Posts Tagged ‘Professional Sports’
How Has Your First Internship Prepared You For Your Current Role?
READ On Thanksgiving 2018, I received a text from a great friend of mine (I’ve know him since middle school and high school basketball), asking me about my first internship with the Detroit Pistons and how it’s helped me in my current role as a business owner, entrepreneur and strategist. He’s a super hard worker,…
Read MoreClearly You Love What You're Doing. Otherwise, Well…You Wouldn't Be Doing It, Right?
WATCH READ Real talk, I’ve been working really hard since I was about 15 years old. That’s when I first realized I could make money as a turntableist / (DJ), spinning records. Yep, spinning hip-hop records at parties. I invested in my own set-up, as a high school junior, I bought turntables, a mixer,…
Read MoreHey Marketers: Websites ARE NOT Media Guides
READ Yo, so I get it. I feel you. I mean, I may seem like I don’t have as much experience as you, but I’ve been in the game for 18 years. I started with fax machines. Making copies. Making print pieces and passing them out by hand to the media. I mean, I know…
Read MoreHow Building A Company Is Like Building A Fantasy Football Dynasty
READ This morning I woke up at 2:45 a.m. local time to partake in the 14th annual dynasty fantasy football draft in The Crew Fantasy Football League with nine of my best friends. It was 8 p.m. local time for them, but I wouldn’t miss this thing. I’ve build a dynasty team that has competed…
Read MoreService Businesses Must Have The Patience Of Soccer (Futbol) Players
READ As you may know by now, I’m a HUGE Sports Fan. And from “growing up in the Sports Business,” I constantly equate Sports with Business. There are just so many similarities that the analogies are endless. Case in point, I’ve NEVER been a huge soccer / futbol fan. But since my family and I…
Read MoreHow Ron Artest Punching An NBA Fan Changed The Trajectory Of My Career
LISTEN READ Great headline right? How Ron Artest Punching An NBA Fan Changed The Trajectory Of My Career. Yep, I had this awesome memory while sitting down recently for a talk with three really cool college sports marketing students that are interning with a professional sports league. Their VP gave me the opportunity to talk…
Read MoreA Fun Conversation About My First Web Business
WATCH READ I can remember just constantly thinking about Fantasy Football. It was an obsession from 2005-2015. Part of the excitement was playing, but most of the excitement was building a successful side hustle business around it. My love and passion for the strategy and competition, led me to just constantly have thoughts, hypothesis and…
Read MoreWhy I Don't Care When My Nikes Get Dirty
READ Man, this may seem weird to some of you, and others may totally get it, but here goes. I hate when my Nikes get dirty. Like, of course, the shoes I wear to work, but I’m also talking about my running shoes – you know, the shoes that are SUPPOSED to get dirty. This…
Read MoreMy Game Changer – Focusing On What I Can Control
READ I’ve waited for a few weeks to make this post. Well, I’ve procrastinated, as today is the day that my Michigan State Spartans DID NOT win the national championship. In fact, not only did that NOT happen, but their arch rival Michigan Wolverines made it to the Championship game of the NCAA Tournament, losing…
Read MoreWNBA Detroit Shock Sign 7'6" Center From Iceland
READ I’ll never forget this day as long as I live. I’ll never again get April Fools’d the way that it happened to me, clear as day, in 2004. I was the newly minted Director of Public Relations for the 2003 WNBA Champion Detroit Shock. Just 22 years old. Working my ass off for the…
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