Residence Sydney Alma mater University of Queensland | Occupation Author, speaker | |
Born 21 April 1980 (age 36) ( 1980-04-21 ) Hobart Education Brisbane Grammar School Website Bluewire Media
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Adam Franklin is an Australian author, entrepreneur and social media keynote speaker.
Franklin published Web Marketing That Works: Confessions from the Marketing Trenches (Wiley 2014) (ISBN 978-0-7303-0927-7) as a paperback and Kindle ebook with co-author Toby Jenkins and it became an Amazon #1 bestseller in Australia.
He co-founded his company Bluewire Media with Toby Jenkins in 2005. Franklin featured on Smart Company's "Australia's Hot 30 Under 30" list of entrepreneurs in 2009. In 2010 he collaborated with David Meerman Scott on the Web Strategy Planning Template which they co-branded. This marketing strategy template was also included in the third, fourth and fifth editions of David Meerman Scott's bestselling book The New Rules of Marketing and PR which has over 350,000 copies in print in more than 25 languages.
He co-hosts the podcast Web Marketing That Works and was interviewed on the Entrepreneur On Fire podcast.
In 2015, Franklin's Bluewire Media blog was named the #1 Business Blog in Australia according to Smart Company and was a Business Finalist for the Best Australian Blogs in 2014 according to the Australian Writers' Centre.