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Understanding Awareness in Sponsorship Today

Awareness…it is something that advertising has lived off for centuries. We use this metric to show our brands how many fans we’ve reached and hopefully influenced to make a purchase…and it does work. But then we gained...

2019 Recap On Sponsorship 🔑’s From The Inches Podcast

If you’ve listened to our podcast The Inches, first THANK YOU! If you haven’t, we’ve spent the last 6 months chatting about sponsorship and how digital is affecting the industry with some tactics you can implement...

5 New Year’s Resolutions For 2020 In Sports Sponsorship

Resolutions come with the New Year. Turning a new leaf. Starting with a blank slate. A new beginning. But what can we focus on in 2020 to ensure the longevity of our sponsorship assets and value? Have no...

Teams have more leverage than we think…we just have to build distribution ourselves.

As most of us have heard in sports there are rumors of a pretty large contraction of affiliation in Minor League Baseball. There are talks that the smaller teams would be cut from MiLB’s affiliation...

Top Shifts In Sports Sponsorship For 2020 & Beyond

2020 may be one of the most vital years for sports sponsorship this century. We are in the golden age of digital marketing and advertising….all while we have been slow to adopt digital into our sponsorship...

Utilizing Text To Build A Valuable Sponsorship Asset In 2020

I’ve nibbled a bit around it before but I really think that utilizing text messaging as a sponsorship asset will be the killer move of 2020. We’ve used this tactic in ticketing and it has proven...

Insights from chatting with a 17 y/o sports fan on media, ticketing, & sponsorship

Whoever is closest to the customer wins in business. Or as Rich Franklin puts it: “If you want to see how a lion hunts, you don’t go to the zoo.” We all know that the way fans...

What EVOLVE means in today’s sponsorship industry

I have such a blast rocking with Rich Franklin of the Portland Winterhawks each week on The Inches Podcast. His knowledge and experience have been invaluable to me in the industry and we started this podcast...

The Perfect Sports Sponsorship Email Template (not what you’re expecting)

You saw the headline, you were thinking “Yes, the perfect email I can copy, paste, & send out to close $1M in deals”. I know, we’ve seen them all before (many times on platforms just like...

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The Perfect Sports Sponsorship Email Template (not what you’re expecting)

You saw the headline, you were thinking “Yes, the perfect email I can copy, paste, & send out to close $1M in deals”. I know,...

The Great Pivot In Sports…What It Looks Like On The Other Side

There is a great quote from a 19th-century banker Nathan Rothschild that I love and keep coming back to. “Great fortunes are made when the...

How you can authentically add your sponsors into your health & safety messaging

We’re on the horizon for getting fans back into our stadium barring a major health setback. (knock on wood). With fans back we’ll need...

Looking outside of sports for sponsorship activation inspiration

Sports blinders are a real thing. Sometimes we get so focused as to what works well in our industry that we start recycling things we...

5 New Year’s Resolutions For 2020 In Sports Sponsorship

Resolutions come with the New Year. Turning a new leaf. Starting with a blank slate. A new beginning. But what can we focus on in 2020...