The government’s plan to create a state-controlled company, Infraco, to drive down telecommunication costs and improve broadband internet access has, predictably, come under fire from free marketers. What we need, writes Duncan McLeod in the Financial Mail, is less state interference in the telecommunications sector, not more (read McLeod’s column). This strikes me as a […]
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Advertising: a tax on unremarkable products
The best way to sell something is to have your customers do it for you. People trust each other much more than they do the corporate message or your best advertising slick, and brands around the world have shown the value of using this to their advantage. A study by McKinsey found that 67% of […]
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Child labour: the baby dragon
An answer to: What should a country do about imports from countries that are known to be or highly suspected of using child labour or other forms of ‘slave’ labour or other techniques that are banned by that country?
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Google In SA – The Boom Approaches
As Vinny Lingham, a well-know South African Internet entrepreneur, mentioned this morning, Google is coming to South Africa. They have appointed Stafford Masie as the General Manager.
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The Future of Real Estate Marketing Online
Estate Agency has been referred to as a “walled garden“, in other words an industry that is criticized as being based on asynchronous information between the agent and the buyers/sellers. Making money by getting in the way.