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Archive for November, 2008
eMarketing Training at Silver Springs
Nov 30th
Friday the 28th was a turning point for many corporates across different industries. Following a 2 day intense seminar “Be brilliant at eMarketing”
A Dolphins Consultants initiative
We had attendants from various industries but not limited to Insurance, Banking, NGO’s, Auto, Entrepreneurs, Alcohol and Beverages among others.
I happened to be training about email marketing and the need to move it from the out look platform to a personalized relational marketing.
As you might have discovered in this blog, Internet marketing is very broad and covers a lot more in theory and practice as would be contained in a single article.
Kenya is moving to a new technology platform “the Internet” that will be a key decision making platform for consumers and business to business solutions.
The question is: how prepared are marketers to pick on this new dimension that no college or university in Kenya will equip you on the same?
It will be too late to blame the education system for not being up to date with our current requirements to do business. i blame it on the culture we as Kenyans have put on ourselves that education ends after graduation day.
My belief is that the education system in Kenya is not meant to equip you with the knowledge to apply, but rather teaches you on how to study, how to get knowledge and on what topics to seek more knowledge and specialize on.
Otherwise if the education system was sufficient, employers would not be asking For
- Creative mind
- Experience
- Relational Skills – (Business is all about Connections)
There is no Syllabus that has the above content that’s why Dolphins Consultants and Trainers Realized the need to equip Professionals on the upcoming platform (the internet) and how to up their game on the same.
What I’ve realized is that in Kenya we are lagging behind in the advancing of the eMarketing, The world is moving into WEB 2.0 where surfers who happen to be consumers are sharing information freely on WWW such that that corporates will not be able to control what people are talking about their company or their top officials on the internet.
When the Fiber comes in as predicted by 2010. there will be a huge loophole in deficiency of the existing marketers. I hate the assumption that internet and IT is for IT guys, This is a sad state of affairs since the very same marketers are in the path of committing career Suicide. Just like when computers came in, most people lost their jobs or remained stagnant for a long time as a result of their refusal to equip themselves to meet standards of the new technology.
Am afraid by the year 2011 80% of the marketers in Kenya will be rendered obsolete if they don’t take action to enhance their eMarketing skills. When the tide comes in only those who have their nets in the sea will catch more fish.
Unlike the the conventional media where today you see and ad and after three months its long forgotten, the internet has archiving methods that retain both your good and bad stories across different domains. There is need to prepare you company to retain a positive image on the web space.
Where were we.
Yes.
Silver Springs – eMarketing Seminar by Dolphins Consultants.
Brainstorming during a tea break
Web 2.0 and Social marketing Training Session
That's me right there- Caught off-guard preparing for the Email Marketing presentation
To those who attended I will attach the presentation on my next post.
Till then
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Fresh look for Gmail
Nov 21st
Google has launched Gmail Themes.
The new Gmail themes offer 30 initial choices away from the standard Gmail layout, in a similar offering to what Google has been providing to iGoogle users.
According to Annie Chen on the Gmail Blog, the Gmail team wanted to “go beyond simple color customization” so “there’s a shiny theme with chrome [...]
Themes allow you to customize the look and feel of your Gmail account. To choose a theme, click a thumbnail on the Themes tab of your Settings page.
In some cases, you can also customize by location. Some themes change during the day, and we use the location information you provide to correctly time these changes with your local sunrise, sunset, and/or weather. If you select one of these themes, you’ll see a Country/Region drop-down menu appear. Select the country you want, and then enter a city in the field provided. If you don’t enter a city, or enter an invalid one, we’ll set your location to the capital city of the country you selected. When you’re done, click Save.
The all new official gmail themes
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THE 2009 KENYA SCHOOLS ONLINE PROJECT
Nov 18th
Christmas has come early with EACdirectory.
I’ve monitored various Seasonal offers in My Inbox, especially those relating to the ICT sector I can’t ignore one offer that’s been made by Eacdirectory and their partners. They have gone ahead and undertaken a project to promote all schools whether primary, secondary, technical institute, university or some college to get a domain and a website with unlimited email pop accounts.
Pop accounts are those email accounts that download to your outlook express or any other desktop email manager.
