Choosing the Right Writer to Advertise Your Brand
Photo by Luca Onniboni on Unsplash What is a Copywriter? You’ve heard the term copywriter countless times, but what exactly does a copywriter do? Simply put, a copywriter’s job is to write copy, but it gets a little more complicated from here on. Copywriting is a creative occupation that involves writing text for …
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Get into the Rhythm with These 2021 Instagram Algorithm Changes
Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash Want to grow your ‘gram fam? Pretty pics and filters won’t cut it – you need to wisen up on 2021 Instagram algorithm changes. But what is an algorithm exactly? While it sounds pretty scary, an algorithm is simply a formula that the Instagram platform uses to determine what content to show to whom. Instagram updates this …
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The Power of Change
Photo by Jakub Dziubak on Unsplash Is social media overwhelming you? Feeling like a chameleon in a bag of Smarties? The world of digital marketing can be overwhelming, especially since nothing is static. New trends are always emerging. What was in yesterday may be outdated today. Not to mention the ever-evolving social media algorithms …
What to Consider When Choosing a Marketing Agency
Photo by Edu Lauton on Unsplash So, you’re looking for a top marketing company in Durban, or perhaps South Africa, to take your business to the next level? With so many creative, flashy agencies to choose from, how do you go about choosing the one that is right for you and your business? Here are a couple of things to consider when on the …
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What to Consider When Choosing a Marketing Agency
Photo by Edu Lauton on Unsplash So, you’re looking for a top marketing company in Durban, or perhaps South Africa, to take your business to the next level? With so many creative, flashy agencies to choose from, how do you go about choosing the one that is right for you and your business? Here are …
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For the Love of Marketing – Local Brands We Have a Crush On
Photo by Adam Jang on Unsplash Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash February is the month of love, and we’re crushing on a few local brands who we think have some super-hot marketing strategies. Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash Nandos is the epitome of a savvy marketing strategy, and this local brand delivers cheeky, hilarious content across all their public marketing platforms. We love their brand consistency and their commitment to keeping up with current …
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Top Marketing Resolutions for 2021
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash It’s a new year – 2021 means fresh beginnings and a chance to hit the refresh button. Making New Year’s resolutions is a centuries-old tradition. Chances are you’ve already made personal goals and resolutions with your friends and family, but if you’re a business or marketing team, now is the perfect opportunity to set …
Common Christmas Spelling and Grammar Mistakes
It’s the most wonderful time of year, and that time of year when we see many spelling and grammar mistakes strewn across magazines, billboards, social media and festive greeting cards. It’s always a good idea to copy check your writing – you never know who is reading it, and poor spelling makes a lousy impression, …
Staying Relevant in the Digital Age: Why Move Your Business Online?
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash We are living in the digital age, and it’s only natural that more and more businesses are taking their trade online. Transforming your brick and mortar business onto an ecommerce platform has many benefits. Here are the top 4 advantages you and your business could experience in the digital realm, which double as answers to the question, ‘Why …
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The Facts About Sign Language
Photo by Victoria Priessnitz on Unsplash The International Day of Sign Languages is celebrated annually across the world on 23 September, along with International Week of the Deaf. The 23rd September was chosen as the date because it coincides with the same date that the World Federation of the Deaf was established in 1951. Here are some fascinating facts about sign language that we …
TBC Clients Share Their COVID-19 Coping Strategies
Photo by Campaign Creators on Unsplash Navigating the business world in the era of COVID-19 can be daunting. So much has changed, seemingly overnight, and who knows when we will ever return to life as we once knew it – but it’s not all doom and gloom. We chatted to some of our clients to hear how they were coping, and …
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Your Go-To Copywriting Checklist to Combat Common Writing Errors
Photo by Hannah Grace on Unsplash Let’s cut to the chase: Poor language usage, in the context of marketing, can hurt your business image – especially if you’re going for an educated and professional image. It also effects readability and can make it hard for your audience to understand what you are trying to say. Which is why it’s worth taking the time to copy check your work thoroughly. Ideally, it’s better …
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What Defines a Good Logo?
