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Advertising during a pandemic: Brands that got it right!

ALRENE COETZEE, Social Media Manager at Digital Content Lab shares a light-hearted review on how some brands broke through the noise of COVID-19 advertising by showing us the funny side of the pandemic. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit South Africa at the beginning of 2020, a full national lockdown began at midnight on Thursday 26 March. Many brands had to make rather big adjustments to their marketing strategies in order to reach their customers at home using digital marketing tactics. So here we are, almost a year later, and still stuck with endless adverts from brands who seem to…

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The impact of AI on Customer Relationship Management and the Customer Product Adoption Processes

Dr Myles Wakeham, Mr Carl Wakeham and Ms Maria Hamman INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to the creation of human-like intelligence that can process, learn, reason, plan, and discern natural language. AI comes in three forms, namely, narrow AI, which we are involved with on a daily basis and which is designed to perform specific tasks within an area (technology with intelligence in a particular domain) and general AI which is not area-specific and can learn and perform tasks anywhere and finally strong AI, which is an artificial super intelligence. Thus far, we…

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Lifestyle Marketing – Separating the Good from the Great

Estimated Reading Time: 4 Minutes Gone are the days when a catchy ad was enough to keep consumers interested. Using the free online resources available, anyone can create a stunning ad these days. This means that there’s a lot of noise out there and simply having a catchy brand name, logo, and a list of basic marketing personas is no longer enough to keep consumers interested – they want more. The good news is that there is a popular marketing technique designed to do that and much more. It’s called Lifestyle Marketing, and this is how it works. Whereas…

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