Bluewire News – 10/12/2015

Subj: 3 little wins (inc Forbes)

First up, real quickly… This Friday at 9am AEDT // Thurs 4pm CST, I’m hosting a free workshop with Bryan Harris called…

“Grow Your Email List: 3 Strategies You Can Implement in the next 7 days” (click to register).

You’re going to learn:

How to build a huge waiting list of people eager to learn from you.
The exact tools you can use to build a list of 10,000 subscribers in 2016 (even if you are a complete newbie).

Ok, so you know how sometimes you feel…

you are falling behind?
or overwhelmed?
or struggling to focus?

Yep, same here.

Just this year, Toby and I have:

postponed one course and pulled the plug on the launch of another. This caused some difficult conversations between us!
cancelled three events that we had tentatively planned on the calendar (3 separate events, 3x we cancelled).
Fallen behind on our own content publishing commitments…

It happens.

Next week, Toby and I have our full year review and goal setting session on the Gold Coast next week. One thing we’re going to address is: ‘following through’.

More on that below.

But you know what…? Like any business we have our ups and downs. I’ve recently shared my ‘Dear Adam’ email and my Uber emails #fails, but we’ve had some wins this year too.

So we are happy and proud to share these 3 little victories.

#1. The first win was Toby getting a write up in Forbes in an article called Time Management Secrets of Olympians.

Toby reflected on his Olympic journey and how it applied to time management. He’s what was said.

Toby Jenkins emphasized the power of mentors and coaches to save literally years of time.Jenkins competed in the Athens Olympics in water polo for Australia. Today he is CEO of Bluewire Media, a web strategy and digital marketing firm.

His advice:

Find someone whose work you trust and admire and who has already done specifically what you want to do. Ask them for help and then filter their advice for your own situation. It’s not about saving an hour or there. It’s about saving you potentially years to get to goal.

Read the full article on Forbes.

#2. The second win that we wanted to share was getting a brief mention in Verne Harnish’s

recent book Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It… and Why the Rest Don’t.

Verne referred to an article that Toby wrote about his experience with Topgrading (a recruiting and hiring technique). Verne said that Bluewire Media was an excellent blog for more on the topic.

As a long time student of Verne’s material, this was a very pleasant surprise.

#3. The third win is on behalf of Will Blunt who manages the Bluewire blog and writes the weekly Bluewire digest on the weekend. Will does this via his own company Blogger Sidekick.

Will Blunt in Foundr magazine

Seeing Will get featured in this article on Foundr magazine was very exciting to see him acknowledged as a blogger and entrepreneur! We are very proud that he’s working so closely with us and running the Bluewire blog. Definitely a star performer.

Read the full article on Foundr magazine called Overcome your doubters today: 13 super successful entrepreneurs share their story.

Following through in 2016

Toby and I will be spending some together on the Gold Coast as we reflect on the year and set goals for 2016.

See, normally at this time of the year, people start ramping up for 2016. One thing we’ll be focussed on is FOLLOWING THROUGH.

While it’s important to come up with a list of big goals for the new year, that’s only the first step. The real magic is bringing those goals to life with great execution.

So we’ll be asking ourselves: Did we follow through on our goals in 2015?

We’ll look at what we excitedly planned for ourselves this time last year (getting fitter, reading more, sleeping better, launching a course).

And if you’d like help with your own follow through, one of our mentors Ramit Sethi is spending the next couple of weeks talking about the best ways to follow through on anything.

He’s not giving out a simple list of productivity tips or apps to hack your schedule. Instead, he’s revealing the keys to making permanent changes in your life.

If you’d like to learn more about the systems he uses to follow through on anything, just head over to the page below and join his private insider’s list:

Over the next couple weeks, he’s going to dive deep into how you can follow through on your biggest goals.

Whether you use this material to finish 2015 strong or use it to make 2016 your best year yet, you won’t want to miss this.

Check it out here:

Have a good one.

Cheers,

Adam

Adam Franklin

Co-founder of Bluewire Media

Co-author of Web Marketing That Works

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