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A few weeks before Christmas, Jordan Teicher had a New York Times story with several former athletes, including ex New York Jet and Columbia grad Josh Martin, talking about the great value LinkedIn had brought to them in terms of connecting and storytelling as they figured out what is next in the post playing careers. …
Picked one off from Michael Smith at Sports Business Journal, who did a great job documenting the pivot and opportunity Duke’s Mayonnaise created off last week’s trophy mishap with the University of Wisconsin. The play had everything; good nature, increased sales and awareness, a cause play, and even a longer tail merch opportunity. Think of …
Sunday, we reached the end of the NFL regular season, with the bumps and shifts along the way, on time and pretty much intact. Somewhere down the road we will look back on this year and its best practices and amongst the Bubbles and Wubbles we will tip the hat to the NFL for getting …
It is 2020 and we all know how traditions have been reinvented or thrown out the window, only to be restarted in the future, and that’s OK. As we have heard from health officials so many times, the Virus does not have our timeline. However, I did realize this morning, here in the gap between …
As we head toward the re-start of the restarts of the NBA and the NHL, deeper into the chasm of college basketball and look ahead to MLB and MLS and so many other sports keep on keeping on in the first half of 2021, the question of dollar flow, especially with few or limited fans …
“In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success if you are willing to learn from it.” the late Paul Allen In a year of profound loss on so many levels like this one, I always think we can learn so much for where our journey will take us next, and that’s …
Earlier this week I touched on the value of the “Trusted Advisor” and having a senior communications official at the table when decisions are made, off of a story done by former Clinton Press Secretary and head of communications at the NFL Joe Lockhart. The issue, and value of trust, came up again this week …
It was 27 years ago this week that I drove from our newly purchased home in Nanuet, NY, where I had spent the last five years as Sports Info Director and then Asst AD For Communications at my alma mater, Fordham University, and made the big jump to being the Director of Public Relations for …
Maybe those who say social distancing and wearing a mask doesn’t matter are right and this is all just going to go away on November 4. But this week we have now had the Metropolitan Opera say there will be no season in 2021…the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and Times Square New Year’s Eve will …
There was a time not too long ago when many thought that audio as a medium was almost dead. We live in a video world, we need to see things, no one has time to sit by a radio… Then along came podcasting, and iTunes and digital audio and Sirius/XM and I Heart Radio and …