Our thinking about HubSpot, AI, & removing silo'ed data

How much does a WordPress website cost? The purchase of a WordPress website is a lot like the purchase of a motor vehicle. With all the options available, the price can vary drastically – even on the same model. Let’s use this analogy to understand how prices vary. For example, a base model Toyota pickup can start around R250k ($20k) with just a basic package, cost can quickly rise over R500k ($40k) once a buyer adds all the extras, from double cab, leather seats, ride packages, traction control, hill assist, brake assistance, extra safety features and more.

A brief history of live streaming on social media Live streaming or live videos began life in 2011 with the live streaming app YouNow. Eventually, in 2014, we saw the launch of Snapchat. In 2015, Twitter acquired the live streaming app Periscope which was eventually integrated with the social platform in 2016. In April 2016, Facebook launched Facebook Live to all their users. Following this YouTube announced live streaming for mobile devices. In 2017, live streaming is available on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to name a few social platforms. Who does live

We know the struggles of creating and launching a digital marketing strategy and, finally, when you have your digital marketing campaigns off the ground you run into issues. Your digital marketing campaigns are not showing a positive ROI and you are wondering what the problem could possibly be. Have no fear, we know a thing or two about

The Challenge Outlined Post-event, the marketing team at the bank did a great job of uploading all the speaker's talks to the site, available for anyone to review. The content would deliver results far beyond the event itself. While we recognised this as a great initiative, we queried how we could take this idea even further. Was this the best use of the content, and could we help nurture a very high-quality contact database somehow to deliver more customers and more business to the bank? Most of the attendees were already clients, but beyond wowing them at the event, how could

We’ll cover SEO (Search engine optimisation), PPC (Pay per click advertising), customer communications, outbound email, inbound lead nurturing, social, content and finally your website. 1. SEO for consistent traffic growth Practicing good SEO starts with embracing the basics which we outlined in an introductory blog series that covers the introductory elements to good SEO. You can read the first part “What is SEO?” to get a far better in-depth understanding of SEO. However, to provide

Open to any South African based eCommerce company, the event is in its 9th year. Users on their favourite eCommerce site were urged to go to a voting page and vote for their most loved eCommerce site - lured with the possibility of winning an Apple iPad. Andy Higgins, managing director of uAfrica.com, the competition organiser said, "The information gathered from the eCommerce survey gives us a strong understanding of the South Africa online consumer; their shopping habits, their likes and

Faced with all these questions, we started to by default develop an online marketing hierarchy of needs for the SME. A standard set of practices we use to approach each of our client's unique set of needs and identify their position in the online marketing path to success. So some of you that might have done psychology or social sciences at university might already have spotted a familiar theme – The ‘Hierarchy of Needs. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is standard fare for all first-year psychology and social science students.