Author Archives: Sam Sargent

The first of a few mobile projects in the pipeline for BAC here at Bluewire Media, has officially launched or “taken off” if you can excuse the pun. Quietly tonight, while the usual busy Brisbane Airport slows down just a tad, the launch button on their new Mobile Optimised Website was pushed. We’re pretty of proud [...]

Just watched this video from Socialnomics and had to share it. While funny, it stuck a cord when comparing the measurement of the ROI’s from different mediums. Are you the company Shmoo? (CMO) Is your social media presence entrusted to the intern? The ROI of Social Media is that your business still exists in 5 years… Interesting take. Is that [...]

We’ve blogged before on How to create a Business Page on Facebook but now you can hear it straight from the horses mouth. Facebook has recently launched the “Facebook for Business” website which is aimed at providing a step-by-step guide to help small businesses use and make the most of the social networking site. If you’re struggling [...]

You’ve probably seen these Google +1 buttons around the place. While I knew Google might be onto something, it hadn’t really clicked for me until until now. Today I got an invite and signed up to the new Google + Project. It’s basically Google’s answer to Facebook. Seeing the below in my profile screen inside [...]

Tweet! If you’re not convinced your business needs to have a twitter account, continue reading. I’d like to share a story about a recent interaction I’ve had that might help to see the value you can add to your customers. I’m off to Japan snowboarding next week (yes that’s me rubbing it in!) and needed [...]

Capital Finance got in touch with Bluewire Media to give their tired, static website a refresh. Initially we were engaged to only do a CSS re-skin of the existing site but it then turned into a full blown rebuild, including a CMS, after we managed to highlight the benefits of having the website in a form that the Capital [...]

Price: FREE                                                      Get it from iTunes This FREE app is a must-have for any website owner, business owner or web designer looking to ensure their site is SEO friendly. Developed by our very own SEO partners Reload Media, this handy little app will show you in a flash a number of important search engine optimisation [...]

Price: $0.99 Get it from iTunes → This month I bring you another great iPhone game from some more guys I studied with at QUT. Yes my course included some talented individuals as you’ll remember my last iPhone review (BW News Feb 2010) also mentioned fellow course mates, The Voxel Agents, who created Train Conductor. [...]

I stumbled across an interesting blog post from the Google Webmaster Central team on the weekend.  It was the result of an audit which Google performed on over 100 of their different product pages and came in the form of a SEO report card. It details how the main pages for these various products stacked up in their [...]

I’ve learnt a lot in the last 12 months at Bluewire  - I can’t believe it’s been over a year already! But one particular area of knowledge has helped me immensely, not only with the work I do here, but also with my side projects – search engine optimisation. About six months ago the team had [...]