In this episode of Bella In Your Business, Bella sits down with Ian Anderson Gray, the founder of Seriously Social; a blog focused on social media tools. Ian & Bella discuss all things social media including how pet sitting and dog walking business owners can effectively use Facebook, Instagram, and LIVE video.
Here is what they chat about:
Biggest misconceptions about social media
The worst mistakes business owners make on Facebook & Instagram
Tips for maximizing your presence on Facebook, Instagram, and live video
Differences between web developers and web designers
What business owners should look for in a web developer
Special Gift:
As a special gift to the audience, Ian is offering 20% off of his Facebook Live Courses with discount code BELLA20 here: https://iag.me/products/
Who Is Ian?
Ian is an international speaker, trainer, teacher, web developer, and consultant. He has a passion for making the techno-babble of social media marketing easy to understand. Ian is co-founder of Select Performers – a family run web agency. As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian is also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK.
Transcript:
Bella:This is episode 74 of Bella in Your Business. Welcome to Bella in Your Business, where Bella will discuss anything and everything about your pet sitting business to help you land on target. So get ready, Bella's got your chute. Let's jump. Welcome to Bella in Your Business. My name is Bella Vasta, your host, and today I have the dynamic Ian Anderson Gray with me. He is, my gosh, I don't even know where to start. He's the founder of Serious Social, a blog that's focused on social media tools. He's an international speaker, a trainer, a teacher, a web developer, and a consultant. He has a passion for making the techno babble of social media marketing easy to understand. Can I get an amen, you guys? Ian is the co-founder of Select Performers, a family-run web agency, as well as being a geek husband and a dad of two kids. Ian's also a professional singer and he lives in Manchester, the United Kingdom. Welcome to the show.
Ian:Well, thank you so much for having me, Bella. It's great to be here.
Bella:I have to say, I think you're the first singer I've ever had on the show. I'm going to put you on the spot. Would you mind singing a few bars for us?
Ian:Oh dear. I just don't know where to start. Let me think. How about a folk song? Shenandoah, I long to see you. Away you rolling river.
Bella:That is so cool. You are now down in history as the first one who has ever sung on Bella in Your Business. So thank you so much. So go ahead and take a moment and fill in some of those gaps for us. I kind of gave an overview of who you are, but how did you end up sitting here with me and being this international speaker and just web extraordinaire?
Ian:Yeah, I think we all have these kind of interesting stories. My background when I was at school, I was definitely involved in music. Music was my passion, but I was also a bit of a geek and it's quite cool these days because being a geek is actually a cool thing. Well, I'm not sure it was when I was at school. But when I went to university, I did music, then I trained to be a professional singer here at a music college in Manchester. And when I left, I wanted to see if I could find a way to combine my passion for music and technology. I was doing singing and I was doing a lot of teaching in singing, but I started to build websites. I started a web agency with my dad who had retired at that time.
And if we fast forward a few more years, about five or six years ago I set up a blog just for a bit of fun on the side. It always starts that way, doesn't it? And it's kind of funny, you know, I had no idea. In fact, you know, people were talking to me about monetizing, you know, if you thought of how you were monetizing it, and I was thinking, I'm not. But because I was passionate about what I was writing ab...
