I’m Off to Speak at SES Chicago – Extra Bluster in Windy City »
Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in Business Blogging | 1 Comment

By hook or by crook I’ve always managed to avoid public speaking engagements. Whether it’s a case of getting lost in London during rush hour, or just being on the wrong side of the pond at any particular invite, my air of international blogger of mystery has remained fairly intact.

You see, I never thought that writing a business blog about a small sheet metal shop in the backend of nowhere would cause such a fuss. I neither expected nor particularly wanted to appear in newspapers or have to explain The Tinbasher as a business blogging case study to an all-knowing throng at SES Chicago on December 10th. But, such is the indirect effect of blogging.

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Accidental Link Building Through Blogging »
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in Business Blogging, SEO | Leave A Comment

At last week’s Next Generation Marketing Conference (which was a second cousin twice removed from exceptional – get yourself to Martinsburg June 12th) I heard something spouted from one of the attendees early on that I haven’t read or heard for a good three or four years. Somebody actually said in reference to blogging:

“I don’t have time to read blogs.”

I’d forgotten my reaction to this statement, but I soon remembered it was akin to taking a punch to the bread basket whilst simultaneously slapping yourself on the forehead ‘doh-ing’ on each slap. A sort of violent anathema to the belly rub head pat trick.

So simple even a bambino can do it.

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TAGS: authority sites, blogging, blogs, keywords, linkbuilding, linking, roi, tinbasher, wikis