How to Acquire London

Bea Media Group on June 25, 2016

Interested in how to Acquire London?

London is a big place, with a wealth of history and beautiful buildings. And that’s probably the first thing you notice, it’s beauty and the grandeur of the buildings that make up London.

How to Acquire London

Well then onto the matter at hand, how to Acquire London?

Step One: Possess an intricate knowledge of your subject matter, buying and selling property in London
Step Two: Have great working relationships and links within your industry that no one else has
Step Three: Have a keen eye for beautiful and unique properties

If you don’t happen to have that skill set, that’s okay because I am referring to a new business with experience in all of the above.

Acquire London pride themselves on being experts in prime London real estate. Their years of experience investing in this sector and passion for this market has led Acquire London to develop an intimate understanding and build a knowledgeable position of the prime residential property market. They offer a highly tailored service to ensure we match our clients with the most suitable property for their needs.

Working on How to Acquire London

For the past six months I have been working with Acquire London to shape their brand, develop their web presence and consulting on digital marketing. So the question really was how to Acquire London.

From the outset the partners of Acquire London had a vision for the look and feel of the brand. It had to highlight the beauty of London and capture the desire to be a part of the city.

First thing was to head out with one of the partners and walk the streets in search of some beautiful shots that would come to represent the brand.

Representing the Brand

Finding out what the brand looks like in someones mind versus a broad description varies wildly. Being able to have them walk the streets and discuss the brand as I shoot photos, was invaluable.

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How to Acquire London

We were able to work on the style and the content of the photos in the moment. The result was a rich and wide selection of shots to represent the brand.

Building Online Presence

My first piece of work was to understand what Acquire London wanted to achieve with their online presence, what did that look like. Their ambitions were for a website that could accurately represent them, provide sufficient information about their services and provide a means of contact for their customers.

Sounds simple, but the process is not straightforward. To meet tight timescales I had to come up with a method that would put a ‘framework’ on the internet for us to work from as a base and then proceed to the next stage.

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Adobe Muse – Frameworking

In order to begin working up the framework, I worked in Adobe Muse. Reasons for this, I could sit alongside the Acquire London partners and make changes on the fly to text, visuals and layout, without touching a piece of coding. This helped to streamline the process greatly.

Final Phase

Now we’re into full delivery mode. Time to make the brand shine. From the early stages of the project, it was clear the partners had a strong vision for ‘how to Acquire London’.

That was a clean and beautiful brand. To reflect this I would make use of grand and striking imagery with traditional fonts and light web design.

Moral of the story:

Work together, create beautiful stuff.

Check out the website below (opens in a new window).

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Acquire London Website

 

What I learned writing my own job ad

Bea Media Group on June 8, 2016

How often do you really ask yourself, what is it I do?

Writing my own job ad

Whilst writing my own job ad, I recently had the chance to help shape what the job description for my replacement looks like. And naturally, who knows my job better than myself?

But asking me what it is I actually do is a difficult question. I know what my job title is and general responsibilities are, throw in some corporate jargon and that’s what I tell friends and family.

I know that when I talk to friends they skate over the details and justify the lack of detail by saying “and some other boring stuff”.

Sit Back, Orientate Yourself

Our working lives are naturally ordered by hours, days, weeks and months. That makes it difficult to sit back and really think about what it is you do day-to-day vs month-to-month.

I began writing my own job ad description by placing myself within the context of the team and how I help them get things done.

But it hit me when I started listing off the skills I bring to the table. Once I broke down all the work I’d had a hand in or had led on, it was startling to realise the number of skills I actually had.

My advice is to sit back and look at the body of work you’ve been involved in, even over the last six months and then attribute the skills you’ve used on each project.

**Embrace that immediate moment of pride**

Thinking Space

As a Digital Creator, thinking space is an undervalued asset as it should be for any professional.

Finding the time is your first challenge. At first it won’t seem natural, but you’ll begin to put the pieces together correctly as opposed to bashing them into place to meet your deadlines.

