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New Christian song from Joseph Cheetham-Wilkinson

It's been a few weeks since my last post, but here we have my first new Christian praise song in a while!  Feedback so far has been good, what do you think?  It's made me want to spend a bit more time in the studio anyway! It's called 'God's Love Pours Down', and it's about remembering how we came by our salvation, by grace! Not by what we've done, and certainly not by what we deserve. It's always worth keeping that in mind, especially in these times where so many Christians fight, argue and snipe at each other! We're all imperfect, flawed, broken damaged goods, saved by the same unmerited favour of a loving God.

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Christian kids Bible lessons

Check out our new series of Christian kids' Bible lessons with new videos from Jovis Bon-Hovis and Stipy Monkey!

Who is Jesus and What did Jesus teach

We are in production of a new series of short, easy to understand videos for young children covering basic Bible subjects.  Have a look at these fun Christian kids videos and let us know what you think!

And here's number two:

Sharing the Gospel with children in Indonesia

Jovis Bon-Hovis is now airing in Indonesia!  I do hope the children there enjoy the show, it's such a privilege to have our little production seen by so many people around the world.

We really hope the show encourages children to nurture their own relationship with God and gives them lasting and fond memories of good things on TV!

Christian music and videos

Check out the channel,  there have been lots of changes recently and new videos added, including our brand new Kids' songs from season two of 'Jovis Bon-Hovis and the Creation Crew!.

Christian Singers wanted UK, Christian songwriters wanted UK, Christian performers wanted UK.

We are looking for original artists who can perform their own original Christian material in front of camera for a TV pilot shoot of a Christian chat show in Stafford UK, on Sat Oct 18th 2014 at around 2-3pm.

We are looking for quality, complete material. We will simply provide two microphones.

We will consider comedy, rap, songs and instrumental musicians.

This is an unpaid opportunity, but could offer good exposure as the pilot will likely be broadcast on a major Christian TV channel.

Please send FULL details and links to info@Christian-Movies.co.uk

UK unsigned Christian singer songwriters wanted

We are the producers of a Christian chat show called 'Faith in Action', as well as a Christian children's television show called 'Jovis Bon-Hovis and the Creation Crew!' and our chat show features a regular music slot which allows unsigned artists to showcase their talent.  We are looking for only original content, not covers, from singers and rappers who are confident to perform live.

This is not a paid opportunity, but is a chance to be seen TV across the UK on a Christian channel.  You need to be able to come to Stafford under your own steam, to perform in front of our cameras in our studio.

In exceptional circumstances, a high quality video submission may be acceptable provided you own all the rights.

Please contact us at info@christain-movies.co.uk with your information and some examples of your original work.

Feedback on Jovis Bon-Hovis and the Creation Crew

Had such a lovely piece of feedback from a UCB viewer yesterday. She had e-mailed UCB to say thank you for a piece of software they provide, and ended up explaining how useful and supportive the children's TV was to her five year old son. UCB asked her 'What are your son's favourite UCB shows? And below is her reply. What is particularly valuable and encouraging for me about this feedback is that it is made in the context of the world's most popular and successful Christian kids' TV shows. She said:

"Stevie loves Jovis Bon-Hovis. That's his favourite. Stevie loves the one with 'Buck Denver' and those programmes with the flying balloon with the monkey and 2 brothers in it. He and I found 'What's in the Bible' good with the 'Sunday School Lady' very informative at same time as fun. Not sure without checking if these are ucb but my son likes 'Veggie Tales' and 'Super Book' as well. His ultimate favourite is Jovis Bon-Hovis as funny. Each bit is short so keeps him interested. He loves the silly side but important bits to learn ie the main theme. Stevie likes the fact that Jovis often makes mistakes and doesn't do it right and then Booky Worm tells a story and conviction hits him. Or cinviction comes via the mouse. This helps as he sees conviction as helpful and how easy wrong feelings get us in a pickle. Also if this man makes mistakes and learns by them then its a helpful thing to learn by mistakes rather than a condemning and judgmental thing. Its a tool to help spiritual growth. It reminds my son and I of Pinocchio. He needed a conscience to be his guide, we have the holy spirit. Stevie likes God rocks. We love music and traditional musicals in general. This is why Stevie likes God rock's as it's music orientated with a Christian message. I hope this has of use. Sharon."

Nailed it!

How can I get more visitors to my website

Online marketing strategy:

Outline of options and possible outcomes.

Joe Cheetham-Wilkinson, 07528 007872

It's crucial to be aware that product and content are king. It is possible to guarantee visits to a website, converting those visits into sales is an entirely different issue.

