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Age-Old Marketing Hacks: The MTN Playbook
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March 2, 2020
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So there I was, on a Friday afternoon sitting humbly at an MTN outlet trying to replace my Sim Card, praying and hoping I could resolve it just in time to make my Detty December plans for that evening. Let me tell you how I got to that point. I had just gotten a Samsung s10, bad guy like me and I had to change my Sim card from the normal size to…
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Who knows about the tale of the disappearing SIM? Who has ever wrapped those unbelievable tiny micro-sim cards in a piece of paper and the next thing you know you are turning your house upside down! Why? You lost the sim card! How? You are incapable of giving an answer to that one. One way or another, it happens to us all. It’s almost hilarious if it wasn’t painful. And may the heavens help you…
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I first came across the concept “Fire Bullets, then Cannon Balls” in the book Great By Choice, written by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen. The writers pictured a scenario where a ship at sea is attacked by a hostile ship. The logical thing for the crew to do will be to first take some gun powder and fire some bullets, if it misses it then reloads, aim and fire more bullets until it hits the…
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“Ehem Ahmed, i’ve never seen you taking photos at events or in the studio, why is that?”, interrupted my friend while on our way to visit a sick senior colleague. “I’m not interested thats why”, i shrugged then replied. “But isn’t that where the money is”, my friend was really curious at this point. “Well i’m not doing photography for the money”, i mentioned casually trying to dismiss the conversation, and i succeeded as my…
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The struggle is real, I know. For years I’ve loved to be “online”, moving from one social media platform to another like a digital nomad. Thus getting addicted to Social Media was inevitable. In some ways it did me good, I was able to learn how to use it to make money. That was how my digital marketing career actually began. However, the urge to be “online” became too much. Social media was the last…