
Walking around Valencia yesterday I thought I would take a few photos of offline businesses that have set up in Valencia recently.
You may have seen Mike CJ’s awesome post on this site about how to deal with a traffic spike (If not check it out here) Well I am going to tell you more about the trafic spike as today is the reason we got it.
The General Strike in Spain today is not the 1929 general strike. It is not even the General Strike that paralysed Asturias when I lived there in the 1990′s where 100% of people followed it. However it is a highly searched for term on Google as people try to find out more about it. The question is though why are they trying to find out more?

Last week on a couple of blogs I suddenly noticed a huge traffic spike, much more traffic than expected on a couple of blogs. I had a quick look at analytics and discovered that it was all to do with the general stirke in Spain on Wednesday the 29th of September. Keyword ranking for that term had gone crazy as had searches as people due to be flying out or already here wanted to know what would be happening.

For many years working as an estate agent in the Spanish property market a 16 hour day was considered for wimps. 18 hours a day 7 days a week and no holidays was the norm. We were so busy that we literally had no time to build a business and therefore when things slowed down of course the business didn’t work too well.
As you will know if you have been following the blog I am co-writing a book at the moment. Tentatively called “The Bootstrapping Book – How to start up a business from nothing” (Catchy title I know) it comprises ten chapters with various ideas for getting started in your own business without having to buy stock, rent a place to conduct your business or, in essence, put money down.