I’ve just been reading Gary Vaynerchuk’s latest book Jab Jab Jab Right Hook.  It’s chock-full of real life social media examples, presumably many success stories are from his stable of social media clients at his company VaynerMedia.

I’ve loved both his previous books Crush It and Thank You Economy as well as his keynote presentation I had the pleasure of watching last year.

This slide deck is one of the best I’ve come across.  What do you think?

You can buy Gary Vaynerchuk’s book Jab Jab Jab Right Hook from Amazon.…

John Lee Dumas aka JLD

John Lee Dumas took 15 minutes out of his day to share his advice on networking, podcasting, overcoming Imposter Syndrome and making money from a podcast.

Adam Franklin: Hello, viewers. It’s Adam Franklin here from Bluewire Media. I have the very great pleasure of being joined by John Lee Dumas, the host of Entrepreneur on Fire, a hugely successful business podcast, and his accent and enthusiasm are the best I’ve come across. John, are you ready to ignite?

John Lee Dumas: I am prepared to burn this house down, Adam [laughs].…

“Don’t know where I’m going, only God knows where I’ve been…” Jon Bon Jovi, Blaze of Glory

In the last few months, Adam and I have taken on some clients on a 1-on-1 basis, acting as a virtual marketing manager. Based on feedback from the clients, we have come to realise that one of the very first steps needs to be the setting up of the marketing reporting function for the business.

Measuring everything is a seductive siren in the online marketing world. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.…

This is a guest infographic by Dale Duan is a webmaster of UTBox.net. UTBox is Australia’s leading online fax and sms service provider. Since 2002, UTBox has sent more than 50 million messages worldwide. They continue to develop and upgrade their hardware and software capability to give the best service in the fax and sms messaging technology.  You can try UTBox for free by signing up for a free account on the website.

Welcome Dale

Why Online Fax is Better?

Fax is a short term for facsimile which means an exact copy or reproduction of a document, a manuscript, an art print or other item with historical value that is as true to the original source (wikipedia.org).…

As a huge fan of Tim Ferriss’s work, I was stoked to have the opportunity to meet him in Sydney last month at an event put on by The Growth Faculty.

In typical Tim fashion, rather than presenting his journey as a series of events, he walked us through using the questions he’d asked, sharing the stories and discoveries of what he learnt in his search for the answers.

1. What if I did the opposite for 48 hours?
2. What do I spend silly amounts of money on?
3. What’s my real Target Monthly Income (TMI)?

To continue with my marketing experiments, I’ll be lifting the kimono on what we’re doing here at Bluewire — the good the bad and the ugly.  Here’s my warts’n all report for the month of November 2013. Click to tweet this post!

Traffic was a record 11,000+ month

For the first time ever, we cracked the 11k mark with 11,823 visitors, with a real boost in numbers coming from the 10th onwards. This co-incided with the release of our first infographic called LinkedIn 5 Minute Marketing Plan. Thanks to Rob Mondolo for the design and Selina Power for the content.…