Updated on August 12th, 2021
Partners we endorse
Bluewire Media no longer offers implementation or client services but you can count on all these companies and, if you want, you can mention we referred you.
Digital Marketing Consultants
- Jane Hillsdon and her team at Dragonfly Marketing.
- Aaron McMahon at the team Slim Digital.
- Dave Eddy and his team at Redback.
- Aaron Agius at his team at Louder Online
- Jill Brennan, marketing strategy and mentoring at Harbren.
Website Agency
- Studio 1 Design: Greg Merrilees and his team can design and build a high performing WordPress website, typically in the range of $8k – $15k.
- Five by Five: Jon Hollenberg and his team will design a high performing WordPress site in the range of $15k-$20k.
Social Media Management
- L&A Social Media – Gina Lednyak and her team can help with your social media campaigns.
- GetSOS – is a Canadian social media service that offers social media updates. Get hand crafted, daily social media updates on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn from $97 CDN per month.
Virtual Assistants (VAs)
- Virtual Valley – is a great place to find a VA virtual assistant.
- Beepo – is an Australian owned outsourcing company. You can scale up from here and build a team of dedicated VAs. Apply here.
Copywriting
- Glenn Murray at Divine Write is great for SEO copywriting, technical writing, onsite copy and sales copywriting.
- Farhad Khurshed is a direct response copywriter at Copywriting Results who can create a package consisting of a landing page, thank you page and email funnel for you.
- Gary Korisko at Reboot Authentic is who we recommend for sales copy.
- Gina Lofaro at The Wordmistress is a great blog writer (and ghostwriter) and ongoing website content writer.
- Nick Usborne runs Conversational Copywriting and writes for high-trust relationship-based professionals.
SEO
We recommend the following SEO providers.
- Glennette Goodbread and the team at Premium Web Design specialize in multi-location SEO.
- The team at Reload Media. 1300 058 151.
- Aaron Agius and his team at Louder Online. 1300 724 588.
- Dave Jenyns and his team at Melbourne SEO Services. 1300 662 979
- Jim Stewart and his team at StewArt Media. (03) 8545 5900
- Search Factory are a specialist SEO/SEM agency based in Brisbane.
Facebook Ads & Google Adwords (PPC)
- Ilana Wechsler and her team at Green Arrow Digital can help with Facebook Ads and Google Ads. 02 8006 1332.
- Dave Eddy and his team at Vicinity Marketing can help with Facebook Ads and Google Ads and more. (02) 4036 1369
Social Media Training
- Ilana Wechsler and her team at Green Arrow Digital can help train your team in social media advertising. 02 8006 1332.
- Beth Powell is a digital marketing trainer, facilitator, speaker and author of Drive More Business.
- Gina Lednyak and her team at L&A Social Media can help train your team in the practical implementation of social media for business.
Graphic Design
- AreCreative is run by Ben Creighton and they offer web design, logo design, UI, UX and web development. Contact [email protected] +61 405 562 887
Entry Level Websites – Under $5000
- Sunsite Web Design specialises in small business websites and is based on the Sunshine Coast, but develops sites Australia-wide. They offer 6 page websites for around the $1,000 mark. Contact John Dulley on [email protected] or 0404 862 920 to make an enquiry.
- Studio Tactics is Brisbane based and specialises in easy to update Drupal websites for small businesses for around the $1,800 mark. Studio Tactics is the freelance business of former Bluewire developer Greg Young. Contact him on [email protected] or 0437 432 208.
- Storey Digital Art is a Gold Coast based freelance web design business owned by Christine Storey. She can create custom splash pages from $250 to custom 10 page websites for $1000. She can help you start to shape your business with Logo Designs from $199 and WordPress Blogs. Contact Christine on 0427 723 279 or [email protected]
Mid-Range Websites – $5000 – $20,000
- Five by Five Web: Jon Hollenberg and his team to beautiful and effective WordPress sites in the $7k-$30k range. Highly recommended. Contact [email protected]
- Slim Digital: Aaron McMahon and his team will help you build websites, develop a marketing strategy and manage social media.
