Archive for the ‘internet’ Category

Internet causing newspaper blindness!

The newspaper industry is doing exactly the wrong thing to ensure its survival. Its a classic case of marketing myopia in a golden age for news.

Posted on February 5, 2010 at 12:09 pm by Walter Pike · Permalink · View Comments
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The Digital Divide – Huh?

The notion that there is a divide between digital marketing and traditional marketing based on whether the technology used is analogue or digital is really a little ridiculous.

Posted on January 16, 2010 at 8:39 am by Walter Pike · Permalink · View Comments
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(2010) The year the penny drops?

The South African Marketing Industry has lagged behind, is this the year that it catches a wake up and realises that things have changes and will never be the same again.

Posted on January 14, 2010 at 9:43 pm by Walter Pike · Permalink · View Comments
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Runaway Viral in Jozi

A spectacularly successful viral marketing campaign in Johannesburg.

Posted on December 17, 2009 at 10:00 am by Walter Pike · Permalink · View Comments
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An obsession with numbers

Do the numbers marketers are obsessed with actually matter, are there others that matter more that aren’t measured?

Posted on September 25, 2009 at 10:05 am by Walter Pike · Permalink · View Comments
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But Twitter is just a broadcast medium isnt it?

Is twitter a broadcast tool just because some use it like that. No not even close, its about influence and conversations.

TEDx talk on how marketing is changing.

Walter Pike’s talk at TEDx in Johannesburg. Speaking about the fundamental changes to marketing brought about by the internet that paradoxically takes you back to way it was done before. September 2009.

An industry shooting itself in the foot.

The Durban World Cup website is reported to be costing R6.5 million. If the reports are correct this not only exorbitant but also its the internet industry shooting itself in the foot. The website appears to be nothing special although I refer you to a Business Report article in which Mike Sutcliffe, who is the eThekwini [...]