January 2012

Consumer Protection Act: Your Ultimate FREE Guide

January 9, 2012

Basics The Consumer Protection Act, No. 68 of 2008 was signed on 24 April 2009. It aims to: Promote a fair, accessible and sustainable marketplace for consumer products and services; Establish national norms and standards to ensure consumer protection; Make provision for improved standards of consumer information, to prohibit certain unfair marketing and business practices; [...]

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Find and Monetize Your Niche: 11 Knockout Tools

January 9, 2012

The sheer abundance of tools available to research markets online never fails to blow my mind. Here are some of my top picks that can help you research your next business idea, benchmark your brand and market, or look into what the competition is doing. Google keyword tool Perhaps the tour de force of online [...]

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Creating Explosive Impact in your Market

January 4, 2012

This is a post on how to create maximum impact with minimum effort with your products. In Seth Godin’s Purple Cow, an excellent book about how to make your products remarkable, he outlines how catering to the general masses has become completely ineffective in this day and age. In order to create the largest impact [...]

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The Top 10 Viral Videos of 2011

January 3, 2012

10. The Force: Volkswagen Commercial   Commercials are almost always disqualified from this sort of thing, but this one was just so darn cute.   9. Jian Sword Dancing   What the damn is this? What is grandma doing there? Is that dog going to get stabbed in the face with a sword? Why is [...]

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