Why I deserted my (blog) posts for a while. Excuse? I’d defected to another place.

Yes, things went a bit tumble-weedy here in the second half of April. I upped, left and went guest blogging. Both posts are linked to two live events I chaired for the Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce.

Here are the headlines and links:

In ‘Hook that big buyer. Don’t hold back!’, you’ll get tips on how to attract the attention of bigger companies and turn them into clients. You’ll also discover how a pair of socks helped Jeremy Jacobs, the founder of Raise Bakery, to bag a huge contract with Virgin Atlantic.

In the space of six weeks, Raise had stepped up production from 500 to 50,000 cupcakes a week. Intrigued?

Read it all here.

In ‘The only heckling came from the birds’, you’ll see how one city is grappling with its growing pains – and the fact it needs to find up to 24,000 new homes in the next fifteen years. That and lots of shiny new offices, with a good road and rail network to match. Will it manage? That’s what the audience at a ‘Construction Voice’ event had to decide.

Make up your own mind here.

Both these blogs were written for the Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce and illustrated with photos from Brighton Togs – stealth photographers who capture the meaningful moments from your events. Their stealth is the subject of my next post.

As a quick aside, guest blogging is great. It takes you to new platforms and introduces you to new audiences. And if you want a bit of a break, you can always invite someone back and have a guest blog on your own site.