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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
Don’t blink. Thirty years ago this week I received a call from a gentleman named Gerry Ryan, head of business at the Philadelphia 76ers, and offered me a job that would change my life. I was making a rare jump at the time…from the college sports communications role to a top job at the NBA …
We keep losing people…good people we have known for a few days, a few years, or a lifetime. This year there have been close friends and distant colleagues we enjoyed staying in touch with; family members and grammar school classmates, as well as people we “knew of” along the trails. This past weekend as we …
Sports is a cyclical business. Seasons come and go and for those at the team level sometimes years can pass without breaking a cycle of repetition. It is a safe way to move a career along, and for those who care to innovate and change things up, the results can be very rewarding. For those …
There was a time wayyy back in the 1990’s when the New York Knicks would be yearly contenders for the NBA Eastern Conference Championship and when the team played on the road in places like Indianapolis or Philadelphia or Houston, you would tune in and on the new sideline rotating signage you would see ads for …
This week our podcast is with Sarah Unger and Linda Ong, the cofounders of the firm Cultique, which has made an amazing business out of helping brands understand and activate in and around cultural relevance on every level. One of the things that came up was the idea of the “Permanent Emergent.” Those are the …
Sometimes in the world we are in it is so easy to get caught up in the buzz, in the GOATS in the FOMO moments that we miss some of the little things that those who are successful do to achieve their best. Case in point…a blade of grass. As I was reading Lars Anderson’s …
We have written several times on storytelling and its continued value in all forms; knowing who you are, what you do and being able to communicate that fact simply and succinctly in a world of white noise is more valuable today than ever before. Lots of screaming going on, but when you listen, what are …
This morning I was scrolling through my Facebook memories when I came upon the pictures of our Hawaiian family trip in 2015. There amongst the beautiful sunsets and black sand beaches was a picture of CJ’s Deli in Lahaina, which for years was the official caterer of the Maui Classic. I remember when we were …
A few weeks ago, following the layoffs at the NBA and ESPN, I wrote this piece on the underappreciated value of institutional knowledge and it seemed to have resonated with a great deal of people. Yesterday while visiting our local library…talk about a place undervalued in the institutional knowledge space…I came across the checkout slip …
Here are three pretty short but pretty interesting listens from a trio who are doing their work tied to storytelling, deep thinking, understanding the marketplace and innovation, but all three come at it from a different angle. All three are also at different stages of their careers, but all have gone through pivots with grit …