Mike Stopforth

Considering I ‘couldn’t get it up’ at New Media Marketing 08 (damn the technical gremlins - my Mac is supposed to just work!), here is the presentation you never got to see…

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To all that attended the 27dinner in Jozi tonight, thanks for making it an awesome success. Special thanks goes to the speakers - Gareth from Buzzfuse (congrats on the recent growth guys!), Jonathan Miller from ForgeBusiness (viva Las Vegas!), Jo Duxbury from Freelancentral (and the Oscar for the best PPT slides in history goes [...]

I think all round day two of the New Media Marketing conference was a richer, more meaningful one (at least for me) with the exception of one absolutely shocking presenter, to which I’m not even going to give the courtesy of a hyperlink.
Huge credit must go to Jason and the rest of Zoopy [...]

We all shuffled in to Gallagher Estate (after navigating Jozi’s worst traffic) this morning in expectation of what we hoped would be a half decent conference… and a lekker kuier to boot. The turnout from actual delegates was slightly underwhelming but generally the standard of the content on the day was above average. [...]

Financial bootstrapping is a term used to cover different methods for avoiding using the financial resources of external investors. Bootstrapping can be defined as “a collection of methods used to minimize the amount of outside debt and equity financing needed from banks and investors” (Ebben and Johnsen, 2006:853)
According to Wikipedia, financial or business bootstrapping is [...]

Henk Kleynhans (CEO of Skyrove) and I once met for coffee at Sandton City while he was up from Cape Town to talk about our industry, our respective businesses and life in general. We hit it off straight away - he’s a smart, likable guy. Somewhere during our chat, he has since reminded [...]

This from Andrew Crawford, one of our funnier Cerebrans and my official Guitar Hero 3 sparring partner…

Ha ha.

This blog has been up and running for some time now. Fundamentally it’s a channel to redirect people to other projects I’m involved in - Afrigator, Cerebra, 27dinners and my speaking and writing gigs.
The site is up for a bit of a rethink and refresh - one of the key decisions I have to [...]

I’m a Benoni boy; born, bred and bloody proud of it. However, it goes without saying that Benoni is not without it’s quirks.
I recently picked up a link from the Benoni High Matric class of ‘98 Facebook group to the Benoni High School website, and in particular these hilarious boy’s hairstyle guidelines (or regulations [...]

Without a doubt the coolest part of my ‘job’ is the people I get to meet on a daily basis. Last Thursday I had lunch with Heather Ford, Executive Director of iCommons. She inspired me to not only share with what it is that she does, but also share the many interactions I [...]