With Super Bowl Sunday around the corner, now is a great time to think about some of the various sports business plots tied to the big game… – The Ratings Game:  With two of the country’s top markets represented in what’s been billed as a rematch of Super Bowl 42, this year’s game is in [...]

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In the past, we used to have regular “Five for Friday” columns that featured five interesting links for the week. I’m going to start bringing this back more often with all different types of lists. Today, in honor of Twitter’s #FF (Follow Friday) hashtag, here are five great sports business folks to follow on Twitter. [...]

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Yesterday I sat down with Justin Cener, Founder of Crowd Seats, to discuss how sports organizations can use group-buying deal sites as part of their sales efforts and what’s unique about the Crowd Seats product compared to other options. Justin, give us a brief overview of Crowd Seats? Crowd Seats is the first and only daily [...]

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My condolences to the Paterno family on the passing of Joe Paterno. While there is no arguing his accomplishments as a football coach, may his final legacy be allowing the world to learn from his mistakes and the mistakes of others involved so that the situation at Penn State never happens again.

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In case you didn’t know, I’m a big social media advocate. I love what it can do for people and business alike, creating content, conversation and active communities. In turn, when I see unique opportunities and promotions based around this space, I love to share them here, which bring me to the “Ultimate Sports Social [...]

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My full-time roles in the sports industry have been focused on the CRM and database space, and these positions can have lots of fun and interesting responsibilities, such as: Consolidating data to build a complete picture of each fan and customer Building distinct customer segments for targeted marketing campaigns Managing digital communications using email, web, [...]

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In case you haven’t checked out the Event Calendar, we have two more sports networking events scheduled for this month! The Business of Sports – New York Networking Event Wednesday, January 11 at Slattery’s Midtown Pub Open networking from 6:00 to 9:00PM Free to attend, all backgrounds welcome (No resumes please!) Details and RSVP here! The [...]

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Today’s post is courtesy of guest blogger Dave Fogelson. In all likelihood, people aspiring to “work in sports” are over-looking the sporting goods industry, particularly the retail end of the business, as the starting point for a career path. Retail is where people seeking entry-level jobs can find the most opportunities to apply their sports [...]

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When I talk about my various non-sports experience, people tend to laugh when I tell them that my time working at McDonald’s as a teenager was one of the most positive experiences I’ve ever had. I learned so much from that position that applies to any business, so it seems only fitting to share some [...]

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Last week, Coyle Media released a great infographic on how sports fans use various social media check-in services. It’s interesting to see how the results vary by sport (unfortunately, there’s no data on MLB), how sports venues compare to other types of check-in locations, and the most effective ways to drive check-ins. Personally, I have [...]

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