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Unit 2 – What is SEM?
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What is SEM?
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1) Define sports marketing and entertainment marketing
2) Explain the two primary types of sports and entertainment marketing
3) Compare and contrast sports marketing and entertainment marketing
4) Describe the seven functions of marketing
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5) Understand what makes sports and entertainment products unique
6) Explain the concept of competition for entertainment dollars
7) Identify the five P’s of event marketing
8) Explain the event triangle
Lesson 2.1
Sports & Entertainment Marketing Defined
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"I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.”
- NBA Star, Shaquille O'Neal
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What is Sports & Entertainment Marketing?
To define Sports & Entertainment Marketing, you
must first understand the foundation of the term:
Marketing
Sports
Entertainment
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Sports EntertainmentMarketing
The process of developing, promoting, and distributing products, or goods and services to satisfy customers’ needs and wants
Whatever people are willing to spend their money and spare time viewing rather than participating
A source of diversion or physical activity engaged in for pleasure
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It is the goal of the sports and entertainment marketer to provide a product or service that can satisfy the needs and wants of those individuals who choose to be entertained during their leisure time
Leisure Time
Leisure time is the time available to people when they are not working or assuming responsibilities, often times referred to as “free time”
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The Fusion of Marketing with Sports & Entertainment
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Sports Marketing is the act of using sports as a platform to market products or services and increase sales or the process the of marketing and selling the sports property itself
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Fundamental Concept of SEM:
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Marketing through Sports & Entertainment
vs.
Marketing of Sports & Entertainment
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Marketing through Sports & Entertainment
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Companies use sports and entertainment as a vehicle to gain exposure for their products
Kia Motors sponsoring the World Cup
VitaminWater affiliating its product with celebrities like Steve Nash, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Aniston, David Ortiz and Steve Nash
HP serving as presenting sponsor of the Sundance Film Festival
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Marketing through Sports & Entertainment
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A CEO entertaining potential customers at a PGA Golf Event in the hospitality area as a sales tool
Marketing through
Sports & Entertainment
Product placement is a tactic companies use to place their products within a particular form of entertainment to gain visibility or exposure
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Marketing through
Sports & Entertainment
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Audi being prominently featured in the new “Iron Man 2” movie
Judges on the hit show American Idol drinking Coke products during episodes
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Marketing of Sports & Entertainment
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Marketing of Sports & Entertainment involves the promotion and sales of the sports and entertainment products themselves
The Potomac Nationals baseball club selling special “Holiday” ticket packages
Branding the 2010 Winter Games with the slogan “With Glowing Hearts”
Paramount Pictures spending over $130 million in marketing and promotion for the film “The Last Airbender”
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Marketing of Sports & Entertainment
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Marketing of Sports & Entertainment involves the promotion and sales of the sports and entertainment products themselves
Nike advertising the launch of a new sneaker or shoe line
Astro Turf selling and installing a synthetic grass football field to a college
Artist Jay Sean attending the "Jersey Shore" soundtrack album release party in New York City
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Discussion Topic
Let’s say Adidas invests in a luxury suite at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Is this an example of the marketing of sports or an example of marketing through sports?
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The Adidas investment in a luxury suite at the Staples Center arena provides an example of BOTH marketing of sports and marketing through sports
Discussion Topic
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Discussion Topic
Marketing of Sports:
The marketing OF sports occurs as the Staples Center marketing staff actively engages in the activity of selling suites to corporations, thereby marketing their products
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Discussion Topic
Marketing through Sports:
Occurs as Adidas uses the suite for events (NBA’s Lakers or Clippers basketball games, Disney on Ice, Rolling Stones Concert, Barnum & Bailey Circus, Harlem Globetrotters, NHL’s Kings, WNBA’s Sparks etc.) to entertain customers, prospective customers and employees
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Sports Management vs. Sports Marketing
Sports management is the study and practice of all people, activities, businesses or organizations involved in producing, facilitating, promoting or organizing any sport-related business or product
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Sport law
Facility management
Human resources
Sport governance
Leadership
Sport management areas of study might include:
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Tostitos sponsoring the Fiesta Bowl
A NHL team offering payment plan options for season ticket buyers
NBC paying $5.7 billion for the TV rights in the U.S. to the Olympics from 2000 to 2012
Examples of Sports Marketing
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A corporation’s purchase of a courtside tickets in a NBA Arena