Eacdirectory also have a phase two of the project that will involve providing internet and computers to schools.
much more I see the Obama-mania in this project. Allowing ordinary people to participate in their small ways to make a difference in their (change) Society.
The offer includes both individual social responsibility and corporate Social responsibility (ISE & CSE) respectively.
With a small amount of Kes. 2,000 per year you can promote a school with a domain, starter webpage and pop email accounts.
It’s very easy for a school to raise funds and development projects with an official website.
It’s your turn now to do the needful and promote your school before someone else does.
The benefit to corporates is that it allows you to do a company banner at the footer of the website.
Here is the link.
http://www.eacdirectory.com/aff.php?aff=002
There are only 2,030 Schools to be supported
Hence the need to act quick
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RSS – what’s it all about?
Nov 12th
Before creating a blog as such, it is most advisable to learn what type of helping tools you may need to design and update the pages when necessary. One fine example is the famous RSS, a group of web feed formats that are mainly used to keep the blog content new and fresh as often as possible. Why is RSS the first choice of a large number of users? Simple, an RSS document includes the very text you have on the blog or a summary of the content in some other cases; thus, one can keep a close watch over the blog without checking the pages in detail.
To give you a further glimpse into the utility of the tool, we should mention that the abbreviation RSS stands for Rich Site Summary. Therefore, besides the advantage of delivering fresh web content, RSS allows many Internet users who need to stay informed; thus you can easily retrieve whatever item of information you are interested in from a specific site. From this perspective, RSS comes as a great alternative to subscribing for email newsletters since it doesn’t require your giving away the email address. Presently, RSS has become the choice of many sites that need to keep a permanent contact with their visitors.
If you decide to use an RSS, you won’t need anything else except a special feed reader, and even here there is a wide variety to choose from: Newsgator and FeedReader made by Windows or Amphetadesk that works for a variety of platforms including Mac and Linux. Moreover, there is also a large number of RSS feed readers that are totally web-based, they include Bloglines, Google Reader and My Yahoo. Once you install the reader on the computer, all you have to do is actually find the sites that summarize content and add the RSS feed on the page to your feed reader.
Presently, you can find many RSS blogs and sites that provide information on the best means to use this tool; nevertheless, we should mention that the information is constantly updated since there is more to say on RSS as it spreads out more every day. Thanks to the content synthesis, work on the web has become a lot easier, particularly since sites that have available RSS feeds use special signs to let you know about the facility. In a nutshell, on the long run, you’ll see how much time you save by the use of a software such as RSS.
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Recommended Free Web Hosts
Nov 11th
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Internet Marketing in Kenya
Nov 4th
An Internet Marketing in Kenya Google group has been formed
In the 90′s was the Computer Age: Now it’s the INTERNET, the e-Age. Be Brilliant in E-marketing
Current Internet trends in Kenya
Most likely you must have noticed what is happening in the Internet industry in Kenya. The under sea fiber optic cable is being installed and it should be ready by mid next year. Telecommunication companies are now offering internet services and investing more on the Internet sector. The ISPs are also launching new and affordable Internet connection products.
The Internet connectivity in Kenya will definitely improve once the undersea cable which is going to link Kenya with global broadband infrastructure, via the United Arab Emirates is completed in mid next year.
Why you need an eMarketing Strategy?
Your require to position yourself to benefit from the opportunities which will be created by the improvement of internet connectivity in Kenya
As more Kenyans come online, demand for targeted relevant Web sites will also expand. Currently we have 3 million Kenyans connected to the Internet and the number is likely to rise to about 6 million by the end of 2009. The government is also setting up rural electrification and Digital villages in all the constituencies which will make Internet accessible in the villages. The government has also removed duty on computers and accessories so as to make them affordable.
As online retailing begins to take root in Kenya, the arrival of fast, reliable broadband in Kenya is set to spark off a major revolution in Internet usage in Kenya with
e-commerce being one of the major beneficiaries as Kenyan begins to explore other
Uses of Internet such us online shopping.
You therefore require a clear eMarketing strategy before next year and before you embark in developing or redesigning your current web site. Your web site is supposed to generate sales leads (online enquiries) and these enquiries should be converted to sales.
