Eric Edelstein

Something about the headline caught my eye, and made me look twice…
Business the Branson Way
It’s been a crazy few weeks, but the 3 sessions Brian Walsh is putting on looked interesting enough for me to decide that I’m going to give up staring at my laptop screen for a few hours, and get out there [...]

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There sure is a lot of opportunity available at the moment for catching up with the latest marketing trends, and networking with some fascinating people.
Two weeks ago, I was speaking on Affiliate Marketing at the 2nd Annual New Media Marketing Conference in JHB.
Then last week I spoke again on Affiliate Marketing at the Online Travel [...]

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After last months interesting Quirk SEO course which spurred the discussion “does PPC affect SEO” debate, I’m looking forward to Quirk’s next session on Tuesday.
This months session is on online advertising and affiliate marketing, and as i’m involved with one of South Africa’s largest affiliate networks, i’m sure i’ll have some questions to fire at [...]

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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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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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There have been a lot of Internet Marketing conferences lately. One of the interesting ones I managed to catch recently was the PublishOnline 2007 conference in association with the Online Publishers Association.
One of the reasons I enjoy going to the Internet Marketing conferences is to catch up with the other guys in the industry. I [...]

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Tomorrow I’m attending the Publish Online 2007 conference in Cape Town.
The Publish Online 2007 is in conjunction with the Online Publishers Association.
There is an interesting line up with 3 sessions…
Session 1 - Ten Years of Web Publishing in South Africa - Where to next? 
Alan Hammond, Robin Parker, Matthew Buckland and Charles Talbot
Session 2 - Online [...]

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On Wednesday, I was delighted to be a guest blogger at the Reshaping Media conference held at the Bay Hotel in Camps Bay in Cape Town.
It was an action packed line up discussing “Marketing Trends & New Media Technologies” and a big thank you to Stanley Edwards and Natalie Hands from Platypus Productions for putting [...]

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