A sign or banner displaying a company’s logo at a hockey rink
Coca-Cola paying for “pour rights” at an event or facility
Examples of Sports Marketing
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A local restaurant sponsoring the local high school soccer team
The Goodyear Blimp flying over sporting events
Fans receiving free bobble head dolls at a baseball game
Examples of Sports Marketing
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Nike partnering with Apple to launch new technology for runners
Foot Locker stores offering special sales or coupons to help increase sales
Examples of Sports Marketing
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Former NBA star Charles Barkley hosting Saturday Night Live
Examples of Sports Marketing
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Entertainment Marketing is the process of developing, promoting, and distributing products, or goods and services, to satisfy customer’s needs and wants through entertainment, or any diversion, amusement, or method of occupying time
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Seeing the Houston Symphony perform at Jones Hall in downtown Houston
Attending a LSU Tigers football game
Reading Stephanie Meyer’s novel Twilight
Examples of Entertainment
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Visiting the Seattle Aquarium
Going to a Justin Timberlake or Jack Johnson concert
Listening to the newest Lady GaGa song on your mp3 player
Watching the Broadway musical “Lion King”
Examples of Entertainment
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Going to the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus at the American Airlines Center in Dallas
Universal Studios announcing ‘Transformers’ as a new theme park ride
Examples of Entertainment
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Technology’s Impact on SEM
A podcast is a digital media file, or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers
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Technology’s Impact on SEM
The NHL’s league website (nhl.com) features a podcast page which includes podcasts of its NHL radio show (“This Week in the NHL”) and podcasts for individual teams in both audio and video format (the Minnesota Wild podcast show is referred to as the “pondcast”, St. Louis Blues have a “BluesCast”, Washington Capitals have a “Caps Report” etc.)
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Technology’s Impact on SEM
Podcast technology opened the door for comedian Adam Corolla to reinvent and revive his career after his network show was cancelled.
Since launching his self-produced podcast show in February of 2009, "The Carolla Podcast" has frequently been the most popular podcast on iTunes, even edging out President Obama’s weekly address and drawing over 3 million downloads in a given week.
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Technology’s Impact on SEM
Sticky marketing is the practice of creating online content that encourages consumers to visit a specific Website frequently with the goal of getting the visitor to explore the site in greater detail while maximizing the amount of time the user spends on the site
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Technology’s Impact on SEM
Sports Illustrated’s Peter King is widely credited with the development of one of the first true “sticky” web marketing applications. His column, “Monday Morning QB” gets more than three million page views per week!
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Technology’s Impact on SEM
Yahoo’s site featured dedicated coverage to the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver provides provides an excellent example of sticky marketing,
boasting an impressive total of 314 million total minutes spent by visitors on the site, compared to the 218 million total minutes spent by visitors to
NBC's Olympics site (official broadcaster of the Games).
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Technology’s Impact on SEM
Online video rentals (Netflix, Blockbuster etc.)
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Technology’s Impact on SEM
Streaming audio and video capabilities
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Streaming Live Events
In 2010, many major global sporting events like the
British Open Golf Tournament were streamed through the
Internet allowing fans to watch online and/or on
mobile devices
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Technology’s Impact on SEM
To celebrate the band’s reunion, Blink 182 staged plans to offer one a new twist on traditional touring by streaming an interactive 3D concert online. The concert, sponsored by Doritos required only that fans purchase a bag of chips (Doritos brand of course) and place the bag in front of their computers webcam for admission to the show.
Throughout the concert, fans were able to move and shake their bag of chips to activate certain interactive actions such as, zooming in and out and other features and noise picked up from computer microphones would influence the band’s encore.
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Consumer’s ability to purchase entertainment on the Internet
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Advertising: Signage and Displays
American Airlines Arena unveiled new technology capable of delivering “live and dynamic billboard advertising”, making the NBA’s Miami Heat the first U.S. sports franchise to tap into the next
generation of outdoor media systems designed to drive revenue
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Advertising: Signage and Displays
The Kansas City Royals teamed up with Cisco Systems and AT&T Inc. to launch a new video platform that offers customized advertising,
capable of delivering live game video, concessions menus and customized fan content
Technology enables us to enrich the experience for our fans, who are
celebrating 40 years of Royals baseball this year,” said Kevin Uhlich, Royals
senior vice president of business operations
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Technology’s Impact on SEM
Advertising: Virtual Ads
Advertising firm “Instadium.com” sells promotional materials and “touchpoints” to advertisers at venues such as Coors field in Denver. They have ads positioned in
hundreds of locations around the stadium, from rotational signage around the field perimeter to ads in the restrooms, concessions areas, and concourses. Fans can’t help
but be exposed to their messages.
