Trainer, Speaker, Coach
For somebody who has been working on blogs and promoting them to the bigger public it is always nice to see how others became successful. In this case I found the video of a Bloomberg item about Mashable. Though not the site I want to be content-wise, but I like it and it can be an example in how they are growing and doing their business and reaching a bigger audience. A nice video to watch.
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.
Tonight Ajax played FC Twente in the Dutch Cup Final. As many of you and certainly many of my Twitter followers know, I am a huge Ajax fan. And I tweet about the games I see on TV. I did that again tonight, but I’m not going to do that again. I’ll tell you why.
The game ended in extra time. In that extra time Twente got a free kick which in my eyes (and I think in the eyes of many supporting Ajax) should have gone the other way. From that free kick Twente scored the winning goal.
Now, whether I am right or wrong doesn’t matter here. What matters is that I share my feelings about it on Twitter. And as an Ajax fan those feelings at first were disappointment, feeling cheated and disillusioned. That means I tweeted out stuff which I might not tweet out on a regular day. I would normally congratulate the winners and move on, if they win fare and square. In this case because I was emotional at first I didn’t do that, again, because I felt it was unfair. And when something in my eyes is unfair… well, let’s say I can’t stand that.
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:
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.
* Highly sought-after professional keynote speaker, trainer and strategist
* Awarded European Search Personality 2015
* More than 15 years of web experience
* Award winning consultant, trainer and professional speaker
* Founder of State of Digital
* Longer bio here