In the first instance we need to have complete confidence in the product. If the product is not desirable or saleable then the cost implications of drawing in traffic will outweigh the benefits gained from a low conversion rate.

Conversely, a unique and desirable product on an attractive and communicative web-page will legitimise advertising/website/seo spend.

Things to consider:

• Pay per click is an effective marketing tool; you only pay for the advertising when an interested party clicks on the ad.
• Pay per click advertising is easy to get wrong. A strong understanding of the web and how people search is essential, as well as research and communication directly with Google experts. It is easy to pay a high price for clicks from users who were never going to buy. My experience means I can ensure the lowest price per click, meaning more visitors for your money and the most targeted marketing.
• The user experience is key. Your core messages must be instantly communicated, within the first few seconds a visitor must have gained a strong understanding of your product, encouraging them to explore further.
• Website visitors watch videos far more readily than ever before, increased network speeds and slower loading times mean video invites visitors into your 'space' in a way still photography doesn't, encouraging them to engage with and fall in love with your product. All major websites use video, however production and display is now accessible to the lower end of the market. A simple videotour, like these two videos below, can greatly enhance the user experience:
  
  
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• Social Media cannot be ignored. The old saying 'Most of my business come from referrals' is as true today as it ever was. The 'like' and 'share' options on social media platforms like Facebook bring targeted advertising in front of your key demographic based on comprehensive data analysis of an individual's internet search history and habits. Its' a powerful and effective way of focussing a marketing campaign more accurately than has ever been possible before.
• Open a Facebook page. (Not to be confused with advertising on Facebook) This is more of an expectation than a powerful marketing tool. Having a Facebook page can act as a blog you can use it to link with your site, and you may find people sharing your links occasionally.
• Employ a part-time blogger and link-builder. Writing articles on blogs, forums and social media sites which include links to your site will make the site appear more important to search engines like Google, as well as drawing in visitors who click the link directly. This is an effective long-term strategy; it doesn't have the instant results that PPC has, but unlike PPC it's effectiveness continues after the campaign of work and spend is finished. It can take many months for this approach to show results, but it is tried, tested and proven as the most effective long-term approach.
• Regularly adding to the website itself makes it appear more current and relevant to the search engines resulting in an increase in natural (not paid for) traffic.
• Optimise your site for the search engines. Paying a professional to look over your site to check and correct/modify every aspect of its 'visibility' is best practice, and is an effective way of securing good results as a long-term strategy. The benefits of work done are also not lost as instantly as switching of a paid for advertising campaign.
• Every website you create is an opportunity to capture a different audience. For example, a website set up solely to appeal to those who need an outside office space will draw in a different audience to a website set up solely to appeal to mums looking for a hobby room. This kind of website is called a 'satellite site', a basic, simple one-page website hosted on it's own unique url with the purpose of drawing people in via a link to your main site. It's a bit like fishing with a net off a boat, the net being the main site, and then fishing with ten, twenty or a hundred rods from the other side.

Fundamental suggestions:

Update your website with key messages, visual and textual, which are communicated instantly.

Add video to the home page to encourage visitors to engage, explore and fall in love.

Begin a social media campaign and analyse the results weekly, adjusting the campaign accordingly.

Begin a pay-per-click advertising campaign, analyse the results weekly and modify the campaign accordingly.

Add to the website regularly, at least weekly.

Consider creating a number of satellite sites.

Submit articles to blogs and websites regularly on related subjects, linking back to your website.

Optimise your website to make it as visible as possible to the search engines.

Options to move forwards:

One-off:

Ten satellite sites can be added to any of the following options for a one-off payment of £250. These sites will be live for two years, after which there will be a £250 fee if you wish to retain them. Low cost strategy with modest long-term benefits.

Option one:

The tester.

Guaranteed visits. For a one-off investment of £200 I will create a one-month Pay Per Click marketing campaign for your website. I will carefully analyse the data at the end of each week, and modify the campaign accordingly, in order to pay the minimum possible for each click meaning more visitors for the money, whilst achieving the best quality of visitor.

Purpose:

This will give excellent data for analysis without committing to a long-term financial investment, enabling us to strategize future campaigns with our eyes wide open. Visitors are guaranteed, and we will be able to assess the quality and quantity.

Option two:

Tweak and test.