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Technology’s Impact on SEM
Advertising: Virtual Ads
During the 2009 playoffs, the NHL provided an opportunity for a sponsor to preview the potential impact of virtual advertising when, during the third period of MSG Network’s
telecast of two playoff games, Subway logos were superimposed on the glass areas behind each goal and at center ice. The results were impressive, as sponsors averaged
nearly 20 minutes of quality on-screen time per game from the high-tech broadcast enhancement.
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Technology’s Impact on SEM
Advertising: Interactive Shopping
An upcoming Blu-ray film will reportedly feature an e-commerce application that will allow viewers to shop for products in the movie and purchase them through the
Internet with BD Live (BD-Live is a newly developed Blu-ray feature that allows users to access additional content with
any internet-connected Blu-ray player)
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Technology’s Impact on SEM
Audio / Visual Enhancement
In a sentiment shared by sports consumers everywhere, ESPN writer Bill Simmons discusses how HD television has revolutionized the fan (viewer’s) experience: “It's a new world for sports fans: an intimacy that can't be found otherwise, unless you're
paying through the nose for great seats. I thought I'd like sports less when I got older. Actually, I like them more. And it's partly because of HD. I'm constantly saying
to myself, I can't get over how great that looks!”
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Technology’s Impact on SEM
Audio / Visual Enhancement
Over 1,000 FM radio stations are now broadcasting in high definition (special HD-ready receivers are required to hear the high quality signal)
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Audio / Visual Enhancement
A 2010 estimate suggests that global sales of Blu-Ray players will reach 62.5 million units
by 2011
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Audio / Visual Enhancement
According to a report by Variety, 2.7 million Blu-Ray copies of Avatar were sold in the first four days of its retail
release. Perhaps a testament to the growing demand for Blu-ray content, Blu-ray accounted for 40% of sales for the
movie in that four-day window.
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Technology’s Impact on SEM
Video Games
Games now feature enhanced graphics, creating a more realistic user experience
Game players now enjoy greater accessibility and interactive capabilities through the Internet
Through Nintendo’s Wii system, video game enthusiasts can now enjoy motion sensor technology, allowing for users to simulate various activities (such as golf or
tennis) using a video game controller
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Video Games
In 2010, Microsoft plans to up the ante in the motion sensor technology arena with the
launch of their “Kinect” accessory that allows users of the Xbox 360 console to interact with
games without a controller by simply using gestures and spoken commands
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Technology’s Impact on SEM
Apparel/Footwear/Sporting Goods
Just prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics, Speedo introduced the LZR Racer swimsuit, a technologically
advanced piece of swimwear that features a finely woven water-repellent microfiber that cuts down on
drag and features localized compression, which Speedo officials say reduces swimmers' energy loss
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Apparel/Footwear/Sporting Goods
The technology was so effective that, in 2010, swimming's governing body adopted new rules to limit the role of high-tech suits after seeing more than 100
world records fall after the suit’s introduction just one year earlier
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Apparel/Footwear/Sporting Goods
In 2008, Nike teamed up with Apple to launch the Nike+iPod Sports Kit, a
device which allows users to measure and record the distance and pace of a
walk or run
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Apparel/Footwear/Sporting Goods
In 2010, Adidas introduced similar technology with MiCoach, a system the
company’s website calls “the interactive personal coaching and training system” which relies on a
mobile phone’s GPS systems allowing the app to track distance, pace, and calories, all while coaching athletes
based on their pace and training regimen
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Broadcasting / Viewer Experience
In 2009, golf fans were able to view multiple video feeds of the Masters on their TV screens to keep up with action at different points on the course
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Broadcasting / Viewer Experience
With the re-emergence of 3D technology (3D has been around since silent films in the early 20th century),
the viewing experience has been taken to a whole new level
Lesson 2.3
Sports ARE Entertainment
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Sports ARE Entertainment!
Sports are a form of entertainment
Entertainment may be presented in the form of sports
Watching a Broadway show
Listening to music on an mp3 player
Watching a movie
Watching a football game
Playing a game of soccer
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Sports ARE Entertainment
“I believe sports is entertainment. I know there’s athletic excellence. But when I watch a game-let’s say I’m watching Charles (Barkley’s) show on (TNT)-it’s not just for the athletic excellence. Every piece of information is available in that telecast: scores, highlights, standings, analysis-0-
right? I watch it because it’s entertaining. It’s about being entertained. It’s about being consumed. You’re a consumer, and you’re consumed by the entertainment, you’re engaged by
the entertainment.”
