Video for Social Media – and Beyond … all on your Smartphone

Ian Sandall

Ian Sandall produces directs and films TV Commercials and corporate videos in 2D (and 3D when asked!) Although he lives in Cheshire, England, he works all over the world. Ian also delivers media training and smartphone training to organisations and companies throughout the UK. Ian introduces his new video for social media on your smartphone training in Bolton.

Video Sells. It can sell your company, your product or your service – and even you!

Worked right, video keeps people on your web pages for longer, sells more product, enhances your site’s ranking and definitely increases your personal profile. What would the web be without You Tube, Twitter, Instagram and Vine – let along Facebook? They all use video to a lesser or greater degree.
And now you can start leveraging the power of video for your business – without it costing a fortune.
These days there’s no need to spend thousands on making simple videos for your Social Media channels. With a little prep and planning it’s easy enough to do it yourself.
Yes really!
Time was, to make a video you needed a lot of expensive kit to make it happen. Cameras, big lights, and loads of people. Now however most of the tools to make simple, persuasive videos to aid your social media presence are in everyone’s pocket – your smartphone.
In this half day course I’ll not only show you how to get the best out of your smartphone, enabling you to shoot really professional pieces, we’ll also show you how to write, edit and of course appear in videos yourself!

Video for Social Media and Beyond – all from your smartphone / Bolton 2nd June 2015

Tuesday, 2 June 2015 from 13:00 to 17:00 (BST)
Bolton, United Kingdom
Cost: £97 + VAT

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Social Media a Conversation

Social media is about connecting with people, holding a conversation with them, and sharing information. The video below tells a short message of how posting a single update can generate a much larger conversation – between a student, a baker and bank. It also highlights how Hootsuite can help you streamline your social media efforts, schedule your posts, and manage your feedback and analytics.

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To find out more about how to maximize your social media management, call Carl today on 0161 751 0233.

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Revenue gets tough on late payment of tax bills

HMRC has taken a tougher line on businesses wanting to pay their tax bills late, doubling the percentage of tax deferral applications that it turned down last year. 

 

The taxman rejected 5.8pc of all VAT, PAYE and Corporation tax deferral applications in 2010, up from the 2.7pc rate seen during 2009. The total number of rejections rose from 6,760 to 8,550.

HMRC did grant 138,700 new arrangements worth £2.34bn in 2010 and since its Time to Pay scheme launched in November 2008 in response to the recession, it has allowed 395,400 bills to be deferred, worth £6.83bn.

HMRC said there had been a 60pc decline in demand for the scheme in December compared with at its peak in March 2009. So far it has collected £5.87bn of the tax deferred and expects to recover more than 90pc of the monies left outstanding.

Business groups have singled out the scheme as one of the most effective in helping companies weather the recession.

Andrew Cave, spokesman for the Federation of Small Businesses, said: “This is the only government scheme in the five years I have worked at the FSB where I have had members call up and say how grateful they are about the Government doing it. It gave them a huge amount of wriggle room, which was very helpful.”

Read more here – Telegraph.