Feb 072011
 

Wedding video London, filming at the Wedding Venue Waldorf Hotel Aldwych London. Church wedding video.

Wedding video London Warldorf Hotel from Portobello Films on Vimeo.

Filmed back in August 2009 by two wedding videographer. They filmed for 10 hours coverage capturing the couple preparations to brilliant effect. Then onto the arrivals at St James Church Muswell Hill with the groom. Then following the emotional ceremony it was time for the spectacular location of the world famous Waldorf Hilton Hotel right on the Aldwych in the centre of London and the centre of Theatreland. With guests family and friends from all over the world all gathered together maybe for the first and only time. Everyone made sure they had a good time. Be sure not to miss the end credits with the groom interviewing a guest on the merits of Nigerian cuisine.
On a technical note, this wedding video was shot in 2009 before we ofered “Colour grading” as standard. We have since “graded” the footage so if you go straight to our Vimeo channel you will see the original wedding video highlighs with out the “grade”

Wedding video Surrey show our wedding videographer in a completly different surrounding, out of the centre of London and into the Surrey Hills

Feb 052011
 

Events in a corporate environment are often staged to communicate company strategy, change internal company behavior, launch a product or service, motivate, train or reward staff, or influence the external behavior of customers towards the brand.

In many instances, they bring company employees together, support wider marketing or sales initiatives, incentivize team achievements, or entertain senior leaders, get the most professionaal assistance from Trademark event production company.

What is corporate event planning?

Yet, corporate event planning goes beyond meeting planning. Although conferences and meetings may form the lion’s share of the workload, other events you may be asked to organize include corporate hospitality, client entertaining, conventions, exhibitions, and employees events—such as incentive travel reward programs, team building, motivational events, receptions, parties, and charity fundraising days.

Planning and executing a successful corporate event is no simple task. It’s typically a months-long process consisting of several stages and a variety of organizational steps.

To help you navigate the business of corporate event planning, here is everything you need to know:

  • Types of Corporate Events
  • Event budget
  • Event objective
  • Venue sourcing
  • Event marketing
  • Attendee engagement
  • Corporate event planning checklist

Types of corporate events

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As outlined above, corporate events can range from company conferences and internal training seminars to team away-days and client hospitality. When planning for any type of corporate event therefore, it’s best to assess them in terms of their size.

Micro events (otherwise known as ‘simple events’) are planned for up to 100 delegates and often take the form of meetings or more intimate training sessions.

The planning requirements for these micro-events may simply involve a room booking, presentation facilities, break-out refreshments, and registration. However, referring to them as ‘simple events’ can be misleading, as an away-day or hospitality for 50 senior managers can be as complicated as planning a conference for 500 attendees.

Small events are classed as between 100 and 250 delegates. They could be seminars, training days or departmental conferences.

Planners may need to manage a main stage itinerary and several break-out sessions, along with lunch, refreshments, audio-visual facilities, online registration, and transport.

Midsize events rely more on technology. They could be company-wide conferences for up to 1,000 delegates or leadership summits for important client customers to meet with senior leaders.

A branded website, pre-event communications, and an event mobile app should all form part of the budgetary considerations. Delegates may require hotel accommodation, plus transport which takes attendees to and from the venue. While a pre- or post-event reception or evening entertainment may be required as part of a complex multi-stream conference itinerary.

Large-scale events often require enterprise technology tools to manage elements such as hotel room bookings, delegate flights, budgets, and online registration.

These may be multi-day events so you could need offsite activities, dinners, partner programs, an awards ceremony or other complex itinerary planning.

Staffing, catering, registration, speaker and delegate management will all need to be carefully planned at scale. Conventions, for example, can attract anything up to around 10,000 attendees and can last a few days.

Event budget

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The amount of available budget can impact every aspect of corporate event planning, from the choice of venue and speakers to the levels of catering, entertainment, technology, and staffing.

Decide if your budget has outgoings only, or will you be able to supplement it with income from exhibitors, sponsors or other forms of external revenue?

Has this event happened in the past? If so, use the previous budget to establish a baseline but ensure that inflation and evolving needs are taking into consideration.

Figures from past budgets are useful in providing a clearer picture of how much certain suppliers will charge. Use these to ensure you are not being over-charged when you reach out to suppliers for initial quotes.

Every event budget, however, needs built-in flexibility. Unanticipated expenditure is common and supplier costs are often provided as estimates, rather than fixed prices, so it’s vital that an overall budget is managed accordingly, and a contingency fund is in place.

Once you’ve sourced supplier costings, make a comprehensive list of all the budget line items in the event lifecycle, including venue hire, AV, food, and beverage, accommodation and travel, speaker fees, staffing costs, marketing and service fees.

