This past week, I attended the Sports Networker Summit in New York City (run by our friends Lewis Howes and Amy Martin) and came away with a feeling that fighter marketing in the UFC has only scratched the surface of its potential. As mentioned above, the event was co-hosted by Amy Martin of Digital Royalty, […]
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Since Jason Belmonte entered into his first PBA Tour match last year, he has been the hottest name in bowling. Well known for his unorthodox two-handed throw, Jason Belmonte, has captured the attention of young and old, on a worldwide scale. He has the look, and more importantly the skill, to be an icon in […]
A couple of weeks ago, Jorge Monasterio the founder of Avantla.com, offered this site a fantastic post titled, Managing An Athlete’s Online Brand: A 5-Step Getting Started Guide For Agents. The second step was to create social networking accounts while his third step said to create a Twitter account. Personally, I believe you can combine […]
This is a guest contribution courtesy of Jorge Monasterio the founder of Avantla.com, on online branding management tool for sports and entertainment agents and attorneys. Avantla keeps up with the ever changing social media sites and trends. They also help find and acquire domains, trademarks and other online assets. You’ve landed a talented athlete as […]
What: Panel: The Impact of Social Networking on the Sports World, Presented by the New York State Bar Association’s Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section When: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 (8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.) Where: Herrick, Feinstein, LLP, 2 Park Ave., New York, NY (14th floor amphitheater) / map Moderator: Matthew D. Pace, Herrick, […]
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Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIN. Still don’t have a personal and/or business profile/page on these sites? Time to join and pick up a following real quick before you end up well behind everybody else. As these social networking sites continue to pick up more value with increased offerings and publicity, other companies have been vying for a […]
The agent-related article of last week that generated a lot of buzz in the sports agent community was a very long piece written by ESPN.com’s Andy Katz. While I was not able to put aside the time to give it a thorough read until several days after it was written, I am glad that I […]
Back in Sunny South Florida (as if Gainesville did not feel like 120 degrees this past week). I’ll be down here for a week and change. I have some business matters to take care of, and the usual standard doctors/dentist visit. It’s always nice to spend some time with family as well. The baseball division […]
A couple of days ago, a new website called MakeItPro launched. The site is backed by Steve Nash, Gretchen Bleiler, Hasheem Thabeet, Bernard Berrian, Bill Duffy, and others. That’s right, the head of BDA Sports is a backer, and co-founder, of this new all-sport social network and sports resource that intends to unite the world’s […]
Who needs World Swimming Championships when you have the Maccabiah Games to look forward to? On another note, it is unfortunate, but Oranim has canceled its Winter program this year. I went to Israel for my first time with Oranim and then went back a year later as a staff member. I hope that whatever […]