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How making money ruined a good game
A couple of weeks ago I started playing a game on my phone called Bowling Friends. It’s a game that allows you to play turn based ten pin bowling against your friends. Simple and effective idea....
View ArticleUse your own product or die
Don’t hide behind the bravado of being an entrepreneur, fess up and admit that you don’t use your own product or face destruction. 5 years ago I was working inside a very large corporation on a...
View ArticlePay to watch advertising – can it work?
I’ve seen a lot of different advertising platforms, companies and businesses come and go. I’ve interacted with many having worked at various media houses in SA as well as at a major mobile network....
View ArticleTalk to your customers and actually listen
I had a very interesting exchange with a NicSocks.com customer recently. While reviewing failed subscription orders I noticed that two orders back to back were from New York and both customers had...
View ArticleLearn How to Apologise
I like to be right but I am wrong a lot of the time and for much of my career I struggled to apologise when an apology was needed. Not wanting to apologise is about pride and ego. Both of these things...
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The Sony Xperia Z Ultra “Phablet”& Smart Watch 2
I have been using an iPhone for almost 2 years now and I’ve had it up to here (imagine my shaking my right hand wildly above my bald head). I feel locked in, I feel like I don’t have the ability to...
View ArticleDays like these
There are days when I question every decision I make. When my head thumps from the second I wake up to the second I hit the pillow to sleep. Days when every email I receive makes my heart sink because...
View ArticleData is like breathing. You don’t know you need it until it’s not there
Every business needs data. If you think you’re different you’re wrong. Whether you are selling cupcakes, socks, strategy, advertising, cars or anything in between you need to know things about your...
View ArticleLiving at the Forefront of Incompetence
A few months ago I was asked to attend a TEDx Cape Town event. I did and I was lucky enough to be selected as one of the speakers for 2013. After weeks of practice and years of failed experience to...
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Imperial acquires ForeFront Africa
In January I started a mobile strategy and technology company with Tracy Langdon-Surkont called ForeFront Africa. We worked hard to claim some key clients and partners and were set on growing a...
View ArticleMobile adverts without mobile websites
I am completed flawed by the Daily Mail (MailOnline) and not in a good way. I clicked on a link on my mobile device and unfortunately was taken to the MailOnline website. What I was greeted with was a...
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How making money ruined a good game
A couple of weeks ago I started playing a game on my phone called Bowling Friends. It’s a game that allows you to play turn based ten pin bowling against your friends. Simple and effective idea....
View ArticleStarting a business makes you a sales person
Whether you like it or not when you start your own business you immediately become a sales person. No one is going to promote your company for you. No one is going to sell your products harder than you...
View ArticleSouth Africa is Not Sub Saharan Africa
The improvement of the world needs to be highly contextualised. In fact, everything needs context to be relevant. The above video of Hans Rosling is mind-bending. At the 15 minute mark he talks about...
View ArticleBe smart, be niche, be mobile
Fragmentation and fierce competition are enemies of one size fits all mobile solutions. Mobile is the not-so-new-hotness. There are many, many, many companies and people building products and apps...
View ArticleConnected Business and Collective Success
For a while now I’ve been trying to get to grips with the South African (and larger African) technology space. I’ve been trying to understand what makes us what we are and/or what differentiates us...
View ArticlePay on time, every time
Many small businesses struggle with delayed payments and cashflow management. I did at Motribe. So when I started up NicSocks I decided to try something different; I set out to pay any and all invoices...
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What the world needs is another publishing platform…
I have been blogging since 2005 in a variety of forms and on a multitude of platforms. What I can tell you about blogging is that it is very rarely about the platform that a writer uses that makes the...
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Cape Town’s first social sock photo shoot
What the sock is happening? NicSocks is launching a brand new website and to go along with this new look we’re inviting fans of fashion and wearers of our socks to be a part of the site. On Wednesday,...
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The Cheesecake Theory
image courtesy of Fork vs Spoon blog. I stopped smoking about two and a half years ago. Since then I’ve picked up a crazy cheesecake habit. It’s become somewhat of an obsession for me; finding the...
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