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Eric Ryan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
169 total appearances

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How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

content.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

And I would really focus as much as you can on driving customization and then telling those stories.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

The other part I'm really, I think you could do well here as part of customization is licensing.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

Licensing, especially with retailers is a great quick shortcut to really build even though you're borrowing someone else's brand equity, but particularly for kids.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

Bringing in kids' characters and being able to custom on top of that, I think would really get that flywheel going and be able to drive a lot more content around it.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

Yeah, I think that's the gold.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

I think everything is built around customization.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

And Guy, I love that too, because you could do hotel activations and that then drives your entire content strategy.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

And then if you could lay around licensing on top of it to just continue to drive freshness and relevancy.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

And at the end of the day, I think you're not selling flip-flops, you're really selling summer and celebrating summer.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

And summer sometimes is on a vacation during the winter.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

But that I think will give you the foundation that will start then unlock a bigger brand idea here as well.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

How hard would it be to create event teams that go into kind of building on Guy's idea?

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

So you send event teams into hotels during peak moments, and you use that to not only drive sales, but also drive content that ultimately fuels your marketing.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

If you can create cost-neutral marketing through events, then I think you solve your problem of how to create a flywheel here.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

And then how I agree with Guy is you're really selling an experience.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

And any way you can layer on that experience, vacation kits, summer bundles.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

And I think ultimately, as a parent, that would have been the best souvenir to come back with with kids.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

No, and every parent loves flip-flops and there's nothing cuter than little flip-flops with a kid's name on it and some sort of customization.

How I Built This with Guy Raz
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns

So like, you know, parents will just eat this up.