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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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Social media goes mainstream in SA

October 26, 2011

South Africans have embraced social media as a core pillar of Internet activity in this country, along with e-mail, news and banking.   MXit and Facebook lead the way in user numbers, while Twitter has seen the most dramatic growth in social networking in the past year, and BlackBerry Messenger is the fastest growing network [...]

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If I had a Magic Wand…

March 5, 2011

“Good management was the most powerful reason [leading firms] failed to stay atop their industries. Precisely because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort they wanted, and because they carefully studied market trends and systematically allocated investment capital to innovations [...]

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The Most Impactful 60 Word Guide To Life I Have Ever Read

August 28, 2010

I subscribe to Zen Habits and recently came across a post that resonated so strongly with me, that I promptly printed it out and hung it in front of my desk on my wall. It is the 60 word guide to life, and while being profoundly simple, resonates some clear-cut ways in how to really [...]

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How do You want to Grow and Prosper?

August 10, 2010

There are many ways of thinking about getting wealthy and prospering. Many thousands of books have been written on the subject, and I’d like to break down all of that into several different personalities that people typically forge into when trying to make it “big”. Annuity income This way of thinking revolves around creating passive [...]

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