Social Sports Marketing Is Perfect for Sports Clubs Of All Sizes.

As Twitter celebrates its 5th birthday, it’s interesting to think about how social technologies have given rise to new opportunities for brands, organisations, athletes and individuals. In the relatively new field of sports marketing, social technologies capitalise on the loyalty of fans to deliver incremental revenue and to communicate with audiences that are ignored by [...]

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What Digital Marketing Consultants Have Forgotten About Search.

For over 10 years, we have been applying what we know about digital marketing. We’ve done it for start-ups, we’ve done it for large sports rights holders and we’ve done it for big brands. As digital marketing consultants, we get excited about the latest thing – whether it is HTML 5 native mobile apps to [...]

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Pilote Media Launch 2010 Yacht Racing and Sailing Business Directory.

The 2nd Edition of the DARK BLUE BOOK, the Who’s Who of Yacht Racing and the sport of sailing directory has received a great response from the industry since its launch in May. The business directory for the professional business side of the sport builds on the original book that was launched in 2009. Featuring over 185 [...]

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5 Reasons Your Business Should Not Be Using Social Media.

It’s fashionable to write these – ‘5 tips that will replace years of business experience and distal everything you need to know into less than 500 words’ – type blogs. They are often ‘retweeted’ by people who never read them, but like the headline because it somehow fits with something they think they should be [...]

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Social Media and Sport – Threats and Opportunities. Part 1.

The Sportbusiness New Media conference was held in Manchester on Wednesday. I was invited to speak on a panel entitled “Opportunities and Threats of Social Media.” The questions asked of the panel were slightly different from the brief, so the delegates present heard different answers to the ones below, but here are some of my [...]

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