Ceri James is a Digital Marketing Strategist & Consultant with 2 decades of industry expertise. My passion for digital is ever-present in everything I do, further witnessed in my most recent partnership & investment into BlueMagnet. A strategic move which repositioned the company to focus on it's core offering of auditing, consulting & empowering the digital marketing industry, introducing a best-practice standard, ensuring superior service delivery to the digital marketing landscape in South Africa, with a view to take the company global.My love for and career in digital marketing began back in 1997, when I started Talooma (originally Cybertrenz), and over a span of 17 years built the company into one of South Africa's top digital marketing agencies, consulting to a number of the leading national and global brands on web development, SEO, social media and paid advertising. As a serial entrepreneur and multiple business owner, I’m also the co-founder owner & Marketing Director of The Business Centre, South Africa's leading serviced office provider. Over 10 years, the company has acquired 6 commercial properties totalling in excess of 22500 square meters, has a national footprint (Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town), houses over 1500 companies, employs 140 people, and has become the trend-setter in serviced office space providing world-class solutions to international, multinational, corporate, and start-up businesses. We work with the country's leading property developers and have been featured in a number of major industry publications, showcasing our numerous successes over the decade. I have a Diploma in Digital Marketing which I acquired from the Digital Marketing Institute in Dublin, Ireland, a Management Diploma from Damelin.Interviewed on TV & The Business Day as a thought-leader in digital marketing & mobile across Africa. I've also attended and presented at numerous industry workshops on Digital Marketing and Social Media growth & trends.