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On Saturday morning, with heavy rain washing down the streets of Barcelona, I made a dash for the metro and headed up towards Gracia for the Barcelona Internet Startups meetup.
My aim was to meet other locals and expats here in Barcelona with internet businesses or startups, and offer to help them market their websites and businesses online. Either with a digital marketing campaign, or by producing online video to help show customers what their business does, or to demo how their app or website works.
After 3 hours of chatting to everyone in the group, hearing about all the internet businesses and startup ideas, it goes without saying there’s a wealth of creativity, talent and entrepreneurial spirit here in Barcelona.
With the media full of downbeat stories about double dip recessions and the eurozone crisis, it makes a refreshing change to meet with so many people pushing ahead with their own business ideas and working to make them a success.
I hope that everyone who attended got as much out of the event as I did, either by connecting with someone who can help your business or who you can team up with.
For those who were interested in a free consultation from ZumoSEO for digital marketing or online video production, please drop me an email and we can set-up another meeting ([email protected])
Also a big thank you to the organisers Hannah and Pedro for putting on such a fantastic and well organised event!
Matt Wright (30/01/2012)
Showing up and participating is a key ingredient to success!
Thanks for attending Matt and we look forward to seeing you at the upcoming Feb 07 event:
http://www.meetup.com/barcelonastartups/
You may want to consider proposing an SEO event within the group – make it interactive – have 2 or 3 members submit their websites for a live review and suggested tips for improvement.
Thanks Jeff, and apologies my thanks didn’t extend to you as organiser in this blog post as I’m not sure we chatted on Saturday, but certainly hope to at the next event. Also thanks for the suggestion about the SEO / Digital Marketing event which sounds like a great idea, I’ll look into it..
It was great talking to you on Saturday and I’d definitely like to set up a meeting when I’m a bit further along with my project. I really like your website – and especially enjoyed the Adam Lisagor video on your blog… I’m glad you’re going to be experimenting with Motion Tracking Text as I could well have a need for it!
I agree that an SEO event would be a great idea – and would be really interested to hear your views on how to build SEO thinking into the earliest stages of planning a new site (thinking about keywords etc).
Hi Lesley, great to meet you on Saturday and hear about your startup. Thanks for your feedback about the event which I’m looking into setting up. Once your project is further along, or if you have any questions about SEO, digital marketing and video production in the meantime, please send me an email ([email protected]) and I’ll be happy to help.
We’re out filming a video next week and will be using motion tracking text, so keep your eye on the blog in a few weeks time to watch it! All the best and hope to speak soon, Matt