Have you heard about the Umbono program of Google in Cape Town?

1. November 2012 by · Leave a Comment

The Umbono program seeks to find the best start-up teams in Cape Town and provide them with top-tier resources to help drive their idea to market.

Google Umbono Cape Town

Google Umbono Cape Town

If you have an innovative, remarkable and exciting idea to bring to the internet, Umbono provides you with the platform to turn your vision into a business.

When your team is selected for the program you’ll be provided with mentorship, a dynamic and inspiring work environment, internet access and seed capital. Added to this, you will be surrounded by like-minded entrepreneurs all hoping to disrupt the internet ecosystem with their ideas.Continue Reading …

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The day Google died

15. October 2012 by · Leave a Comment
The day Google died.

The day Google died.

We all love Google. Don’t we? Well, some might love Google more, some less. But some of us lately started to hate Google. I am talking about people who have online businesses, online shopping pages, affiliate websites etc.

People who make a living from being on the first page of Google with their  keywords. Now I must admit I am among these people. Not with Cape Town Active, but with a range of websites dealing with other topics.

And it is not only me that got paid from this. Nope. Almost 50 South Africans get their monthly salary from those web sites mainly due to the search result of Google as most  of the clients find us there.Continue Reading …

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How to Manage your Social Media in 15 Minutes a Day

6. June 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Manage your Social Media in 15 Minutes a Day

Manage your Social Media in 15 Minutes a Day

I earn my money as online marketing manager for a group of companies. Overall we are running about 60 websites for different products, markets and in different languages. For all our target groups we use social media. So again various social media accounts in different languages.

With this bunch of different accounts on Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Facebook and other social media platforms it became extremely difficult and time consuming to maintain these on a daily level. I ended up spending most of my work day on social media.

So I started to look around for tools that possible could help me in doing this more effective and efficient. And I found a better way in doing it.Continue Reading …

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New Google Feature – Penguin Update Classic

15. May 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Google penguin update classic

Google penguin update classic

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