I wanted to share some of the business books that I’ve read recently which I have found to be very useful. As I’ve mentioned previously I find productivity and personal development to be very interesting – I mean who doesn’t want to do less and achieve more?!

So these are the business books, most of which I’ve read during the last year which I’ve found to be very useful to improve my learning:

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One of the main goals I set myself last year was to speak at more conferences – and in 2011 I managed to speak at 9 search marketing events – see my Lanyrd profile for details. For 2012, I’ve set myself a new goal – I’d always rather aim for quality over quantity, but would like to speak at a minimum of 10 events in 2012 and I’d like one to be in the US.

Seeing that I’ve now presented a few times at various events – I thought it would be useful to publish the slides from these:

Here’s a quick post to show where you can find and follow me on various social media sites:

1. LinkedIn
2. Twitter
3. Google+
4. Facebook
5. Lanyrd
6. Slideshare
7. Flickr
8. Quora
9. TripIt

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I like to set goals every new year, so 2012 is no exception. I managed to hit most of the targets I set myself for 2011 – but this time as extra motivation I thought I’d share some of them on my blog.

Business

• Speak at a US conference - this is one I’ve wanted to do for a while, and having presented in Munich (at a4uexpo Europe) and Jerusalem (SMX Israel) last year and attending Pubcon in Vegas and SMX Advanced in Seattle during the last two years I’m keen to present at a US conference in 2012. I’d also like to speak at a minimum of 10 leading search industry events this year, something which I definitely think is achievable.
• Win another award for SEOptimise - following on from last years Search Awards success!
• I do have other business goals – largely revenue based, but this probably isn’t the best place to share them

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I decided it was about time to give my personal website a bit of a refresh. Please bear with me while it’s updated – still not quite finished yet, but getting there!

As for content – I intend on using this blog for things I’m interested in outside of the SEO agency life, most likely business, affiliate, productivity and personal development related. And for those who want to read about search marketing, I write frequently for SEOptimise and guest blog for sites such as Econsultancy, Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Land and Search Engine Journal.