Incorporating option one as part of the plan, you will give me access to the back-office of your website to check it over for any obvious SEO errors or omissions, modifying as necessary, for a total of £300

Option three:

Visual impact

Incorporating options one and two, I will also make some modifications to the front-end of the site, adding some relevant text to the images in the slide-show and clarifying the message for the user on entry for a stronger first impression. £350.

Option four:

Invite them in!

The addition of video will greatly enhance the user experience, strengthen the sites search engine visibility (sites with videos are given priority over sites without) and familiarise the client with the product. Overall the site will appear more professional and credible. I will produce a simple video tour for you by visiting the site and shooting on a high quality Panasonic digital SLR camera in High Definition. In order to keep costs down, I aim to film, edit and upload to the web all within one working day. Working in conjunction with options 1,2 and 3, the total one-off fee would be £450.

Option five:

Beginning to strategize long-term

Incorporating options 2,3 and 4, (tweak and test, visual and text impact plus video) we will embark on a longer term Pay Per Click campaign. Pay Per Click does work, and a commitment to a longer term strategy will mean better data, a more focussed and consistent campaign, maintenance of ongoing and current awareness enabling the build of momentum (Liking on social media, sharing links, improvement in non-paid rankings) .

This can be cancelled at any time, there is no minimum commitment. For an opening investment of £450 followed by monthly payments of £200 I will manage the campaign weekly, checking and testing results, and modifying the campaign accordingly.

Option Six:

Pincer movement.

Incorporating all of the above, with the addition of a social media (Facebook) campaign. Allowing me to target potential visitors based on interests, age, marital status, location and more, in conjunction with all of the above we will have a powerful marketing machine with enormous potential. Again, this can be cancelled at any time, it is completely feasible that you will receive too many enquiries, and the investment can be reduced without any sort of penalty or notice period.

The opening investment would be £650 followed by monthly payments of £400.

Option Seven

Market-Zilla,

an all-out assault on the web.

Incorporating all of the above, with the following additions:

One new satellite site created every week on a unique url linking to the main site. Renewal after 2 years.

Setup and management of a Facebook page, with 100 word article added daily (five days a week)

Setup and management of 'blogger' and 'wordpress' blogs, with a 100 word article added daily (five days a week), linking to the main site.

Weekly 100 word article added to the main website.

The opening investment would be £900 followed by monthly payments of £725.

The above campaigns are examples and therefore flexible; all the elements can be mixed and matched to suit your requirements.

Should we teach Creation in schools?

Should we teach or ban Creation being taught in schools?

The banning of sharing ideas, discussing theories and exploring alternative ways of thinking in a school environment is shameful. Outlawing certain types of spiritual or religious thinking from being expressed by certain types of people in an educational environment is intellectually criminal. In the UK it is IMPOSSIBLE not to be utterly immersed in evolution theory from the very earliest age, and making it illegal to share alternatives in the state school system is a crime against free thought and an attack on what education and learning should stand for at its very heart. It's nothing less cynical than the state manipulation of the human mind, and represents everything which is offensive about how our governments 'govern'.

Click this image for a great article written by a non-creationist, non-evolutionist thinker.

A law against teaching creation is a religious value, very much so. And there is a huge amount of government funding in education and TV to promote those values which are nothing less than the perpetuation of pop-theology, I.e. no God, no spirit...no spirituality. Unless we really believe that we are only taught 'truth' in school, which would put most subjects in serious jeopardy.

I always thought there was a reason we broke school days into classes...teaching on different subjects. If we agree strongly with a government which allows teachers and schools no freedom to teach anything outside what is officially sanctioned by that present government and its own agenda we may as well give up, roll over and deliver our children to the steps of the alter of corporate America and UK. There are plenty of pools outside schools, plenty of books and calculators, plenty of paintbrushes and art classes, churches, that is not the point.

From what we understand of the history and evolution of science, art, sport, philosophy, surely every lesson, including those on evolution and creation should simply begin with 'many people believe...' I am not aware that there are any schools in the UK which teach Creation as scientific fact, the change in law is far more subtly disturbing.

