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SEVEN STEPS FOR CREATING SUCCESSFUL MARKETING by Jay Conrad Levinson

SEVEN STEPS FOR CREATING SUCCESSFUL MARKETING by Jay Conrad Levinson

Published on: Oct 21 2009 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on SEVEN STEPS FOR CREATING SUCCESSFUL MARKETING by Jay Conrad Levinson
1. Find the inherent drama within your offering. After all, you plan to make money by selling a product or a service or both. The reasons people will want to buy...
50 Low Cost or No Cost Tips to Promote Your Business

50 Low Cost or No Cost Tips to Promote Your Business

Published on: Oct 21 2009 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on 50 Low Cost or No Cost Tips to Promote Your Business
Post and keep regular business hours. Though it may seem obvious, many small businesses fail to do this. Answer the phone. When you are unable to answer the phone,...
Best Low Bandwidth Web Design: Emailed RSS

Best Low Bandwidth Web Design: Emailed RSS

Published on: Oct 21 2009 by Wayan Vota - 4 Comments
When you design websites for the low-bandwidth environment common in Africa, you come across constraints not considered by your average web developer. Paramount...
Wikireader: a Digital Library of Alexandria, Offline

Wikireader: a Digital Library of Alexandria, Offline

Published on: Oct 19 2009 by Wayan Vota - 3 Comments
No matter how much bandwidth comes via the new fiber optic cables, there still will be massive offline areas in Africa. So there will still be a great craving for...
Nokia: Win $125,000 For Uniquely African Apps

Nokia: Win $125,000 For Uniquely African Apps

Published on: Oct 17 2009 by Wayan Vota - 2 Comments
Here’s a great opportunity from Nokia for for African mobile and web application developers to create best-in-class applications. Nokia is offering $125,000...
Village Telco: Rural Voice Services Business Model

Village Telco: Rural Voice Services Business Model

Published on: Oct 15 2009 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Village Telco: Rural Voice Services Business Model
tweetmeme_source = 'ICT_works'; Mobile phones seem to be ubiquitous in the developing world, until you leave the main population centers. Then service drops...
Will Silicon Cape Create African Entrepreneurship?

Will Silicon Cape Create African Entrepreneurship?

Published on: Oct 13 2009 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Will Silicon Cape Create African Entrepreneurship?
At the beginning of 2009, Vinny Lingham put forth the idea of a Silicon Cape – an effort to recreate the success of Silicon Valley by removing the barriers...
Google & Paypal Leaving Cash on the Table: ePayment Business Opportunity in Africa

Google & Paypal Leaving Cash on the Table: ePayment Business Opportunity in Africa

Published on: Oct 07 2009 by Wayan Vota - 5 Comments
tweetmeme_source = 'ICT_works'; Were you excited to hear that Google now has location-aware AdWords for Kenya and South Africa? I was overjoyed that Google is...
Broadband Beats Mobile Phones in Boosting GDP

Broadband Beats Mobile Phones in Boosting GDP

Published on: Oct 06 2009 by Wayan Vota - 2 Comments
Mobile phones are a ticket out of poverty for millions. No argument there. But check out this global ICT study by Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang, an economist at the World...
What Low-Cost ICT Devices Exist for Africa?

What Low-Cost ICT Devices Exist for Africa?

Published on: Oct 03 2009 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on What Low-Cost ICT Devices Exist for Africa?
tweetmeme_source = 'ICT_works'; Back before there was One Laptop Per Child and the netbooks it spawned, we had to hunt for information on ICT projects. Finding...
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