Posted on Aug 31, 2014 by Adam Franklin

Blogger’s Guide to SEO: Rand Fishkin

Updated on November 25th, 2019

Blogger’s Guide to SEO

Read a full version on how to do SEO for your website here or download our SEO Planning Template.

If you don’t know Rand Fishkin he is the wizard behind Moz which is the inbound marketer’s home base for all things search and my personal SEO bible. Seeing Rand at the ProBlogger event in Australia was a huge privilege.

A lot has been said about SEO over the years, and it’s been a powerful tactic for us, so I was keen to hear the latest from the horse’s mouth. …

Posted on Aug 29, 2014 by Adam Franklin

How Pat Flynn gets raving fans

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Updated on September 1st, 2014

Have you been listening to Pat Flynn’s Smart Passive Income podcast? I have been listening for a while, so a massive drawcard for the ProBlogger event was to see Pat.

He over-delivered in his keynote where he taught us “How to get raving fans!”

What is a raving fan?

People so loyal to you that they cannot imagine life without you!

Affinity pyramid by Pat Flynn.

So how do we get raving fans and more of them? Here’s how to move people from casual visitor to a raving fan!…

Posted on Aug 29, 2014 by Adam Franklin

Success is a matter of doing ordinary things – ProBlogger

Updated on December 27th, 2019

Success according to Problogger

“Success is a matter of doing ordinary things. Not learning the secrets that you don’t know about.” Darren Rowse (aka Problogger)

6 ordinary things we ‘know’ but need to do.

1. Start

Starting allows you to discover yourself — don’t wait to discover yourself to start.
We all have the fears, but ‘starting’ helps is put those fears at ease
Act upon the little ideas

We all start knowing nothing…even Darren. Here’s all the things didn’t know when he started, but Problogger was a success regardless.…

Posted on Aug 28, 2014 by Adam Franklin

WMTW 041: Book review of Chris Ducker’s Virtual Freedom

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Updated on February 18th, 2015

Show notes

I decided to start reading Chris Ducker‘s book Virtual Freedom on a flight to Bali, which was part a lifestyle experiment to see how I could help run the business from overseas (which was a success by the way!)

The book is fantastic and I dive into my favourite parts in this podcast. Ok let’s get into the book.

Highlights from the book

This is information from a table that helped me create lists for the types of things I could find virtual assistants (VAs) for.…

Posted on Aug 27, 2014 by Adam Franklin

WMTW 040: Donna Moritz on creating visual content [podcast]

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Updated on February 18th, 2015

Donna Moritz from Socially Sorted is the winner of Australia’s Best Business Blog.

Show notes

Background

Donna’s journey was inspired by Darren Rowse’s advice to follow the sparks and then fan the flames.

Donna originally wrote about social media in a broad sense but then pivoted to focus on the visual content niche. The keynote that Donna mentions is this talk by Darren Rowse at World Domination Summit.

A-ha moments

Be real and just respond to people.

Posted on Aug 15, 2014 by Adam Franklin

How Will Blunt’s blog post went viral [Bluewire News]

Updated on September 4th, 2014

You may have seen our blog post that went viral last week. Your Ultimate Blog Checklist by Will Blunt has been our most popular blog post to date with 1200+ social media shares. It’s a stellar effort from Will for his first guest post and he’s kindly written a follow-up article detailing how it all unfolded.

How my blog post got 1052 social shares in 3 days outlines his approach and documents how you can follow the same process. Part of its success was getting picked up as a suggested article on Buffer’s new Daily app for iOS.…

Posted on Aug 12, 2014 by Adam Franklin

WMTW 039: The power of autoresponders

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Updated on February 18th, 2015

In this episode I discuss the power of email autoresponders and how we use them at Bluewire Media.

You can deliver your best thinking (whether that is blog posts, YouTube videos, podcasts or templates) to your brand new subscribers.

The best part is that is can happen on autopilot.

I started with a 1 part auto-responder sequence and that has grown out to a 10 part sequence that is spread over 30 days, and delivers the 33 free marketing templates from our book into subscribers’ inbox.…

Posted on Aug 10, 2014 by Will Blunt

How my blog post got 1052 social shares in 3 days

Updated on May 2nd, 2016

The world we live in is a giving one, people are striving for the attention of others and the best way to get that attention is to share interesting, useful and engaging content with them. Why then do people just like you and me write killer blog posts that never get shared?

Have you ever put hours (sometimes days) into researching, structuring and writing a blog post only for no one to read or share it? Don’t worry, we’ve all done it. It wasn’t too long ago that I launched my own blog and I’m pretty sure the only people to read my first post were my mum and girlfriend!…

Posted on Aug 9, 2014 by Adam Franklin

Free tool to grow your email list (fast)

Updated on October 30th, 2019

Grow your email list fast

One of things that we’ve learnt in our marketing journey is the importance of growing our list of email subscribers. We are always testing better ways to grow our email list and we wanted to share the best tool we’ve found.

It’s a free product called SumoMe ListBuilder from the kind people at AppSumo and we’ve been using it for the last 2 months. If you’re on WordPress, you can download the WordPress plugin for SumoMe (470 KB – zip file) for free.…

Posted on Aug 1, 2014 by Adam Franklin

Are you on Pinterest?

Updated on August 9th, 2014

One of the areas of web marketing that we’ve had recent success with has been visual content.

You may have seen our LinkedIn 5 Minute Marketing Plan infographic. It was our first experiment with visual content marketing and it was shared hundreds of times on social media, is our most popular blog post of all time and was re-posted on dozens of blogs like the power-house Hubspot blog earning us plenty of juicy back-links! In short, it was a huge success and we are now going to roll out more infographics.…