Mark My Words - get it?!
This is where I discuss case studies, ponder & educate textually, and poke fun of businesses that market like it’s 1999.
✏️ 14 Rules Grandma Taught Me ✏️
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Grandma taught me a ton, and in some way or another, I learned these 14 things – take heed:
1. Think process, not product
2. Share something small every day
3. Tell good stories.
Click to read the rest…
🎓 Myths I Discovered After College 🎓
I adore academia, miss it often, and wish I can be a full-time student & continue to learn from some of the brilliant professors & students I had the luxury to share a classroom with.
However, some of the stories you hear are merely myths or lies.
Like these…
THIS IS MARK RYAN | 001 🔥 🔥 🔥
People often ask: “What Do You Do?” and “How Do You Do It?”
So instead of telling you, I decided to (finally) let you into my world and show you by documenting some of my days.
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How Car Dealerships Should Be Marketing in 2017 🚗💨
8 Minute Read (and worth it)
It’s pretty simple dealerships: If you live in the world today and do not (at scale) produce these 4 things: videos, audio sounds, graphics, and written words for social on a mobile device, you are invisible & irrelevant.
Is that clear enough?
Oh, and your marketing sucks $#!% because all you do is copy the next dealership (who sucks just as much).
How To Not Be Invisible In 2017 👻
It’s pretty simple: Start. Do.
And follow this initialism – WHW: What, How, Where.
Hey, United! Your Problems Aren’t PR. They’re at The Molecular Level.
United’s recent (baffling) calamity can be summed up in one word: Culture (or assholes).
What Crayola Taught The Old-Fashioned PR Professional 🖍
Last week, Crayola killed off the color Yellow (“dandelion” to be precise).
What’s notable to me, isn’t the fact that they withdrew a color…
I’m Finally Investing!
4 Assets I’m Investing In This Year
You’ll have to click and read this to get them, silly.
Jack Sparrow’s $0.02 on Facebook Ads & Content
I’ve heard all the paranoia on the death of organic reach, how we now have to “Pay To Play” (I despise this term; plus, it’s an investment provision, not a marketing term) and how people have tried FB & IG ads to no avail.
Here’s something to note: The tool isn’t broken; the user is.
60 Second Read on How Guinness Beer Became a Utility
Does anyone know how the Guinness Book of World Records was started? (Well, by now, I’d presume you can guess who started it, eh?!)
Through a little bit of old school pub research (yeah, they weren’t blessed with geo & listening software like us marketers today), a Marketing Epiphany was born.