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 .

From Bas van den Beld Bas van den Beld: Speaker, Trainer, Moderator and writer

The coming week is going to be all UK for me. My wife and kids will have to miss me for a week when I head over to the UK to do several talks.

On the Monday I will fly to London to attend and speak at SMX London. I will there be talking on the Tuesday on the panel “Social Signals & Search” alongside Jim Yu, CEO of BrightEdge, Marcus Taylor, SEO & Social Media Executive at SEOptimise and Cedric Chambaz, EMEA Marketing Lead of Microsoft. I’m especially proud to be talking alongside an looking forward to the talk of Cedric. I interviewed him for State of Search recently and I believe Bing is up to some pretty interesting stuff.

I myself will be focussing a bit more on Google in my presentation in which I will highlight the changes which have been going on over at Google when it comes to integrating social into search. I will ‘reveal’ Google’s social network .

On the Wednesday I am also speaking on the International Search Summit, which has now joined forces with SMX. I’ve spoken twice before on this conference organized by Webcertain and am always very happy to be there. Organizers Andy Atkins-Kruger and Gemma Birch (who I suspect does all the ‘real’ work ) are two of the nicest people in the industry.

I will be discussing differences between SERPS in different countries. Did you know that a search in Spain might give you a whole different experience than in the US for example?

When I’m done at ISS I will take the train up to Manchester to go to SASCON. A conference which is also organized by my good friend and fellow blogger Peter Young. Here I will be doing two talks, one on international search and one panel.

This trip will also be another possibility to ‘hook up’ with my UK friends who I love so much. I always feel at home there, so a week in the UK is not a punishment for me at all!

Are you going to be at one of the conferences? Come see my talks, but especially: come say hi. I’d love to chat with you and hear your ideas. If you do come up to me, let me know what you think of State of Search and what we should change or keep.

From Bas van den Beld Bas van den Beld: Speaker, Trainer, Moderator and writer

Yesterday I spoke on the “Marketing to the European Union” panel at SES London. I was joined by Mikkel deMib, Ciaran Norris and Kristjan Hauksson and we were moderated by Andy Atkins Kruger. It was a good session in which many different cultural aspects of Europe were brought to the attention. It wasn’t a very ‘technical’ session, but sort of an ‘introduction’ to Europe. Here’s my part of the session:

From Bas van den Beld Bas van den Beld: Speaker, Trainer, Moderator and writer

It’s that time of the year again: SES London is this week! It is the biggest search conference in Europe and I always love going there. I’ve only missed one show in the past years because my youngest daughter was born.

For the second time I will be speaking at SES London. On Wednesday morning (11am) I will be speaking on the panel “Marketing to the European Union“. I will be in the panel with some very big names in the industry: Mikkel deMib Svendsen, Ciaran Norris and Kristjan Mar Hauksson. The panel is lead by international search expert Andy Atkins-Krüger.

Andy asked me to talk about search in Holland (The Netherlands). I will try to give an insight on what can make or brake your success when trying to reach the Dutch online market. I won’t give away too much here, but it will most probably be both entertaining and informative!

I will also be working on State of Search coverage, we have bloggers doing live coverage of the event and I will be doing some interviews and we’ll try to do our radioshow coming from SES.

Are you also going to be at SES London? Come say hi!

Not going but thinking of going? Do come! And use the discount I can give you. Register online and to use the following priority code: SPG20LON. It will give you 20% off!

See you there!!?

From Bas van den Beld Bas van den Beld: Speaker, Trainer, Moderator and writer

As you might have noticed before when you have visited this (personal) blog before I was asked to speak at the Domainfest conference in Prague earlier this month. It was quite the experience! In a good way!

As you may have seen they put me in a hotel room which was astonishing. Huge and very comfortable. I almost didn’t want to leave the room! The evening also was interesting with a dinner party in the Czech National Museum. Not many people will have done that and as a former history student that was special! I missed the second day because I had to fly back but they actually went on a AK47 shooting contest…!

