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Sunday, July 13, 2008
Are you Timberlaking your blog? (Part 3 Blogging like a Rockstar)
0 comments Posted by eightq at 7:00 PM
Guest Blogging has been mentioned in a number of places as a form of improving your personal brand, however I think the person who can demonstrate the power of guest blogging the best, is none other than Justin Timberlake.
When it comes to music collaborations, Justin Timberlake is the man. He has collaborated his way from being a cheesey boy band member to becoming a respected RnB artist. Justin did this by collaborating with other artist to reach their audience and gain credibility. He first entered the Rap scene with his collaboration with Nelly on ‘Girlfriend’, then collaborated with a number of other Rap/RnB stars (T.I, 50 Cent, Timbaland, Nelly Furtardo) in doing so reaching a wider RnB market. This was also good for these Rap Artist as they were able to attract a more mainstream audience.
I am currently doing a Justin Timberlake with my collaboration with Marketing Magazine. I currently write a blog for them, this is great for expanding my audience as Marketing Magazine has a great following with a lot of Marketers that are not reading my blog. It also works well for Marketing Magazine as I introduce them to my audience as well. A WIN-WIN situation!
So the question is, Who are you collaborating/Timberlaking with?
Friday, June 13, 2008
Audience equity doesn’t just relate to mass media celebrities. Lately I have seen a lot of bloggers using their audience equity to increase traffic to their blog. Audience equity is getting an audience from one media channel which you are producing content in, to another channel. The following is three examples of Audience Equity being used by bloggers
1. Plurk/Twitter –to - Blog
Media Hunter, Servant of Chaos, Jeremiah from WebStrategy are three people who I see using it Twitter and Plurk well. A warning though, the people who are doing this well are not just promoting their blog but adding valuable discussion on these channels as well.
2. Facebook –to - Blog
Josh Strawczynski a friend of mine who has been using his Facebook to try and drive traffic to his site. Joseph Jaffe and Mitch Joel have also been known to use their Facebook Groups to promote their podcasts.
3. Podcast -to- Blog
I currently guest on the Marketing Today Podcast, I have had some success with this, getting emails from listeners that have contacted me through my blog.
What strategies are you using to optimize and harness your audience equity? Have you seen any other good examples of audience equity at use?
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Friday, June 6, 2008
Welcome to the first ‘Top 50 Australian Marketing Pioneers Blog’ list.
I realised after nearly 2 years of blogging, I really didn’t have any idea of who was blogging around the topic of Marketing in Australia. I decided to make this list in order to shed light on the Australian Marketing Blogosphere and hopefully connect you with some great Australian Marketing thinkers.
The ranking system is very similar to the AdAge Power 150 methodology. I have used the same variable to rank the blogs (Google Page Ranks (10), Technorati Authority (10), Technoati Blog Reactions (10), Alexa Page Ranking (10), Bloglines (10).
I have also added a Pioneer score (10), this is a subjective score which is scored in terms of the blogs ability to have pioneering thoughts about Marketing. I believe it is our role as Marketing bloggers to discover and inform the rest of the industry about the changing Marketing landscape.
To be eligible
1. The author of the blog must be Australian or living in Australia
2. The main focus of their blog must be on a topic within Marketing (Advertising, Social Media Marketing, Public Relations, Marketing Research, etc.)
If you are not on this list and would like to be, please email julian@nakedcomms.com.au
This list will be updated every 3 months (Next update - September 2008).
As published in
This list will be published in the August Edition of Marketing Magazine. 
