Comments on: day nine: road trip notes

By: robert

robert — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:56:19 +0000

Simon Tzu,
Hey okie, roer jou gat and drive out to Wellington. Make it a field trip for studies and the 27 Dinner in April. Go see the vineyard and ASK nicely for a tasting. You might get lucky and walk out with a bottle or more!
Make the inquiries and go. It’s a nice drive. If you don’t have transport let me know and I’ll see what I can organise for you from here.
Take the iniative and help stimulate the domestic market. Make it happen.
Mooi bly
Robert

By: Tim Clague

Tim Clague — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 15:32:16 +0000

More evidence of this ‘moving out of a box’ idea at the Berlin film festival. No one was ‘fitting’. Even into a nationality. Its all fallen apart — great!

By: Simon Tzu

Simon Tzu — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:44:46 +0000

Heh! Mea culpa, It was pretty cheeky. You’re a difficult man to contact though I’ve been failing for years — perhaps email was just not the right medium…
I’ve not seen Stormhoek out here — it would be great if info on where we can get it was put on the Stormhoek blog.
Are you coming out for the SA road trip (You should its REALLY beautiful here)? If so I promise to buy you a beer & fill you in on the state of SA advertising, PR, cluetrain, web 2.0 & the SA blogosphere when you’re in Cape Town.
regards,
Simon

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:07:59 +0000

Hey Simon,
1. As far as I know, Stormhoek is available in SA.
2. You sent me that e-mail when I was on the road, living on 3 hours of sleep a night and UNDER tremendous pressure. So sorry if I was a bit slow replying to e-mails.
3. Jason has been on the road for the last two weeks as well, with excruciatingly long days in America, Australia and South Africa. So ditto for him.
4. We’re planning another road trip in South Africa as we speak.
5. You have the nerve to pimp your own conference on my blog while trying to give me a dressing down. Nice one.

By: Simon Tzu

Simon Tzu — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:01:28 +0000

Dear Hugh,
I think its pretty ironic that you say you’ve been touched by a South African expat’s support for Stormhoek as in my experience Stormhoek does not seem very interested in South Africans. Certainly not as a market to sell wine to! We can’t get it here.
Neither you nor Jason from Stormhoek have replied when I asked about your supplying the wine at the Digital Freedom Expo ( http://digitalfreedom.uwc.ac.za ) at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town South Africa.
I mean its the geek dinner to end all geek dinners with Lessig, Wales, Bhelendorf and others plus a good percentage of South African geeks there. Is it just that you are not considering South Africa as a market at all?
regards,
Simon

By: Nick Post

Nick Post — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:02:07 +0000

Cankles!

By: Lemi4 aka. fERDI:)

Lemi4 aka. fERDI:) — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:12:28 +0000

You know, that last comment by Robert actually made me even more interested in Stormhoek.com. Or at least the Stormhoek story. Revenues help fund AIDS research? Hmm, interesting... Eh. Oh wait. You meant South African Export Revenues help fund AIDS research. Sorry, my bad. But still food for thought, tho... Personally as a citizen of the world I can't wait for Mark Shuttleworth's Ubuntu Gang to fix bug No.1, so that we here in Indonesia can comfortably use guilt-free software (aka. Free in both Price and Freedom) in day-to-day business productivity without being looked upon by the general business communities as idealist wackos so like, go SA :)

By: John Dodds

John Dodds — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:41:43 +0000

Approach is absolutely the basis of “segmentation” — we are allied not by age or any other simplistic (industry-friendly) delineator, but by our passionate response to others. The corollary is that brand messages cannot be imposed, they can only be offered up for acceptance and confirmation, so it is crucial that they come from the heart.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:52:13 +0000

Hugh, Colin and Cath,
Very much enjoyed meeting you three at Newbury Tesco. Not the best of venues for a first time meet n chat but I guess we could have done worse than the discounted CD/DVD gondola!
I especially enjoyed initially bumping into this trio as Hugh was pushing a trolley through the store with Cath sat in it (and a very tasty ex Durbanite she is too), while Hugh monologued to camera. It was a sight to behold.
For me as an expat Namibian/SAFFER, it is essential that S Africa continues to reach out and reclaim its rightful place within the global community.
The struggle to escape the siege mentality derived of the cultural and economic isolation years during apartheid must continue still. Everyone in South Africa was affected and still are suffering. Innovation was repressed as a result. Secret deals with America and UK were made however we still had to ask relatives in UK to send us videos of Match of the Day!!
But now S Africa has a new breed to lead the way forward. Innovators like Mark Shuttleworth, musicians like David Kramer and Johnny Clegg with businesses like Nando’s and Stormhoek together with ordinary people at Jo’burg like Champers who is completely engaged in the fight against HIV/AIDS, will see S Africa re-emerge from the years of economic, social and cultural repression. Their determination and dedication will succeed and pull the country and immediate regions to success.
Thanks to people like this business card cartoonist called Hugh Mcleod, more and more South African products will get to be stocked in stores worldwide and will, (not perhaps or maybe) take up more prominent positions on the supermarket gondolas.
SA export revenues will help fund research into AIDS, pay for AIDS prevention programmes, build water wells for the drought stricken areas, build schools to educate the children and create better funded social programmes for all communinities in S Africa.
I tip my hat to you Hugh. May I call you the next time Newbury fete has a supermarket trolley race?!
Kind regards
Robert

By: Bill Olen

Bill Olen — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:20:51 +0000

I love your insight — New Marketing Paradox: Vulnerability Equals Strength! Thanks for posting the notes.