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By Ryan Shell
Back home in North Carolina, bowling alleys are pretty low key and playing isn’t very expensive, but both items couldn’t be further from the truth in New York City.
Bowling alleys are more like clubs (Ok, not quite that far, but darn close) in the city and it will cost you around $50 – $60 for two people to rent shoes and play two games. If you order food you might as well bump that up to $100.
It’s not something I do all that often, but it can be quite fun, especially when it’s cold outside.
By Ryan Shell
When brand pages were introduced on Google Plus, adding page administrators was not an option.
If you were logged in under your personal account and wanted to post something for X brand, you had to log out and login with X brands info. It wasn’t very convenient to say the least.
But the good news is that there is now a way to add managers to Google Plus pages and this quick tutorial will show you exactly how to do it.
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By Ryan Shell
I’m a believer that in today’s business environment marketers need to be well rounded. And some will disagree with my use of “marketer” because I lump PR people in that category as well.
I’m not the type of guy that watches football each Sunday like it’s a second religion, but I do catch a game on occasion – especially as the season comes to a close.
One thing about the end of season games is that the great quarterbacks rise to the top. Most even find a way to up their game and really work to make things happen. They throw. They run. And heck, some even punt the ball on 3rd down.
By Ryan Shell
I’m not trying to be an obnoxious jerk here, but as a marketing/PR guy I feel it’s ok to call out stupidity when I see it.
Thanks to my little fashion blog, I get a good number of queries each week from PR companies, most of which are great.
But on the other hand, there are THOSE pitches. The one’s that make you think, “How could they possibly think this isn’t a horrible tactic?”
The most recent example comes from Company X, and the email that was mass distributed starts with,
By Ryan Shell
Without a doubt, Chris Brogan is a smart guy that has been very successful. And quite frankly, you could replace his name in the title of this post with a number of others that have popular marketing/PR related blogs.
So, why in the world am I suggesting that you stop reading his blog, as well as others?
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