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This seems like the best moment to do a short recap of what's happened in the last few years, and to see what the future will bring. Allow me to boast about Onetomarket a bit, and tell you about what we've reached.

The last few years at Onetomarket have been like a sitting in a roller coaster, in the positive and joyful sense. Onetomarket has developed from a good but not to big online marketing agency into a European player, competing with the best in the business. Our offices in Spain are doing great, not in the least because of the tremendous work of Lennert de Rijk there, and our German offices are becoming more serious everyday.

At the same time we've been able to make a name for our selves at the big conferences in the search marketing and affiliate world. One of the high points of the year was A4UExpo in London last year, which I'll attend again this year. My buddy and colleague Roy will be making his first appearance as a speaker on the SEO scene there.

I've had the chance to participate in very exciting and successful projects with clients like KLM and Wegener (and many others), of which I'm very proud and have had a load of fun with.

You're probably asking yourself right now: if everything is going that well, why are you leaving? The answer is simple: my interests have widened, especially towards the social aspects of communication on the web. The chance that has been offered to me in that sector, combined with the chance to build on a new company, made me decide to leave.

To quote my favorite book, "markets are conversations". I will be focussing on more on these conversations, and on the chances these conversations have to offer to companies.

The team I'm leaving can operate fine without me. They're the best SEO team you'll find in the Netherlands. The paid search team is great as well, and I can't even start to begin about the fantastic things a couple of relatively unknown talents are doing in the Analytics part. My leaving this company should be a trigger for them to make themselves heard a lot more!

And then, the future. My new job is within a company called Orangevalley. You'll be hearing a lot more about Orangevalley in the coming weeks!

I've had a great time at Onetomarket, and I'd like to thank all my colleagues for that. I'd also like to thank the management for all the trust they've placed in me. I wish Onetomarket loads of success, and will be following their development closely!

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We had an awesome day, and as you can see, Marieke looked absolutely stunning!

If you want something to read in the meanwhile, I have a few suggestions for you:

• Erik-Jan Bulthuis, who recently did some guest posts on B2B SEO on this blog, has his own english blog now, so head over there: justerik.com.
• Rae Hoffman did a nice post: Pimping Your WordPress Theme for Humans, if you subscribe to my WordPress newsletter, one of the tips in there should be fairly familiar :)

Keep watching this blog as well, some guest posts might just pop up!

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A few other nice members of the falcon family are the Merlin Falcon, and the complete family of the Kestrels, most famously known for the common Kestrel.

If you want to know more, WikiPedia has a nice page on the Falcon.

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1. I studied Theology, yet didn't finish it. The reason? Once I met my girlfriend, priesthood didn't seem all that much fun...
2. I have a son, Tycho, who is 6 months old, and I work at home one day each week so I can take care of him. I absolutely love these days alone with him.
3. My girlfriend is actually smarter than I am, she's a Ph. D. student, studying criminology at the university of Nijmegen.
4. We have a Guinea pig, called "Linux" (hey, my girlfriend got to pick the animal, I got to pick the name).
5. My girlfriend picks the clothes I get to wear each day, heck, she even get's to pick what I'm writing in this list.

So, now I get to tag 5 other people... Here you go guys: Roy Huiskes, Niels Leenheer, Peter van der Graaf (post), Faruk AteÅŸ and, to see if he reads this: Steve Olechowski.

Check out the blog tag tree if you have no clue what this is about.

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