January is when I announce my new workshops for the year ahead – and it’s going to be a busy twelve months ahead. My regular London-based workshops this year include: Social Media Marketing for Publishers – a half-day introductory course for publishers Social Media Marketing Bootcamp – a practical one-day course for small business owners Managing [...]
Ten Trends to Follow
New Year is the time when everyone makes their predictions for the year ahead – and I’m no exception. Here are ten trends I’ll be watching this year: Facebook continues to dominate. In March 2010, Facebook overtook Google in terms of Internet traffic. Goldman Sachs have just invested $1.5bn in a deal that valued Facebook at [...]
Nine Ladies Launching
Today it’s time for another #followfriday-ish shoutout. This time, to nine lleaydeahs who came to the book launch or supported the book in some way. Yes, there were some gentlemen at the launch too, but I can’t quite shoehorn them into the ninth day of Christmas… Here they are, in strict alphabetical order: I was [...]
Six Signed Copies
On 10th December I hosted an online marketing Q&A on Twitter at @getuptospeed, and gave away one free signed copy per hour between 6pm and midnight to six lucky Twitter followers. On the sixth day of Christmas, I’m simply listing the six winners – a sort of early #followfriday. Congratulations to the following followers (I [...]
Five-Day Email Course
On the fifth day of Christmas, I’m announcing that my 5-day email course Plan Your Online Marketing is ready! Sign up to download your free one-page online marketing plan template, and I’ll share with you my thoughts on how to plan your marketing, set your goals and complete your marketing plan with the tools, calls [...]
Three French Books
On the third day of Christmas, I’m delighted to announce that, in just trois mois, Get Up to Speed with Online Marketing will be available in a French edition: Le marketing en ligne: Boostez votre activité avec les sites web, moteurs de recherce, réseaux sociaux, blogs et podcasts. And that is your actual French. French [...]
Twitterati out in force for #getuptospeed book launch
Despite the freezing conditions, the Twitterati were out in force for the #getuptospeed book launch tweetup – thank you so much for coming! Those helping me celebrate the publication of my first book included friends from the worlds of publishing, politics and social media – some old friends, and some new friends who I’ve met [...]
Signed copies of “Get Up to Speed” available to order for Christmas!
Don’t forget a Christmas gift for the entrepreneur in your life! And what could be more festive than a copy of Get Up to Speed with Online Marketing? I’ll even lower the eBay re-sale value for you by signing it if you want. OK, you can have one of the rarer unsigned copies if you [...]
Launch Events – December 2010
OK, I have finally got around to a launch event or two. Or three… Do come along, if you can – or simply follow along on Twitter! Monday 6th Dec – Book Launch – London Join me from 6.30pm at the Yorkshire Grey for a book launch tweetup to celebrate the recent publication of Get [...]
Publication Day!
Oh, is it published? Already? Yes, it’s true: today is publication day! Get Up to Speed with Online Marketing is now shipping from Amazon.co.uk – with Amazon.com not far behind, I hope. The date has been pulled forward a couple of times, so it’s almost caught me on the hop – and I’ve not even [...]



