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Ian's Story
I teach, train, consult and speak all around the world on the subject of confident live video and social media technology. But I've not always been doing that!
I trained as a professional classical singer at the Royal Northern College of Music. I sang throughout the UK at venues such as the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall singing classical works such as Handel's Messiah, Bach's B Minor Mass and Orff's Carmina Burana. I still sing today and teach at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music. You can listen to me singing on my personal SoundCloud page.
I'm a partner for the internet solutions company, Select Performers which I co-founded back in 2003 with my dad, Tom Gray. We specialise in hosting and maintenance for entrepreneur's and business owner's websites with our web care plans.
I started blogging at Seriously Social in 2011. It started as a bit of fun. But partly due to a certain article on a social media management tool called Hootsuite, everything changed. It quickly became really popular, hitting over 10,000 views per month. In 2015, I started speaking around the world on social media tools.
Then in 2016, I wrote another article, this time on Facebook Live. It's had over 4 million page views and allowed me to focus as a confident live video coach - helping entrepreneurs and businesses level up their impact, authority and profits using live streaming video.
I'm a husband and dad to two lovely and lively kids and live near Manchester in the UK.
I have a very wide musical taste from Opera to electronica, baroque to bluegrass and choral music to jazz. I love good food (Indian in particular), wine, single malt whisky and quality tea and coffee.
I love travelling and exploring new places. Maybe we'll meet one day!