legend’, asks us to consider the possibilities of a legend like James [...]
1 min. with a Superhero: Marcel Oudejans, Magician and Infotainer
Today, we’re chatting to Marcel Oudejans, one of the busiest and most entertaining corporate infotainment and presentation specialists in Southern Africa. He has been performing professionally for over 10 years and has recently published his first book “The Serious Business Owners Guide to Creating Customers for Life”.
Marcel, most of us know you as a [...]
1 min. with a Superhero: Jeremy Barty of MyCube
This morning we’re chatting to Jeremy Barty from MyCube, a change management process that provides business people with a unique tool to facilitate lasting change. Jeremy, please tell us a little about your product and what it’s meant to achieve?
MyCube is a product designed to help people deal with change – when change is happening, [...]
New design, new direction for Ideate!
Today is a big day for us. Shane, Andrew and I (the three main protagonists behind Ideate) are stoked to launch the first redesign for Ideate in two years. It’s kinda sad too, since the old design has been featured on pretty much every cool design gallery around the globe, and had more than just [...]
