Do you need to spend more on social media?

The attraction of social media for many is the low-cost entry. A few tweets and Facebook posts cost nothing but time. But to garner any sort of return on this time, your social media output needs to be refined and engaging. Its not enough to simply post messages and broadcast your news and products. You need to engage in conversations because its difficult to build up a presence on line without this....

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Developing leadership capacity...characteristics of great leaders

This is a blog post I've been writing for the best part of a year now. It's ideas and observations from running workshops on leadership for various people and organisations. You learn a great deal from running these events, Just as you learn a great deal when teaching. If you look at good leaders closely whilst they are working, they usually all share several, if not all of the same characteristics....

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About learning to code...

Many people in the technology wilderness don't realise that very many coders actually didn't start out their careers as computer fundi's. I started out as a visual and 3D artist.I became frustrated when as part of my course I was expected to create a website to showcase my work using a basic piece of wysiwyg (What you see is what you get) piece of software that actually didn't come near to satisfying...

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The Google workshop an introduction

Nomsindo is offering a FREE (You pay for your own coffee) Google workshop on Saturday mornings for any interested businessmen/women in Cape Town. Did you know that even a basic knowledge of the FREE Google tools at your fingertips can rapidly change your web and digital presence? If you are going to grow to the point that you need to appoint a social media professional either in house or...

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Best tablets for 2013

When Apple introduced the famed Retina display to the third-generation Apple iPad, it set a bar so high that the rest of the industry struggled to catch up. That's until Google and Samsung joined forces to produce the Google Nexus 10. Incredibly, the display on the Nexus 10 has an even...

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Apps for informal and micro business

Nomsindo is offering Apps for small businesses from as little as R285 No you didn't read it wrong - only R285! While many micro enterprises are disinclined to spend on websites, e-commerce and more complex digital presence, mostly because of an affordability and maintenance problem, many are acutely aware that far more people in South Africa have smartphones than PCs or laptops. It...

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Why using Social Media for CRM is a priceless tool

I must start by emphasising that social media is by no means the only CRM (customer relationship management) tool a company should use and certainly in certain circumstances there are are other CRM tools that are more effective. It has however become clearly obvious that with the implementation of social media as a grass roots CRM instrument by medium and large enterprises, the cost effectiveness...

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