So you’re in Facebook Jail, banned, restricted from liking, commenting and posting. I’ve been there recently and I’d like to relate my experience and what I’ve learned as a digital marketer. It’s correct to say that it’s becoming difficult to play virtual whack-a-mole with Facebook’s “Community standards”. There is a fine line between trampling freedom of speech and protecting the community from abuse. Unfortunately as a marketer one slip up
How to work with your graphic designer. Or how I learned to stop worrying and let the creative weirdo do it. This was part of my speaking notes for my presentation on The Brandprint Summit held in August 2020. This blog is connected to this presentation here. So you installed Canva and are scrolling through tons and tons of templates, reds and blues, pretty stock imagery flying past, you find
Transitioning your business in a post Covid-19 world. 5 ways you can do it. In this article I’m going to talk about how to make that transition from normal operations to operations in a post Covid 19 world. I read this article about gyms being a “thing of the past”. I don’t agree entirely with that broad statement, but things will change. One of the solutions offered is only allowing
The spicks and the specOf the girls on my mindWhere is the sunThat shone on my headThe sun in my lifeIt is dead. . . Bee Gees – “The Spicks and the Specks” It is dead Spec work is the best way to destroy an industry. Many would argue that “Speculative work” is the best way to get the top tier work from creatives. I’m here to tell you that
This is a reblog of an awesome article about nospec. On Monday 18th May, several people received this email from a marketing company: Some of those people, like me, had applied for this job two years (… Say No To Spec Work
The way to get paid digitally locally is best described as fragmented, but it’s not unnavigable. This is part two for my previous article on why now is a good idea to get an e-commerce site. You can read that here first. Note at the time of writing this article the Government created a “Post Covid 19 Reconstruction” committee. This committee’s mandate is to, amongst other things, help further along
This a just a long form status update from my blog. I have a share of Amanpour and Company on “How Will COVID-19 Shift the World Order?”
So for the last few weeks I’ve been live streaming myself just chatting about my experiences with living under lockdown. I try to do one once a week. Topics include: Driving during lockdown School and training during lockdown The workload I have suddenly got during lockdown Shooting the breeze during lockdown You can view the vids here.
You may be thinking that now is not the best time to think about e-commerce. I think now is the best time to think about e-commerce. Here’s why.
In doing research for my blog post on why it’s important to start working on your online business here. I amassed a lot of stats and figures of consumer behaviour for the last few months during the outbreak of Covid 19. There is no doubt the Corona Virus is a game changer. It’s forcing people out of their comfort zones. People who prefered to go to the grocery now have