Thank you – Australia’s Best Business Blog 2015

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Ads and I are absolutely stoked to be named #1 in Smart Company’s Australia’s 20 Best Business Blogs 2015.

As is always the case, we’ve had more than a little help along the way! So we wanted to make some thank yous.

Readers

To you, our valued reader, we appreciate you taking the time to read this blog and for sharing with your friends too.

Chief contributor

A huge thank you to our Chief Contributor Will Blunt. Will has been working with us for nearly a year now and has written some cracking posts including Your Ultimate Blog Checklist which has been shared over 2000 times! Will kicked off his own business, Blogger Sidekick last year and has been a stellar regular contributor to our blog this past year.

Guest contributors

We’d love to thank our guest bloggers who’ve also made some fantastic contributions in the last 12 months. We’ve learned so much just by reading our own guest posts! :-) These are some really smart articles and we hope you’ve enjoyed them too.

Dan Norris – The 5 Best Google Analytics Reports for Content Marketers
Aaron Agius – How To Build Your Personal Brand In 8 Specific Steps
Alex Fredheim – Are You Burning Money On Google Adwords? Find Out Now In Three Easy Steps
Tom Maclean – How Pozible Crowdfunding Launched Sofi Spritz To National Distribution
Vernessa Taylor – Smarter in 2015: Increase Your Business Intelligence
Jen Thames – The Keys to Content Marketing Success
Elizabeth Victor – The Difference Between Social Media for Business and Personal
Angus McNicol – Local SEO: actionable ideas to bolster your business’s visibility
Damian Wolfe – Your Customer Satisfaction Isn’t Satisfying? Here’s tips to fix it
Monique Craig – 6 tools to help you start video content marketing
Sergi Travino – 5 Inexpensive Marketing Strategies To Attract and Engage Customers
Saul Cockburn – 9 Tips To Achieve 4x Your Kickstarter Goal
Emma Henry – 8 Techniques to Improve Your Website Customer Conversions
James Price – Why Facebook Paid Billions for Break-Even Online Businesses
Eric Thomas – What is Wrong with Customer Service and How can Marketing Fix it?
Winston Ong – Is Your Google Analytics Data Just a Hit Counter? Use Advanced Segments to Really Understand Your Visitors
Daniel Priestley – 7 things for entrepreneurs to urgently focus on in 2014
Richard Dragon – Protect Your Identity Online: Understand SSL Badges
Allen Riddoch – The Apps That Working Mothers Must Have
Joe Winston – Thermomix Marketing – How “The 4 Blades” got over 20,000 podcast downloads and over 3000 likes on Facebook
Cas McCullough – How a single blog post created thousands in business (and how you can do it too)

Podcast guests

We also wanted to thank the incredible guests on our podcast for sharing their time and insights. Ads and I learn so much with every interview. (It has actually become my favourite way to learn. I absolutely love it.)

So thank you very much to:

Congrats

Well done to the other bloggers in the business community like Donna Moritz, Kelly Exeter and Naomi Simson who have been blogging for many years and were included on the list. And thanks for the support from all the other friendly folk in community blogging.

Mentors

A special thank you to our writing mentor Valerie Khoo from the Australian Writers’ Centre, our blogging mentor Darren Rowse from ProBlogger and to Dan Norris at WPCurve for pushing us to new levels of content creation!

We are pumped about the year to come. More great posts, more great guests and some huge plans for 2015. Thanks for coming on the journey with us.

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Toby Jenkins is co-author of Web Marketing That Works. He also released 33 free marketing templates, is CEO of Bluewire Media and co-hosts an iTunes podcast and has written for Fairfax Media, ProBlogger, Jeff Bullas and many other blogs. Toby is an Athens Olympian.

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