Coffee with Skinny laMinx’s Heather Moore

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Sit down with Heather Moore and Laura Turok of Skinny laMinx over coffee and date balls in a buzzing Cape Town café. Heather’s textile brand (named after her Siamese cat!) is a gorgeous Cape Town success story of a small female-owned and run business that’s grown to be massively popular with fans and customers around the world. We absolutely love her patterned tea towels and her new Colour Pop Pillows, which complete her range of Palette + Print scatter cushions.

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On newsletter signups: To pop up or not to pop up?

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Or: The artful seduction of getting someone to sign up to your newsletter.

Newsletter popups. You know those irritating things that pop up on a website the minute you land, or obstruct your screen while you’re trying to read? The variation is endless and yet the message is essentially the same (“Sign up to our newsletter”) with the intent generally also being the same (“We want your email address to market at you”). Maybe it’s to sell things to you, maybe it’s to get you to read articles to get advertisers to sell to you… you get the drift.

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Workshop: Content marketing for shop owners

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Do you have an online shop but you’re somehow just not driving the sales you thought you would?

While a functional, user-friendly and beautiful e-commerce platform is an essential part of your online selling efforts, a shop in itself will not sell your product.

Content marketing can help your sales by creating brand awareness and nurturing a community of people interested and inspired by your offering, which ultimately creates brand recognition and loyalty to drive those sales.

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