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The GottaQuirk eMarketing blogThe GottaQuirk eMarketing blogThe GottaQuirk blog is a great resource for information about internet marketing. Its an up to date resource on the happenings in the fast moving eMarketing industry. Articles
I'm fine to drive...
2007-12-15 07:58:00 I must admit I’m counting down the days (6 more sleeps) till I pack up and head off home to see the family for the holidays … A time to relax, reflex and prepare for a kick ass 2008! That said, statistically (and you know how much I love the stats) it’s one... More About: General , Drive , Fine
2007's Most Watched Viral Videos
2007-12-14 13:23:00 The end of the year brings more than panic gift buying and embarrassing Christmas party photos, it also bring lists galore - Top 10's, 100 most popular - you name it, its in a list somewhere. This week The Financial Times released the list of t... More About: Videos , General , Viral
Mr Splashy Pants wins hands down
2007-12-12 11:20:00 The votes are in! The most famous whale alive has now officially been named Mr Splashy Pants after a landslide poll hosted by Greenpeace. The name was the only one out of a list of 30 t... More About: General , Hands , Wins
StarCamp: So much to learn, so little time
2007-12-11 07:34:00 Bright and early on Saturday morning (after quite a Friday night) I clawed my way out of bed and headed through to AIMS in Muizenberg for the first ever Ca... More About: General , Time , Learn , Arca
The QuirkStars hit Mzoli's
2007-12-10 06:21:00 On Friday I was exposed to my first ever office Christmas party and I believe the experience may leave me spoiled for future experiences. Tim Shier organised a unique event which, cloaked in secrecy up till the last minute, wa... More About: General
Carling reaches for the stars
2007-12-08 09:05:00 This ad from Carling is an absolute gem. As a person who occasionally makes the trundle to a club for a night out with the boys this really appealed to me. I think we've all had the unfortunate experience o... More About: Stars , General , The Star
StarCamp - we got the t-shirt!
2007-12-07 13:39:00 On Monday I wrote a post asking for design concepts for the *camp t-shirt. To my surprise I was left with quite a bit of choice... More About: General , Shirt , T-Shirt , Arca
Public Service Annoucement
2007-12-07 12:18:00 Ok, so maybe this is a little presumptuous of me - but this is a little heads up that Quirk Cape Town will be downing-tools today at 3pm for a much needed end of year celebration. Not to worry though, we'll be 100% back on form first thing Monday (bar the bru... More About: Public Service , General , Public , Service , Anno
Facebook polls ? worthwhile? [Yes, no, maybe]:
2007-12-06 19:51:00 Amongst the turmoil surrounding Facebook and their ad services - in particular the Business Beacons - Quirk has been super busy re... More About: General , Polls , Wort
Well, hello there
2007-12-03 19:15:00 Good day to all blog readers in the world, or at least those fashionable individuals who keep in touch with the premier eMarketing company in South Africa… I’m talking about Quirk of course. I’m William J... More About: General
StarCamp T-shirt: design concepts needed
2007-12-03 16:08:00 I’ve just had a very interesting chat with Neil Blakey-Milner, who is organising Cape Town’s very own StarCamp, and from the line-up that he mentioned it's goi... More About: Design , General , Concepts , Shirt , T-Shirt
'Tis the season for online spending
2007-12-03 14:16:00 According to APACS, the UK payments association, today will be the busiest online shopping day in the UK this year. How did they predict that it would be today? Well, Mo... More About: General , Season , Online , Spending
Of Spam and French Champagne...
2007-12-03 08:23:00 A little while ago, a certain QuirkStar (who will remain nameless) forwarded a chain letter to me with fantastic promises of a free case of French champagne within 15 days if I forwarded it to 10 friends along w... More About: Spam , Champagne , General , Champ
Does the sun shine out of your arse?
