I’ve worked on the SAMAS as a creative consultant before (3 times working with 3 different production companies) and here my recommendations on how to fix the SAMAS…

A Thread 🪡 1. At max, after two weeks of the event, do a thorough debrief and then start working on next years event. Client should decide on a Date and venue atleast a year in advance and start working backwards from said date.

One of my team members (Duma employee) asked to see me yesterday for a quick meeting to tell me he’s actively looking for a job...

Here’s how I reacted to an employee of 2 years telling me he’s using resources in my company to look for a job elsewhere...

A THREAD... Context: this guy was an intern at a company I used to work at. As I was building my team and that company was restructuring and I going out on my own, I offered him a job with the Collective. So he became one of our social media coordinators and later Junior Social Media Manager

In your 20s, 30s and onwards, your friends are starting to lose very close relatives. My generation finds itself not being sure how to help when tragedy strikes. Here are some practical things you can do to be of service to a friend in need during funeral preps... a thread: 1. There will be people coming to the deceased’s family home every day... assist by contributing refreshments like tea, juice, ice, amakhekhe and the likes

How I boosted my business: doing jobs that required IP and didn’t really have hard costs. For e.g I did research for a documentary for 3 months and got paid a lump sum of R90k. Banked all the profit to be able to bank roll a project for Mtv on 30day 💰 term... that was 2015 Fast forward 4 years later and MTV is still a client and I’ve never made a supplier wait more than 30 days for payment WHEN a delay was experienced... our challenges are the same guys... it’s the circumstances and our responses to them that are different