June 17, 2009 · 11:23 am
Today I’m raising a question for which I don’t really have an answer. I guess it’s more of an observation and perhaps we can all figure out the answer together.
I’ve spent a good number of years in the sports business. I love it because it’s a business about which people are passionate, both the folks who work in it and the fans who consume it. But lately I’ve asked myself what we’re doing to those fans and I had a conversation the other day which really raised my level of concern. Continue reading →
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April 14, 2009 · 10:35 am
I leave tomorrow morning on an annual trip I take to Myrtle Beach. In theory it’s a golf outing but it’s more of a 5 day stay in a rest home getting my batteries recharged. 13 of us go, 12 of whom play golf. The other guy is a “social member” – most golf clubs have them – who enjoys the non-golf activities – cards, movies, and general guy banter. Like “Fight Club“, the first rule is we don’t really talk about it. However, what I can talk about that these are the guys whom I trust, to whom I can turn for advice, and who are honest – often brutally so – with me about everything from my golf game to my attitude. For all of the social networking tools available out there, nothing beats the face to face contact with this group for me. There is a business lesson in this as well. Continue reading →
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February 24, 2009 · 8:34 am
As we get to the end of the month, I’m reminded of the monthly traffic reports we’d get from the syndicated services such as Comscore. While we had our 24/7 monitoring and knew what traffic was doing, the syndicated services were important data since clients, agencies, and other used them for cross-site comparisons between the various sports leagues and teams. One thing that always bugged me was the inclusion in the rankings of a number of sites that weren’t content sites (Cabelas – sorry – commerce and shopping, not news content) as well as content sites that weren’t sports, and the inclusion of the WWE in our category was the biggest distortion of all. Continue reading →
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