2007-12-01 08:37:00 With the current energy crisis in South Africa, Africa (my bad) there have been loads of adverts promoting energy saving. Unfortunately the majority of them stink of self interest. Kinda like “We care about the world as long as it does not impact ou... More About: General , Shine , Arse
Fighting for email standards
2007-11-30 08:44:00 As a designer, I am faced with web standards issues on a daily basis. From getting sites to render correctly, to tirelessly fiddling with code in HTML emails to get them to display perfectly. This is all due to web standards, or the lack thereof, across different brow... More About: Standards , Email , General , Fighting
Setting up 301 redirects
2007-11-27 10:54:00 In SEO, one of the most common errors we come across when looking at new websites is that they are not making use of the correct redirects to address their Canonicalization and URL redi... More About: General , Dire , Rect
Mom is Santa
2007-11-24 07:23:00 Ouch! How's this for a cringe-worthy Christmas ad from CardClips? Ho ho ho... ... More About: General , Santa
www.google.your.back.yard
2007-11-22 09:32:00 Recently, there's been quite a bit of discussion around Google ’s localised search extension on Google Web Master Tools (WMT). The addition allows web masters to specify ... More About: General , Back , Yard
Quirk Applauds 2007's Top Youth Innovator
2007-11-19 13:48:00 The QuirkStars would like to congratulate one of their own, Rafiq Phillips, on leaving the 9th Annual ICT Achievers... More About: General , Youth
iThink Therefore iGoogle
2007-11-19 07:34:00 Rob was quite taken aback recently when he noticed that I use the iGoogle personalised desktop. Not that he disapproves, but he was curious as to what I liked about it. ... More About: General
Nike - Leave Nothing
2007-11-18 06:31:00 Looking back at the various virals that I've posted, most have a single element that persuades me to pass them on - a surprise ending, an absurd context, a larger than life concept, tongue-in-cheek sexual connotations, etc. However, the ones that I've passed on the most to my... More About: Nike , General , Leave
SOS - Rethink the shark
2007-11-17 09:23:00 Over dinner this week Andrew decided discussing a recent shark attack, or nibble as he put it, would be a good pre-dinner topic - typical ; ) Anyways, the conversation, as they tend to do over good wine, w... More About: General , Shark
Interaction in a Digital World
2007-11-17 09:21:00 During my daily wander through my Google reader I went of on a tangent and ended up discovering some super-cool, interactive technology. To backtrack a little…I saw a men... More About: World , General , Digital , Interaction , Interact
Don't blame the technology...
2007-11-16 12:19:00 Please bear with me on this one… I have a few stories to tell - they’re all pretty random but there is one common message. So here goes: Story 1: Recently, while waiting at O.R. Tambo International for my flight home, a happ... More About: Technology , General , Blame
US National Guard Invades the Internet
2007-11-15 07:45:00 For some or other bizarre reason, I was watching videos for US National Guard recruitment yesterday, and decided to take a look at the recruitment website to see how they marketed themselves – specifically through the use of extramural media. After all,... More About: Internet , General , National Guard , The Internet
IMDB's Top 10 Over the Years
2007-11-14 12:39:00 I’ve had social aggregating and user reviews buzzing around my mind for a couple of days now so I decided to compare IMDB’s chart of its top 250 movies against the same char... More About: General , Years
This is FNN
2007-11-11 09:12:00 I normally have tight reigns in place to ensure that I don't let my Facebook addiction get the better of me. Nevertheless, I do always find myself wondering what the latest social developments are and I can't say that I enjoy feel... More About: General
Remember remember the fifth of November
2007-11-07 09:15:00 The 5th of November marked quite a day for Ron Paul. The US Republican presidential candidate, known for being one of the few members of his party to oppose both the war in Iraq and the Bush administration’s security methods, re... More About: General
Plush... Peg it on
2007-11-06 11:10:00 Last night I went to watch a top notch South African band (Jules and the fools) and ended up chatting with an old mate, Ben Peters, who has subtly been re-launching his band ‘Plush ’... More About: General
Sprinting Ahead
More articles from this author:2007-11-04 11:29:00 Tim sent the QuirkStars an email regarding the viral campaign for Sprint Ahead , a US tele... More About: General 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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