It's a good few months now since I've written anything on the blog. I've have been busy with a number of other projects and theres some great news on the way. If I am totally honest the gap between blogs is due to a lack of focus on keeping the Consoltis site up-to-date ... I think it's all too easy to take the foot off the communications pedal.
BASHgroup have seen some changes over the last month or so with the new owner Marcus Thomlinson now fully in charge. As a consequence of this time, the website has naturally taken a slight step back, but I am pleased to say that we are going forward again.
There's been a few changes to the website since the last report.
The site now displays the team biographies, has the capability for promoting local gigs in the local area ( Harrrogate, Leeds, Bradford, Ilkley to name but a few) and there are a few more pages available now that promoting the studios services such as Star for a Day and The rehearsal rooms.
There has been progress with social media links - the Facebook pages have with well over 1000 Fans in place and growing .. what is encouraging is that people are making bookings through finding out about promotions them either via Facebook or from the website directly . See www.bashgroup.co.uk/starforaday for more information
The homepage has alway had a bit of a tidy up too, largely as a result of number of You Tube videos that have been uploaded onto the site - Most of them have been directed and produced by the BASHgroup team.
I've been working on site with one of my clients discussing inbound marketing strategies.
On of the areas discussed was about using You Tube to promote www.onestopcctv.co.uk. It seems to be one of the best ways to show your customers what type of business you are and use to encourage them to engage with you and do better business.
So what do you need to produce a quick video clip?
We used a simple Flip Ulta HD to take the video clip.
In this case just we just took a quick recording there and then
We have downloaded the video clip onto the computer
After that, uploaded the clip onto You Tube - we chose not to edit the video and for better overall results this is recommended.
What next?
Then we utilised the YouTube video by embedding the code into this blog
Our intention is to use the clip and others as part of the marketing plan telling people about it via blogs, twitter, linked in etc ..
We've proved that anyone can take a video clip and upload onto YouTube.
OneStop CCTV are planning to take a series of clips about their business with the intention of increasing awareness of the business.
This is a great network event set at one of the best locations in Leeds to see the skyline in the Sky Lounge at the City Inn.
Informal, vibrant and relaxed, the Young Directors Forum (YDF) invites all members to join us for our ever popular 'Meet up Mondays'. The event is FREE.
This is a great opportunity for all members who enjoy a more informal approach to networking or to catch up with some friends.
All members are warmly welcome and can bring up to two guests to each event. No booking necessary, so just come along!
We had a great event last night at City Inn. A good number of people turned up, about 30, and there were some very interesting discussions taking place. Felt very vibrant and relaxed.
We've set up a Linked In Group 'Meet Up Mondays' if you wanted to follow the debate in between events.
This is a great network event set at one of the best locations in Leeds to see the skyline in the Sky Lounge at the City Inn.
Informal, vibrant and relaxed, the Young Directors Forum (YDF) invites all members to join us for our ever popular 'Meet up Mondays'. The event is FREE.
This is a great opportunity for all members who enjoy a more informal approach to networking or to catch up with some friends.
All members are warmly welcome and can bring up to two guests to each event. No booking necessary, so just come along!
We had a great event last night at City Inn. A good number of people turned up, about 30, and there were some very interesting discussions taking place. Felt very vibrant and relaxed.
We've set up a Linked In Group 'Meet Up Mondays' if you wanted to follow the debate in between events.
" I approached Consoltis having been recommended by a friend. At first I was quite reticent as most of Consoltis websites are very technically led and not design led. However, after an initial consultation I was confident that Andrew had listened and understood not only to my brief but my business concept, which is quite niche! The end result is a fabulous new website that does everything I need it to but with huge potential for growth. I recognise that I need to keep adding content and look forward to working with Andrew to develop over the coming months. "
" I approached Consoltis having been recommended by a friend. At first I was quite reticent as most of Consoltis websites are very technically led and not design led. However, after an initial consultation I was confident that Andrew had listened and understood not only to my brief but my business concept, which is quite niche! The end result is a fabulous new website that does everything I need it to but with huge potential for growth. I recognise that I need to keep adding content and look forward to working with Andrew to develop over the coming months. "
I recently went to Bash Studios for another review meeting with the team. We agreed a time and some 2 hrs later, with the backdrop of bands in rehearsal, we started and various people popped in to join us ... it's all quite chilled actually.
Marcus introduced me more of team including Matt Speddngs of www.deepfocus.co.uk, who is going to be doing some of the filming that is planned.
We talked about the next stages for the site and there is a promise of some great content.
The key focus of our discussions is to generate some exciting and unique content to include film, composing, graphics and animation. The team are working hard and having a few laughs at the same time.
Coming up soon will be the Bash Studios song played by the house band, various Bash video clips, team bios and pictures and a local gig guide for Harrogate and the surrounding area.
Whilst exciting for everyone involved, it's taking even longer than I expected to build the content. I don't know why I am surprised, because I know how hard it really is and also is a new process to learn. I was hoping we would be a little further on. Anyway, the important bit is that the Bash team have embraced the need to create and have put plans in place.
I will be checking the progress at the next update meeting later this week and there will hopefully be some exciting new content to upload.
It's a sort of a gradual start and we are making progress, but you just can't see it yet.
I went to Bash Studios this week to continue the journey.
The domain www.bashgroup.co.uk is fully in place now, plus we've amended the photos used in the backdrop. They were all taken at Bash Studios by Jamie Valentine.
A few people are getting to know about the site which is good and getting some thumbs up. Its all at the early stages, but there is definitely an upbeat buzz around the place. There is talk of an official launch at the end of March.
Marcus Thomlinson was saying that the the followers in Facebook have moved up to to over 300 in the last week. Just the one tweet at the moment.
Still quite a lot to do with the site and now the team are starting to focus on producing amazing content for everything Bash Group.
Kasiuss popped in and Jason Odle gave us some feedback on the bashgroup.co.uk website so we just made some amends to the placement of Twitter, Facebook and Youtube icons - There in a better place on the site now so you can see them on every page.
The band found out that they are playing a couple of live songs on BBC Radio Leeds on West Yorkshire Raw Talent Show 18th March 2010 (19:00 - 22:00). I am told that there will be on at 8.05pm.
They will be great and Bash Group are going along to film it for the blog - it's all very Rock and Roll.
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