Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Mike Saunders in Marketing, Social Media
So you jumped into social media ad have found it to be a waste of time and of very little value to you. I want to suggest that maybe the problem is not social media but rather how you are using it. Here are three possible reasons why social media does not work for you:
You [...]
Posted on 08. Jan, 2010 by Mike Saunders in Marketing, Social Media
Seth Godin, one of the worlds most respected bloggers and new media marketers, and he should be. His expertise and wisdom in these marketing arena’s is invaluable.
However, my advice would be to stop following him on Twitter and Facebook. Seth has publically made it clear that he does not believe on social media (specifically Facebook [...]
Posted on 06. Jan, 2010 by Mike Saunders in Marketing, SEO, Social Media
The top twenty most visited websites by South Africans, as provided by Alexa, show us that South Africa internet users are interested in information, fun and money.
Information
Looking for something?
Search is still the primary point of a South African internet user with large portions of usership is driven towards Google. Yahoo may add to these search [...]
Posted on 01. Jan, 2010 by Mike Saunders in Mobile, Software
A few months ago I wrote a post on my top ten iphone applications for 2009 which may have been a bit soon to place judgement on future applications coming out in 2009. Now that we have reached the end of this last year I feel a little more equipped to provide a more substantial [...]
Posted on 28. Dec, 2009 by Mike Saunders in Marketing
Glamour Bride is the latest internet marketing concept from Mike Saunders and is targeted at the Wedding Industry niche. Promoting the wedding industry in South Africa online through search engines and social networks. The big difference is that Glamour Bride are more interested in providing a wonderful experience for the bride by producing quality content. [...]
Posted on 29. Jun, 2009 by Mike Saunders in Mobile, Software
In the new software update iPhone 3.0. Apple have bought in the option to create censorships over which applications can be downloaded. Even though it seems that Apple’s reason for this is so that it can allow adult apps into the App Store, I would still encourage you to make use of this ‘restrictions’ function. Especially if your children own an iPhone! Click here to find out how to enable this on the iPhone.
Posted on 20. Jun, 2009 by Mike Saunders in Marketing
The Unisite Business Suite is a product that started development in around 2006 by Sesalos PTY LTD. The concept was to develop web based modules that could run different web applications. As the development project grew it became increasingly evident that a structure was neccessary to describe what the Unisite was.
In ‘one on one’ meetings [...]
Posted on 15. Jun, 2009 by Mike Saunders in Marketing
I have noticed that small and medium businesses are taking less interest in their employees as they focus on trying to get their business engine running. These businesses are placing less value on their employees and the result is that their employees are placing less value in their employer. Small businesses tend to exploit talented [...]
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Mike Saunders in Marketing
Around the time that I started working at Sesalos (PTY) LTD, Sesalos was a ‘complete media solution’ to their clients. Sesalos offered graphic design, websites, TV, corporate video’s, 3D visualisation, radio advertising and music recording to its client base. It’s client base was very broad and included corporate clients as well as musicians. My role [...]
Posted on 20. Jun, 2008 by Mike Saunders in Marketing
The JJS Music Festival was the vision of Grant Nelson. Grant wanted to create an alternative environment for young people to attend on New Years Eve. This vision lead Grant to organise a music festival that invited Christian artists to perform overĀ New Years Eve. The festival had been running for 2 years before I [...]