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Entries from January 2008

Job offer: work on springleap front end dev

January 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Want to work on springleap.com (which is launching SOON!)
We’ve got a part time position for a front end developer.
we’re looking for someone who produces standards compliant XHTML Transitional and CSS code that gets tested in IE6, 7 and Firefox, and perhaps Safari and Opera too. Javascript & Ajax a definite plus!
Start next week
Speak to me [...]

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Tags: jobs · springleap

SEO Course

January 30th, 2008 · 26 Comments

I took some time off yesterday morning from debating the Eskom Load Shedding to hang out at the Quirk eMarketing breakfast, where Rob Stokes was speaking about Search. I was expecting a bit of fluff on what search marketing is, and the basics on SEO (getting visitors for free from the search engines) and PPC [...]

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Tags: search · seo · where i'm blogging

you asked

January 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Darren, who commented on my Kauai post earlier today, where I mentioned I’ve started playing tennis again (point 1) tagged me in the game, 8 things, and I’ve now got about 73.2 seconds before my next meeting at Cafe Neo, which is a place I enjoy hanging out at (point 2) so I thought [...]

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Tags: blogging · what i'm doing

Question for Kauai - Do you want to negatively affect your brand for only R2?

January 27th, 2008 · 9 Comments

I used to write quite often about bad service in South Africa, yet quickly realised that I would have to hire a team of people to keep up to date with just my experiences as South African service is so bad.
Over the last few weeks many experiences have got me “up in arms” but I [...]

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Tags: out & about · what i'm thinking

eMarketing over Breakfast

January 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Rob Stokes & the Quirk crew are hosting part 2 of a 6 part eMarketing breakfast seminar next week in Cape Town which I’ll be going to.
The topic for the second breakfast is “Search Engine Marketing (Including Search Engine Optimisation and Pay Per Click Advertising)”
Check the way they describe the Gizmo’s (is that the word [...]

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Tags: where i'm blogging

OHIO & Doubt

January 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments

Do you know that OHIO and Doubt are 2 of the latest buzzwords in the US?
Since I heard them mentioned for the first time at a talk two weeks ago, they have changed the word i’ve been working!
The speaker mentioned that although the 2 concepts are SIMPLE, seminars are being held dealing with just these [...]

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Tags: what i'm thinking

Get paid for helping your friend get a job

January 11th, 2008 · No Comments

springleap is going live very soon!
The site was built by a bunch of super talented freelance developers, and although they’ll still be involved, we’re looking for a full time developer to join the team.
springleap has been developed in c-sharp and asp and is database intensive.
We’re looking for a junior / midweight developer who wants to [...]

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Tags: springleap