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Although a winter’s day it’ beautiful. Posted via email from Johan Horak

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Once again the beautiful city of Cape Town hosts the legendary Two Ocean’s Marathon. For over 40 years participants have raced against each other to complete the 56-kilometre run. This year it will take place on the 23rd of April and is estimated to attract about 20 000 participants. Accommodation in and around Cape Town [...]

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Download now or watch on posterous simonstownsunrise.mp4 (1954 KB) Posted via email from johan horak’s energy flow

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  Cape Town Tourism tour operators, guest house owners and restaurants at the Cape Tourism network function.  Here’s an invitation to speak at the event and I hope to meet you there.  BTW: If you read the article I wrote on 2010 marketing strategies you’ll notice I share 14 marketing tips. I can either give [...]

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Best things to do for free Go to the beach – at Camps Bay, Clifton or Llandudno. Or, go to Simon’s Town and take a drive around the peninsular: you go all the way down to Muizenberg, Fishhoek and Kalk Bay, keep going and it brings you out on the other side over the mountain. [...]

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A few tips before going away. Test your alarm and make sure it is in working order. Do this in good time before you go away as December is a busy period for security companies and should the system require servicing you may need some time to sort it out. Ensure your property is secure [...]

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On Social Media: "The device is inherently of no value to us.” This was Western Unions response to the telephones invention. Ryan Opaz The truth is that we are seeing the fading away of yesterdays’ tools of communication, giving way to a new way of looking….Ryan Opaz Go ahead stick your head in the sand, [...]

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If you are a traditional marketer, you pay to interrupt your guest. If your a cultivator, using social media, your guest find you because, their friends (your social connections) recommended you, or because you have some advice for them ….. readily available on the internet. In other words, traditional marketers try to sell their rooms [...]

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Are you a traditional guest house marketer? You pay for ads in travel publications, you pay to advertise with online accommodation sites… sites where you compete with every other average Joe-Guest-House-Owner for the top spot.  We all know how the big brands interrupt us…….. In other words they pay to interrupt and never take time [...]

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. Simon’s Town Penguins If you make a trip to Cape Point Reserve, don’t miss stopping over a few hours in Simon’s Town. Visit the jackasss penguins at Boulder’s Beach and stop in the pâtisserie The Sweetest Thing for a heavenly lunch of coffee, quiche and a pastry. via stilllifeinbuenosaires.wordpress.com Is it not amazing… when the [...]

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