According to David Lichtenstein, CEO of Superhuman Sales, by the end of 2023, the number of emails sent worldwide per day is expected to reach a staggering 347 billion. Globally, over 4.2 billion people, accounting for more than half the world’s population, were active email users in 2022. In the competitive marketing world, one truth […]
Natascha Torres, Head of Digital Strategy at +OneX, says TikTok and Google Performance Max unlocked new possibilities for South African brands. Over the past year, social media and programmatic platforms have launched a range of powerful new features and tools for digital marketers and advertisers in their efforts to capture a large slice of businesses’ ad spending. Facebook, which changed its [...]
Craig Lubbe, CEO of bidorbuy, discusses emerging e-commerce opportunities and what entrepreneurs abroad are doing that their local counterparts could be doing. In May this year, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) released a report that showed e-commerce’s share of the global retail trade grew from 14% in 2019 to 17% in 2020. The huge increase, representing tens of [...]
Brent Haumann, Managing Director, Striata, says research shows that you have just seven seconds to make a first impression. In today’s world, chances are that the first time a customer comes across your business, it won’t be through an advert or a shopfront, but online. That digital first impression matters far more than you might think. As is the case in [...]
Straford Rodrigues, partner in brand and marketing ROI analytics practice at Kantar, discusses why sales might decrease but brand equity does not, and what brands can do about it. Let us look at a scenario where sales are decreasing, and brand equity is increasing or flat. There are two possible reasons for this (outside of […]