My friend Andy Crestodina from Orbit Media Studios just shared this infographic with me. Thanks Andy!
What’s your favourite?
Please let us know in the comments what your favourite beer (or blog) is!…
Continue ReadingAdam Franklin is a marketing coach, keynote speaker, bestselling author of Web Marketing That Works and CEO of Bluewire Media. His blog was Australia’s #1 Business Blog and his podcast was #9 on the top marketing podcasts in Entrepreneur magazine.
His work has featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, Huffington Post and iTunes.
Adam co-created the free Web Strategy Planning Template which has been seen by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, and his weekly ‘Bluewire News’ email goes out to over 33,303 readers.
Posted on Jun 20, 2013 by Adam Franklin
My friend Andy Crestodina from Orbit Media Studios just shared this infographic with me. Thanks Andy!
Please let us know in the comments what your favourite beer (or blog) is!…
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I attended an event recently where the guests were part of an Indian IT delegation from TechnoPark in Trivandrum. I met the CEO of Content Crossroads and wanted to share this very useful infographic.
Thanks to Mukund Krisna from Content Crossroads for sharing this useful picture.…
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How about a big round of applause for the ICTT India 2013 organising committee?
Check out these stats:
1,542,817 twitter accounts reached.
1,161 tweets
8,720,789 impressions
This conference has been a huge success and the Indian tourism bodies and travel operators really have an amazing grasp of the power of technology and social media. Here is the ICTT India conference by the numbers!
Download the PDF Every single tweet via TweetReach (10MB – PDF)
Or view online Every single tweet via TweetReach
The Top 20 List is made up of people who tweeted the most, who were retweeted the most, plus had the largest following.…
Continue ReadingPosted on Jun 4, 2013 by Adam Franklin
May 2013 marks the one year anniversary of my inbound marketing journey with Hubspot. I’d always been an inbound marketing disciple but for the last 12 months I’ve been actively implementing it. That’s right.. social media, landing pages, lead nurturing, calls to action and blogging!
And I’m pleased to announce a…
We had 10,944 visitors to our Bluewire Media website, and 891 leads. For the analytics geeks like me, that’s 8.1% conversion rate for the entire website.
Also a lead is defined as a website visitor who downloads a premium piece of content in exchange for their name and email address. …
Continue ReadingPosted on Jun 4, 2013 by Adam Franklin
Bernie Borges, Social Business Evangelist, is an author, speaker and trainer. He’s also the CEO of Find and Convert and has more than 20 years experience in the software and internet industry in sales and marketing leadership roles underpinning his knowledge, experience and advice.
As a leading authority on internet and social media marketing strategies, it was great to talk to him and get some tips for our readers.
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Adam Franklin: Hi. It’s Adam Franklin here, and I’m here with Bernie Borges, the CEO of the Find and Convert digital agency.…
Continue ReadingPosted on May 21, 2013 by Tuhin Ghosh
This is a guest post.
Entrepreneur and enabler, Tuhin Ghosh has been pursuing his dream of enabling business and catalysing growth, mainly in the education industry. He is the Co-founder of Prepgenie, a test prep provider that offers exam preparation courses for GAMSAT, PCAT, HPAT, UMAT and UKCAT to aspiring medical students globally.
With Google announcing their social media reporting extension in Google Analytics, social media marketing experts can now see the financial value of their efforts. This is already pushing new trends into existence in 2013 and the face of social media SEO may soon change forever. …
Continue ReadingPosted on May 20, 2013 by Richard Eaves
Richard Eaves is a digital-marketing specialist at Smart Traffic, an SEO company in the U.K. that offers reseller services to many clients worldwide. He oversees SEO strategies for Smart Traffic’s 300-plus campaigns. Twitter @SmartTraffic.
If you’re not familiar with the concept of Search Engine Optimisation, then consider this your initiation to the modern digital world. Welcome! Although, I must ask, where have you been?
Dawdling aside, let’s take this one step at a time.
You know full well that, for the past few years, search engines have dominated the internet industry.…
Continue ReadingPosted on May 14, 2013 by Charles Trentham
This is a guest post.
Charles Trentham is diehard tech blogger who loves to write about software, technology, and future science. After retiring from a small telecom startup after the bubble burst, he’s been blogging fulltime, including some freeland work on topics like internet security in order to feed his tech habits. He enjoys spending time with his family and Kelpie, named Elaine.
At any given time and across any given news site it’s clear to see that the internet landscape is changing; sometimes for better and sometimes for the worst.…
Continue ReadingPosted on May 7, 2013 by Adam Franklin
Joe Pulizzi is the godfather of content marketing – founder of the Content Marketing Institute, Content Marketing World, Chief Content Officer, and the author of Get Content Get Customers, speaker and blogger.
I just missed out on seeing Joe Pulizzi in Australia when he was out in March, but I got the chance catch up via Skype and interview him. Here we get to talk ‘shop’ and discover how to content marketing like a ‘godfather’!
Adam Franklin: Hi, it’s Adam Franklin and I’m very happy to be here with Joe Pulizzi.…
Continue ReadingPosted on May 7, 2013 by Vishal Gumber
This is a guest post.
Vishal Gumber is the founder of Appsquare, an Australian app development company that creates innovative apps, provides part funding for selected app ideas and also helps app developers get funding through its network of Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors.
Social media is going visual and Pinterest has a lot to do with it.
Because pictures really do speak more than words – especially in the restaurant business – and there’s a lot you can convey better through a single image than with a whole page of text, you ought to get yourself active on Pinterest right now!…
Posted on Apr 30, 2013 by Adam Franklin
Tim Reid is a marketing coach, prolific speaker, podcaster, blogger and author, specialising in business marketing. He contributes to his own podcasts and heaps of other sites, blogs and magazines.
With 20 years experience in corporate marketing, his practical experience underpins his speaking and writing popularity. Among all these other things, Tim is the founder and host of Australia’s #1 marketing podcast Small Business Big Marketing with a global audience across 94 countries.
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Adam Franklin: Hi there, so it’s Adam Franklin and I’m here with Tim Reid, host of Australia’s number one marketing podcast, Small Business, Big Marketing.…
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