- Commonsense Marketing: Known as the Implementors, Annette Welsford and her team provide marketing mentoring, strategy planning, website development, copywriting, graphic design, hosting and SEO. They also provide a range of “done for you” campaign management services. Website prices range from $3k to $15k. Call 1300 554 495.
- AreCreative is run by Ben Creighton and they offer web design, logo design, UI, UX and web development. Contact [email protected] +61 405 562 887
- Calmon is a Gold Coast based web design company, run by popular ex-Bluewire Media developer Francisco Calmon. You’ll get a website in the $3,000 – $12,000 range. Highly recommended. Call Francisco on 1300 768 568 or [email protected].
High-End Websites – $20,000+
- Marketing Results is a digital marketing agency that specialises in lead generation for complex service businesses. They offer expertise in marketing automation. Call Will Swayne on (07) 3161 1541 or email [email protected].
- WebProfits do high quality websites, digital marketing management, SEO, PPC and social. 1300 763 592
- Brightlabs is another excellent web design company in Brisbane and also Melbourne. They offer their own custom built, proprietary CMS and have award winning creative work. Call Farhad Mejer-Homji on (07) 3871 1787 or [email protected].
- Wiliam is a great Sydney web design company to turn to if you want a very high end digital solution. Websites start well into the six figures but they are one of Australia’s best. Call them on (02) 9978 8888 or email [email protected].
Web Start-Ups
Are you the next web superstar? Got a great idea or concept but need a web partner to provide a helping hand?
- Pollenizer invests in web business and partners with you to launch them. From concept, to start-up, to capital raising and angel investors but only if they are great ideas! Pitch your idea in 5 minutes and answer 5 minutes of questions.
- Reload Consulting helps web and business start-ups with business plans, online consulting and marketing strategies. Their advice is from people who ‘have done it’! Call Craig Somerville on 1300 714 146 or [email protected].
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Webinar platforms
Live Streaming
EcammLive
Podcast editing
Podcast Publishers: Chris Stelzer can take care of all the painful editing, tagging, transcribing, show notes and blog posts for your podcast.
Online products and training courses we endorse:
Glenn Murray’s e-books:
- SEO Secrets
- SEO Copywriting
John Lee Dumas’s Podcaster’s Paradise
Tools we use
Talkwalker Alerts – Monitor what people say about you on the web (free)
Mention – track social media mentions (free)
Mention – track social media mentions (free)
Listbuilder by SumoMe – free, exit popup (free)
HeatMaps – see where people are clicking on your website (free)
Welcome Mat – Overlay an opt-in form to attract email subscribers (free)
Leadpages – Landing page builder from $67 per month
WPCurve – Unlimited WordPress updates from $69 per month
WPEngine – WordPress hosting (that will increase your site speed)
CoSchedule – Scheduling social media posts for your blog article from within WordPress ($10 per month)
Buffer – Schedule social media updates
Canva – create your own images
Trello – free tool for keeping track of your content ideas
Back up Buddy or VaultPress – WordPress plugins for website backup
Edgar – Scheduling all your evergreen content on social media platforms.
Buffer App – schedule social media updates
Feedly – follow all your favourite bloggers and share the posts on social media
Domai.nr – custom short URLs
Five by Five – get a WordPress website built by Jon Hollenberg’s team
Business2Community.com – syndicate your blog content
Bit.ly – URL shortener
Click to Tweet – make ‘tweet this’ links
Feedly – blog reader
Infusionsoft – CRM
Schedule Once – share your calendar so people can book meetings
BuzzSumo – see what articles in your niche are the most popular
Headline Generator – use this tool to write epic headlines every time.
Search.CreativeCommons.org – lets you search through a variety of image collections all filtered by those with creative commons sharing licence only.
Click to Tweet – make ‘tweet this’ links
Feedly – blog reader
Infusionsoft – CRM
Schedule Once – share your calendar so people can book meetings
BuzzSumo – see what articles in your niche are the most popular
Headline Generator – use this tool to write epic headlines every time.
Search.CreativeCommons.org – lets you search through a variety of image collections all filtered by those with creative commons sharing licence only.