- PETER GUBER
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Differentiating BetweenSports & Entertainment
Sports are“unscripted”
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Unscripted:
Consumers of sports do not know the outcome of the event in which they are participating
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Differentiating BetweenSports & Entertainment
Sports entertainment relies heavily on
emotion
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Consumers of sportsproducts have anemotional investmentor interest in theoutcome of the event(winning vs. losing,close games vs. “blow outs”)
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Differentiating BetweenSports & Entertainment
Sports exposedifferences
in customer loyalty
Customer Loyalty:
A customer decision to become a repeat consumer of a particular product or brand
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Integrating Sports with Entertainment
Cross Promotion:
The convergence of two entertainment properties working together to market products or services
Super Bowl Half-Time Shows
ESPN’s ESPY Awards
Universal Studios partnering with the Dodgers to promote the park's new King Kong attraction
TNT tapping pop stars Jamie Foxx and Justin Timberlake to lead a marketing campaign for the 2010 NBA playoffs
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Integrating Sports with Entertainment
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Variety.com reports that a significant factor in ESPN’s successful launch of its Chicago-based website on all things Windy City was cross promotion, suggesting
the cable company used “plenty of cross-promotion as a way to attract listeners to the site”
Cross promotion can be an effective sales and branding tool for all parties involved
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Integrating Sports with Entertainment
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By July of 2010, ESPNChicago has become the city’s top sports site, attracting about 590,000 unique visitors in the month of June alone while the city’s historic newspaper company’s (Chicago Tribune) online sports section drew just 455,000 unique visitors
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Integrating Sports with Entertainment
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Ratings for the 2010 Tour de France increased 83% on the Versus network through the first nine days of competition. Versus President Jamie Davis credited part of the ratings jump on
cross-promotion during its coverage of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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Integrating Sports with Entertainment
In the summer of 2009, MLB partnered with Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films to cross promote the 3-D comedy G-Force, this time determined to push the promotion cautiously. Five years earlier the league badly botched a Spider-Man 2 promotion in which MLB had planned to feature the Spider-Man logo on each base during the All-Star Game. The league received such opposition from fans and
baseball purists that the promo was eventually pulled.
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Primary Marketing Functions
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Pricing
Distribution
Promotion
Financing
Selling
Information-Management
Product and Service Management
Primary Functions of Marketing
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Pricing: Assigning a value to products and services
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Price is determined on the basis of supply and demand
Tickets to the Super Bowl are very expensive because demand is high
In July of 2009, the NFL’s New York Giants announced a reduction in ticket prices on seats in several sections of their new stadium that had not yet been sold
Primary Functions of Marketing
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Supply and demand is a major factor influencing pricing strategies, so much so that many teams are evaluating the possibility of moving toward a “dynamic pricing” structure for tickets in which games in higher demand cost more than the same ticket for a game with lower demand
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Red Box created a price point of $1 in an effort to capture a piece of the lucrative movie rental business
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Distribution: Determining how best to get products and services to consumers
EA Sports sells their video games in Target and Best Buy stores, knowing that consumers shop at those stores for video games and entertainment
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In 2009, TiVo announced plans to provide “on-demand” access to Blockbuster’s film catalog to TiVo subscribers
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Google announcing plans to open a digital music store online to challenge iTunes
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Hotel chains offering movie rental opportunities from the comfort of a hotel room
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The top selling on demand theatrical movie titles in hotel guest rooms in 2009
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1. The Hangover 2. Taken
3. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 4. Angels & Demons 5. The Proposal
6. Gran Torino
7. Inglourious Basterds
8. Quantum of Solace
9. X-Men Origins
10. The Ugly Truth
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Primary Functions of MarketingPromotion: Communicating information about products and services to consumers
Prior to the start of the 2010 NFL training camp, Nike announced that former college QB Tim Tebow would have his own Nike shoe through a combined EA Sports/Nike cross promotion that coincided with the rollout of the NCAA Football 2011 video game
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Primary Functions of MarketingThe Sacramento Kings initiated a ticket sales promotion shortly after the 2010 NBA draft to capitalize on the excitement surrounding first-round draft pick DeMarcus Cousins in which the franchise extended new offers every hour between noon and 8 p.m. on their website. The special offers included season ticket deals for less than $17 per game, access to a VIP reception with the team’s new draft picks and $150 merchandise vouchers.
