Everyday Awesomeness: how to sell your house in style

by on May 16, 2013 in Style with No comments

Have you ever searched for a new home and despaired at the uninspiring photos you found on property websites? It can be enough to put you off house shopping. We all need a bit of help imagining what a space could be, rather than than what we see on first glance. Enter Fantastic Frank.

Fantastic Frank is a Swedish estate agency. This is how they approach selling the homes on their books.

We are changing the world of real estate brokerage by taking a novel approach to the game. Besides recruiting the most competent and ambitious real estate agents we can find in Stockholm – our skilled marketing team beat the competition by having a 50% higher viewing rate* of the properties than other brokers in Stockholm. One key to this is that our photographers and interior stylists treat each and every home like a sleeping beauty…

We hire photographers and stylists from the high-gloss industries, like interior design, fashion and architecture, to make every home look stylish and inviting. The result are photographs that don’t seem out of place in the pages of the best interior design magazines – as a matter of fact our images finds its way there pretty much all the time.

Our philosophy is based on a simple axiom: we’re not interested in creating something that the majority of buyers are going to like. We’re interested in creating something that at least one person is going to positively LOVE because at the end of the day, a house or apartment can only have one owner. Our job therefore, is to find that one person and seduce them!

What a novel idea. Business opportunity, anyone?

Information via Fantastic Frank’s website and images via their blog.

This is water

by Chris M on May 11, 2013 in Video with No comments

Wow, a couple of friends told me to track down this video and have a watch. I’m really glad they did because this is quite incredible and it’s actually something I’ve had long chats to friends about, the topics you never really talk about.

Take a watch, it’s only 9 minutes:

Everyday Awesomeness: Eat for the Earth 2013

by on May 8, 2013 in Cuisine and Beverages with 2 Comments

It’s time for Yuppiechef’s yearly Eat for the Earth campaign!

Yuppiechef celebrates World Environment Day and supports Soil for Life with this annual event. A bit about Soil for Life:

Soil for Life is a Cape Town-based non-profit organisation teaching people how to build the soil and grow healthy plants, so that families can sit down to plates of safe, fresh nutritious food, all year round. The low-cost methods we teach enable gardeners to harvest large amounts of food from small spaces using very little water and no harmful chemicals. Not only this, but the NPO looks for, and creates opportunities for food gardeners to expand their horizons beyond the garden fence, to develop skills and talents so that they are able to earn money to pay for what they need. ~ 

How Eat for the Earth works:

Eat for the Earth 2013 (EFTE) has a fun social media aspect to it. Once you register your meal (you do this on the EFTE website with your Facebook login), Yuppiechef puts a plant on their wall for you. Your guests visit your plant on the wall to RSVP and donate.

Visit the Eat for the Earth website to learn more and sign up.

I can fly!

by on May 8, 2013 in Gaming with 2 Comments

I Can Fly! is a cute distance game starring a little piglet. One day, during a romantic picnic, the rats on the moon kidnap your piglet’s girlfriend out of boredom and spite. Now you have to rescue your loved one from the moon! …But how to get there?

The rats taunt your piglet, saying you can come save her when pigs fly. So there is nothing else for it: your piglet will have to build a flying machine and learn how to fly all the way up to the moon!

Your first couple of attempts won’t get you very far, but you can collect apples, donuts, and stars to gather some extra energy and points. You can use the stars to buy all kinds of useful upgrades and equipment in the store, which will help make your flying machine work even better.

Soon you will be flying higher and higher! Can you dodge all the obstacles floating around in the air (or at least invest in a good helmet…) to get to the rats’ hideout? Play I Can Fly and many other inventive and fun distance games at Games.co.za!

Monster DNA Headphones – My thoughts?

by Chris M on May 6, 2013 in Equipment, Music with 3 Comments

This morning I received a pair of Monster DNA Headphones and I am super impressed! I was asked to assist with part of the launch campaign and I wrote about the headphones from a point of view where I hadn’t actually held them in my hands. But, this time I’m writing about them whilst they’re on my ears pumping some tunes.

First off, the headphones arrive in a beautiful box, everything boxed like Apple do their products.. a pleasure unboxing. Opening the box is easy and it doesn’t take more than a few seconds to have the headphones out and ready to test. There are a few things that I really love about them:

  1. You can plug your cable into the left side or right side – more useful than you think!
  2. You receive two cables, one for portable device listening and one specifically for laptops. Strangely, this is a huge bonus and they actually make all the difference – I guess you need to see for yourself, just take my word for it.
  3. They’re damn styling – I tell you, the younger generation today is all about cruising around with headphones and whilst I was out at the shop, I kid you not when I say they go stared at a few times.
  4. The bass these puppies produce is exactly what I’d expect and the minute I heard it a smile came to my face. Clear high quality audio!

There are a few other things that I could write about, but to be honest, I think you should get your hands on a pair and take a listen/play for yourself.

Here are some photographs:

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Note: I was not commissioned to write this post.

Landscapes – Video

by Chris M on May 5, 2013 in Video with No comments

The Internet is an incredible place, undiscovered talent becomes discovered and amazing work gets credit. This evening I came across an absolutely incredible video about landscapes. This is honestly one of the most amazing video’s I’ve ever watched and I urge you to take a watch.

What did you think? Leave us a comment and let us know :)

I’ve got to tell you, this certainly did get me realising that I have seen so little of this amazing world we live in!