 |  |  |  |  |  | Total | ||
| 1 | Banner Blog | 6 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 43 |
| 2 | Servant of Chaos | 9 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 39 |
| 3 | Duncans Tv Adland | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 37 |
| 4 | Corporate Engagement | 8 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 35 |
| 5 | Better Communication Results | 8 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 34 |
| 6 | Young PR | 7 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 34 |
| 7 | Small Business Branding | 7 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 33 |
| 8 | Get Shouty | 8 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 33 |
| 9 | Personlize Media | 8 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 30 |
| 10 | Brand DNA | 6 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 30 |
| 11 | PR Disasters | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 29 |
| 12 | Ettf.net | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 27 |
| 13 | 1+1=3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 27 |
| 14 | Business of Marketing & Branding | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 26 |
| 15 | Media Hunter | 7 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 25 |
| 16 | Australian SEO Blog | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 24 |
| 17 | Wide Open Spaces | 8 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 24 |
| 18 | The Marketer | 7 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 23 |
| 19 | Three Billion | 6 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 23 |
| 20 | Innovation Feeder | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 22 |
| 21 | Campaign Brief Blog | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 21 |
| 22 | Eicolab | 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| 23 | Adspace-Pioneers | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 20 |
| 24 | Publicity Queen | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 19 |
| 25 | Filtered | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 18 |
| 26 | Marketing Easy | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 18 |
| 27 | Hothouse | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 18 |
| 28 | Mark Neely's Blog - 3rd Horizon | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 17 |
| 29 | Lexy Klain | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 17 |
| 30 | Peter Sheahan Live | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 17 |
| 31 | In my atmosphere | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 16 |
| 32 | Elbow Grease | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 16 |
| 33 | Falkayn | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 14 |
| 34 | Pigs Don't Fly | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 14 |
| 35 | Diffusion | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 |
| 36 | Australian Small Business | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 13 |
| 37 | The Jason Recliner | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| 38 | The Wayfarer | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| 39 | Adnotes | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 13 |
| 40 | Ryan's View | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 13 |
| 41 | B&T | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 13 |
| 42 | Zero Budget Marketing Ideas | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12 |
| 43 | Blackwatch | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 |
| 44 | Fresh Chat | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| 45 | Latin Ocean | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| 46 | Arrow Internet SEO | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| 47 | The Sticky Report | 7 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 48 | Naked Communications-The Flasher | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| 49 | Pixel Paddock | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| 50 | Send up a larger room | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
Feel free to put this badge on your website.
I would just like to thank Peter Wagstaff, Zac Martin, Daniel Mejia, Gavin Heaton, The Aussie Bloggers Forum, Laketrees, Snorskd, The Australian Index and Meg for helping me create this list!
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
1st Birthday of Adspace-Pioneers and the story of how I got started
0 comments Posted by eightq at 9:39 PM
Happy 1 year and 11 days birthday Adspace-Pioneer.
I thought now was the right time to tell the story of how I started Adspace-Pioneers.
Last year I finished my degree and joined the other 5,312 recently graduated students applying for the 17 jobs in advertising.
I did all the things they suggested for getting a job; I got an internship/part time job at an agency, went to every university networking night and begged my parents to ring their long lost friends in the industry to hook me up with a job.
All I ended up with was a stack of business cards.
I dreaded the next step the awkward phone conversation; with the pleasantries aside I would get to business.
‘So any jobs on the radar “insert business card name here”?’
…….
‘No, Julian I will keep an eye out for you, Ah that’s a client on the other line. I will give you a call if I hear of anything.’
I kept thinking there must be an easier way than this. Then one day it just clicked for me. I was asking for so much and giving them nothing back.
I could understand it though, I was asking them for a massive break and then giving them nothing back.
Around this I was working at Sputnik Agency, I was working one day a week preparing a trend report which went out to all the employees. 4 or 5 new trends that people were talking about.
Then it just clicked.
I should be emailing this out to my contacts. This was valuable information; people are time poor and want condensed information. I sent an email out to my contacts telling them I have set up a trend report blog that I will email you every week with updates.
It just made so much sense. I was able to stay top of mind with all my contacts, they were receiving valuable information. I had something to talk to them about. No longer did I feel bad about asking for a job, I just put a note on the end of my email saying I am still looking for a job.
A year on the blog has become more of a tool to make sure that I am keeping up to date with what is happening in the digital environment.
It is great to see other students following this path as well, notably Zac Martin a Monash Student who has started the blog Making Marketing.
And another birthday card
Friday, September 14, 2007
Well if you haven’t seen it yet, Chris Crocker (internet celebrity of Youtube and Myspace blogging fame) empathetic claim to stop picking on Britney.
But what I find interesting about it is a blogging story is producing enough attention to be picked up and run in the traditional media channels. Another sign of the times that blogging is becoming a powerful medium.
A piss take by Seth Green
And here is another funny video mash up of Tyra Banks and Britney.
