Alun Hill, MCIJ

After many years travelling (nowhere near as glamorous as my friends believe!) as a journalist (specialising in travel and business),  I now am lucky enough to be able to help other businesses of all sizes to grow, especially helping them to achieve success through simple changes to their online presence.

I’ve also interviewed many of the most successful business people around – many of whom you will know, many you won’t – all of them making a success of their business through online techniques, mostly as a result of extensive trial and error.

They have been particularly eager to share – often on conditions of strict anonymity – their successes for Google’s AdWords, SEO, Facebook and Twitter, with todays’ most successful businesses – online and offline – often adamant that these are essential to their growth.

They have shared these successes with me, in detail, and I now present them to the wider business community, thorough my reports, audiocasts, videos and books.

Always as willing to travel in cattle class as well as business class, my articles, photos and movies have now seen worldwide.

Recent trips include a day trip to India (yes, it really is possible – and highly recommended), 3 days in Morocco, researching dentistry in Poland, a Eurostar train from London to Avignon in France and back in one day (1400 miles), a week in Cyprus and a week in Jordan, just days before the Embassy was shut on “security grounds”. I also have completed a week in Singapore, a few days home, followed by a week in Barbados, filming a Caribbean Rum distillery (it’s a hard life!).

About the only travel I won’t do is by motor bike / bicycle – I’ve seen far too many accidents around the worldwide.

I’ve been mugged, bitten (both by people and bed bugs), shot at twice, had one fellow traveller die in my arms (at Blackpool railway station, oddly enough) and even been arrested at gunpoint in Czechoslovakia in the Communist days – yet I still get incredibly itchy feet within days of returning.

Favourite City: London, but Cairo is close behind

Favourite Destination: When I’m not working, Majorca is my hideaway – I am lucky that I can never find anything interesting there that I want to write about, so it’s the one place I really “stop” working!

Favourite Food: I’ll try anything, but fish and meat are favourites – no cheese though as I’m allergic to it, which is annoying – especially in Italy!

Favourite Marketing Tool: Twitter. Oh, and AdWords. And Facebook. And LinkedIn. Arrgh! All of them!

I am available for articles, photography, radio and public speaking world wide.

I am an experienced radio and video reporter, with my own equipment and have broadcast worldwide.

I was recently re-elected as a Council member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists, the worlds’ oldest professional body for Journalists, established in 1883 and receiving a Royal Charter in 1890. I also serve as Chair of the International Division and of the Pension Fund and I sit on the Professional Practices Board.

Alun Hill, MCIJ

Travel Related Email: Editor at IndependentTravelWriter.com
Business Email: Editor@AlunHill.com