Seven months on and I continue to hear of #sportsbiz rights owners who were unfortunately advised to send an “opt in” email as a result of the GDPR. These advisors (who were also working in the non-sports industry as the multiple “opt in” emails I received demonstrate) have clearly missed
…when you have “the option” to go straight to your fans, you could change the position of the decimal point in your broadcaster contract…. One of the challenges/frustrations of writing a book is that you know the minute you hit “send” on the finished manuscript, submitting it to your publisher
Brent Leary, an authority not just on the use of data in business, but a thought leader on voice activation and a commentator on Amazon’s behemoth of a business, hit the nail on the head when he reviewed my newly-published book for the sports industry. Paul Greenberg, the “godfather of
As some of you may know, I’ve recently written a book – Winning with Data: CRM and Analytics for the Business of Sports – to be published by Routledge in August this year. In the course of securing endorsements from academics and industry executives, Karen Earl, chairman of the European Sponsorship Association
A rightsholder client recently asked us how they could negotiate a sponsorship deal with a potential client who wanted to include a VIK (Value in kind) element for access to/use of his customer database. I also had a conversation last year with a gentleman involved in the sale and purchase
Deloitte recently published their inimitable Annual Review of Football Finance, yet again providing us with mountains of content to read, re-read, debate, discuss and analyse. Deloitte are masters – not only of producing a high quality publication that perfectly demonstrates the quality and range of their services in this sector
Most sports organisations are still trying to understand how they can use CRM within their sales-focussed environments – clubs, NGBs, and events are used to thinking “sell, sell, sell” and customer service (or in this case, fan engagement) has taken a backseat for the longest time. But things are changing
In a world where we tend to get blind-sided with our focus on selling tickets, it was great to meet a group of sports executives who correctly identified CRM as a catalyst for the future. MESGO is an executive master’s degree in sports governance, supported by academic partners including Birkbeck
The sports industry really leads the way when it comes to some of our off-the-field activities: we’ve been supporting our communities for years (before CSR ever became a watchword), 70% of all sponsorship budgets are spent on sport, and regardless of which member of the Royal family gets married, it’s
“Experts” have a habit of making things sound more complicated than they are – this allows their expertise to appear even more valuable than it actually is. So let me dispel a myth that seems to be perpetuated by the CRM industry – achieving the holy grail of data driven
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