March 20th, 2009 by Catherine Herbst
Quest is a leading staffing solutions company with over 30 years’ experience. The Quest vision is to be the leader in meaningful employment; setting candidates and clients up for success.

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Brief
Quest required a high impact, direct marketing campaign designed to market quality candidates on their database to existing and potential clients. A new year brings about change, change that often involves professional shuffling; resignations, promotions and new vacancies. Quest wanted to capitalise on this time of decision making and change. The campaign was to be cost effective and delivered electronically.
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March 20th, 2009 by Catherine Herbst
Stag Properties is a Cape Town based property-development company with many years experience and responsible for many successful projects varying from lifestyle to sectional title to retirement developments.
Brief

Having previously conceptualised, created and managed the marketing campaign for Stag’s Riverside Retirement Village development in Diep Rivier (now sold out), we were asked to do the same for the new units available in their existing Riverside Retirement Manor development in Pinelands.
The obvious difference between the two developments and their respective campaigns was that Riverside Retirement Manor was an existing development with many happy and settled residents opposed to Riverside Retirement Village, which was still to be developed at the time of the marketing campaign launch.
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March 5th, 2009 by Catherine Herbst

Most often it’s marketing that is first on the sacrificial altar of budget cuts. It offers the immediate gratification many organisations require at the time of forecasting in a troubled economy; calming nerves and placating shareholders or executives with leaner cost projections. However the very same people who need appeasing are the people who will not tolerate reduced demand for their products or services; thus expecting the same outputs with less financial input! Read the rest of this entry.

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March 5th, 2009 by Daryl Glass

You have just spent a fortune painting your home the trendiest, just-left-of-white. It’s the perfect shade and its cashmere texture compliments the architecture beautifully. You are chuffed! Read the rest of this entry.

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