Super Bowl Commercials & Domain Names

by Tim Evans | February 10th, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Jessep242Ever since I can remember, I’ve been fascinated with the art of making a good commercial.  Those who are marketers, I’m sure can appreciate this too, especially when a commercial makes an audience remember the brand and remember the product or service.

But with a record breaking audience of 106 million people, I was blown away at the lack of importance to the companies who spent $2.5-$2.8 million (not including the cost of production or compensation for the actors) for 30-seconds of airtime and either did not display their company website address or displayed it at the very end of the commercial in small font with only a few seconds left to display the domain name.

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Top 10 Sports Industry Sites of the Year!

by Lewis Howes | December 27th, 2008 | 14 Comments »


Everyone loves a top 10 list so I decided to take a poll and generate a list with the top sites to help you in your quest of being the best sports executive possible.

There are many great sports industry websites out there in a variety of niches.  Some are fan related, team related, blogs, videos, job boards, career resources, social networking, and beyond.  Although there are too many great sites that are not included, feel free to add the sites that were most helpful to your quest over this past year.  Here is what I found most useful in 2008:

Top 10 Sports Industry Sites of 2008

Sports Business

Sports Business Journal: www.sportsbusinessjournal.com

Darren Rovell- Sports Biz: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15837629

Russell Scibetti- Business of Sports:  www.thebusinessofsports.com


Sports Careers

Chris McKinney- Sports Career News:  www.sportscareernews.com

Mark Tudi- Sports Jobs:  www.sportscareers.com


Sports Social Media | Sports Marketing | PR

Jason Peck- Social Networking:  www.jasonfpeck.com

Brian Gainor – Partnership:  www.partnershipactivation.com

Pat Coyle – Sports Marketing 2.0:  www.sportsmarketing20.com


Sports Law and Entertainment

Darren Heitner- Sports Agent Blog:  www.sportsagentblog.com

Michael McCann- Sports Law Blog:  www.sports-law.blogspot.com


Honorable Mention:

www.blogmaverick.com

www.joefavorito.com

www.SponsorPitch.com

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I did not rank these from 1-10, and that may make some of you a little upset, but I decided to just give you my top 10 overall.  Maybe next year I’ll put out a larger poll, get previous winners to vote like it’s the Heisman, and have a real #1.  For now, however, feel free to include any additional sites that you think should have made the list, or at least be included as an honorable mention.


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