Some may have noticed the banner I'm now running on my blog and wondered what on earth Sean is doing now. Well, I've finally found a way for small and medium businesses to use proximity advertising without breaking the bank. It's called Ad-Pods and I am now the Ad-Pod South African Affiliate. I've been hard at working putting up the new Ad-Pods.co.za website and will shortly start on a nationwide advertising and marketing campaign to bring on board customers and other affiliates in South Africa.

Ad-pods is revolutionary, it turns the whole proximity marketing concept on its' head by finally making it possible for any small business to use Bluetooth technology as a means to advertise to customers. Until now it has cost lots of money to have a system like this and even more to keep advertising with it.

Earlier I blogged that Dolf de Roos is officially coming to South Africa and that booking were open. Well, some of you may have visited the Property Prosperity site and been amazed that the price was so high.

We agree and guys on the Property Investor Network confirmed. So we had a chat to Neale Petersen from South African Real Estate INVESTOR Mag and arranged some changes to pricing and addition of additional benefits that we believe places event attendance within the financial reach of more people and delivers incredible value.

Here's something that does not happen everyday. During a forum discussion on my Property Investor Network website, somehow the subject of Firewalking came up. What does Firewalking have to do with Property Investing?

Well it's the personal development side becoming a better property investor, and experiences like Firewalking are said to be positive and life changing. Anyway, I digress.

Bees - something I never thought I would blog.

I guess everyone has had the unpleasant experience of eating outside, whether at a restaurant or in your own garden, and had Bees pestering to get a share of anything sweet placed on the table. It's most annoying, not to mention disconcerting to people who are afraid of bees or afraid that one of their children may get stung by a bee.

You're going to laugh when you hear this solution, but trust me it actually works. I've tried it in my own garden at more than one braai and introduced the idea to several restaurants. It always works. 

Yes, Yes, Yes ... It's finally happening.

I am so amped I can hardly hold myself back.

In one of my earlier blog posts I hinted that I knew that Dr. Dolf de Roos, world-renowned property investor, educator and author of books such as Real Estate Riches , Making money in Real Estate and 52 homes in 52 weeks will be arriving in South Africa for a nationwide tour during the month of May.

I suggested people take the hint and register on the Property Prosperity website . I hope you did, because bookings are now open over at Property Prosperity and early birds are gonna get a discount.

Of all the things I've spoken about I have yet to speak about one of my fave sites Facebook. Bigger than Google, this site is totally awesome when it comes to the social networking giants. The programming behind this Gorilla is just incredible and deserves Platinum Kudos.

While most people see facebook at, well, face value, it is an amazing machine for internet marketers who understand it's deeper power. With social networking comes social marketing. I think this is the next big thing that has been missing from the internet since search engine optimization.

There's no end to the power of facebook and I may add, the addiction of facebook. You can literally spend hours on Facebook. This time, when used correctly can bring not just the benefits of finding long lost friends, but also traffic to your websites. I'm just getting to know Facebook and already have found great improvements in marketing and traffic. Facebook ads still have to pay-off, but I think with time it will. So I can't say whether Adword or Facebook is better. I think you need a strategy for both. However, where facebook wins is in the ability to build a large network and keep in contact and updated with what they are doing. That builds relations and so it goes on. Catch me on Facebook  

One of the members on my Property Investor Network , Gavin Bramley, posted this morsel on the forum. It gave me a chuckle so I thought I would just share the humour.

"Chatting to my sister in law on her 40th birthday yesterday (8th Feb) she tells me  that the power problems are causing a political issue and people have been asked to stop referring to these power problems as "Black-outs" but to rather use the term Previously lighted areas.... "

At least something positive has come out of our load shedding. 

Traffic is no joke, it's the core of an online business. Tap into traffic and you have people visiting your website, each a potential customer. So when you hit traffic flow you hit a goldmine.

That's what happened to me today. This morning I created my first hubs on HubPages.com and by middle of the day I already got 20 hits. That's fantastic return for all of 30 minutes work.

Believe me, I'm out there in the thick of it and no content sharing site has ever given me that many hits in one morning on the same day I loaded content. I can't explain it, I won't even try. You must see and try this for yourself. So far I've created three hubs African Real Estate Investment , African Stock Investment and Prepaid Metering . Check them out. They're simple for now, but if hots keep on rolling, I'll keep building.

Property investors looking to meet a true heavy in real estate investing will be glad to know that plans for the long awaited visit by Dolf de Roos are well under way. News of Dolf's coming to South Africa was announced last year in a short press release from South African Real Estate INVESTOR Magazine . The story has also been unfolding on the local Dolf de Roos website Property Prosperity .

Inside information has now been handed to me that dates for breakfast meetings with Dolf will soon be announced on the Property Prosperity and South African Real Estate INVESTOR websites. Last year, Property Prosperity invited all property investors interested in getting early warning and booking discounts to register on the Property Prosperity website. So if you have not already done so, I suggest you get on over there now and register. When they send out the early booking, you most definitely want to be the first in line. These seats will sell like hot cakes and you don't want to be disappointed.

Don't say I did not warn you. You heard it first from me.

Here's an African site worth blogging about called bundublog.com , don't asked me why an African website should rightfully have a .com domain extension, but this one does. I'm happy to overlook this non-African twist simply because this is a blog website for Africans.

Looks like the the site is built on an open source platform which interests me. Site features are kewl but I am not sure if Technorati is automatically pinged when you blog here. With everything what remains important here is that this site is African and hence is showing that Africa is starting to address the need for social media in an African context. Web 2.0 sites and especially social web 2.0 sites are lacking in the African context, so it's good to see somebody has realized this and is making a difference.

Traffic to the site is still nowhere on the Alexa scale, so I guess it will be one to monitor. Interested to see whether this builds the critical mass of sites like amatomu. 

So kudos to Gordan for scratching his itch and building the site.