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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 …
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 …
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. …
In her wonderful all access (see what happens when you give someone unfettered access and trust them to do a good job) piece on Purdue basketball, Dana O’Neil talked about the weight of pressure on the shoulders of Coach Matt Painter, identifying that weight as ‘The Albatross of Expectation.” I thought a lot about that …
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 …
So there I was talking to my colleague Keith Green’s class at Montclair State University and I look down and in the front row is a young student wearing Crocs…filled with what I thought were pins of various caricatures, sizes and shapes. There is my introduction to Jibbitz, the Crocs-specific charms which have been around …
We have written about those first mover jobs to look for in the past…from Director of Gaming to Head of Health and Safety and so on. A few recent articles, and lots of talk, have led us to the next one that we will see teams and leagues start to look for; VP of Artificial …
“We are tapping into a narrative that doesn’t involve gender.” Colie Edison, Chief Growth Officer at the WNBA Amen. There is so much anecdotal and factual evidence of the growth of sports played by women…the Caitlin Clark phenomenon with Iowa, large scale numbers in record for soccer, volleyball and now women’s hockey, attendance and ratings …
Friday is National Popcorn Day across America, with many of the major brands in comfort snacks staging promotions, from education programs in the media for the health of the snack to giveaways by brands like Popcorn, Indiana on the streets of New York and Los Angeles. Movie chains ran online couponing for discounts for those attending films …
A few weeks ago I was having lunch and then some calls with colleagues who have “Been around,” as they say. Not complainers, learners, observers both in traditional media roles and in the communications space in and around sports and entertainment. I kept hearing the same thing over and over again…that the storytelling business today …
