Posted on Oct 17, 2013 by Selina Power

10 free fonts you can download now

How to download the fonts

Downloading the fonts is nice and simple! Once you have hit the DOWNLOAD HERE link under the selected fonts you would like download, follow the prompts to download. Once the font has been downloaded some of the fonts will download as ZIP file. So you will need a program like WINRAR or Zipeg to unpack the font. You will now see a file with the extension .ttf or .rtf. Simply double click the file and then select install. The font will now be installed and ready to use in word, pages and any other program that uses fonts.…

Posted on Jun 4, 2013 by Adam Franklin

Marketing experiments: 891 inbound leads in a month

Updated on October 8th, 2013

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…

A record month on Hubspot – 891 leads (8.1% conversion rate)!

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.…

Posted on Feb 25, 2013 by Adam Franklin

Why it is important to tell stories online with Valerie Khoo

Updated on July 8th, 2013

Valerie Khoo is the author of ‘Power Stories‘ and runs the Australian Writers’ Centre. Recently I got the chance to interview Valerie about why it is important to tells stories in the online world.

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Here is the transcript:

Adam Franklin: Hi there. It’s Adam, and I’m here with Valerie Khoo, the author of ‘Power Stories’. Thanks for joining us Valerie.

Valerie Khoo: Glad to be here.

Adam Franklin: Valerie’s taught us this morning about how to write business book.…

Posted on Dec 3, 2012 by Adam Franklin

ProBlogger’s secrets for building a business blog – Adam Franklin interviews Darren Rowse

Updated on July 8th, 2013

I caught up with Darren Rowse at his ProBlogger event in Melbourne recently and got to ask him about how get a business blog going. Here’s what we discussed in our interview.

Here’s a transcript (for those of you who prefer reading).

Adam Franklin: Hi there it’s Adam Franklin and I’m here with Darren Rowse. You may know him as ProBlogger, one of Australia’s premier bloggers. I’ve got a question for you… But first, thank you for having us at your course this weekend.

Darren Rowse: You’re welcome.…

Posted on Nov 22, 2012 by Selina Power

What I learnt at Facebook Small Business Bootcamp

Updated on July 8th, 2013

Recently business have been up in arms over the dramatic drop in reach their Facebook pages have been seeing but on Tuesday 20th November, SMB Marketing Consultant from Facebook Nick Bowditch put all of the rumours to rest at the Facebook Small Business Bootcamp. Basically Facebook was built for people and not for businesses. The fact the businesses can use it is a bonus but at the end of the day statistics show that businesses on Facebook will never spend a red cent with Facebook or any of its products and when you have 4,000 employees in the company… well you do the math.…

Posted on Oct 15, 2012 by Adam Franklin

The Best 9 Things I Learnt at the ProBlogger Event

Updated on November 26th, 2019

Problogger event

I was lucky enough to jag the third last ticket for ProBlogger’s Training Day [they sold out months before the event]. Darren Rowse is ‘ProBlogger’ and he is arguably Australia’s most prolific and successful blogger, so it was an excellent opportunity to hear all the tips straight from the horse’s mouth.

Here are the best 9 things I took away from the Problogger event.

1. 15 Minutes Per Day

Darren Rowse says to commit 15 minutes a day to something you want to achieve because as Darren says, “from small things, big things come.” …

Posted on Aug 27, 2012 by Selina Power

7 Reasons Why No one is Reading your Blog

Updated on July 8th, 2013

Are you blogging regularly but are just not feeling the love? This could be why:

Your Blog is Boring – if your blog content does not aim to engage your audience, make them think ,ask them a question or evoke an emotion then you might as well just stop blogging. This is your chance to add remarkable content that will have your readers sharing and commenting on everything they read of yours. Try using video and photos and talk about content that is relevant to your audience.