Bio: Shelley Ryan
Shelley spent over five years at MarketingProfs, playing Den Mother to thousands of paid subscribers. She programmed, produced and promoted weekly online seminars featuring the biggest names in marketing. The result: More frequent broadcasts, increased participation, and higher ratings — 65% of the seminars last year earned five stars from the audience.
Shelley recently launched Killer Webinars to help organizations launch their own webinar programs. She also blogs, speaks, and assists clients with live event production. Her new mission is to rid the world of lousy webinars, one broadcast at a time.
Posts by Shelley Ryan:
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Heroic Acts of Retailism: An Opportunity Wasted?,
11 Aug 2011 in Content& Customer Relationships& Featured Posts& Headline& Public Relations& Social Media& Word of Mouth Marketing
Whenever I find a cool item or get good service from someone, I usually blog or tweet about it. I enjoy sharing flotsam like that, and I can do it quickly and easily with Twitter, Posterous, or Facebook.
I had an unusual experience worth sharing a…
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5 Secrets to a Killer Webinar,
15 Jul 2010 in 1& Featured Posts& Headline
In my big chair at Online Seminar Mission Control for MarketingProfs, I used to assume all the accolades from our audiences were simply polite compliments. “No one does a webinar as well as MarketingProfs,” people would gush. It’s been three…
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A Blog That Blows Me Away,
10 Sep 2008 in Featured Posts
It’s hurricane season here in Houston, and the weather weenie in me recently made a fascinating Web discovery. Then the marketing wonk in me started wondering… what could this cool find teach me (and maybe you) about creating a blog that “the…
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What Is It About ‘Social Media’ People?,
12 Nov 2007 in Featured Posts
I spent a day at the Austin Social Media Workshop last week, and yes, I learned a thing or two. I also made an observation that probably shouldn’t be all that surprising.
The experts who shared their knowledge — among them, bloggers Connie Reece, …
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Is Amazon Getting Bloggy?,
22 Jun 2007 in Featured Posts
My inner book addict has loved Amazon since the day Jeff Bezos launched it. I’ve grown to rely on the site even more as a you-name-it-we’ll-ship-it shopping resource because of the buyer feedback mechanisms. However, those have evolved into…
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Screwing Up the Email Subject Line: From Whoops to Wow!,
11 Jun 2007 in Featured Posts
The funniest thing happened today. Well, maybe more embarrassing and goofy than funny. I write email messages to 4,000 of our Premium Plus members each week to announce our upcoming virtual seminars, and this time I screwed up the subject line. It…
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You CAN Teach an Old Dog New Marketing Tricks,
08 May 2007 in Featured Posts
Well, Zazzle.com isn’t exactly OLD (even in Internet years). But they seem to be doing things a lot differently than when I first met them in 2002. As a result, they are getting ancient customers like me totally re-engaged with their Web site.
If…
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When Your Customer Is a Big Fat Jerk,
20 Feb 2007 in Featured Posts
MarketingProfs has 242,471 members, and I love 242,468 of them. A few are jerks.
I communicate by email and phone with a huge number of our customers, and once in a while someone knocks me sideways with hostility. As much as I’d like to sometimes, …
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Drive-By Marketing,
03 Aug 2006 in Advertising& Branding& Customer Relationships& Featured Posts& Website Development and Design
So I’m parked at a Sonic, ordering my kidlet some chicken strips and tater tots when she suddenly starts bouncing up and down in the back seat hollering, “Look, Mom! It’s one of those Geek Squad cars…!”
She got all excited about spotting the bla…
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World’s Best Marriage Proposal,
02 Aug 2006 in Blogging& Featured Posts
I’m thinking that my tithe to eHarmony might not be the best self-promotional strategy when it comes to romance….
See DaveLovesElizabeth and you’ll get what I mean….
