Eric Edelstein

Lets do Lunch, Dave.

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“Bonds are trading like recession is becoming likely,” independent economist Robert Brusca wrote in a note to clients after the Fed move.
In the US, the stock market fell sharply yesterday after the FED cut interest rates by a quarter percent, when the market was expecting a more aggressive approach - the feeling is that the [...]

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The Sunday Times produced their annual South African Rich List last weekend, and I thought it would be fascinating to see which of the richest have Facebook profiles, how many have set privacy on their Facebook Status’s and how many you can go in and see details of…
I’ve written many times of using Facebook for [...]

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How is this for an amazing Internet Story that got buried deep in sports section of free daily newspaper “The Times”.
MyFC is an Internet company that charges it’s members R500 per year with the objective of buying a football club and the members have the say in how the club is run.
What’s so amazing about [...]

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Sky this morning mentioned SeaCom. Now I’ve heard rumours for a long time of another pipe being laid under the ocean connecting South Africa with the rest of the world.
The result - MORE BANDWIDTH! CHEAP BANDWIDTH (well, if I can believe the Sky reporter)
I heard rumours over the last few months that the SeaCom project [...]

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One of the news stations flashed Gold at $833 this morning.
833. Did I hear that right. A few days ago I saw gold had gone up to $775 and I thought that was INSANE.
About 5 years ago, I remember watching a Nostradamus type person on TV predicting that Gold would be one of the best [...]

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I’ve always liked the Virgin Brand. I remember years ago reading Richard Branson’s autobiography and being enthralled by the risks and choices he made as he went about creating his world wide empire.
The virgin brand launched in South Africa a few years ago, when they rescued the ill fated Health & Racquet club from [...]

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…is definately NOT approaching maturity!
Before starting my talk at the “Brands in the Digital World” I asked the 40 strong crowd, who had a Search Marketing campaign in place for their company - not if they were doing the Search Marketing themselves, but if their company had a strategy for driving traffic from Natural or [...]

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