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27dinner photographs

Andre Clements — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:12:53 +0000

27Dinner: Snapshots from the Jozi Internet Marketers Get Together Gareth Ochse & Craig Corte from BuzzFuse, Jo Duxbury from Freelancentral, our own Jonathan Miller CEO of ForgeBusiness and Brian Carl Brown of Blue Catalyst who bought desert for everyone that nicely complimented the Stormhoek wine. Sadly Graham Knox didn’t make it. We were very impressed [...]

e-Commerce - Hype or Business Critical?

Team Forge — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:04:09 +0000

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Affiliate Summit Update: NY snowed over, Nelson gets burnt

Kelvin Jonck — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:59:28 +0000

The players: Jonathan Miller, CEO Nelson Camara, Account Manager Kelvin Jonck, Director of Networks Landing in a white, snow-covered New York, after an 18 hour flight was a most pleasant surprise. The fact that this unexpected gift caused us to miss our connecting flight to Las Vegas, and turned our 24 hour trip into a 33 hour [...]

Own a vine, save a job at Stormhoek (or crowd-sourcing emergency bridging finance)

Andre Clements — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:57:56 +0000

You have to admire the clever creative tenacity that makes Stormhoek wines the marketing phenomenon it is. An upstream bankruptcy has Stormhoek and its partners in trouble and they are resolute to do what it takes to ride out the storm - a common theme here in South Africa at the moment, but let me [...]

Viral goes Immersive

Andre Clements — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:34:13 +0000

For a glimpse of what might be the makings of truly immersive marketing, beyond the banner, if you haven’t yet and are interested in this kind of phenomena read Secret Websites, Coded Messages: The New World of Immersive Games at Wired. My prediction is that ARGs will evolve into a highly competitive mediascape, where [...]

Oh, to win an award!

Jonathan Miller — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:33:00 +0000

I tried AGAIN unsuccessfully to enter two of our award worthy clients, MyJewelryBox.com and Peapod.com, for the Ad-Tech Awards in the ‘Best Affiliate Marketing Campaign’ category. Both these clients have shown tremendous growth and innovation this year, with MJB adding phenomenal growth in revenue year on year & launching some great social media applications to boot, [...]

Is Google scared of some competition from Affiliate Networks?

Jonathan Miller — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:30:59 +0000

Globally affiliate marketers contribute a significant portion of the revenue Google earns. It seems though that the big G in South Africa is not above some clever advertising to drum up new business for their fledgling office - using their own Adwords, of course. I happened to see an ad for Google’s Adwords product triggered off a [...]

Locked by LinkedIn!

Jonathan Miller — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:57:34 +0000

Oh dear. Seems I’m a LinkedIn abuser 8-( I’ve just been rapped on the fingers by customer support because I had a few people indicate they don’t know me - and now I can’t invite any more people into my network until “the man” clears me ;-( Here I thought I was being proactive by importing [...]

Welcome to 2008!

Jonathan Miller — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:31:12 +0000

Hello Everyone. Welcome back to your office and this blog if you've been away over Christmas. I trust you are all rested and rearing to go to make 2008 your greatest year. Thanks to Reshall, Nelson, Mauritz and the rest of the account managers & support staff in my team that held the fort at Forge [...]

Here comes another Tech Bubble. The lamest and funniest Video - just for people like us

Jonathan Miller — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:09:40 +0000

As we near the end of the year some of us reflect on the overheating (some say) valuations of tech and new media stocks. Others (like Vinny and me, lol) are eagerly beavering away to reach the same! So, thanks to Adam Viener for cutting me down to size an sending me on this blast from the past Billy Joel warped song - which those of us in this industry who are actually over 35 may remember! At least we can still laugh at ourselves! It's absolutely worth the download ;-)