Last week I attended the Relay Sports Sponsorship Symposium at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel. I was hoping to interact with brand marketers and get a peak inside their minds for a bit. Sometimes, dealing with marketers, usually through advertising sales, things can boil down to the nitty gritty and you lose track of [...]
I’ve been a member of nextNY for about a year now. It’s a NYC networking group with a focus on tech and digital media and tends to attract the entrepreneurial types. On the website the description is that nextNY “is basically a fun way to connect both socially and professionally with young people who have [...]
In my last post I wrote about my company, Sportsvite.com. In this post I want to write about my career and discuss how I got here and where I want to go. I’ve taken a more unconventional path than many of my classmates and peers. There have been times where I’ve probably confused you with [...]
I often get blank stares or faint smirks when I tell people about Sportsvite. Yes, I also receive enthusiastic comments and praise but for this post it makes sense to highlight the haters. I don’t really mind as I can easily see how “myspace+evite for sports” can sound a bit trivial. Often, I go straight [...]
Last week I came across this article on SI.com by Alexander Wolff. Besides being an esteemed and award-winning writer for Sports Illustrated, Wolff also is the owner and president of the Vermont Frost Heaves, the defending champions in the American Basketball Association. Wolff is looking for a new GM for the Frost Heaves and encouraged [...]
I recently had a few meetings with Vin and Neal (managing partners at [212] Media) and we decided to hire someone to fill a junior marketing role at Sportsvite. I’ve been trying to execute on all of our marketing objectives on top of my normal business development stuff and it was getting to be a [...]