Photo by Morning Brew on Unsplash It’s hard to neatly pack who you are and what you do all in a single logo, but it’s worth taking the time to think about how you can achieve this if you want a quality logo that stands the test of time. After all, people will naturally judge your company by its logo, and that first impression really …
What You Need to Know About File Formats: TBC’s Cheat Sheet
Having worked in the digital industry for a good few years now, common file formats such as PNGs, JPGs, TIFFs, GIFs, AIs & PSDs and the ways in which to best use them are second nature to us. But we’ve come to realise that we often take our knowledge for granted and assume that our …
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Using Digital Marketing to Improve Your Company’s ROI
Photo by Daniel Öberg on Unsplash Using Digital Marketing to Improve Your Company’s ROI As times get tougher after the wreckage left behind from lockdown, businesses need to wisen up in order to survive. What this means on the marketing front, is that your company needs to be more strategic with the way you market and market for …
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The Importance of Digital Marketing During Difficult Times
The COVID-19 pandemic has bought the world to a standstill. Restaurants, shops and businesses have shut down resulting in people working from home or taking leave to self-isolate. Even during these hard times, it is important for businesses to continue their digital marketing and to communicate with their customers and to build new relationships with …
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Unpacking Personal Branding
The topic of personal branding seems to be coming up more and more in the digital industry. So, what exactly is personal branding and what does it mean when a prospective client asks your business if they do personal branding? What is Personal Branding? Personal branding is how you promote yourself as a person, a …
HOW IS YOUR ONLINE AUDIENCE CHANGING?
Photo by Bluehouse Skis After recently watching a Hootsuite webinar on using social listening tools to inform your social strategy, we were reminded of the fact that as our audience evolves, the way we engage with them and get to know them needs to evolve as well. We need to make sure that …
How to Make the Most of Load Shedding in the Workplace
Load shedding in the office can slow down productivity and if most of your work is done online and on computers, no power can leave your employees sitting for 2 hours with nothing to do. So, instead of just sitting around creating Tik Tok videos and wasting precious data, why not try out our 5 …
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Productivity in the Workplace
Productivity in the workplace can make or break a business and having an office environment that inspires creativity and growth can motivate employees to work harder and be more productive. Here are some tips on how you can improve your workplace productivity: Time Management Time management is key to enhancing your performance and achieving your …
Why TBC Loved 2019: Highlights of the Year
While we’re wrapping up our marketing content for the year and looking forward to some much needed down time, we’re feeling a little sentimental and a little sad to say goodbye to such a wonderful year. We’re not sure about you, but for us 2019 has been a truly memorable year. Despite it having many …
A fresh, new look!
For our 5th birthday we decided to spoil ourselves with a brand spanking new website. We’ve gone for a simple, elegant design and have improved the user experience with an easy-to-navigate interface! The reason for our update was thanks to our Boss lady, Natalie, who felt it was the right time to refresh our own …
Design Tips, Tricks, and Trends
This month we sat down with one of Janet, our Graphic Designer, and asked her question after question after question. We managed to annoy her enough to the point where she hypothetically snatched the pen from our hands and wrote the blog for us. Thanks Janet! So here it is, Janet’s graphic design tips, tricks and trends. …
Behind The Brand: Natalie Weeden
Celebrating Our Heritage September is Heritage month, it’s also the last month that we’ll be 4 because we officially turn 5 years next month. So, to celebrate both these significant days of the year, we thought we’d sit down with our Creative Director and Owner, Natalie Weeden, to help us tell the story of our …
The Woman: Paving Her Own Path
Celebrating Women’s Month August is a very special month for us, as a country. August 9 marks National Women’s Day, a day that dates as back as 1995 (well officially, at least). On this day we commemorate one of the largest, peaceful demonstrations our country has ever seen (9 Aug 1956) where a group …
Meet the personalities behind TBC – Part 2
Let’s not dwell on another intro paragraph when we all know what you’re here for. Get to know our team Part 2. Leggo! ______________________________________________________________________________ Top 3 things that you want to do before you die? Jil: Go on a 3 month holiday with my husband. Meet my grandkids. Help programs that aid …
Meet the personalities behind TBC – Part 1
It’s happening! The time has come for us to add a little investigative journalism to our blog. So today we’re diving into the minds of our team and we’re going to get the truth from them. Ok maybe we’re taking the investigative part a little too literal, but still, we want answers and we want …
Creative Marketing With Unsplash
We have a small confession to make. As marketers we are mildly obsessed with the photographic skills of the contributors of Unsplash. The shots are just so breath taking and conceptual that we’ve basically started treating Unsplash like a photographic Pinterest. We have far too many boards and have hearted the smoke out of many, …
Are hashtags still a thing?
In a meeting with one of our clients recently, they asked the question: Are hashtags still a thing? And we’d like to answer by quoting the next generations leading poet and guiding light Billie Eilish… Hashtags were originally created for the Twittersphere to allow their users to easily search tweets that related to a certain …
Resume Makeover
February was an exciting time for us. We hired another Graphic Design guru and a Social Media Manager and Content Creator wizard. During this process, we obviously saw our fair share of resume’s and portfolio’s. And the one’s that stood out held a few important factor’s that we thought, why not write a blog on …