I’ve seen high-flying professionals tackle this in their own way. Thinking space can manifest in many different ways:

Reclining in your chair, staring out the window, taking a walk around the park, talking it through with a colleague…

Whatever it is, use it to your advantage.

Writing my own job ad needed thinking space. I wasn’t recruiting for myself, I had the team in mind and how that person needs to integrate and stand out to deliver their role.

An important part of that process is understanding where that job will likely go. You can’t predict the future but you can have a good stab at it.

Thinking space will give you the perspective needed to keep asking “what is it I do?” and what will the next person in my shoes be likely to do.

Innovate

If you want the opportunity to create within a large financial services firm and continue to innovate in that space, this could be it.

Ageas Direct are seeking their next Digital Creator to work as part of their Innovation Team. This is a team not like any other. They’ve been building their in-house capability for the past 18 months, to deliver products customers actually want, redefining processes, and improving our workspace for our employees.

You’ll be fuelling that process, by bringing their ideas to life. How often can you say you get to create startups to put in front of consumers for direct feedback, develop content plans that showcases the great work you’re doing and work in a truly innovative business?

Digital Creator

And of course, here’s how I expressed what it is I do everyday:

Alternately, check out my Linkedin here.

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Writing my own job ad

Collaboration Success

Bea Media Group on February 9, 2016

Want collaboration success on your next project? Of course you do.
But, how can you work with the right people and succeed?

Collaboration has a huge impact on social media platforms and on digital content as a whole. A collaboration has the ability to reach a wider audience and you can share the workload with other driven individuals, making it a cliché filled win-win scenario.

Lets be realistic for a second. Why do you need to collaborate when traditional teams are supposed to be well crafted groups of individuals, each providing a different personality and set of skills.

Reaching that team-nirvana is no mean feat when attempting to achieve the correct balance, it takes time. It can work, but mostly for large businesses who operate in a corporate manner, which doesn’t lend itself to the type of collaboration I’m talking about.

On a collaborative project, you don’t have the luxury of time or a wide pool of people to pick from, and your goals are very different.

COLLAB

So, why should this be any different than any other team project?

For one, everyone involved in a collaboration stands to gain. Whether they’re able to build their reputation with a wider audience, work on a specific portfolio item that makes them stand out, or just do cool S#!T.

You just can’t buy that kind of drive.

Collab is all about the scale of your ambition

In the world of collaboration, the end goal – that drive to publish your vision and content – is your boss.

Now’s a good time to discuss goals. Step 1, have some. Your team need to be clear on what you’re going to achieve, even if you’ve just one day to deliver it.

Now’s the time to speak up, outline your vision and throw it in the mix, this is a collaboration after all. You’ll be sharing that success with people just like you.

WORK WITH PEOPLE LIKE YOU

Yes, I would hate to work with someone exactly like me. But to work with people like you is one of the best moves you can make.

Collab is all about the scale of your ambition. If you’ve got it by the bucket-load, so should your team. You don’t have time to be second guessing yourself and neither do they.

It’s all about pressing forward, making mistakes early and changing your direction, but keep going. That’s your ambition talking.

Call it ambition or arrogance, it’s your fuel to deliver that new piece of content for your YouTube channel, or eBook published on Amazon. Either way you got there.

Working with people like you helps to keep you in check. Expect them to have big ideas, ambitions aligned to your own and the courage to change your direction when needed.

That last one is super important, the people around you were integral to that success, be glad they’re the right people.

COLLABORATION SUCCESS

To put it simply then, collaboration requires that hunger only someone completely vested in the project will have. They need skin in the game, if they stand to lose, suddenly their output is directly tied to the scale of their ambitions.

That’s why they should be someone like you. If the size of their ambition is anything like yours, that collaboration is going to be a winner.

COLLABORATION with SASH & BRONZE

When you can plan, script, shoot and edit a film like this with Sash & Bronze, that’s when you know you’re working with the right people for collaboration success.

