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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
We are still in the early days of how Artificial Intelligence will be used for a tool in our industry. While there are fits and starts…Warren Buffet warned investors of AI scams last week during the Berkshire Hathaway meetings in Omaha, while CBS Sunday had an amazing piece on Randy Travis and his “voice” return …
The calls and emails are welcomed and come in droves…this time of year, and I gladly answer as many calls, emails, texts and video messages form people changing careers or starting new ones, the same advice keeps ringing true, whether you have been at this for two weeks or gasp, almost 40 years. Expanding your …
How do you know when you are in a startup if the marketplace is telling you that you need to adjust, and how do you keep a business going when you start to hear the siren song of chasing a different direction, especially in challenging financial times. We talked to three smart company leaders about …
While the nexus of going to Los Angeles this week was for the CAA World Congress of Sport, the reality…one which I am continuing to realize is a sad reality…is that the real learnings occur far away from the stage for the most part. What the value is resides well outside the room with the …
Sports, at its core, is often viewed as a transactional business, a zero-sum game. After all, if you leave it for what it is, the score is there when the game ends. Somebody wins, somebody loses. However, the business that surrounds that score, that result, by those who actually play, is much more fluid. The …
Last week we reached out to quite a few teams, leagues and brands to ask about their potential April Fools Day plans. After all for decades creative and entrepreneurial folks have taken advantage to out one over on a passionate public (here is a look at some from recent years), so this year should have …
We are always looking for the biggest bang, the most impactful, the largest voice, but many times we forget that the very targeted success is the way we are judged. Let’s call it the audience of one. I was reminded of the value of one to one a few times in the past few weeks. …
According to my colleague Randy Walker, March 31 is the anniversary of the day young Martina Hingis took the number one spot on the WTA Tour, making her at the time the youngest man or woman to take the top ranking…gender didn’t matter, story did. I know this because I remember exactly where we were …
There is a scene in the TV show “The Odd Couple” where Felix and Oscar are trying to fly to Houston together to help eliminate Felix’s fear of flying. It was optimal as Oscar was going to cover a Houston vs. San Diego NFL game and they could travel together. The problem was the plane was …
A few weeks ago there was a great piece in the New York Times by Josephine Sittenfeld on the opportunities vs. the issues of writing things down in a journal, and then revisiting those notes and those stories years later. The piece pointed to a new tool that Apple was providing for digital journals, and …
