Confession time: I’m headed to Seattle next week for SMX Advanced, and I still haven’t started my slide deck. I’m not a procrastinator by nature, but when it comes to slides – well, I’d rather get a root canal than do slides.

Well, maybe not a root canal, but I have managed to find lots of things that must be done before I can start on my deck. So far I’ve cleaned out my desk, purged files, cleaned the office refrigerator and carpets. I figure  I owe it to myself to be fully organized in a clean setting before jumping into the arduous task of creating new slides. Heaven forbid if I needed to find a quote stashed in my filing cabinet after walking across the room to get a cold Diet Coke.

Getting started on anything is hard whether it’s a term paper, link building campaign or slide deck. It’s doubly hard when you don’t fully buy into the idea around the presentation which in my case involves showcasing linking tactics at a conference designed to follow an “advanced” track.  That’s right, I said it – I don’t think there’s any such thing as “advanced linking tactics”….  Read the rest on Link Week/Search Engine Land