It all sounds so sensible, but it's stinks to high heaven like another high-end manipulation of the people by the super powerful and super rich who want us all to sit in our little boxes, watch TV, pay taxes and die. What better way to achieve that than to kill God in the vulnerable and developing minds of the young, or worse still, to kill any question of God in the minds of young people. It's spiritual murder, and at its worst may even be a conscious decision to raise a generation of unthinking, uneducated, spiritually dead people trapped in their mortal bodies. To what end? The same end as always: to function as a human factory farm which serves and feeds the rich unquestioningly. They've even got us believing that they're doing it for our own good, that the ancient wisdom is stupid and they're helping us into a new and better understanding of the world! AAAARRRGGGHHH! I don't know of any scholar who thought the Genesis account of Creation was an accurate scientific documentation of the creation process, but my goodness it's beautiful, my goodness it's full of poetry, art, wonder and love, and in fact in no way contradicts anything we know about the origins of life or the universe. The danger, and the only danger, is that it makes people think, gives them choices, freedom, options, opens them up to glorious potentials of a spiritual journey with a creative mastermind. Take those things away, by law, by law no less, and you take away the very essence of our freedom as spiritual, thoughtful, independent human beings. And somehow they've convinced us that's what we want!

Kids TV show finished

IT'S DONE! At last, all of my work on season two of the show is complete, I went in to UCB today and did the last of the voice-overs for episodes 12 and 13. Season two really is looking great, I'm so pleased with it. Everybody has worked so hard to make it into the best show it can be, and the work has really paid off. What a brilliant adventure, and what a fantastic thing to have done with such an amazing group of people. My thanks go out to Mark Tennant David Moody Malcolm, Neil Elliot, Thom, Heather and all the many other people who have made the show possible. 26 half hour episodes of unique television for kids. I feel very proud.

Christian kids' videos

Nearly there!  Just been at UCB voicing episodes 10 and 11 of our Christian kids' TV show Jovis Bon-Hovis and the Creation Crew today, only two more to do and that will be season two finished!  It's been a lot of work and has taken longer than expected, but the results are a significant improvement on season 1.  I'll be putting an episode on the channel soon, so anybody who is missing it on air will be able to get a taster before buying the DVD of course!

New Christian songs

Early responses to my new Christian songs have been good! Thanks to everybody who's watched it. Don't forget to share and comment, it's really appreciated. I know that some of the Christian songs I make are quite 'heavy', in complete contrast to the Christian kids" songs! I think I'm going to attempt something a little more subtle next, not sure if that's really in my nature though!

Here it is if you have't heard it yet:

Jovis Bon-Hovis and the Creation Crew

We're back! After a short period of repeats Season Two of Jovis Bon-Hovis and the Creation Crew continues starting from today. If you're in the UK this morning it's on at 7am on Sky channel 585, or if you're outside the UK you can watch live here: http://www.ucb.co.uk/live/

show times are normally 

Saturdays at 07:00

Mondays at 08:00

Tuesdays at 16:30

Thursdays at 08:00

So some great peak time kids slots there!

Problems with administrator right windows 8 Magix movie edit pro

Magix movie edit pro administrator problems. This may seem like an odd thing to put on a page dedicated to Christian songs, music and video but I have occasionally blogged about production methods before so I'll share it with you in case anybody is have the same problems with Magix movie edit pro.  If you're using Magix movie edit pro on wondows 8, you may come accros a frustrating problem where you are told you can'y do certain things like switch on the Dolby sound or get add-ons from the internet because you don't have administrator privileges or rights.  Annoying right?  When you've paid for the software and you're editing your Christian music and Christian songs on your own pc?  Well ere's the thing, when you buy a new pc with windows 8 or upgrade from 7, it doesn't give you administrator rights automatically!  You have to switch it on, and like most other things in the awful and deeply saddening windows 8, it's a faff. But if you know how to do it it's easy.  The first thing you need to do is follow the instructions here to get admin rights: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-User-Account-an-Administrator-in-Windows-8

Very clear instructions here.  Now your problems aren't quite over, as you needed to have admin rights when you installed Magix for it to recognise.  So you'll have to uninstall the entire program properly in your control panel.  Go to programs, 'uninstall a program', scroll down the list to Magix, select it and then right click on it, and select uninstall/change.  Follow the prompts.  Now when you re-install Magix, it will work as it's meant to!  Job done.

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New Christian video productions UK

Busy day today with several new projects on the go. There are two new videos for Stafford based Christian charity the House of Bread, as well as a new video for another Christian charity called the Street Pastors.  That's on top of my own projects such as creating the new music video for my recent Christian song 'Crystalise my Vision', which I've been meaning to get on to for a couple of weeks now!  They will come, I promise! Stay tuned.
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Please share our stuff!

Looks like we're starting to get a lot of shares, so thanks very much everybody!  It really helps our channel and our ministry if you share our work as much as you possibly can on your websites, blogs, Twitter and Facebook.  And Stumbleupon.  And Reddit.  And Wordpress.  You get the picture!  Keep on sharing for us guys and gals!  More great Christian videos coming soon!