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How Banking Brands Can Leverage Interactive Signage In Sports Sponsorships

For over a century, banks in America have been leveraging sports sponsorships as a means to connect with mass audiences and engage with their communities, predating the era of television. In the early days, stadium walls...

The 3 Biggest Benefits for Sports Sponsorships

We should always be selling benefits over features in sports sponsorships. Features are the what. They commoditize our product. Benefits are the Why. They bring context to why a brand should spend with your team over...

Working through Ghosts in Sports Sponsorship Sales

It's an unfortunate part of sales. Sometimes we think there is a fit, we have the prospect excited, then...GHOSTED. Radio silence, no answer to our emails or calls. In sports sponsorship, it is no different. We...

2023 Sports Sponsorship Predictions

What a year that we are headed into with sports sponsorship. The struggles from a pandemic that shut down our business and games seem to be finally fading off, getting us back to full stadiums...

Sports Sponsorship 2023 New Year Resolutions

It's a new year in sports sponsorship. The history of New Year's Resolutions dates back almost 4,000 years to the ancient Babylonians. In their 12-day celebration for a new year, they would project forward what they...

The Art To Upsell In Sports Sponsorship

The best thing about a full client list is we have customers that have believed the pitch and spent dollars on your assets. It shouldn't take much to upsell your current sponsorship clients in sports. They...

More relationships touchpoints, less logo touchpoints in sports sponsorship

In sports sponsorship, and really all sponsorship, we get bogged down in assets. It somewhat makes sense...it is the product we sell. Our mindset sometimes shifts to "How many signs can I get sold?". Many times though,...

What is Sports Promotion?

The power and emotion of sports are powerful tools. Our teams have created fan bases with similar characteristics, and followings that rival some religions. Fans want to be part of something, it is a human need...

10 Digital Baseball In Game Promotions That Engage Fans

Digital baseball in-game promotions are taking ball games for a turn. Upping the game. A summer day of baseball at the ballpark is one of the most coveted American pastimes. Generations have been raised on hot...

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How in-stadium sponsorship pans out in the next 5–10 years

I’m young in this game. I’ve only been doing this for 5 years in the world of sports. That is selling sponsorship. I look back at...

Making sure your digital partnership assets pencil out for your team

Buying digital assets are fun. Finding new ways for your team to engage fans and connect partners is an essential part of a sponsorship...

Your Stadium Connectivity Should Not Be The Reason Why You Don’t Activate Digitally.

I hear this objection a lot…” Our stadium doesn’t have wifi and connectivity is terrible. We can’t implement this or any digital activation.” I hear...

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,...

How to Successfully Market Your Digital Activations & Contests With Your Fans (After Launching…

If an activation is promoted, and no fan is there to hear it, does it even exist? Well…yes…but it wouldn’t be very successful. Marketing your...