Episode 43: Social Media Agencies

02 November 2009

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In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we look into the phenomenon of social media agencies to see whether having one on retainer is necessary for your brand. With hushed talks of agencies charging excessive amounts to create a fan page on free services such as Facebook we decided to look into the necessity of having a full on agency or if you could hire a web savvy teenager to do the work at a fraction of the cost.

We speak to Angus Robinson of Brandsh, Louis Janse van Rensburg of World Wide Creative, Gino Cosme of Cosmedia and finally consultant and web strategist Eve Dmochowska to see what is happening with excessive charges as well as whether you really do need an agency.

Our top ten this week is the ten best quotes from T.V. presenter Jeremy Clarkson and our 60-second pitch features Kish Ramdial from immedia to talk about their iPhone app development. As always, Kerry-Anne Gilowey joins us for the countries best audio news.

Guests:

Angus Robinson:

Angus Robinson is the founder and CEO of Brandsh Media (www.brandsh.com), a mobile and social media company that includes mobile agency Brandsh and media business Mobmedia.

Gino Cosme:

Online strategy consultant, a dabbler of things entrepreneurial, and a guy consumed by wanderlust, digital culture and a bunch of random goodness.

Louis Janse van Rensburg:

Louis is the Manager & Strategist of World Wide Creative Johannesburg, a digital marketing agency in South Africa focusing on creating profitable websites.

Eve Dmochowska:

Eve helps companies understand the potential of the web for their business success, and align the web strategy with core business goals

Kish Ramdial:

Kish is an iPhone developer at immedia

Links:

Brandsh: http://brandsh.com/

Cosmedia: http://www.cosmediaconsulting.com/

World Wide Creative: http://www.worldwidecreative.co.za/

Eve Dmochowska: http://www.evedmochowska.com/

immedia: http://www.immedia.co.za/

Cape Town Daily Photo: http://www.capetowndailyphoto.com/

Jarred Cinman: http://jarredcinman.com

Saul Kropman: http://saulk.co.za

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Saul Kropman

Saul is a wannabe writer, a terrible photography subject and an occasional entrepreneur. When he’s not off trying to convert the world to digital, one podcast at a time, he spends his time Photoshopping pictures of himself and people standing next to Malcolm Gladwell together using his beloved Macbook.

Jarred Cinman

Jarred is one of the founders of Cambrient, one of SA's leading web marketing and content management businesses. He currently holds the peculiar combination of Creative Director and Software Director at the company. He has been in the industry for 14 years and is a fairly regular blogger and thinker on all things digital.

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