Happy New Year! Let me start of by wishing all of you the very best for 2012. I hope that the new year will bring everybody exactly what they are hoping for.

For me personally 2011 was a great year. I have been speaking a lot on several occasions, the different training sessions I did have been very successful, I have enjoyed doing work for the DDMA very much, and last but not least: State of Search has grown immensely in popularity, which was shown on the last day of the year and made me very proud. Continue Reading »

It has been a great ride. But now it is time to move on. As of immediately I will be saying goodbye to the title “Social Marketing Ambassador” for the Dutch DMA.

For the past year I have been working part time for the DMA setting up the Social Marketing activities of the Association. We have set up clinics, set up special Social Marketing Group, a new website and I’ve been talking to and helping members of the DMA making “Social” more part of their everyday life. Continue Reading »

I have some really exciting news to share with you. Starting today I am A faculty member of the Speakers Academy. This means that from now on you can book me as a speaker, trainer or moderator through the Speakers Academy. I am now featured in between some of the biggest names in the speaking industry, which makes me very proud.

I decided to join the Speakers Academy because, well first of all because they let me of course , but mostly because I feel that the Speakers Academy stands for class, something I’d like to connect my name to.

Also speaking and workshop projects have become really busy lately with a lot of speaking and training sessions planned. Arranging them all became too much work so The Speakers Academy is kind enough to now arrange that for me.

I am very happy with this and hope to to have a long lasting relation with them. You can find my profile page in Dutch and English right here. Hope to see you soon on some workshop or when I’m speaking! Go book or spread the word .

It has been a crazy week this week. It started with a “day off” on Monday because of a national holiday here in The Netherlands. Somehow we have adopted the idea of “2nd holiday days”, we celebrate an extra day of Eastern, Christmas and in this case Pentecost, or as we call it “Pinksteren”.

Now for somebody who works for a boss these days are great, an extra “free” day off. For somebody who works independently it is horrible. You lose a day. And the work you are supposed to do doesn’t wait. It just becomes more so an ‘extra’ day is just a postponement of what you were supposed to do that day, which you then have to do the days following. You lose time, it is as simple as that. Continue Reading »

A few weeks ago I spent the entire week in the UK doing several talks (I still have to put my presentations online, will do that soon!). I was then at the conferences SMX, ISS and SASCON (check State of Search for the coverage there!). Next week I’ll again be taking the plane, over to Germany this time. To be more specific: Munich. I will go to A4U Expo Europe which, like last year, is held in the Hilton Munich Park Hotel. Last year I was one of the speakers there, but unlike then and unlike last week I won’t be speaking this year. That is because I am doing something else.

This year at A4U we from State of Search are trying out something “new”. At A4U Munich there is, as always, an Expo Hall in which sponsors can exhibit and people can network. Looking over that Expo Hall there will be a special booth in which I will be talking to people about A4U Expo, what their experiences are, but also what is keeping them busy in their day-to-day business. Off course we will also be getting speakers to talk about what they have been telling the audience on stage. For the duration of the conference we will be doing this in several ‘sessions’. This will all be live streamed on State of Search. Continue Reading »