For larger or more complex budget planning, look into corporate event management software suites, which include a dedicated event budget management tool. This will ensure accurate collection of your budgetary information, help you track expenses easily, generate budget reports, and demonstrate the ROI of your event.

Event objective

Setting Goals

‘What is the event’s objective?’ This should be the first question you ask when a corporate event is requested. By gaining a deep understanding of the deliverables that key stakeholders are hoping to achieve, it’ll allow you to plan more effectively and communicate your ideas in a language your bosses will understand.

Once you’ve understood whether the event’s aim is, for example, to build brand awareness, communicate business strategy, reward and motivate, or launch a new product or service, you can then set goals, put the right metrics in place to track results, and determine who the attendees will be, along with their expectations.

When you have well-defined goals and objectives for your event, planning, promoting, and sticking to your budget all become much easier.

Event objectives should be SMART

  • Specific: What is the desired outcome and when does it need to be achieved by?
  • Measurable: Return on Investment or Return on Objectives… or both?
  • Achievable: Ensure that the event objective is something that can actually be achieved otherwise senior leaders will consider it a failure.
  • Relevant: The overall objective needs to remain something that relates back to the company’s goals throughout the entire planning process.
  • Timebound: Plan for the event objective to have been achieved between two time periods. This may require subsequent training seminars or a follow-up event to assess the outcomes of the first.

Venue sourcing

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The event’s objectives may also determine your choice of venue. If stakeholders are looking to leave a lasting impression on valued or prospective clients, for example, the venue will need to play its part and deliver a memorable wow factor.

Other factors that will influence your venue choice include budget, capacity, location, availability, and logistics. Having a clear understanding of these event requirements will allow you to shortlist a number of venues, send out requests for written proposals (RFPs) and arrange site visits.

Some venues offer seasonal pricing, so the hire cost may be lower during certain times of the year. Find out what the costs are for your venue of choice on your desired date. If your dates are flexible, you may be able to secure a better deal at your preferred venue.

If your event has a short-lead time, keep an eye out for last-minute venue offers as there are often great deals to be found. If you’re planning an event that’s a long way off, consider those venues undergoing refurbishment or not yet opened. They’ll be eager to secure your business and may be able to negotiate more favorably.

Three steps to venue sourcing

Step One: Find Venues

  • Know the meeting objectives and requirements. By determining these at the outset, you’ll decrease the search process.
  • Take into account feedback from attendees. Is this an annual event? If attendees ranked the venue from the previous year poorly, look at the feedback to pick a venue that will resonate better.
  • Don’t feel alone. Reach out to your team, or others that have a stake in the event to brainstorm what factors are most important.

Step Two: Write the perfect RFP

  • You already know general objectives and requirements – now define your purpose. Make it clear what this event requires and hopes to achieve.
  • Get detailed. Give as much information about the event as you can.
  • No one likes to discuss money, but you need to share your budget requirements. The venue is one of the largest costs of an event and can make or break your budget.
  • Make your deadlines clear. Give a date and time that provide venues enough time to respond.
  • Don’t start from scratch. Pull a template the internet.
  • Be ready to answer any questions venues may have about the proposal or event.

Step Three: Send and evaluate proposals

  • Using a venue sourcing tool, you can search and filter venues and send one RFP to multiple venues at once.
  • Assess proposals via the chosen venue sourcing tool or by manually importing data into a spreadsheet
  • Create a list of any factors that are less concrete – the qualitative factors.
  • Pay close attention to meeting rooms – do the sizes and layouts make sense for your event?
  • Compare how responsive and helpful the venues are to help figure out how helpful they’ll be if you choose them.
Feb 042011
 

Wedding video London Greenwich, Wedding Venue Royal Naval College London. Church wedding video.

Wedding video London from Portobello Films on Vimeo.

Filmed by just one wedding videographer this wedding video is just brilliant. In fact it is the first wedding video that we have extended the wedding highlights to over seven minutes. As there was just so much to pack in on an action packed wedding day.

Starting with an emotional church wedding service at St Alfege Greenwich then on to the Old Royal Naval College Greenwich for an amazing wedding reception.

In fact you may wish to compare the very first film filmed there and wedding video recored for posterity by British Panthe in 1935 Naval Wedding at Greenwich Quite a difference in technology and film cameras in the intervening seventy six odd years. From scatchy old film stock to the latest Sony HD cameras. Yet the wedding venue by the Thames in Greenwich still retains its gravitas, and beautifully positioned to take full advantage of the natural light that pours through its high sighted windows. It almost seems designed as a perfect wedding video location. Certainly it has become an instant hit with eveybody here in post production and colour grading and even the sound department for the wedding venues excellent acoustics. All in all we think it was a brilliant wedding film and we thougherly enjoyed working on it

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Feb 022011
 

Wedding Video London Lanesborough Hotel from Portobello Films on Vimeo.