ABSA failing at social media

by Chris M on May 3, 2013 in Industry News, Networking with 6 Comments

The debate over whether social media is important or not is over – every business, big or small, should have some kind of social media strategy in play. Of course, there are companies that don’t need to do social media, but most do and should be, even if it’s a tiny and inexpensive strategy. Being ready, willing and able to address matters relating to your brand on networks such as Facebook, Twitter and the likes is a crucial part of satisfying your audience.

I went to school with a chap called Lloyd, who has been messed around by ABSA. He wants to close his account, but from the sounds of things, no matter what he does, ABSA continues to try and delay him as well as up sell their products. I understand his frustration in this regard as I went through it with Virgin, but I certainly never experienced the fail that ABSA cooked up on their Facebook Page, just get a look at this:

This, to me, is such a perfect example of social media being done incorrectly. What could have really been an easy situation to resolve now has hundreds of people involved, bloggers blogging about it and I’m sure someone’s tweeted it. A 4 day delay on the Facebook Page? Grief! ABSA need to review things, either the agency doing their social needs a bit of a spanking, or they need to give the person who does it internally some more resources because this is crazy and it’s going to spread bad news about their brand online. Perhaps they should consult FNB for some tips?

Anyway, Facebook is no different to how you’d do things in person when someone walks into your shop – value your customer and treat your customer with respect, but most importantly, when it’s something you can do for a customer, do it, don’t delay it!

Arm Surgery

by on May 1, 2013 in Gaming with No comments

Arm Surgery 2 is one of a number of fun and interesting surgery games in our collection. In this game you have to help a patient with a bone fracture. It’s quite a bad fracture and your patient needs surgery! Can you perform the surgery necessary to fix this broken bone?

Choose the right tools each time and use them as indicated. You will have to make an incision and fix a metal plate to the patient’s bone to allow it to heal properly. Make sure you pick the right tools and use them correctly to make the surgery a success.

With the help of your assistant you can help this patient in no time at all. You’ll have to cut off the patient’s sleeve and wipe the arm clean, make the incision, remove the small pieces of fractured bone, affix the metal plate, and perform many more exciting tasks.

Have you ever though of becoming a surgeon? Test your skills now and play Arm Surgery 2 and many more exciting and challenging surgery games at Games.co.za!

Everyday Awesomeness: a man and his cat

by on April 30, 2013 in Humour with No comments

The interwebs is full of Easter eggs. This one came via Pinterest.

Remember Postman Pat and his black-and-white cat? Rudi Saldia and his tabby, MJ (Mary Jane), cycle the streets of Philadelphia making deliveries. MJ perches on Rudi’s shoulders and goes about his work with him.

People are amazed when their packages are delivered by courier and cat.

According to Rudi, his feline companion loves her outings on the bike.

‘MJ enjoys the wind rushing through her fur and she moves around from shoulder to shoulder.’

‘MJ is so comfortable on my shoulder she never uses her claws. My shoulder and back are scratch free.’

Let’s hope they stay safe on the roads of Philly!

Here’s a video of Rudi and MJ in action.

*Images and info via The Daily Mail.

Audi A3 Exchange Challenge!

by on April 29, 2013 in Cars with 1 Comment

She was beautiful like a pearly white mermaid temptress trying to lure me in with her striking lines and gorgeous figure. After one weekend with the beautiful lady, I was hooked.

I recently got to drive the new Audi A3 Sportback 2013 edition for the weekend to help spread the word of the #AudiA3Exchange campaign. All you have to do is tweet using the hashtag “#AudiA3Experience” and which city you wanted the exchange to take place in, either #CPT, #JHB or #DBN, and the city with the most “votes” got the chance for four people to battle it out with the winner exchanging his current car for the sexy new A3 Sportback.

All I can say is that it left me nothing short of breathless. A car so elegant, yet so naughty. On first glance, the gliding lines that define her beautiful shape lure you into thinking that she is all comfort, class and nothing but a lady. Well, the interior is exactly that. Refined elegance that one gets accustomed to as soon as one glances at the finishing around the dash and the comfort of the seat. The mechanics however, are nothing of the sort. Technically, this car is perfect. The ride was incredibly smooth and you literally floated around corners as if you were riding on a magic cloud. But as soon as you put your foot down, it was the exact opposite. It was like a dark beast was unleashed from its dungeon as you were flung back into your seat as sheer power was exulted from the 1.8T FSI engine as it purred like a wild cat in its element.

I simply just wanted to drive and never stop, and that started from the moment I opened the door and got a whiff of that “new car smell”. I felt right at home the instant that I sat in the driver’s seat and the mini heads up display slowly rolled out from the dashboard to my disbelief.

I have never experienced a machine like that which was so well put together that you naturally understood how much thought and attention had gone into every inch of the car – from the stitching on the steering wheel to the air-vent dials to the tiny lights illuminating mere centimetres ensuring that you could see everything inside, but without being distracted. There was such a mixture of classy experience but youthful rawness that was blended to absolute perfection. The testament to this is how much fun not only I had, but how much my father enjoyed a joy ride.

This weekend was incredibly fun and a big thanks must go out to Audi South Africa & Natasha from Ogilvy for organizing this.

All I need now is a way to break into Audi to be reunited with my baby…Daddy misses you.

Don’t forget to visit audia3exchange.co.za to get the chance to exchange your current car for the new A3 Sportback.

Take a look at the photo gallery :)

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