A fantastic part of my job is being able to spread my passion for search engine marketing and optimisation. Don't you just love it when you can make a positive difference in someone's life or business and give people just that little bit of extra something to help them make that extra step forward?

I conducted a 0ne-day workshop in Beaudesert, QLD yesterday for about 30 tourism operators from the Scenic Rim Region (Beaudesert, Boonah and Ipswich). The Scenic Rim is located about 1.5 hours from Brisbane and the Gold Coast and has got some amazing stuff to see. If the cities are not for you and you have already seen more beaches than you can remember, get in the car and head inland. There is wine tours, luxury bed and breakfast accommodation, water skiing, hot air ballooning and you can even treat your love handles to some delicious fudge.

The 9 to 3 workshop was one full-on day with a fair bit of information overload but I believe it went very well as there was a lot of notes-taking, questions and ah-ha moments happening! You can download Introduction Scenic Rim, the PPC and Analytics and the Keyword and Link Building. I have uploaded the presentation with the Notes pages - so make sure you print all the notes as well! Each powerpoint is about 1 MB in size.

During the presentation I also mentioned: 

www.whirlpool.net.au - a wealth of information on Internet connection and any other IT related query in Australia.

small business ideas forum

Firefox is the browser I was using yesterday. Well worth dowloading - and its free of course!

Untanglemyweb.com is my company - the website has a lot of info on SEO, SEM and PPC for tourism and all my contact details. Don't hesitate to drop me a line if you would like me to assess your online strategy!

I might have mentioned a few other forums but cannot remember right now! Make sure you post a comment and I will update the post!

If you enjoyed the workshop yesterday, if you hated it or if you have recommendations, please let me know via the comments so I can improve it for the next operators.

I look forward to checking out your sites in a few weeks to see how you have implemented what you learnt yesterday! I am sure there will be a few Google analytics scripts in your HTML!

All the best and Merry Xmas!

fabie