Monthly Archives: January 2017

Here my 3 favourite productivity tools that I shared as part of the Productivity Success Summit which was hosted by Liam Austin.

The three productivity tools that I couldn’t live without.

• Firstly Trello
• Secondly Evernote, and
• Thirdly these things, industrial grade earmuffs.

Trello I use to plan out all the content that I’m going to publish.
Evernote I use to keep track of all the ideas that come into my head so that they’re documented and I don’t forget them.
Thirdly, the industrial grade earmuffs. I put on when I’m sitting down to do my creative work to actually produce stuff.…

Here is a short video with two digital marketing tips for SMEs and business owners.

My two tips:

1. Be found on Google.  Go to google.com/business and register your business so you can be found on the right hand side of Google results when someone searches for you.
2. Be active on social media.  You don’t have to be on all the platforms, but getting start on LinkedIn is a good idea.

Thanks to the team at Valiant for producing the video.…

This post originally appeared on Adam Franklin’s personal blog.

Each year (or at least most years), I share publicly, what I’ve managed to “ship” aka get out the door and share with the world. I share what went well and what didn’t go according to plan and where I’d like to improve.

Business

2016 was always going to be a different kind of year for Toby and me at Bluewire because Tobes decided to take a full time contract with one of our bigger private clients.  This shaped up to be a great experience for him, and also left me focussed on the two parts of the business that energise me the most.…