Timothy Ferriss caught on the beach

Written on 14th June 2008                                                                                                              4 COMMENTS
Patrick de Laive, Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of The Next Web Conference. Twitter: @patrick

Two weeks ago I did an interview with Timothy Ferriss, author of the 4-hour work week in Greece during Greek Blogger camp. The book has sold over 500.000 copies and his blog is still attracting lots of visitors. What is even more impressive is that no (conventional) marketing was used to do so. He describes his marketing strategy in his book: he used the blogosphere to spread the word and to make this book a huge success.

Lets keep in mind that a great marketing strategy is not the key to success, it is a very important ingredient but in the end you need a good product, service or in this case a good story. That is what Timothy did, he wrote a compelling story and what also helps is that he is a really interesting guy.

You can tell that I’m not a journalist, but hey… we had fun. I like to share this open conversation and this beautiful location with you. Hope you don’t get sea sick…

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Live blogging: Greek Blogger Camp 2008

Written on 30th May 2008                                                                                                              2 COMMENTS
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

Patrick and me are currently waiting for our morning flight to Greece. We are attending Greek Blogger Camp 2008 at the island Los. We will be staying at the fabulous Ios Palace hotel on the golden sand beaches of Mylopotas. The hotel offers free Wi-Fi in the conference area and next to the pool.

No, we are not complaining!

I’m not just attending the conference to blog about it. I am also one of the international speakers there next to Timothy Ferris (”productivity guru” and author of The 4-Hour Workweek) and Matt Mullenweg (founding developer of WordPress and founder of Automattic, the business behind WordPress.com and Akismet.), to name a few. I’m very proud to be mentioned in the same sentence as those two guys.

We will blog about the conference here (Tagged: gbc08) and we will post photos to Flickr (Tagged: gbc08) regularly too.

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