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82. Rebroadcast: Why Email is Key When You Have A Podcast with Adam Franklin


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Adam Franklin is the co-author of Web Marketing That Works. His popular presentation will teach you an email marketing formula that you can take back to work and start using immediately. Based on Adam’s results of getting double the industry open-rate on email campaigns, you’ll learn how to send entertaining email marketing campaigns that people love to open.
Plus, he hosts a top rating iTunes podcast, is an international social media speaker and marketing manager of Bluewire Media – the web marketing firm he co-founded in 2005.
Adam’s Bluewire Media blog has been named as one of Australia’s Best Business Blogs for four years.  He is a regular blogger for Startup Smart and occasionally writes for Smart Company and the Sydney Morning Herald. He has been a guest on the radio show 2UE as well as many popular podcasts.
Adam co-created the free Web Strategy Planning Template which has been seen by hundreds of thousands of marketers worldwide, and his weekly “Bluewire News” email goes out to over 10,000 readers.
Adam has featured on Smart Company’s Hot 30 Under 30 and the Dynamic Business 2010 Young Guns list of young entrepreneurs.
IN THIS EPISODE WE TALK ABOUT:

* Email Marketing Secrets keynote
* Adam Franklin on being productive and creative
* When he started Blue Wire Media
* Looking back as a marketing professional
* Adam’s perspective on how marketing has changed since then and when he opened Blue Wire Media
* The importance of delivering value
* Providing and offering website services
* Creating free content and sharing it with the world
* Adam’s entrepreneurial spirit
* The importance of starting, getting in, doing it and getting going in order to be an entrepreneur
* What podcasting has done for his business since he started
* The relationships strengthened and formed with people by doing a podcast
* Adam’s highlights of his podcasting journey
* Why it’s cool getting invited on to other people’s shows
* How he deals with rejections
* Adam’s mind-set in marketing to help and educate people to progress
* Why podcasting is hot all of a sudden
* How Adam gets his podcast episodes up and running
* The disadvantages of podcasting
* The fear of being criticised
* How he has managed to grow his audience since starting his podcast
* Building and having an email list in order to help grow an audience when launching something new
* The sense of responsibility
* How podcasting improves Adam as a speaker
* Doing a weekly podcast show
* The common mistakes podcasters often make
* Living with the fear and choosing to persist

WHAT WOULD’VE MADE IT EASIER/WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE CHANGED?
“Probably getting the editing helped. I probably waited until the 30th episode. It was Toby, my business partner, who instigated it, hired the people and started the process. I hired the person and that kind of forced me to delegate some of that responsibility. Probably because I had tried to do it and hated it.”
HOW OFTEN SHOULD I PODCAST?
“I’m happy with the weekly show”
HOW COMPLICATED IS IT TO DO A PODCAST TO DRIVE EMAIL LIST GROWTH?
“Well, you’ve got to ask people to be in the show. If you are doing an interview show, you’ve got to ask people on which means that you could get rejected. So, a fear of rejection kicks in. You’ve got to think what to say, which can be a little bit scary too because what if we say something and stick i...
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