Rob Stokes
CEO, eMarketing Specialist and Cricket Fanatic
Besides finding blissful enjoyment through serious amounts of late nights and hard work, our very own Rob Stokes has also found a way to use his hilarious and gregarious nature to power the turbines of the QuirkStation. Initially, it began in Rob's bedroom, with only the voices inside his head to keep him company. But the growth of Rob's ideas was inevitable, and they crept out of his bedroom into his lounge, and then all the way to a warehouse in Cape Town, as well as offices in London and Johannesburg.
While studying a Business Science Degree at UCT in the 90's, Rob's love for both technology and marketing merged in his Marketing Honours Thesis in email marketing. His vision for taking online marketing to the world was the beginning of Quirk's creation.
Energetic, inspired and dedicated to motivating people and empowering them (especially whilst wearing el famous tight white cricket shorts), Rob manages to bring these qualities to both clients and staff. He has filled the QuirkStation with Stars, who have created a formidable eMarketing machine with an international client base.
Rob is not only passionate about the world of eMarketing, but also about making it an accessible tool to others. This eMarketing specialist has been lecturing on Internet Marketing at UCT, Red & Yellow School of Advertising and Cape Technikon for the past 5 years. With boundless energy and enthusiasm, he also manages to deliver various workshops and presentations across Cape Town, Johannesburg and London.
"For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude."
Scott Adams
Blog posts by this author
- A Free eMarketing Textbook From the Minds of Quirk
- The Future of SEO
- Media Relations Summit: Day 1 Learnings
- $1000 for Top Search Rankings
- SEO Tips from the man who wrote the book on SEO
- Win $1500 by finding our new Creative Director
- Announcing BrandsEye
- Stormhoek Stolen!
- BMW SA: Defining Innovation - now online as well
- Putting Facebook Pages to Work
- Why Quirk loves Open Source
- Humour from a dieting eMarketer
- What's a good conversion rate for my website?
- Stream - The Highlights Package
- Streaming from Greece
- Stream - Day 1
- Seedcamp Roundup
- The two lesser known additions to the new Google Earth
- Seedcamp
- Indaba Roundup
- Uninspired, Unmotivated, Uninvolved!
- Killer Spam
- OpenCoffee comes to Cape Town
- Sxipping through web forms
- Is this the tipping point?
- Jumping for Joost
- The fine line between spam and courtesy
- When Link Bait Bites Back
- 10 Rules to Recover from an Online Brand Attack
- The perils of the holiday autoresponder
- Google delivers 70% of site traffic!
- Sites are STILL cloaking Google (and getting away with it!)
- GPS Locator
- Give the Gift of Knowledge
- 5 Reasons Why Blog Tag Sucks
- The Big Browser War
- Mango's vrot eMarketing
- M&G Gets Podcasting
- What media spend?
- incuBeta Scoops TT100 Award
- Quote of the Day
- On a quest to unearth eMarketing talent
- South African Search Engines Scoop
- We want less traffic!
- BMW starts to blog
- Top 5 search operators for Online Reputation Monitoring
- What is the best performing eMarketing tactic?
- Linux and the future
- Quick Response (QR) codes
- eBay wakes up to Search Engine Optimisation
- If you can't beat them, buy them
- YouTube sold!
- Top tips for new bloggers
- New UK QuirkStation
- A Time Distribution for Effective SEO
- Nissan: meet_expectations
- adtech London 2006
- RSS 101
- The Oprah way
- The answer to effortless backups
- Ster Kinekor .. the sequel
- And the award goes to...
- A full bodied whine
- In defence of search
- Are communities important?
- More mileage from the tube
- Prototyping and field testing in Second Life
- Contact us form spam
- Signed, sealed, delivered
- BMW rides the tube
- Strategic Choices
- Drucker is Dead
- Keeping up with Podcasts
- My Feeds
- What is blogging and how does it affect marketing?
- The company which holds the talent wins
- The Value of Stormhoek?
- Microsoft Advertising Error
- London Marketing Soiree
- Get with the Program!
- The Press Release is Dead?
- Curvaceous
- The Story of Gav the Sharpmaster
- Sadness is...
- The Value of Links
- Google's power to destroy a name
- Search as the Gateway?
- Internet World London 2005
- Top 10 Marketing Blogs 2005
- I am a Gaylord
- Are the Giants Awakening?
- Google University at the Online Marketing Show London
- And in the beginning... no one was listening
- Am I a geek?
- Good Geek Dinner review
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