Next to that the conference was interesting itself. There were some interesting speakers, but the main thing which caught my attention was the actual domain-auction they did. I have never seen anything like it. Domains being sold as if they were paintings from Vincent van Gogh himself. Breathtaking to watch. And some domains really got some huge numbers. I understand that restaurants.com was sold for about $6 million… Watch here how pounds.com got sold for 35.000 dollars.

And what about my talk? That went very well I think. You always have to wait and see if your story really ‘catches on’. But I think it did, at least when I talked to people afterwards it seemed that way. Below you can find my presentation, those of you who have seen my presentations before will recognize things.

I’d like to again thank the organizers for a great event and say hi to everybody I met there. I’m sure we’ll be in touch!

From Bas van den Beld Bas van den Beld: Speaker, Trainer, Moderator and writer

This morning I talked at A4U Expo London. I talked for an hour about how to use Social Marketing to get the most out of Universal Search. By using the different channels, both online and offline you will get more out of Universal Search you would have ever imagined.

Here’s the presentation:

The video I showed in the presentation is the following (sheet 14), which actually tells the crux of the story:

From Bas van den Beld Bas van den Beld: Speaker, Trainer, Moderator and writer

I was fortunate to be invited twice to speak at the International Search Summit in London. This conference, organized by Webcertain, the company of Andy Atkins Kruger, is a small conference, but one which is very nice, partly because its not that big. You really get good information from different international speakers and you can really learn something there. At the last one in London I (with some others) was shortly asked about the conference. An opinion I was happy to give, you can find it below in the video. This is one conference I will come back if they ask me. And then off course I hope to see you there .

From Bas van den Beld Bas van den Beld: Speaker, Trainer, Moderator and writer

Today at the Emerce Travel Event 2010 I spoke about the future of search (in Dutch). I talked about Universal Search, how search engines are trying to grab the user intent and how you should handle that. It went really well and I was surprised about how many people showed up. It was standing room only and people were actually standing outside of the room listening to what I had to say, that was kinda cool .

Here’s my presentation on Slideshare:

From Bas van den Beld Bas van den Beld: Speaker, Trainer, Moderator and writer

Yesterday I made a very quick trip to London, I flew in on Wednesday afternoon, had a quick drink with my good friend and State of Search Nichola Stott and then went on to a Jazz club where I was invited by the organizers Andy Atkins Kruger and Gemma Birch from Webcertain. I had a great time there. A big compliment for the both of them.

The next day it was time for the conference, the International Search Summit. It was (again) a really, really good conference. Very well organized and a line up of impressing speakers who, something many organizers forget, were all complementary to one another, making the day very informative.

In the afternoon it was my turn to talk about Mobile Search in Europe. It’s not my main topic I usually discuss, but a topic I do work on quite a bit behind the scenes. Mobile, and mobile search in special, are a very much growing. If you don’t do it, you are crazy. I will put up a longer post on the subject on State of Search soon, but for now, here is my presentation:

From Bas van den Beld Bas van den Beld: Speaker, Trainer, Moderator and writer

This week I spent some time in Manchester for SASCON, a conference organized by a group of Manchester SEOs in an effort to attract attention to the fact that there is more than London when it comes to search marketing in the UK. After a day of conference (and two nights of networking and fun) we can safely say the organization has succeeded.

The conference was a big success  I think. There were many good speakers and the organizers did a great job in how they took care of the speakers. We as speakers all agreed on the fact they did that very good. Which is important when organizing a conference. I am already looking forward to next year, where the organisation wants to make things even better.

I was on two panels this show, the black hat / white hat panel and the Running a Pan-European Search Campaign panel. In the last one I did a presentation on how to handle the different cultural elements in Europe. It was in line with a post I did last year for Searchengineland. Below you can see the presentation on Slideshare.

From Bas van den Beld Bas van den Beld: Speaker, Trainer, Moderator and writer