Monday, March 9, 2015

Investigation #3

Investigation #3
Sports Event Management Industry
3 Buyer personas
1.Athletes- recognition, comfortable travel, personally touching and bring out the passion for the sport they play.
2. Families of Participating Athletes- Appropriate ticket prices, will travel be easy and convenient (date/time), is the venue meet needs and expectations
3. Sport fans- what candy and food will be sold at this event, interaction with college athletes at events (signatures, pictures, etc), gear or memorabilia sold at event
2. Identify 5 key sources of thought leadership in this industry.  Describe each in your blog, including (a) their purpose/products, (b) overview of types of information they share, (c) how they share the information- forms of thought leadership, and (d) how they promote their thought leadership.  For each, make sure you tell me HOW YOU KNOW they are a thought leader in your industry.  Provide images/links/examples of each of your "thought leaders" in your blog.
1. Bigsoccerhttp://www.bigsoccer.com .
There purpose is to give knowledge about the game of soccer, current events, schedules and other useful information for soccer fans. They promote their thought leadership through social media, blogs, and I know they are a thought leader because they link up with the top women’s soccer sites
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2. ESPN- a) to provide comprehensive sport coverage, products- espn merchandise, television, news stations, commercials b) Latest news, top plays, top players, top teams, games and schedules c) they primary share their information through videos, they use blogs to recap information and they use social media such as instagram http://instagram.com/espn/ and twitter to provide the latest most important news. D) ESPN promotes their thought leadership through advertisement, endorsements, supporting charities etc.
* ESPN is a thought leader in the sports industry because it is the outlet for all Sports Fans desires and needs by being up to date 24/7 with the latest sport news. 
3. NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) a) membership driven organization that focuses on the well being of student athletes, an inclusive culture, and leadership skills. B) They share quality universities all over the United States, provide college schedules, tournaments, and events. They also provide hundred of thousands of scholarships throughout collegiate sports. C) They show their information throughout college universities using white papers- to prove their argument for athletes becoming student athletes. Using surveys they are constantly gathering information to help make athletes more inspired and passionate about their sport D) They team up many professional sports organizations, they provide how-to succeed academically while being a student athlete.
*NCAA is a thought leader because it covers all college divisions of sports…Division 1, II, III and NAIA. They offer the largest amount of scholarships to student athletes.
4. Stars and stripes FC ….. http://www.starsandstripesfc.com
Stars and stripes is a popular blog page that allows athletes and sports fans, particularly soccer fans to keep up with what is happening in the world with soccer professionally. Its easy to navigate and fun to use and I use them as a thought leader.


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