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Jason Schultz Call or Text 608 604 5068 Email jason@beermoneypullingteam.com Beer Money Pulling Team Merchandise [beermoneypullingteam.com] Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/03/2020 12:40PM by Jason Schultz. |
You are right I did, it was a mistake and I apologized for that. I was trying to get one of the VIP booths to bid on drink carrier. If you can't handle me simply sharing ideas to promote the sport then I don't know what you should do. Last week the Beer Money Pulling Team and Lets Grow Pulling Facebook page reached 5.4 million people and had over 2.2 million video views. Why would I waste my time on this message board full of pulling fans. You should focus more on promoting your own event and filling the stands instead of worrying about little old me. IP addresses are a wonderful thing.  Jason Schultz Call or Text 608 604 5068 Email jason@beermoneypullingteam.com Beer Money Pulling Team Merchandise [beermoneypullingteam.com] Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/02/2020 03:36PM by Jason Schultz. |
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You can’t carve five minutes out of your day to post something, huh? #seemslegit 
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Grab a soda, a bag of popcorn, and join in. I will be long-winded.
The high point first: -Don't fault Jason for wanting to promote the sport. He has some unique ideas. Kudos to him for trying. Keep that in mind as you read this. Having started my, "ahem," "career" in pulling media in 2003 and now doing what I do, I think this post has so much to unpack, and yet only scratches the surface of things to promote pulling and make it better. I promote pulling through print and through social media, and right here on the pages of PullOff.com. Print is still alive and well though the market is changing. I use Facebook and Instagram in social media, and I have a Twitter account I never look at. I have recently added Snapchat and now have a TikTok account too. Those two platforms, no matter how much they are growing, are useless in my experience working with them. On snapchat I have a bunch of pulling friends but we are more likely to exchange stuff about food and music than about pulling. TikToc is growing because India has a bunch of 16 to 24 year olds joining every day. There is very little I have seen so far on those platforms I don't cross paths with on Facebook or Instagram, or at least have seen a version thereof. I like hash, but dislike re-hash. Having said that I think well thought-out, reasonably scheduled posts on social media platforms are perfectly fine. I personally don't like multiple postings in a day unless it's some sort of actual "news." If I see it multiple times on my FB timeline in a day I shut it off, mentally. I am fully aware that the modern brain moves quickly from one thing to another and things/ideas have to be repeated multiple times for them to sink in and be remembered. It really is a fine line between sharing too little or sharing too much, and who's to say what that metric really is. And, to post well thought-out, well-positioned pictures/ideas, will take more than five minutes a day. Some of the dumb stuff I have come up with will take me 10-15 minutes PER POST. Photographers - YES, work with promoters if you can as Jason suggested, but don't give your content away! Some of you, and I love every one of you-mean it-seem to feed off the likes, shares, follows, and hashtags. They don't pay your bills, put gas in the tank or pay for the hot dog and cold drink at the next pull. Figure out how to use photoshop make your photos unique and more valuable, worthy of being made into a print that a puller might hang on their wall. Once you get good with photoshop, try designing hero cards for pullers, even handbills for promoters to use for their events. Your time, effort, and investment in equipment are worth something! And...watermark your stuff if you're posting in high volume! There is nothing stopping someone from taking your un-watermarked images and sending it to the one-hour photo kiosk at Walmart and printing it off, cutting off a revenue stream you could use! One final thing, and I share this because I'm disagreeing in a sense with the original post. By disagreeing, in my opinion, I must offer alternate ideas, So here we go: Promotion is the kissing cousin of politics, and all politics are local. What do I mean? Promotion of this sport we love begins with us, one-to-one with friends, aquaintances, and family members. -Invite friends who don't normally attend pulls to join you at an event. Buy their ticket, buy them a hamburger, maybe a beer or three if they're not driving. If they "get it" like we do, have them pay it forward with their friends and family. -YES promote pulls on social media, not only before, but DURING and AFTER a pull. Share the excitement through photos and comments of your favorite moments and memories. Share, like, hashtag, yadda yadda yadda...all that stuff. -Volunteer at pulls. HELP OUT. I have yet to attend a pull that didn't need additional hands, at least at the local and state level. More capable hands to put on a pull = better run pull. Better run pull = better fan experience. Better fan experience = those satisfied fans come back and bring fans with them. The promotion and betterment of pulling starts with US, with the guy or gal looking back at you in the mirror, not online or social media, but be competent in using all of the tools at hand to share this sport we all love in the best ways possible. Thanks to the Morgans for the page; thanks to everyone who is out there creating content, and thanks to all who promote the sport though we may not agree on the methods sometimes. Bryan Lively - 
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