The Heavy Chef Project ยป bite-size information about developing profitable web strategies
I don’t have time to write an epic, but all I can say is ‘thanks’ to Fiona Phillips from Cybercellar.com and Andrew Smith from Yuppiechef.co.za for their awesome delivery on how to set up an e-commerce business.
Thanks also to all those who attended. I met some fascinating people last night, and, as usual, it was great to put faces to some of the bloggers out there. Read Further
Here is last month’s video of Rui Esteves’s talk on Building a Brand in South Africa. Read Further
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Not sure about this. The changes to Facebook’s layout seem too small to drastically up my usability, and too big not to be annoying. Maybe it’s just me, but it’s taking some getting used to. Read Further
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For those of you up bright and early in the morning you may have seen World Wide Creative’s very own TV celeb, Fred Roed, donning his customary Hawaiian shirt on CNBC Africa. Following on from his Carte Blanche cameo he was asked to talk about web marketing strategy for African business. Read Further
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Despite the growing gloom in the industry, advertising still works.
I’ve heard in meetings recently that the time has come to start casting the net out wider and cutting advertising budgets. I think in some cases this is true (and plays nicely into our hands being a web marketing company) but to believe that the advertising industry is dead, as some pundits have called it, is foolish. Read Further
One of World Wide Creative’s success stories, Verity was highlighted on the prime time television programme Carte Blanche this evening. It’s a great example of how a good web marketing strategy with great determination and even greater belief can reap rewards. Read Further
In May, we enjoyed the entrepreneurial ramblings of Charl Norman and Eric Edelstein as part 1 of our “Netrepreneurs” series (watch the video here).
Now, with part 2 scheduled for the end of this month, we’ve asked two of South Africa’s best exponents of e-commerce to speak at the upcoming Heavy Chef Session on 30th July. Read Further
I know we all hate spam but sometimes you have to admire the creativity and thought that goes into some of the subject titles. I must admit, I’ve never been inclined to click on “get your viagra today” or “grow your schloong to extra lengths”, but today I had one sent through that I just had to click on:
“Grow a kangeroo in 2 weeks”
Brilliant! Read Further
I got this in my inbox today:
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We set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. With your help we reached 8,002,530 downloads.
You are now part of a World Record and the proud owner of the best version of Firefox yet! Read Further
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Well accordingly to Google anyway:-)
As you know, you should always be checking your stats on a regular basis and one thing I do is check the keywords people are finding our site for. This allows us to focus some more SEO effort on keywords we are starting to see some action from, if we think it could bring in some good traffic. Read Further
Google posted this last night:
Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we’ve improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe’s Flash Player technology. Read Further
