Friday, February 13, 2009

Be Inspired! How an Ordinary Woman Without Much Money Becomes a Worldwide Success ... Listen and Learn!


This blogpost demonstrates how an ordinary woman has really grasped how to use the web and social networking websites to increase her business profile – creating maximum business exposure and opportunity– and all for very little if any cash outlay.

UK-based Lauren Luke is becoming a worldwide sensation on YouTube as a makeup guru. Originally, Lauren started selling eye-make-up products on Ebay and instead of taking photos of the products she took pictures of them on her eyes, to show how they were applied.

Video demonstrations were a natural progression and she started making video tutorials and hosting them on YouTube in June 2007. Currently, she has in the region of 200 video tutorials, demonstrating make-up styles of celebrities. Her Leona Lewis inspired video has been viewed more than 2 million times.

In May 2008, the BBC made a documentary about Lauren and added the video to YouTube which has now been watched by more than 2 million viewers.




In October 2008, Lauren went down to London as a guest of YouTube and met the Queen. Since then she's been to New York three times – her first time abroad – to develop the products, for her own make-up line, which will be launched in March 2009. And she's also the subject of a BBC3 documentary due to be aired early in 2009.

Lauren has certainly been a front runner in capturing the power of promoting your business on social networking website, and all for very little if no money.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

2009 Tax advice

Susana Serrano Davy from Rose Clavel offered some great tips about the Tax Office changes expected during 2009 at the last WIBS lunch. Click here to read her speech, stay up to date and avoid any nasty penalties. We will be including more helpful tax and accountancy advice in future blogs. If you have any specific questions regarding business tax, social security or accountancy issues please post your questions on the blog or send them to news@wibspain.com and we will post the answer here to benefit all the members. For more information contact Susana her team at Rose Clavel Chartered Accountants; 639 07 51 61 info@roseandclavel.com