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Primary Functions of MarketingIn 2009, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment launched a promotion encouraging consumers to stay home for vacation with “Movie Staycations” where Sony movies were being offered at retail stores for less than $10. Consumers also had the opportunity to visit the “Movie Staycation” Web page online to download coupons for an additional $2 off DVDs and $3 off Blu-ray Discs.
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Financing activities could include:
Creating a budget for a company’s marketing plan
Analyzing the cost effectiveness of existing or past marketing efforts
Providing customers with flexibility in purchasing company products or services
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In NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman’s 2009 mid-season “state-of-the-league address”, revenue projections were updated by dropping its initial growth expectations. Mr. Bettman suggested the league expected to generate $2.63 billion to $2.64 billion in hockey-related
revenue for the 2008-09 season.
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Primary Functions of MarketingIn Hollywood, a decrease in sales of DVDs and significant increase in production and marketing expenses has prompted industrywide reforms that include a crackdown on budgets
In production of the fourth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean, super producer Jerry Bruckheimer has been working with a budget at least a third less than the last "Pirates" movie and will include far fewer shooting days and visual effects shots
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Like many professional sports franchises, MLB’s Washington Nationals offer payment plans for customers purchasing ticket packages. According to the team’s website, the Nats’ “Grand Slam E-Z Payment Plan allows season ticket holders to pay a fraction of the total cost of their tickets in easy monthly payments. This is available for either Full, Half, or Partial Season Ticket Plans.”
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Primary Functions of Marketing
Cultivating prospective buyers (or leads) in a market segment
Conveying the features, advantages and benefits of a product or service to the prospective buyer
Closing the sale
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Selling: Communicating with consumers to assess and
fill their needs, as well as anticipating future needs
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Many professional sports teams utilize a call center to revenue generated by ticket sales
A call center is a physical location where calls are placed, or received, in high volume for the purpose of sales, marketing, customer service; typically through the use of telemarketers
Call centers employ a staff to perform telemarketing activity with the goal of selling ticket packages over the telephone
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In 2009, Georgia Tech outsourced the portion of their ticket sales operation to a company (Aspire Group) to manage ticket sales for football and men’s basketball. Aspire has a full-time
sales staff of 15 to 20 people who work from Georgia Tech’s downtown Atlanta campus.
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Marketing Information-Management: Gathering and using information about customers to improve business decision making
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Professional sports teams began offering smaller ticket packages (half-season, quarter-season, five-game packages) after determining through customer research that full season ticket plans were often too costly and/or time consuming for many fans to purchase
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We Have a Seat for You!
Stanford basketball season tickets guarantee your seat for an entire schedule of college hoops excitement!
Follow both teams as they march towards March Madness and guarantee yourself the opportunity to buy
post-season tickets when they get there.
Mini Power-Packages
Designed especially for the first time buyer and reserve power player, this five-pack of our most popular games
offers big-time college hoops access to the PAC-10 season for only $59. As a mini-pack subscriber, you'll
receive reserved seats and guarantee yourself the opportunity to purchase post-season tickets.
PAC-10 Power Pack (Men's):
Cal * USC * UCLA * Arizona * Arizona State
Best of the West (Women's): Washington · Cal * UCLA * USC * Arizona
Fun for Five Family Plan The best deal in town! The Fun-for-Five Family Plan allows you and four friends general admission tickets to over 10 home games, men's or women's, at Maples Pavilion at the remarkable cost of only $2 per person!
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Primary Functions of MarketingAs visitors pass through the turnstiles at Disneyland in California, guests are randomly
selected to answer interview questions from friendly staff members equipped with hand held data recording devices. This provides Disney management with up to date
information about park guests, such as where they are from, how many are in their group, and how many times they have visited the theme park in the past.
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Primary Functions of Marketing
Product/Service Management:
Designing, developing, maintaining, improving, and acquiring products or services so they meet
customer needs
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One of Nike’s product management efforts includes the “Nike Kids Field Tester Program” in which selected applicants will wear Nike shoes for typically 4-8 weeks. Testers keep a daily written account of information relating to the product. Also, testers are required log the number of hours the shoes were worn each day, the surfaces shoes were worn on, observations regarding the shoe’s fit, performance and durability.
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Nike’s field tester program requires a thorough and detailed application process
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Sketchers recently unveiled the Shape Up shoe, endorsed by football legend Joe Montana. The shoes are a new innovation in sport shoe
technology and claim to improve posture, “tone” leg muscles and promote weight loss.
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