Check out more of their work here. FACEBOOK // TWITTER // INSTAGRAM

Rimmel London Look – Sash and Bronze Style

Bea Media Group on January 26, 2016

Working with the Sash and Bronze team again for their Rimmel London Look.

Jump straight to the full entry here.

Bringing the Experience

The Sash and Bronze team are no amateurs when it comes to hair and make-up. Their wealth of talent and experience places them well to deliver a well researched and executed look.

[Refer to epic example from their Instagram below]

But how would they bring their unique style and experience to a video tutorial vlog?

https://www.instagram.com/p/6vpCazS5Ke/?taken-by=sashandbronze

The Challenge

What were the team up against? Rimmel had thrown down the gauntlet for their Rimmel London Look UK challenge.

If you’re a makeup addict with a killer #LONDONLOOKUK to share with the world, then Rita Ora wants to hear from you! You could be in with a once in a lifetime chance to meet Rita and work with Rimmel London make-up artists at Rimmel London’s YouTube Space in London. It really is that simple, just send us a video or image showing your best #LONDONLOOKUK and you could be travelling to London.

Challenge accepted. The team were keen to share their ideas and land a Rita Ora inspired look.

Research Phase

As one of the judges and style icon, the Sash and Bronze team took inspiration from Rita Ora’s music video Poison.

Landing the Rimmel London Look

As the eternal professionals, the Sash and Bronze team had lined up their plan for the shoot and delivered an incredible performance for their finished piece.

 

Follow Sash and Bronze

Facebook // Instagram // Twitter //

That Sash and Bronze Look

Sash and Bronze specialises in high end make up and hair styling for events and fashion shoots. Founded by Sukh Bhandal and Manni Sanghera, the sister team design and create their look and photoshoots to represent their smouldering and elegant brand.

Sash and Bronze BTS

Bea Media Group on October 31, 2015

Let’s go Behind the Scenes with Sash and Bronze. The Sash and Bronze team worked with Fashion Photographer, Lucie Desmond to produce a series of contrasting and stand out styles.

Sash and Bronze specialises in high end make up and hair styling for events and fashion shoots. Founded by Sukh Bhandal and Manni Sanghera, the sister team design and create their look and photoshoots to represent their smouldering and elegant brand.

For more of their work and insights into their designs, follow them on Instagram:
@sukhy_mua_sashandbronze
@mannisanghera_sashandbronze

or Facebook Page. As featured in Elléments Magazine 

BTS videography and editing by BeAdventurous

MUSIC (Creative Commons)
Intro:Rous – Evoke Artist – License

Main Comp:
The xx – Fiction (Fever 105 & Kulkid Remix) – Artist – Release

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Give me a shout on Twitter what you’d like to see on the vlog. I’m always on the lookout for new adventure ideas.

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Shot on – Nikon D5300 and 3200
Edited in Adobe Premiere
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Check out my last two adventures

Tarifa Windsurf

Mount Toubkal | GoPro Holiday


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Grange Park Opera Festival

Bea Media Group on August 12, 2014

Grange Park Opera Festival

Grange Park Opera Festival is one of the major music festivals in Europe’s operatic summer season.

Venue

Based in Hampshire, just seven miles outside of the historic town of Winchester, The Grange, one of the most celebrated neo-classical mansions in Britain, and owned by the family of John Baring, Lord Ashburton. English Heritage has a guardianship deed on the Grade I-listed building.

Grange Park Opera Website

The Festival

The season runs for seven weeks, with four productions that are staged in a 550-seat theatre (with red velvet seats from the old Covent Garden ) built within the 19th century orangery. To date, there have been some 53 productions, many of which have been acclaimed for superb singing, outstanding conducting and magnificent stage sets.

At the heart of the festival is a commitment to presenting both international and rising talent, introducing British audiences to little heard operas and bringing in a new audience to hear opera for the first time. To help develop the next generation’s love of opera, there are special schemes that give free tickets to young people and subsidised tickets for under 30s.

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