Tag Archives: Twitter
My Top 5 Favourite Tweets on Twitter!
So, Twitter caught the world by storm and there are some great tweets to find on Twitter. Here are my top 5 favourite tweets I find hilarious.
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 wheels and runs Autofemme, a [...]
Using Twitter to build your SME
Many are dismissive of this ‘Social Media’ thing assuming that it’s fad-ish and transient. But look again. These are the spaces where people are talking online everyday, and so it’s somewhere you need to be.
Lets take a look at Twitter for example. Imagine you are a small coffee shop, here are 5 ways to use [...]
1 min. with a Super Hero: Jan Kotze from Instant Life
This morning, we’re chatting with Jan Kotze from a new entrepreneurial venture that’s blazing the SA landscape, Instant Life. Like Discovery took aim at the Medical Aid sector, Instant Life looks to take the Life Insurance category by storm. What’s more, Jan and co. are offering a VERY special deal for Ideate readers, but… we’ll [...]
Setting up Twitter for Business
Twitter is a great way of adding value to your company’s online identity. When it comes to setting up Twitter for business, it’s as easy as clicking on the “Sign up now” button. After that, you just set up a profile under the name of your company (keep your username short) and making sure the [...]
The 2009 90-day Challenge 3
With only 70 days left in 2009 we look at the third of the 90 day challenge projects; Web Marketing. The world is all a buzz with web marketing but very few actually understand it and even less use it to its full potential. Over the next 10 days we challenge you to begin this [...]
3 Things to Keep In Mind When Using RSS For Business
Firstly, what is RSS? Basically RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is used to publish frequently updated content such as blog posts or news headlines in a standardized format. RSS content is published as a feed which is regularly and automatically updated with new content.
Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes about social media, marketing, life and, of [...]
1 min. with a Superhero: Geoff Brink, Unicycle-riding through South Africa
Today we’re chatting with Geoff Brink, who happens to be riding from Durban to Cape Town on a unicycle for something called the “Heart & Sole” tour. I’ve known Geoff for almost 20 years, and can confidently say if anyone can do this, Geoff can. Geoff’s will travel across South Africa in order to raise [...]
Introducing Sean Tucker, Ideate’s social media “guy” (with a special offer to boot)
Sean Tucker, social media specialist, connected with us a while back after attending a digital marketing presentation via The Heavy Chef Project. We liked him immediately. He’s a straight-forward no-nonsense kinda guy. So, we’re stoked that he’s going to write a series of articles on Ideate about social media stuff for entrepreneurs. This kind of [...]
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 [...]
Any whiskey drinkers out there? Ideate is giving away 2 Bushmills hampers – quick!
[NOTE: This giveaway is over. We have 2 winners: Adrian and Nic, well done chaps.] We’re huge fans of whiskey here at the company that I founded with another whiskey drinker (Mike Perk, guy in the pic)*. We’re pretty excited today, since Bushmills, the fabulous Irish Whiskey brand, have just dropped off two hampers of [...]
