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Marketers Making Waves: Kagiso Musi

Kagiso Musi was recently appointed managing director of Meta Media, the new kid on the Park Advertising block, and challenger to older sibling, The MediaShop. What is the life quote you believe suits you best and why? It’s not so much a quote, but rather a life philosophy – ‘I…

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The Human side of marketing

Market Business News explains that marketing is “the activities of a business related to buying and selling a product or service. It involves finding out what consumers want and determining whether it is possible to produce it at the right price.” Additionally, marketing allows for the introduction and promotion…

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Why must service providers understand procurement?

Dr Myles Wakeham and Dr Beverley Waugh Service providers/suppliers must understand selection processes, evaluation criteria, relationship management that their customer organisations/procurement managers pursue to decide to select them or to decide to reject them! The main goal of the logistics services and procurement function is to ensure the provision…

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Veldskoen: Stepping out of the comfort zone

Influencer marketing is on the rise – even in South Africa – but there can be no greater endorsement of a product than having one of the world’s favourite royals stepping out in it. Lucinda Jordaan tracks the Veldskoen story.  If ever there was a case for celebrity endorsement, Veldskoen…

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Customers as brand ambassadors

Social media helps brands to connect and become more engaged with its target audience. Of course, there is a difference between customers who (out of love for it or habit) use a product without promoting it, and customers who promote and post about their favourite brands and products on social…

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Quality assurance in higher education

Quality assurance in higher education institutions has become a major strategic issue.  Defining “quality assurance” is not that simple as it depends on the stakeholders and is based on internal processes. In most cases, institutions are also quality assured by external quality assurance agencies. The Analytic Quality Glossary defines quality assurance as…

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Six important tips for effective logistics management

What do you think about when you hear the word “logistics”? If you think it’s the transport of goods from point A to point B, you’re half way there. What does Logistics mean? Logistics is the detailed organisation and implementation of a complex operation. A supply chain comprises all the…

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These shoes were made for walking the road to success

Watching IMM Graduate School’s Pearls of Wisdom video, one can’t help but feel a stirring sense of the opportunity, excellence and success of the institution’s brand. Michael Bratt takes a look at the campaign. There’s a reason shoes are a recurring motif in the latest IMM Graduate School’s marketing campaign.

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How can you successfully create a digital marketing plan for your firm?

With the modern digital landscape and consumers almost always online, its increasingly important for marketers to include digital channels in their marketing plans. Unfortunately for most, the digital marketing space remains overwhelming and too often efforts are sporadic or knee jerk instead of planned and deliberate. Understanding how to…

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Four big trends driving agility in market research

Every business wants to be ‘agile’ in today’s hyper-accelerated world. But what does that mean? Fast, iterative and adaptive agile research is a non-negotiable for companies moving into the next era of innovation work, says Nick Coates. The Agile Manifesto was developed by frustrated software developers in 2001. Instead of…

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