Tag Archives: linkdex

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    Nov 15
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Moving on from Linkdex

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Life is basically a set of choices. These choices determine what happens. Make no choice and you have no life.

Today marks a day in which I have personally made another choice. Well, the choice was made over a month ago, but today the choice becomes reality.

As of today I am moving on from Linkdex. After a year at the business I made the choice to pursue directions that are close to my heart.

I have always been a teacher, trying to help people get insights and learnings and make them better. I think I’ve also done that at Linkdex in the past year. Now it is time for the next step in that.

Linkdex has been a very intense ride. Lots of travel, lots of insights, debates and lots of exciting times. I’ve seen things from a different perspective. I’ve hopefully also been able to get some of my vision on marketing inside the heads of people at Linkdex. There are great people working at Linkdex, I hope they can make their dreams come true!

In my next steps I’d like to get a bit closer to how I believe marketing should be done. I am looking forward to steering this again at State of Digital together with Sam. I am also looking forward to helping a more diverse set of clients get a better grip on their marketing efforts. The lessons I learned at Linkdex will definitely come in handy there.

I’ll still be flying the world!

So in the near future, there will be more speaking, training and consulting for me in the next year. Starting next week in Las Vegas! If you want to be part of that, just drop me an e-mail!

  • 26
    Nov 14
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Yes, I am joining the Linkdex team!

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I have some news, which some of you saw coming, and may surprise others: I am joining the Linkdex team!

In the past few years I have been doing a lot of different things. I’ve set up blogs like Searchcowboys and State of Search/ State of Digital. I’ve been doing training sessions for business schools and colleges, I have worked with the DMA, I have been consulting for big and small companies like KLM, MTV and Koozai for example and I have been speaking around the globe on digital marketing related topics.

All that time there was one thing that I was missing: working with a team of smart colleagues. Of course there is the State of Digital team, which I love working with, but they all have day jobs on the side as well. At Linkdex I will get the opportunity to work with smart people who are actually hired by Linkdex.

In the past four years I have met with the people of Linkdex many times. Mostly at conferences. People like Matt Roberts and Collette Easton have turned into friends on those trips. We also worked together on different occasions, like for example the e-books we published together with State of Digital and Linkdex. In all those years Matt Roberts from Linkdex has asked me a few times if I didn’t want to come and work for them. The timing was never right.

Linkdex2014Now however the moment seems right. With State of Digital we are on route and the site is ready to take the next steps based on the strategy we have set out and with Sam Noble helping me out there I am getting a bit more time on my hands. Which makes that when Matt asked me the last time I started considering working with Linkdex and got more excited every time we talked.

And now we are making it official: as of December 1st I am joining the Linkdex team. working on the Social and Digital PR and Marketing for Linkdex and Momentology!

This gives me the opportunity to work with a great team of people and built out a product and a website which both have a lot of potential!

But wait, what about the other stuff?

As said, I do a lot of different things. And I will continue to do so. I will be spending a lot of time at Linkdex yes, but the consultancy for companies like MTV and KLM will still be there, as will the training sessions for Beeckestijn and others. I will also still be speaking around the world and State of Digital will run as usual. I will be more on the background there, but don’t worry, I will be there!

Is there time for that you ask? Well, we’ll have to see of course, but I think there is, since the way I do consultancy is different from others: you hire me for example for half a day, not for a long term period, it’s session based. The training sessions are usually in the evenings anyway and State of Digital can be done everywhere. I also won’t be working full time for Linkdex so there will be plenty of room for other things as well, so don’t be afraid to get in touch about that!

For now I am happy to make this announcement and excited to be working with Linkdex. Keep an eye out for all other things! More news to come soon!!

  • 28
    Aug 12
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A Week in San Francisco

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So my plan was to give some more updates on what I am doing , where I am speaking and what I’m writing about on different places. I should really do that right? 🙂

Well you might want to hear about the week I spent at SES San Francisco this month. I was there as part of an expert roundtable, I did some blogging and I was there together with three people from Lindex. They ‘took me in’ as part of their family and I thoroughly enjoyed that. It was nice because it was a different experience than I usually have on conferences.

One nice thing about being in San Francisco was the fact that I got picked up from the airport by Dennis Goedegebuure, a well known Dutch SEO who made a good career for himself in San Francisco. He even took a picture of my plane landing (see below). It was great seeing him again, and begin picked up made me feel like a VIP. Dennis even wrote about it on his blog.

I also wrote a post about being in San Francisco for the Linkdex blog. The intro is here, the rest of the post you can read on the Linkdexblog. Please do 😉

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* 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
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