Definatly one of our favorite wedding videos an absolutly lovely and naturally civil wedding video made possible by just the perfect bride and groom. Everything was filmed within the quite spectacular wedding venue The Lanesborough Hotel (civil wedding). Which is situated right on the very corner of Hyde Park Corner in the heart of the world famous Knightsbridge district of London. A 5 star hotel in a totally 5 star location.
We used two of our London based wedding videographer to do the whole occasion justice. (All filmed with our brand new properly professional Sony cameras. All shot and edited in HD). The wedding venue and hotel was originally the St George Hospital dating back to 1827. Built on the excisting Hospital which in turn was actually Lanesborough House so that is pre 1733. (some history) The whole place was refurbished in 1991 becoming the Michelin stared spectacular that it is today. (you can tell we like it).
We would also like to mention Eva Dutton the then wedding planner at the Lanesborough. We often work a long day yet Eva matched us minute for minute. Always a few moments ahead of everything you can tell see used to work in Beverly Hills. We wish her the best of luck as Operations Manager Eva Dutton

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Jan 192011
 

Wedding Video London St James’s from Portobello Films on Vimeo.

Filmed by one London videographer, exclusively in the historical venue of the Naval and Military Club, St James’s Square SW1Y 4JU. This Civil wedding video was shot in HD and delivered to 8 wedding DVD.
You can toggle HD on and off by pressing the HD symbol in the bottom right of the wedding video
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Mar 072010
 

What is SEO?

Search engine optimization is working with your website and online marketing to make sure you have the best results from search engine searches. Knowing what terms people type in when they search for a product/ service helps you decide what words to use on your website. If you offer any type services, a quick search for SEO Words will tell you that you shouldn’t use any random keyword’ as a primary keyword as most people search for the specific/ targeted word not random. If someone searches for something specific, you want to make sure your web site comes up in the results. If you want to be in world of business you need to have a professional reseller SEO services provider company which make your website on the SEO satisfied way.

What is SMO??

SMO (Social Media Optimization), helps in augmenting the fame and status of websites via medias like online communities. As one knows that in viral marketing, the popularity is increased through word of mouth. Similarly, websites gain recognition via social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut, and Twitter etc.

What are the strategies to get professional SEO Services?

There are some points which you have to remember while making a site for your business-

Content is king- I think this phrase is known by every service provider. Good, well-written and original website contents are preferred by search engine spiders. Try to add keywords to the website content and do regular content update, you will find the result turns better. You need to know that spiders can only “read” text rather than flash or images. Therefore, if you MUST use images or flash, try to include a transcription near them. When SEO service providers are selecting keywords for their customers, avoid those competitive ones. Most of the time designing your business website can take a lot of time, but website design columbia sc can make it for you and you’ll get great results. The valuable keywords will cost more effort to handle, while some long tail keywords are relatively easy to optimize.

Link building- does remember that only good and authoritative links can really help your work. Publishing poor qualities links is a waste of time and can actually cause harm to the site. Do not forget social marketing. Social marketing is becoming more and more important in search engine optimization strategy. SEO service providers can try to use social media to optimize their customers’ websites.

Use an XML site map-No matter the website is large or small, it needs a site map. A complete site map can help visitors find what they are looking for and inform search engines about all the useful information of the website. When offering SEO services, you should also measure the performance. You can go to Www.adbuz.com/seo-company-delhi/ and get advice on business marketing. You can use some tools to help you know how long your visitors stay in your site, where they find the website and some others.

What are the strategies for Social Media Optimization services?

There are some strategies which you can follow –

1. Make Sure To Present the Content in A Smart Way

The first impression is certainly the last impression and therefore it will be wise for you to post authentic content that has the capability to catch the attention of the online readers within few seconds.

2. Make Sure To Post Question and Answer Based Content

This is also one of the best possible ways to engage people with interactive content. You can run live chats on your website to gain opinions from your valuable readers. You can make use of TikTok for business that can boost your online popularity so your products can reach a larger clientele and therefore generate more profits to your business. You can also contact hypetik that is the leading tiktok agency that can help businesses use this platform to get their product famous online.

3. Improve the Speed of Web Page Loading

Most of online users do not have the patience to wait for a specific webpage to load. It will certainly be wise for you to check the speed of your website quite often. Make sure to get rid of the unnecessary plug-ins to make sure that the images and content of your website loads faster.

4. Make Sure To Use Latest Innovations in Technology

It will certainly be wise for you to use the latest innovations in technology in order to make your content more interactive. You must consider using animation and even 3D images in order to attract online users towards your website.

5. Make Sure To Put Call of Action

Lastly, it will certainly be wise for you to put a call of action at the bottom of your content. Ask your valuable online users to register for the services or get the product and feel the difference.