Never make an appointment to sell.

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I just read something that horrified me. Johan Horak gave someone who asked about selling the above advice in reply to a question about selling techniques. The freemium sales technique he suggests is great from a website but in the actual real world?
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Social media is a fail: 10 reasons why

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Social media is a fail, In this article we will analyse why social media should work but does not. We shall discuss how you can turn this around and make it work for you. Networking is about interaction. Being a passive bystander will lead to very little.

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Is Sulaco New Media a spam friendly organisation?

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As everyone knows it is illegal to send spam without some things in place. The Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2002 make it an offence to send unsolicited email without specific options for the visitor. Starfish Corporate Gifting and Sulaco New Media seem to think having non working links on their website is good enough.

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An apology to the visitors in my Country

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I read with horror that tourists are being charged 3 x the rate for drinks that Afrikaaans speaking South Africans are paying. Even more sorrowful is that the retarded manager of the restaurant in question is offering non Afrikaans speaking South African id holders a loyalty card Read more…

Couch Surfing – My first visitors

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Couch Surfing in South Africa. Last night I hosted two strangers in my home, One from Chile and another from Paris via the states and Japan. I was a little nervous but the experience  more than made up for the “stranger danger” concerns. So let me tell you more. Couch surfing is a term Read more…

Well known personality commits suicide

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I quote “Well-known personality Pinkie Pelser, 38, has been found dead in a car behind a petrol station along the N1 in the Ferreira area near Bloemfontein. She had presumably committed suicide.” Read more…

I went to Joburg yesterday

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and you can keep it. In my town people that drive like that would end up in the bush. Seriously I got cut up so many times by fools in golfs that I was becoming a nervous wreck. We have morons on our roads here, Our morons like overtaking on barrier lines. They are suicidal and stupid but cutting across three lanes at the last minute to take the offramp?

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Ten things art has taught me about life and design even.

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I started painting with oils recently. Now I am not ready to call myself an artist but this morning I completed my 7th oil painting. I am busy with a few others as well. Yes I am painting a lot, nothing that would lead you to want me to teach you how to paint, probably nothing you would want to buy, but a friend liked one painting so much, he is going to hang it in his house. Here are ten things that painting has tought me. Read more…

Art Gallery

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Art and the beholder

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About a year ago I got the urge to paint something, As I had never done it and don’t consider myself an artist I gave it a miss. However the urge did not go away. I would walk into a local art supplier and look at all the goodies. I decided the other day to buy.

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