Your Career Development
Due the influence of the Internet, Most employers today are looking for people who
Have eMarketing skills. Anybody in Marketing, PR & Communication, and management with suitable emarketing skills will definitely have a competitive edge in the job market
Security
Security concerns are in some ways peripheral to normal business working, but serve to highlight just how important it is that business users feel confident when using IT systems. Security will probably always be high on the IT agenda simply because cyber criminals know that a successful attack is very profitable. This means they will always strive to find new ways to circumvent IT security, and users will consequently need to be continually vigilant. Whenever decisions need to be made about how to enhance a system, security will need to be held uppermost among its requirements.
Why Join Us?
In this group we share freely all of the benefits shown above. As a member you are allowed to share your experiences and advice the others so that we can move the Nation Forward. Our Vision Is to be the leader in Internet Marketing in Africa
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8. IS INTERNET MARKETING FOR ME?
Nov 3rd
If you have read this ebook and have not made some resolutions or to do tasks then please stop right there and don’t waste my brains anymore delete this ebook or do a therapeutic surgery, print it and put it in some bucket, ponder it to a “papier mache” and ponder some art work and I hope that way you will benefit every piece of your self.
Please don’t be a serial opportunity seeker spending all your resources to the drain. Make a step today and go on to make value of your life.
Online business requires a huge investment and (un)fortunately 30% is monetary while the larger % is your human effort. It will require patience to learn all these things and put them into practice.
Make your knowledge into profits
8.1 Streams of Income
In summary there are three major streams of income but you can identify unlimited opportunities that relate to that.
1. Publisher or Brand Owner
2. Affiliate or sales/marketing person
3. Consultant – Authority
8.2 The Secret Revealed
The truth about the secret is that there is no secret, the secret is out in the open the moment you grabbed this book.
Many will read this book
• Some will fulfill some promise to read a book every week or month
• Some will be excited for a while and try to do some few things, talk about the book in social places and then their friends will do what they did not do.
• Some will be pre-occupied buy the duties in their lives and will not improve themselves by increasing more income in their lives
• Some will find the road to be involving and they will find their call elsewhere.
: But then there is you, hopefully you who will take a step to build an online business for yourself, a legacy that your children can benefit from years from now. An automated
Cash machine that funnels unlimited profits in your bank account even when you are sound asleep.
It might take you a few months before you pocket your first income but thereafter you will reap in joy
8.3 The Promise
“I/We promise to create a world of love responsibility and devotion”
You can only make it on the online business by helping others better themselves and if that is not your goal then for sure your dream is short-lived.
Make friends on the internet and you will be reciprocated by living your dream.
8.4 The power of “Copy and Paste”
This is not an instrument of possessing copyrighted material.
It simply means that the moment you make your first successful Online business then doing another one is as simple as copy paste.
Do your first site today on women health tomorrow do child care by the time you are doing your third it’s just a matter of copy pasting the system.
Our fathers taught us how to reproduce and multiply.
It’s a system we adopted from generation to generation; it’s been perfected from time to time. We know what to expect, it’s not trial and error. It’s a known improved system. We know how the system works and we do not have to test it every time, it’s been proven over and over again.
Today you have no excuse the system has been passed on to you, it’s up to you to equip yourself to the task.
Copy and paste is easy if you know the value of information. I have burnt myself down like a candle to give light in darkness that you may benefit by identifying the way and now here it is, get started and let’s head to the goldmine. I have been there and will take you there.
To Your Success
Mike
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8. IS INTERNET MARKETING FOR ME?
Nov 1st
If you have read this ebook and have not made some resolutions or to do tasks then please stop right there and don’t waste my brains anymore delete this ebook or do a therapeutic surgery, print it and put it in some bucket, ponder it to a “papier mache” and ponder some art work and I hope that way you will benefit every piece of your self.
Please don’t be a serial opportunity seeker spending all your resources to the drain. Make a step today and go on to make value of your life.
Online business requires a huge investment and (un)fortunately 30% is monetary while the larger % is your human effort. It will require patience to learn all these things and put them into practice.
Make your knowledge into profits
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