As a marketer who uses social advertising tools I’m horrified and offended at what was done with the last Kenyan election and what is no doubt continuing to whatever extent. Still I’d like to separate out a few things that seem to be packed together in the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal. 1. Big data that helps, e.g. MRI data and cancer training labels. 2. Big data that hurts, e.g. personal data that is used to target an individual and …
Month: March 2018
At 83% Kenya is officially the leading consumer of internet in the world. According to Jumia’s Kenya Mobile White Paper 2018, this high internet penetration can be attributed to the fact that over 4.3 million Kenyans own a smartphone and the number is growing by 200,000 smartphones monthly. But this does not come as a surprise to most of us. In fact I know a running joke that more Kenyans have access to mobile phones and the internet than clean …
How does one become a digital marketer in the first place? My career in digital marketing started quite haphazardly. Back in 2014, I used to create SEO-optimized content for clients at iWriter.com. The rates were great, and I could always work in my pajamas but, there comes a time for change and growth. Two years later, after taking an online course on Inbound Marketing and Sales, courtesy of Hubspot, I landed my first full-time digital marketing job at Legibra. Admittedly, I still miss …