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October has been a extremely hectic month!  I don’t typically travel all that much, however in October I made two trips back east.  You already heard about our trip to Knoxville going to PetSafe.  After going to Knoxville I had a couple weeks off then flew back to Atlanta for the BarkWorld Expo where I had the chance to satisfy fellow pet bloggers, brands, as well as discovered a bit much more about exactly how to make the Puppy In training blog much more successful.
BarkWorld Expo 2012
BarkWorld 2012So what the heck is BarkWorld as well as why was I there?  From the BarkWorld Expo website:
Founded in 2009, BarkWorld Expo was produced by Denise Quashie, social network Strategist for Socially Planned. After putting her dog, Frankie Beans, on Twitter she realized there was a big pet loving neighborhood utilizing social media; nevertheless there was bit education being offered at other pet expositions as well as conferences for this community. Being an award-winning event & social network producer, Denise believed it only made sense to produce a seminar for this community. With that, she produced BarkWorld Expo as well as has continued to develop strong on the internet support for the cause of sharing as well as educating pet enthusiasts within social media.

Why was I at BarkWorld? If you keep in mind earlier in the year I put together my goal publish for 2012.  Unfortunately, a number of of these goals will go unaccomplished, however after going to BarkWorld I understand I’ve at least accomplished one of my blogging goals.
Lets rapidly revisit those goals for 2012:
GOAL: 366 Days of blogging – Unfortunately, this is not going to happen.  We started strong going about 60 days in a row, however technical difficulties truly side tracked us..  I did just recently checked out that Jodi stone over at Heart like A canine is approaching her goal of blogging everyday for 2 consecutive years!  That’s amazing!  Congratulations Jodi!
GOAL: compose 52 Articles For My Autoresponder – I believe I got about six articles into the autoresponder, however I’m not as well delighted with them as well as I’m not as well sure I want to develop the autoresponder anymore…We’ll take one more look at this in 2013.
GOAL: go to BlogPaws as well as Barkworld Expo –   Mission Accomplished!  I was fortunate sufficient to go to both BlogPaws as well as BarkWorld Expo this year.  Hopefully I can do the exact same next year.
GOAL: compose An eBook – This most likely won’t occur this year, however I’ve gotten some excellent concepts after satisfying as well as going to BlogPaws as well as BarkWorld.
GOAL: develop A membership site – Something I’m still thinking about doing, however it most likely will not occur in 2012.
GOAL: 2,000 Facebook “likes” –  Achieved!  and then some!  We currently sit at 9,207 Facebook Likes!  We’ve discovered a great deal about Facebook in the past 10 months as well as after getting a credit rating from Facebook ads we chose to provide their ad program a shot as well as had fantastic results.  We continue to run Facebook ad campaigns as well as likewise make sure to update our Facebook condition on a routine basis.  A great deal of our present Facebook success can be associated to our consultations with PetSmart during our develop A company blog situation study.
GOAL: 250K page views a Month – unless something amazing occurs like an extreme viral moment this is many likely not going to occur in 2012.  However, we did have a record month in October with  82,223 visitors as well as 123,697 overall page views according to Google Analytics.  Maybe 2013 will be the year we break the 200K mark.

We’ll revisit these goals sometime around the end of this year or beginning of 2013.
Back To BarkWorld
So what did I do at BarkWorld this year?  I made sure to show up early so I might take part in the Social Petworking Offline speed Dating for Bloggers.  I felt extremely lucky since only a handful of pet blog writers were enabled to take part in this session.

The speed dating session was an outstanding experience.  Basically I was provided a listing with times as well as brand names.  We were provided the possibility to satisfy with each brand on our listing for 6 minutes.  If you’re thinking about participating in the speed dating session next year make sure you have your elevator pitch prepped as well as prepared to go.  The speed dating session was a excellent possibility to satisfy one-on-one with a number of brands in a short period of time.
I did want to mention that Flexi far as well as away exceeded expectations during the spenullnull