10 essential tips for your e-commerce website!
E-commerce websites have come along way in the last 10 years, with the US, UK and Asia leading the way in online shopping.In 2017, retail e-commerce sales worldwide amounted to 2.3 trillion US dollars and e-retail revenues are projected to grow to 4.88 trillion US...
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Are you GDPR compliant?
Gone are the old days of geographical isolation, where an instance in one country would not affect another country half way across the world. The global village couldn’t be truer today than when it was first introduced by the book War and Peace in the Global Village...
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Important Changes to Google Maps APIs.
At this point it kind of feels like digital dominos with the changes coming in thick and fast, one after the other in the ever changing digital landscape. Now lets talk about the new important changes to Google Maps API. We previously brought your attention to the...
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Changes to the social media landscape
As always, digital keeps us on our toes. With WordPress Gutenberg updates, LinkedIn innovation and the latest change to bring us to our “tippy toes”, the Cambridge Analytica Scandal. Based on the findings thus far, the “humorous” state senate appearance by Mr...
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Are you ready for Gutenberg?
This new change to WordPress Core brings it in line with modern coding standards, and aligned with open web initiatives. We break down what this means for your business. Don’t get left behind, your brand cannot afford it!
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4 LinkedIn Business Tactics to Watch
The world of social had no shortage of innovation last year! Some of which included new features on trusted channels, increased brand opportunities and more focus on consumer preferences. Although we know that it’s impossible to predict how the social media marketing...
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Here is a Digital Glossary of Terms, just for you.
Do you sometimes feel lost in the jargon heavy world of digital? What is an SSL or Trojan Horse? Is this above the fold or below? Am I doing inbound or outbound marketing? These basic questions are often the biggest stumbling block for our clients, simply because they...
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Why won’t my designer release the open files?
This is a touchy subject amongst designers, agencies and clients, and has been for many a year. Just the mere mention of open files brings a feeling of unease. If you are lucky, you may not have had to ask or been asked this question: "Please can you release open...
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Introducing The Facebook Pixel
So, it turns out you’re not using Facebook to its full potential. Well, not Facebook per se but rather Facebook Pixel. This nifty piece of code will seriously change your targeted marketing efforts and provide you with even more data about your ideal customer.
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Digital Workshops to Empower You
We are a firm believer in imparting knowledge and empowering our clients. Discover all the most important aspects of social media marketing, website blogging and email marketing in our hands-on digital workshops running till the end of 2017! As a small to medium...
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App-solutely Brilliant!
App-arently, this is the app-ropriate time to bring up the topic of applications (or apps, as cool people call them). I thought it would have been in App-ril, but better late than never. As you would expect, Banter loves a good app. Whether it is the most addictive...
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1000 Drawings Doodle Session!
1000 Drawings is an art-for-charity initiative that changes lives. Throughout the year people create artworks in an A5 format. These can be doodles, sketches, painting, photographs, etching, embroidery – we’ve even had a donation in pewter, any kind of art as long as...
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Attracting Prospects Using Video
Another Video Production blog by Banter? YES, PLEASE! This blog is the fourth edition of our “Video Production” mini-series. And as usual, is filled to the brim with great guides to help grow your business. This blog goes hand in hand with the previous blog - Create a...
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The Tools Of Branding When Starting A Business
Last month Craig, Director of Banter, had the great opportunity to present our “Masterclass” to Business Day TV on what corporate branding entails. Business Day TV host masterclasses as a platform for personal and professional development by having experts in industry...
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Create a Video Landing Page
As part of our ongoing “Video Production”/ “Video Marketing" blog series, we at Banter would like to introduce you to the sales revelation that is the video landing page (echo echo echo)! The previous 2 blogs focused on why you should use video and how to make a...
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How to create a video
A few weeks back we posted an article on the benefits of Video Marketing, but what good is all that information without knowing how to create a video to access those benefits? Yet again, Banter comes to the rescue – we are going to give you a crash course on what you...
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Banter Photoshoot: Behind The Scenes!
Banter SA had an epic staff photo shoot for 2017! With the Art Direction of the talented Matt Stern Photography, we achieved our goal to have our staff captured in a way that we see one another daily. We wanted to bring out the raw and fun energy; and personality's...
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Banter SA turns 5!
Happy 5th Birthday to us! Thank you to all our loyal clients, suppliers and staff for supporting our business and getting us to where we are today! #Bantersa #5thBirthday
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Why is video important?
Did your parents ever threaten you with square eyes from watching “too much” TV? Ours did. Now you can tell them that everyone has them these days. The amount of screen time we all get on a daily basis has seen to that! Not that it’s a bad thing, we just need to adapt...
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Is your website safe?
Why you have to get a SSl Certificate! What is SSL and why do you need to purchase one? Until now, SSL certification was a requirement for all websites that wanted to transfer vital data and information on a secure level – think of banks and online shopping sites,...
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The History of Banter
While the final season of Friends was winding down and Facebook was still The Facebook, Banter had it’s humble beginnings in the mind of founder Craig Meiring. Craig was a corporate calendar designer by day and a creative t-shirt designer by night at Bantersaurus Inc and later Bantersaurus Graphics.
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