Paul Chaney

Internet Marketing Director, Bizzuka & Author of The Digital Handshake

Paul is Internet Marketing Director at Bizzuka, a Web design, content management, and Internet marketing company based in Lafayette, LA. 

He is also author of The Digital Handshake: Seven Proven Strategies to Grow Your Business Using Social Media, published by Wiley. 

Prior to joining Bizzuka Paul was co-founder of Blogging Systems, a blog software company that significantly impacted the real estate industry by encouraging Realtors to adopt blogging as a marketing strategy. 

He is the co-author of Realty Blogging: Build your Brand and Outsmart Your Competition, which similarly impacted the industry and which was the first blogging book to target a specific industry vertical.

Paul sits on the board of advisors for the Women's Wisdom Network, the Social Media Marketing Institute, and SmartBrief on Social Media.

He has been a feature writer for Practical Ecommerce magazine on the use of social media for marketing purposes and blogs for the MarketingProfs Daily Fix blog, Social Media Today and MyVenturePad.com. 

Paul has led numerous blog and social media workshops and seminars, including the first ever such seminar to be held in Asia. He has also blogged professionally with Weblogs, Inc., as well as with Allbusiness.com.

Paul has served as Technical Editor on a number of For Dummies series books related to blogs and Internet marketing, and was contributing writer on Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies, published by Wiley.