beRecruited Growth Continues; Rock Mountain News Coverage
February 10, 2009 – 8:38 pm | Comments

It’s been a great couple months for beRecruited. By all measures, traffic and site-usage are ramping very nicely (more than doubling in the last calendar year).

Perhaps more importantly though, our recruiting metrics are growing …

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iPhone 3GS Video & Camera Demo: Using MLB.tv
June 20, 2009 – 4:36 pm | Comments
iPhone 3GS Video & Camera Demo: Using MLB.tv

Oh how technology and digital media have advanced. Below is a video demonstration:
- capturing an HD broadcast of a live Red Sox game (streamed from MLB.tv, through my computer, and onto the television)
- the video …

Recruiting Process Advice from Tallahassee.com: Try beRecruited
May 25, 2009 – 5:40 pm | Comments

beRecruited had another great press mention - this time by Tallahssee.com’s Corey Clark in “Athletes offer tips on the recruiting process.”
It is a thorough, encouraging article about the proactive role that athletes and their …

NBA Launches Player Cam, Facebook Connect for Conference Finals
May 24, 2009 – 6:12 pm | Comments
NBA Launches Player Cam, Facebook Connect for Conference Finals

The NBA clearly has MLB.tv envy…
And it’s not a bad thing! (now if only the NFL would start experimenting)
I have written before that Major League Baseball is the only major sports league to grasp the …

beRecruited Hits A Milestone: 500,000 Registered Users
May 16, 2009 – 9:07 am | Comments
beRecruited Hits A Milestone: 500,000 Registered Users

This past Tuesday, beRecruited.com reached a major milestone: we registered our 500,000th user - representing 3x growth in the last year. beRecruited now has:
- more than 450,000 are student-athletes
- over 16,000 college coaches and …

beRecruited Connects $90,000 Scholarship: From Bath to Mississippi
May 14, 2009 – 10:04 pm | Comments
beRecruited Connects $90,000 Scholarship: From Bath to Mississippi

The best advice I can give to entrepreneurs: create value. If your tool, service or product creates value for its users, it will be successful.
It might not be instantaneous. It might take time to …

ESPN Takes Over Homepage to Promote Taken
May 12, 2009 – 5:34 pm | Comments
ESPN Takes Over Homepage to Promote Taken

Yet another aggressive, interactive ad campaign that has taken over ESPN’s homepage. It is perhaps the most aggressive campaign that ESPN has run… and they have run several rich media campaigns recently:
Last week, Apple took …

David Ortiz on Facebook Shows Why Some Are Afraid of Social Media
May 12, 2009 – 5:06 pm | Comments
David Ortiz on Facebook Shows Why Some Are Afraid of Social Media

Despite the big traffic and abilities to engage with consumers, some brands are still afraid of social media. Most grasp the power of social media (from blogging to widgets and from Facebook to Twitter), but …

Marketing Case Studies: Manny Ramirez & Dodgers; Mexico & Swine Flu
May 10, 2009 – 2:06 pm | Comments

Thursday’s New York Times profiled two messy and complex marketing cases that remind us how quickly things can change and how dangerous relying on any one revenue-stream or person can be:
1. The Los Angeles Dodgers …

2008-2009 NBA Attendance: Performance as Important as Market Size
April 5, 2009 – 7:21 pm | Comments
2008-2009 NBA Attendance: Performance as Important as Market Size

In sports, most people associate a team’s financial success with its location: typically defined as either small-market or big-market. But the latest data from the 2008-2009 NBA seasons suggests that it is as much a …

Economic Woes Impacting MLB Season Tickets
March 27, 2009 – 10:01 am | Comments
Economic Woes Impacting MLB Season Tickets

Wait until the trade deadline approaches during the summer… as teams have battled through poor attendance, dwindling jersey sales, and so forth. Teams like the Detroit Tigers (payroll of $138m in 2008 - third behind …

InGameNow Adds Real Time Box Scores
March 25, 2009 – 4:28 pm | Comments
InGameNow Adds Real Time Box Scores

On the heals of the new live scoreboard integration within our iPhone Apps, InGameNow has added real-time boxs cores. The box scores appear on game pages - they update for live games and are chronicled …

NCAA + iPhone Apps = Great Productivity
March 19, 2009 – 9:48 am | Comments
NCAA + iPhone Apps = Great Productivity

The future is here.
And it’s on the iPhone.

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