Internet Marketing

Social Media Phobia

May 11, 2010
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Are you familiar with those kids shoes that honk when they walk. Most Kids love them precisely because of the noise they produce when walking. Just the other day, I walked past this tiny kid who was walking as if her sole intention was to make as much noise as possible from her shoes. She [...]

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Your Network is your Net Worth – Social Networking

May 2, 2010
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I think I read this line on a blog or in my twitter feed. It caught my eye because it is a powerful statement that brings into focus why we need to have social networks and better yet how to utilize these networks for our respective businesses. There are many platforms that fall within the [...]

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Kenya Shifting towards Digital Marketing

April 25, 2010
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Lately and you can bare me witness, digital marketing in its many forms and shapes is more and more becoming the focal point by those in the know. Print media and traditional advertisement avenues are slowly dying and its victims are trying to remain relevant hence their rebirths in digital form online. The only way [...]

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Eat Out – the new dining revolution in Kenya.

April 14, 2010
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When I came across Eat Out, I was pretty dumbfounded. Being a vocal advocate for local digital content and given the conversations I have been having lately around local digital content creation and its monetization, I decided that I must do a feature on Eat Out – the dining revolution. But better than just one [...]

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Monetization of #Makmende

April 12, 2010
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I have been having a blast watching the first viral Digital content from Kenya do rounds on the internet – traversing most social networks. Its creators have been invited to the major news stations in Kenya, their story featured on CNN and even making a debut in the Wall Street Journal blog – that is [...]

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Responding to Criticism Online

April 10, 2010
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The Kenyan online scene is getting busier and with it the problems associated with social media like negative reviews about brands and products, and greater commentary about experiences – good and bad. This post today helps to teach Kenyan companies how to react to negative comments posted about them in social networks. You cannot please [...]

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Blogging and the Art of Pursuasion

April 5, 2010
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All forms of advertisement seek one and one thing alone, to persuade their target audience. Advertisements try to manipulate information and exploit perceptions in order to persuade people that their product is superior with varying degrees of success. According to what we were taught at the University about persuasion, the effectiveness of any persuasion campaign [...]

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Factors Influencing Social Media Adoption by Businesses

March 30, 2010
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I have always had a certain weakness for Sociology related subjects and discourse. In high school, my favourite subject was hands down social ethics and at the University, although very adept at Economics, Sociology was always just as if not more interesting than Economics. My Sociology lessons have informed a lot of what I do, [...]

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Social Media and Product Placement

March 16, 2010
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Update: What I had earlier referred to as product positioning is actually Product Placement. Please read the rest with this in mind – thank you Esther for the correction. Product positioning is something that has recently been brought to mind and it took me back to a post I wrote a while back on one [...]

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